QUEERMENT QUÉBEC
Friday – June 3, 2022, 9.30 AM
Total Duration: 60 min
Continuing its collaboration with Canada’s first and oldest LGBTQ+ film festival, Image+Nation Film Festival in Montreal, KASHISH is proud to celebrate Montreal image-makers. This year a package of six short films feature an avant-garde mix of emerging and established talents. Proving Montreal is a hotbed of queer creativity, these filmmakers offer dazzling stories that speak of and to uniquely Québécois cultural perspectives.
Supported by the Government of Québec in Mumbai
Program Courtesy
MATIN ECCHYMOSE
Dir: Emilie Peltier / 8 Min / 2021 / Canada (Quebec) / French, Quebec sign language / Experimental Short
Deaf people from Quebec City meet non-binary Acadian poet Mo Bolduc and, using the Quebec sign language, interpret some poems written during the their residency at the Maison de la littérature (Québec) in March 2020. The film is the result of this encounter between read texts and their appropriation by Karl Normand, Maritza Côté, Josée Villeneuve and Élisabeth Rhéaume, as powerful, poetic and tangible echoes.
CHANTS D’AMOUR
Dir: Lamathilde / 4 min / 2020 / Canada (Quebec) / French, English / Experimental Short
This video is made of homophobic/ Trans phobic insults in various languages that were faced by the filmmaker and her several LGBTQ2S friends.
Hoping that with the re-appropriation of the insult, its strength will disappear and there will be more love for everyone. Choose your favorite insult, the one people use to make you feel bad. Take it back, with this love song and it will become your favorite pride word.
BECCA
Dir: Nancy Webb / 23 min / 2020 / Canada (Quebec) / English / Narrative Short
A contemporary queer reimagining of Daphne du Maurier’s Gothic novel Rebecca. Set in present-day Montreal, the film plays out within the confines of one evening. Max and Daphne fall for one another while a bizarre secret looms.
A
Dir: Antoine Pelletier / 4 min / 2020 / Canada (Quebec) / English, French / Narrative Short
A few fragments from the story of a lonely young man looking for love. It’s the film adaptation of A, an unpublished play by Antoine Pelletier exploring contemporary LGBT2SQ+ relationships.
BALLROOM BOUDOIR
Dirs: Frigid & Stephen LaReign Hues / 4 min / 2021 / Canada (Quebec) / No Dialogues / Music Video
A long, long time ago in a distant galaxy — part of the Rainbow Multiverse— there was a queer family made up of six non-binary Queens called ‘House Of Pride’ who rocked Canadian stages and beyond in the ‘90s, rousing audiences with their dynamic choreographies, fabulous costumes, poignant monologues, original songs and projected visuals while delivering a hopeful message of love, unity, and peace.
SPECTACULAR INTIMACY (L’intime Spectaculaire)
Dir: Fanie Pelletier / 16 min / 2021 / Canada (Quebec) / French / Documentary Short
In the YouTube era, exhibitionism and voyeurism echo each other and reach their paroxysm. Boundaries between private and public life are blurring. Intimacy becomes spectacle. Gabrielle Marion knows this more than anyone. Famous YouTuber from Quebec, she has been documenting her life and her sexual transition for eight years.
