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Paysages Mixtes | Mixed Landscapes

By

Harold Rhéaume ,  Katrina McPherson

Duration

13 MIN

Language

- without dialogue

Country

Quebec

Year

2019

Diffusion completed

Synopsis

PAYSAGES MIXTES / MIXED LANDSCAPES (Scotland/Quebec/2019/ 13 mins/ stereo). Drawing on the genre of dance made for the screen, this short film is performed and directed by Scottish screendance artist Katrina McPherson and Quebec choreographer Harold Rheaume. The viewer becomes witness to the many nuanced versions of the couple’s relationship, as they move through a series of duets and solos, filmed in evocative rural and urban landscapes of Quebec and Scotland. Full of history and fragments of stories, at times quite unworldly, unnerving and a touch frightening. The work is dense, yet it is the space between the fragments, and the absence of words, which makes it so powerful.

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Direction

Harold Rhéaume

Lively force of Quebec’s artistic milieu, Harold Rhéaume built a prolific, accessible, authentic and profoundly human work since his beginnings in Le Groupe de la Place Royale in 1989. Intuitive, admirative of Fred Astaire’s work, art, architecture and human relation, he suggests a sensitive, sculptural and expressive dance.
An author’s dance, theatrical and aesthetical, charming throughout Quebec, Canada, France, Belgium, Scotland and United States. The artistic director and general co-director of Le fils d’Adrien danse contributes greatly to the progress and the promotion of contemporary dance in the area of the National capital and beyond.

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Direction

Katrina McPherson

Katrina McPherson is award-winning screen dance artist, whose creative, scholarly and educational work is at the forefront of the international field. Having originally trained as a dancer and choreographer at Laban, London, an early career fascination with the collaborative possibilities of dance and the moving image led her to complete a post-graduate in Electronic Imaging (video art) at Dundee University, laying the foundations of what would become a life-long, multi-faceted and influential engagement with screen dance.
Katrina is one of the first generation of hybrid screen dance artists, whose single, multi-screen and on-line works have been presented at venues and festivals world-wide.

Camera

Gabriel Cloutier Tremblay
Brian Hartley

Editing

Lewis Landini

Sound designer

John Cobban

Other one

Ian Ballantyne

Original Title

Paysages Mixtes | Mixed Landscapes

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