Scratch (Triptych-3)

At the end of 2016, some circonstances made that after a gap of 15 years I resumed scratching directly on film. I first made a series of thirty one short loops that were posted as GIF’s on Facebook, in May and June 2016. Then I proceeded to build a film out of those segments with the support of the infinite music of Malcolm Goldstein. The result is a meditation on time, both radically abstract and intensely material.

Festivals : October 2016, world première at Festival du nouveau cinema, Montreal; December 2017, Centre Phi, Montreal; February 2017, Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québecois; June 2017, Country Side Animafest Cyprus; July 2017, Anima Mundi, Brazil; May 2018, Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville.

Credits:

Direction, animation, editing : Pierre Hébert

Music : Malcolm Goldstein.

Distribution : Vidéographe

link to the GIF’s