The Hart of London is an endlessly layered tour de force. It explores life and death, the sense of place and personal displacement, and the intricate aesthetics of representation. It is a personal and spiritual film, marked inevitably by Jack Chambers’s knowledge that he had leukemia. The late American avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage said of The Hart of London, “If I named the five greatest films ever made, this has got to be one of them.” Even this high praise falls short of hyperbole.

A man decides to lose himself in the Death Valley desert. While on his journey, he encounters a woman who accompanies him on his quest. As they embark deeper into the desert, heat and fever push them to extreme, psychological limits.

Archéologie de la lumière invites us into the heart of Minganie’s landscapes in Quebec. A place surrounded by countless presences. Everything there is perception. Every perception emerges from the interplay between the observer’s gaze and the living world: the trees, the moss carpeting the forest floor, the water winding through rocks, light filtered by the canopy, the sun’s reflection on the restless sea, the northern lights dancing across the night sky. To perceive is to attune ourselves to the movement of air and wind, to the distant clouds gathering and heralding a storm.

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LE CHANT D’EMPÉDOCLE
Film by SYLVAIN L'ESPÉRANCE & MARIE-CLAUDE LOISELLE
2019 | 107 minutes | Canada