Mamori (2010)
Overview
Mamori transports us into a black-and-white universe of fluid shapes, dappled and striated with shadows and light, where the texture of the visuals and of the celluloid itself have been transformed through the filmmaker’s artistry. The raw material of images and sounds was captured in the Amazon rainforest by filmmaker Karl Lemieux and avant-garde composer Francisco López, a specialist in field recordings. Re-filming the photographs on 16 mm stock, then developing the film stock itself and digitally editing the whole, Lemieux transmutes the raw images and accompanying sounds into an intense sensory experience at the outer limits of representation and abstraction. Fragmented musical phrases filter through the soundtrack, evoking in our imagination the clamour of the tropical rainforest in this remote Amazonian location called Mamori.
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Directed By
Karl Lemieux
Crew
Karl Lemieux
Francisco López
Mathieu Bouchard-Malo
Julie Roy
René Chénier
Karl Lemieux
Karl Lemieux
Francisco López
Francisco López
Jean-Paul Vialard
Pierre Plouffe
Susan Gourley
Guillaume Marin-Lafond
Francine Langdeau
Julie Laperriere
Diane Ayotte
Michèle Labelle
Diane Régimbald
Gaspard Gaudreau
Françoise Laprise
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