Canadian Premiere
This speculative investigation of the titular 500-million-year-old ocean species is an invitation for embodied listening — to open one’s unconscious in order to find what is embedded deep within our memories.
Supported by
Community Partner
Elisabeth Tremblay, Miri Chekhanovich, Florencia Sosa Rey, Nien Tzu Weng, Yoon Rachel Nam, Diana Kazemy
Canada/France
2022
In English and French with English subtitles
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Credits
Producer
Barbara Merlier
Screenwriter
Nicole Brossard, Astrida Neimanis
Cinematography
Mark Morgenstern
Editor
Sarah-Anaïs Desbenoit, Jérôme Erhart
Director
Charline Dally
Charline Dally is an artist living between France and Quebec. Her practice combines analog video signals and computer-generated imagery through films, installations, and performances. At the same time science-fiction and poetic reverie, her work outlines spaces where human, biological, mineral, and technological identities are played out and outplayed. Her work has been presented at MOCA (Toronto), MAJ (Joliette, QC), FIFA (Montréal), Les Abattoirs (Toulouse), CTM festival (Berlin), and Fresnoy (France).
Filmography: Le disque de poussière (2023); Dickinsonia (2022); Corps minéral (2021)
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