Autumn


Autumn

Autumn

 

Autumn – Automne from Alexandra Guité on Vimeo.

 

A Film by Alexandra Guité
Fiction. HD. 6mins10. 2010

Charles designs erotic books. Yet, he is excruciatingly shy. That is until he meets Tatiana and everything changes. Autumn is the poetical exploration of an impossible yet luminous and sensual love story. Set in Montreal in the magical fall light, this movie was written, directed and edited in 48h during the Kino filmmakers’ collective film Kabarety.

Scripted, directed, shot and edited in 72h during Montreal’s International Kino Kabaret :

The movie on the website of Kino :
http://www.kino00.com/kabaret/index.php?proj=2&film=automne#film

Presented during Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinéma : http://www.nouveaucinema.ca/2009/fr/

With Christine Beaulieu and Félix Beaulieu-Duchesneau
Image : Anna Lupien
Editors : Jean-François Robichaud and Étienne Gagnon
Sound : Sonia Poirier
Sound edit and mix: François Lafrenière
Original Music: Jérémy Pétrus

The Island


The Island

The Island
Travel to our ancestor’s island

 

The Island from Alexandra Guité on Vimeo.

 

A Film by Alexandra Guité

The descendants of the inhabitants of Bonaventure Island, brutally expropriated in 1971, set on a quest to explore their origins.

Research, direction and editing: Alexandra GUITÉ
Cinematography: Joffrey MONNIER and Gino PATRIGANI
Sound: Charles-Olivier BLEAU and Rémy HUBERDEAU
Original Score: Steve BOULAY
Sound Editing: François LAFRENIÈRE

Production: Rafaël Martin / L’INIS and le Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles – August 2009

Scripted, researched, directed and edited by Alexandra Guité during a three week stay on the sailboat SEDNA IV for the project L’INIS in Gaspé.

Duration: 15mins15
Contact: alefilms@videotron.ca

Screened at Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois 2010; La nuit du cinéma à Percé 2010 (Les Percéïdes); Gros plan sur Percé !  au Musée de la Gaspésie.

Elfland


Elfland

 

Elfland

2008, Mini dv
Directed in 48h by Alexandra Guité
With Julia Castagnoli and Michel Simonsen
Image : Florian Driessen
Edited by Julia Castagnoli

A man and a woman travel throughout wild Iceland. They discover the unexpected dangers of disbelieving in elves.

Screened at Kino Kabaret of theReykjavik  Film Festival 2008.

The Art of Resistance


The Art of Resistance

The Art of Resistance

You can watch all of the film here

French Version | Spanish Version

 

A Documentary by Alexandra Guité
Direction, research and production: Alexandra Guité
Editing : Christopher Hills-Wright.
61 Minutes

Argentina’s troubled history, culminating in the major crisis of 2001, has seen the rise of a wave of original artistic and cultural expression. The documentary The Art of Resistance introduces us to several creators and artist collectives who use artistic expression as a means to deliver powerful social statements, explore unbridled creativity, and participate actively in constructing a new reality.

The Art of Resistance is an inventive treatment of these artists’ responses to the critical situations they are living. Born in a climate of urgency, their creativity is without boundaries, their strategies constantly renewed. The 85-year-old visual artist León Ferrari launches a vigorous national debate by denouncing the Catholic Church’s dark underside, factories open their doors to artists who conceive performances among the workers, patients at a psychiatric asylum join together to form an artistic front and charismatic actor Julio Arrieta makes a movie about the extraterrestrial invasion of his shantytown.

The Art of Resistance is a penetrating portrait of the artistic and political methods of cultural resistance in Argentina. The film follows these inspiring and revolutionary characters as they struggle to meet the challenges of economic and cultural disintegration and critically examine proposed solutions to the problems of the day. It illustrates humanity’s profound capacity for creativity and resilience in the face of adversity. The spectator is invited to witness inspiring examples of this potential as they unfurl against the backdrop of Argentina’s ongoing crisis.

Pre-selected at Cannes’ Semaine de la critique 2006.

Opening film at The Guelph International Film Festival 2006.  Presented at FIPATEL 2007, Biarritz; 3 Americas Film Festival 2007, Québec; Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival 2007, Turkey; Human Right International Film Festival 2007, Buenos Aires; Festival des Libertés 2007, Bruxelles, National Film Board of Canada Cinéma 2008; Working Class Film Festival 2008, Turkey; Documenta Film Festival, Ecuador.

 

Distribution :

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Partners :

Société de développement des entreprises culturelles – Québec
Programme d’aide aux jeunes créateurs

Aide au cinéma indépendant (ACIC)

Download :

Poster and Flyer (pdf)

Press Kit (word)

Press Kit (pdf)

Film Credits (pdf)