"For the DIY filmmaker, the means are often also the ends. Canadian film scholar Éric Thouvenel argues that the history and practices of experimental film embrace a “DIY mode of thinking” that “runs counter to industrial practices, which more often than not employ machines whose functions have been standardized and whose uses have been highly prescribed.”

“"I've always been interested in that kind of film. That kind of window film where you place your camera and leave it, over a long period of time. Canadian Pacific took about three months. When I moved into that studio I immediately saw the window and thought there could be something done there . What interested me about the shot were the horizontals: train tracks, the water, the mountains, the sky. Very few verticals in it.

"By insisting on giving shape to the images, it would be necessary to start from the relationship between them and time. Without it there is no insistence possible. Repetition and search need time from which to expand.
[...] then, the life of the images would not consist so much in simple immobility or in the successive recovery of movement, but rather in a pause charged with tensions between the two. "

Curated by Biviana Chauchi , Nicole Remy & Sofía Tudela.