Sigismond Imageless
Synopsis
Sigismond Langlois just got old enough to vote, but he has no images.
Festivals
- Off-Courts Trouville - Trouville, France 2016
- Les Percéides - Percé, Canada 2016
- Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada, 2016
- Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal, Canada, 2016
- Imagine and Science, New York, USA, 2016
- Festival du film de Sarlat, France, 2016
- Festival International du Film Francophone en Acadie, Canada, 2016
- Festival International du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, France 2017
- Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québécois, Montreal, Canada, 2017
- Festival Regard - Saguenay, Canada, 2017
- Festival Focus on French Cinema - USA, 2017
- Dresden short film fest - Dresden, Germany, 2017
- Rencontres Cinémaginaires - Argelès sur Mer, France, 2017
- Sydney Film Festival - Sydney, Australia, 2017
- Art Film Fest Slovakia - Košice, Slovakia, 2017
- Guanajuato International Film Festival - Guanajuato, Mexico, 2017
- Festival Interactif de Cinéma de Lévis - Lévis, Canada, 2017
- Concorto Film Festival - Pontenure, Italy
- Long Week-end du court - Trois-Rivières, Canada, 2017
- Au Contraire Film Festival - Montreal, Canada, 2017
- Festival du Court Métrage de l'Outaouais - Gatineau, Canada, 2017
Director: Albéric Aurtenèche
Script: Albéric Aurtenèche
Interpreting: Theodore Pellerin, Marcel Sabourin, Emmanuel Schwartz
DOP: Vincent Biron
Sound design: Dominique Chartrand, Patrice LeBlanc
Editing: Elisabeth Tremblay
Art direction: Anette Belley
Costumes: Catherine Guyot-Sionnest
Original music: Roger Tellier-Craig
Production: Central Unit/Galilé Marion-Gauvin
Version
Original: French
Subtitles: English
Format
2:35, stereo
DCP, Pro Res, H264
Born in Paris and immigrating to Montreal as a child, Albéric Aurtenèche later studied in both cities in visual art, media art and film. Starting out with an experimental practice, Aurtenèche’s first works were presented at the Festival des cinémas différents in Paris. From 2004 to 2012, he collaborated with a research group that explored evolution in the cinematographic experience through the emergence of portable and interactive screens. His interest in fiction developed in tandem with this research. L’appel du vide (“Facing Emptiness”), his first short that had an overtly narrative form, was pre-sented at various festivals around the world in 2008. After being recognized at various festivals, his film M’ouvrir won the Jutra Award for best short/medium-length film in 2011. Sigismond sans images also won several awards and was selected for the Clermont-Ferrand international competition in 2017. His short films explore a wide range of genres, but the common thread is a ques-tioning of reality. The Monarch is his first full-length feature film.
