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Paysages Mixtes | Mixed Landscapes
By
Harold Rhéaume , Katrina McPhersonDuration
13 MIN
Language
- without dialogue
Country
Quebec
Year
2019
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.
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.
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
