Atelier Dominic Gagnon
A large city, old people strolling, men and women at work, small children having fun in a park. In his first film, Gagnon captures the implacable movement of a life that flows along. “In the...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
Men, seen from afar, driven by the dynamics of work. The machine is no longer an extension of the bodies, of their strength. Man is now driven by the machine. The alienation of humanity is...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
Car races, planes and airports, men and women waiting, an eagle in flight, a bison in the fog. Sustained music and silence. Analogical editing, without words, orchestrates it all. The encounter...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
On the one hand, there is Murdochville, founded in Gaspésie in 1950 following the discovery of a large copper deposit. In 1970, it had over 5,000 inhabitants. Today, since the mine closed, fewer than...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
A large electronics store welcomes vendors and customers. Cameras are there to show that the company's slogans are not lies. A manipulation transforms the recordings and instils doubt. “The people...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
Television spare parts follow each other and grow in number on an electronic soundtrack. From an installation made of materials found in the street, this film emphasises the end of an era, that of...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
With the screen split into four, clips of films and interviews with ordinary people, the film evokes the media story of Aurore Gagnon, the tragic heroine of a cult Quebec film. “I had a huge box of...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
Images (snow-covered roads, empty corridors, objects, TV programmes, inte- riors of houses or hotel rooms, etc.) are shown on a screen split into four, while a voice-over fills these spaces with...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
A new world order, control systems, the financial markets, the collapse of the economy, survival, hatred of politics, the Bible and the Constitution, Christian fundamentalism, instructions for...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
“We use the strength of resilience pro- voked by six emotional states: bore- dom, sadness, solitude, anger, disgust and indifference.” The manifesto of the At-Work collective appears onscreen,...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
A man appears onscreen, announcing the end of the patriarchy and the coming of the matriarchy in the United States. Immediately afterwards comes a parade of women. They are in distress. They are...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
“My anger protects me!” Sat in his car, with a long beard and dishevelled hair, Joetalk100 talks to the camera. He has just got out of prison. He has diabetes. He keeps drinking cold coffee and...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
“The whole life of these societies in which modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of ‘spectacles'. All that was directly lived has become mere...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
A film built on lies, assuming the end of the world on 21 December 2012 as the greatest of them. Conquering fear by manufacturing scares: that's what the teens in Hoax Canular do with...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
The filmmaker's daughter looks at herself on a computer screen, using it like a mirror. She is surprised to see the colour of her lips…A searing indication of the future generation's relationship with...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
In his previous film, Hoax Canular (VdR 2014), Dominic Gagnon revealed the obsessions of a western youth tempted by nihilism through a montage of ama- teur videos posted online by...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon