Name: 'CONTACT' Requiem for a Word
Released: 2022-01-03T12:20:33-05:00
Duration: 478S

SYNOPSIS

Investigation on the transformation of language resulting from COVID-19. The social interrelationships that are completely disrupted today, give way to a reinterpretation of certain terms that suddenly carry a mortifying value. The film is a funeral mass in honor of the word "contact".

Theme(s): , Democracy, Sociology, Urbanity

DETAILS

Director | , Olivier D. Asselin

Year | , 2020

Country | , Québec

Duration | 8 minutes

Original language | , French

Subtitles | , English

Image | Josué Bertolino, Olivier D. Asselin

Sound | Olivier D. Asselin

Sound design | Patrice Leblanc

Sound mixing | Jean Paul Vialard

Music | Jean-Olivier Bégin

Editing | Yousra Benziane

Production | Pierre-Mathieu Fortin

DIRECTOR

Olivier D. Asselin

SEE COMPLETE PROFILE

A graduate of INIS and UQAM's media school, Olivier D. Asselin's artistic approach is rooted in socio-political reality and is embodied in fiction as well as in documentary and experimental films. Produced with the help of the NFB, his feature documentary Pipelines, Power and Democracy was launched at RIDM 2015 and presented in multiple festivals afterwards. In 2019, his feature film Foundations won several awards including "Best Feature Documentary" at the Fine Arts Film Festival in Venice, California. In fiction, his latest short film L'assaillant, produced at the Coop vidéo de Montréal, was launched at the 2018 Fantasia festival, then selected in several festivals in Quebec and abroad. In 2020, he has just directed with the NFB "Contact" Requiem pour un mot, a short film about the current pandemic.