SYNOPSIS
"I remember a time when no one jogged in this neighborhood" is an impressionistic film on the border of ethnographic documentary and cinematographic essay. It presents Montreal's most densely populated neighbourhood, Parc-Extension, and, above all, the people who live there in a series of intimate and contemplative tableaux.
The work also takes a critical look at the trajectory of the neighborhood as the foundations of a ruthless gentrification threaten the social fabric of the area. What impact will the construction of the new Université de Montréal campus, as large as 38 soccer fields, have on this landlocked neighborhood and its predominantly immigrant population?
The work also takes a critical look at the trajectory of the neighborhood as the foundations of a ruthless gentrification threaten the social fabric of the area. What impact will the construction of the new Université de Montréal campus, as large as 38 soccer fields, have on this landlocked neighborhood and its predominantly immigrant population?
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DIRECTOR
Jenny Cartwright
SEE COMPLETE PROFILEJenny Cartwright explores themes of self-determination and inequality – which she returns to time and again – through topics such as gentrification, activism, work and poverty. It is through this bias towards the marginalized that she attempts to combine poetry and manifestos.
While she constantly questions the way she tells stories, moving from classical to experimental film and from installation to sound creation, her practice remains resolutely documentary.
PAST SCREENINGS
SCREENING 1
1 July 2022 at 21h15
Parc Jarry
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