The fleeting shadow of things [videorecording (DVD)] / director, Jacques Giraldeau.

The fleeting shadow of things [videorecording (DVD)] / director, Jacques Giraldeau.

Alternate Title
Ombre fragile des choses

Publication Date
2007

Publication Information
[Montreal, Que.] : National Film Board of Canada,

Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 84 min.)

Subject Term
Documentary films.
 
Art.
 
Artists.

Additional Contributors
Giraldeau, Jacques,

Summary
Jacques Giraldeau's The Fleeting Shadow of Things invites us on a journey, a variation on carefully crafted memories tracing a remarkable bridge between "once" and "from now on." It is a delicate work of filmic art, unfolding in a mosaic of keepsakes and images gathered in the course of a lifetime. In it, we follow the enigmatic ÔEvariste Quesnel from Cuba to ÒIle-aux-Grues, but he eludes us, leaving only the footprint of where he has been - an invitation to meditate on and learn to read those places. Criss-crossing these fragments of yesterday and today, now abandoned to memory - diary, film, painting, letter, questioning our relationship with these shadows, the filmmaker posts art as the archives of real life, a place where the crumbling of time is, somehow, stopped.

Language
English

General Note
DVD.
 
Unrated.
 
DVD-R. May not play on all DVD players.