Travelling Distribution

UWD

A film by

Brigitte Poupart, Myriam Verreault

Synopsis

A poetic crossover in a ruined world where each one survives alone in the collective disarray. The bodies in movement, dance and physical prowess replace the word and embody and reveal bruised characters, haunted by a past that is sweeter than this crumbling world.

Highlights

Tags

2023

Ovni

Dance

Hybrid / XP

Genre

Ovni

Dance

Country

Canada (Quebec)

Year

2023

Length

19'22"

Themes

Arts

War and Conflict

Death and Grief

With
Yury Paulau, Jeff Hall, Beatriz Pantojo, Michaël Hottier, Aurélien Oudot, Catherine Audy, Lakessia Pierre-Colon, Marie-Reine Kabasha, Léopold Lafontaine, Vincent Champagne, Alexie Maheu-Langevin, Benjamin Thomas Courteney
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Production
Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette, Guillaume Vasseur (Voyelles Films)
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Director
Brigitte Poupart, Myriam Verreault
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Screenplay
Yury Paulau
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Cinematography
Patrick Morin
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Artistic Direction
Jean Babin
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Editing
Kayla Fragman
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Sound
Ilyaa Ghafouri
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Music
Flore Laurentienne

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Travelling's statement

UWD (or Until We Die), is a short film adaptation of a multidisciplinary immersive show created in November 2022 with a team of twelve performers from a variety of disciplines and cultural origins. This immersive show combines theater, dance, circus and electronic music, and will be touring in Europe in 2023-2024.

Combined, Brigitte Poupart & Myriam Verreault both cumulate experiences in cinema, theatre, music, circus, digital arts, music video, VR, interactive works, television – as directors, actors or even sound designers. The intention was to combine their distinctive and complementary forces in order to create a true hybrid work, while exploiting the film medium to its full potential as they bring it back to its core.

The story is told without dialogue through physical acting, atmosphere, the body and staging, like a visual poem – without neglecting the emotional force and resonant themes. The directors also wanted to revive and borrow ideas from silent film (Méliès, Eisenstein) and physical cinema (Marx Brothers, Chaplin, Keaton) – genres we don’t see often anymore and that use circus, mime and dance as modes of communication. UWD seeks to retain the power of these classics through non-verbal communication, but using contemporary codes (modern technical equipment, storytelling techniques sound recording) in a tale of anticipation.

Brigitte Poupart

For the past 30 years, Brigitte has been a multidisciplinary artist. She is an actress, stage director, documentary and fiction filmmaker and digital artist. Her work has traveled internationally. She was seen in Monsieur Lazhar and The Ravenous for which she won a performance award.Myriam VerreaultFor the past 20 years, Myriam has been a director, screenwriter, producer and editor for both fiction and documentary works. She creates for film, television and digital works. She was especially noticed for the films À l'ouest de Pluton and Kuessipan, which have been seen around the world.

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Myriam Verreault

For the past 20 years, Myriam has been a director, screenwriter, producer and editor for both fiction and documentary works. She creates for film, television and digital works. She was especially noticed for the films À l'ouest de Pluton and Kuessipan, which have been seen around the world.

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Filmography

Kuessipan / feature / 2019
The Devil’s toy Remix / short / 2015
Ma tribu c’est ma vie / doc / 2011
À l’ouest de pluton / feature / 2009

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Festivals

Dance Camera West, USA | 2024 * Best Short Film Award
Hallucinations Collectives, France | 2024 * Grand Prize Short Film Competition
Andaras Travelling Film Festival, Italy | 2024 * Best Strange World
Sapporo International Short Film Festival and Market, Japan | 2024 * Best Non-Dialogue Award
Dance On Screen, Austria | 2024 * Best Film Award

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