DANS UN RECTANGLE ABSOLU, LE PRINTEMPS (A QUADRANGLE OF SPRING) / CANADA / LOUISIANA PREMIERE

In Quebec, as everywhere around the world, the Spring of 2020 was drastically changed by the Covid 19 pandemic. I decided to make the most of this extraordinary period by putting the disruption caused to the season of rebirth into images in a short animated film. Using my scanner to animate an assortment of flowers gathered from my neighbourhood and objects from my daily life allowed me to cast a distanced and light-hearted eye at this anxiety inducing global situation. The black, rectangular surface of the scanner is the sole backdrop of the film, like a representation of our confinement within four walls.

Director's Biography:

COTB alum and award-winner Sarah Seené is a French visual artist based in Montréal (Quebec, Canada). Working primarily in 35mm, Super 8 and Polaroid film, she focuses attention on the face, the body and the human being to create a dreamlike and poetic world in which intimacy is central.

Seené also writes poetry, which she integrates into her photographic and moving image works.

Her photographs have been exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Europe and North America. She has been published in several magazines and has photographed French and Quebecois singers and musicians.