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Mamori

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 …
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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.

Psychology and Psychiatry All subjects
  • direction
    Karl Lemieux
  • camera
    Karl Lemieux
  • animation
    Karl Lemieux
  • field recording
    Francisco Lopez
  • composition
    Francisco Lopez
  • sound design
    Francisco Lopez
  • editing
    Mathieu Bouchard-Malo
  • re-recording
    Jean Paul Vialard
  • digital imaging specialist
    Pierre Plouffe
    Susan Gourley
  • compositing
    Guillaume Marin-Lafond
  • online editing
    Françoise Laprise
  • titles
    Gaspard Gaudreau
  • marketing manager
    Christine Noël
  • administrator
    Michèle Labelle
    Diane Régimbald
  • administrative team
    Diane Ayotte
  • technical coordinator
    Julie Laperrière
  • line production
    Francine Langdeau
  • executive producer
    René Chénier
  • producer
    Julie Roy

Education

Ages 13 to 16

Notes

Ask students to turn loose their imaginations in order to interpret the images and accompanying sounds in the film. In art and computer science class, create a short film in the same style as Mamori. Finally, students can conduct research into the locale in which the images were captured.

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