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Plus rien n'est égal par ailleurs // Vortex

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Premiering worldwide, Plus rien n’est égal par ailleurs is a visual and sonic experience at the intersection of video art, documentary, and music video.

Through a montage combining high-precision imagery and staged interventions by philosopher Alain Deneault, this essay-film calls attention to the necessity of community and territorial solidarity in the face of individualism and consumerist exaltation.

Première mondiale

Compétition nationale - longs-métrages

Opening act: short film Vortex 

In the presence of director Martin Bureau and philosopher Alain Deneault.

Short film

Première mondiale
Sélection officielle - courts-métrages
Canada / 2025 /  / 6 min / Sans dialogue 

 

Réalisation Sébastien Provencher Production Alex Côté, Sebastien Provencher Montage Alex Côté Caméra Alex Côté Distribution Sebastien Provencher

 

Vortex is a short experimental performance inspired by oceanic gyres, these vast marine vortexes where plastic waste accumulates. The short film uses this image as a metaphor for time, repetition, and the persistence of human gestures in the transformation of ecosystems. Through an abstract and sensory visual narrative, it evokes the lasting traces our actions leave on the living world. Loops of images, circular movements, and organic textures compose a performance rooted in accumulation, memory, and irreversibility.

Vortex Cr dit Alex C t danseur S bastien Provencher

Martin Bureau

Martin Bureau works across painting, video installation, and documentary cinema to craft a critical lens on social issues linked to geopolitics, the environment, and art. His approach, which he describes as a ‘poetics of disaster,’ explores the intersections of these themes with striking visual and conceptual depth. He lives and works in Québec City.

Biographical notes provided by the film production team 

Sébastien Provencher

Sébastien Provencher is a Montreal dance Artist, graduated for the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). His work focuses his choreographic explorations on gender identity, homosexual orientation, and power dynamics. Eager to move beyond hierarchies, he relies on collaborative and democratic work in his creative processes and sees the performing arts as an act of resistance and object of sociopolitical engagement.

While he may have started working in dance comparatively late, Provencher soon distinguished himself as a choreographer and performer through the excellence of his work. In 2015, he received the Audience Choice Award at the Festival Quartiers Danses for Children of Chemistry, his second long-form work, which interrogated hyper-masculinity by playing with gender codes and homoeroticism in the world of football. He later created a version to be performed in public space, whose reception convinced him of art’s political reach when presented in non-traditional sites. 

Provencher collaborates regularly with various choreographers and has presented his pieces in Quebec, Ontario, France, and Germany. He is also a member of Lorganisme, a structure for choreographers that relies on strength in numbers and the pooling of creative, human, and material resources.

Biographical notes provided by the film production team 

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