MONOLOGUES DU PAON (PEACOCK'S MONOLOGUES) / CANADA / LOUISIANA PREMIERE

This experimental short documentary film tells the story of a meeting between two neighbours, in Ahuntsic and Villeray, around memories of Portugal; it is a story of two very different cities, Montreal and Lisbon; of an old man who has come to terms with death; of two strangers separated by an ocean but connected by the flight of a homing pigeon. Birds are the guides for this poetic meandering, exploring memories of the past and portents of the future. A dissonant score accompanies a split screen, completing the impression that we are confronted with a sensory puzzle, at once natural and urban, in which meditation takes its cues from fragments of reality. Matthew Wolkow’s film is a gentle ornithological, human and floral tale, suffused with both hope and the grim anxieties of our time. (Apolline Caron-Ottavi)

Filmed in Super 8 and Super 16.

Director's Biography:

Matthew Wolkow creates films and collaborates on video installations projects as an artist, cinematographer and executive producer. He holds a master’s degree MFA in visual arts and film from Concordia University and an undergraduate degree BFA in cinema from UQAM. His film, Dialogue du Tigre, won best experimental film at the 2018 Rendez-Vous Québec Cinema.