Wed March 26th | 7PM
Pix Film Gallery | 1411 Dufferin Street Unit C, Toronto
With Anne-Marie Bouchard
This spring, Le Labo and Pix Film are joining forces to present the end-of-residency showcase of Anne-Marie Bouchard, currently in residence at Pix Film Gallery.
An experimental filmmaker, Anne-Marie’s process-driven approach constantly pushes her to reinvent her practice—whether by hand-developing her films, scratching directly onto film stock, or exploring digital technologies. She is an image seeker, a sound discoverer, an explorer of cinema and media arts in her own intimate, artisanal, and eco-sensitive way. Her work explores the ephemeral, the fragile, the gesture, and disappearance. Her cinema is an art of perception, impressions, and evocation—a form of poetry.
She came to PIX FILM to refine her skills in optical printing and other analogue tools, to recharge, and to reflect on her practice through connection and exchange with Toronto’s cultural life. While in residence, she worked on Sillages, a film exploring our relationship to water and the St. Lawrence River.
We invite you to join us for a screening and conversation about her work-in-progress, Sillages – Wake.
A film about water and light, shot on 16mm black and white film, hand-processed into positive reversal using plant-based techniques, then tinted with natural dyes made from vegetation. The footage is later reworked using an optical printer onto colour film stock. These processes rely heavily on water and light to bring the images to life. The used water eventually returns to nature, impacting aquatic life and plant ecosystems. While the amount of waste generated by artisanal filmmaking is negligible compared to industrial waste, it still concerns me. I worry about what I leave in my wake—but the pull of light, and the traces it reveals on film, is stronger than my guilt.
🎥 On screen
R_pour ne pas céder d’un pouce (8 minutes, numérique et 16mm, son, 2014 -> Digital)
Experimental documentary, shot on 16mm and digital, exploring the theme of resistance. The filmmaker asked children what resistance means to them. Through moving images, she delves into different aspects of resistance—physical, political, artistic—using pixilation and direct interventions on film.
Jeux de lumières/Light Plays (8 minutes, matériel trouvé 16mm, son, 2017-> Digital)
Found footage film, made from reclaimed 16mm educational films from the 1930s to 1960s. Quantum dot interventions, direct drawings on film, and 2D animation are used to explore the themes of sound and light.
Le long cri du train qui passe se glisse au coeur des spectres et tout explose en silence (11 minutes, 16mm, son, 2020 ->Digital)
A film built around a sound recording of a train braking as it moves through the city of Winnipeg. Shot on 16mm and animated with direct film interventions, it explores the relationship between urban space and those moving through it, in search of silence, a moment of pause, or human connection.
La dissolution du paysage (24 minutes, 16mm/35mm, son, 2024 -> Digital)
A poetic film about the disappearance of a place and the erosion of memory. Chemical alterations, drawings, and engravings on film become the main characters—dreamlike and surreal.
📍 Rendez-vous le mercredi 26 mars à Pix Film Gallery
