Flicker (2008) by NIC SHEEHAN

FLicKeR
Nic Sheehan, Canada, 2008, 75 min


(…) The film is based on the book Chapel of Extreme Experience by John G. Geiger about the work of artist Brion Gysin and his Dreamachine.

Gysin’s Dreamachine used a 100-watt light bulb, a motor, and a rotating cylinder with cutouts. Its users would sit in front of it, close their eyes, and experience visions as a result of the flashes of light. Gysin believed that by offering the world a drugless high the invention could revolutionize human consciousness.

 

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Flicker (2008) by NIC SHEEHAN

 

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Limited Edition Dreamachines based on BRION GYSIN’s original specifications (August 10, 2012)
Montréal Dreamachine (April 6, 2010)

L’Ordre secret (2022) de PHIL COMEAU

L’Ordre secret
Phil Comeau, Canada, 2022, 84 min

 

L’Ordre de Jacques Cartier (la Patente) était une société dite « secrète » qui a servi les Canadiens français et les Acadiens comme outil de réseautage et noyautage de 1926 à 1965. Au plus fort de ses activités au milieu des années 50, elle réunissait environ 12 000 hommes aux valeurs patriotiques, catholiques et pro-francophones. Ses objectifs étaient simples: défendre les intérêts des minorités francophones du Canada par l’entremise d’une élite militante qui infiltrait et influençait l’administration d’organismes publics et d’entreprises privées. Un puissant lobby auquel le père du réalisateur Phil Comeau appartenait.

 

L' Ordre secret (2022) de PHIL COMEAU

L' Ordre secret (2022) de PHIL COMEAU

 

NOUVELLE FRANCE numéro 13, avril-juin 1960

 

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Les relations ANGLO-FRANCO dans le cinéma québécois :

The Lighthouse (2019) by ROBERT EGGERS

The Lighthouse
Robert Eggers, USA, 2019, 110 min

 

As the wavering cry of the foghorn fills the air, the taciturn former lumberjack, Ephraim Winslow, and the grizzled lighthouse keeper, Thomas Wake, set foot in a secluded and perpetually grey islet off the coast of late-19th-century New England. For the following four weeks of back-breaking work and unfavourable conditions, the tight-lipped men will have no one else for company except for each other, forced to endure irritating idiosyncrasies, bottled-up resentment, and burgeoning hatred. Then, amid bad omens, a furious and unending squall maroons the pale beacon’s keepers in the already inhospitable volcanic rock, paving the way for a prolonged period of feral hunger; excruciating agony; manic isolation, and horrible booze-addled visions. Now, the eerie stranglehold of insanity tightens. Is there an escape from the wall-less prison of the mind?

 

The Lighthouse (2019) by ROBERT EGGERS

The Lighthouse (2019) by ROBERT EGGERS

The Lighthouse (2019) by ROBERT EGGERS

 
 

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SASCHA SCHNEIDER (March 24, 2016)