CINEMA ABATTOIR's CINEMAS, HEAVINESS
Emerging from the vault of Montreal's occult film society Cinema Abattoir (Slaughterhouse), Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt presents Le cinema, l'apesanteur, a program that exposes the latent image, the one situated inside the menacing Spiral itself. Satanism, Nature, Love, and Mysticism are all motoring against the clear-image (Death). The perforations and fragmentation never become Symbol, and never were. Instead, if looking long enough without ever blinking, its essence is emanating. It is in this breathing-space (the Spiral) that the Light merges, maybe in-between the frames? Look into my eyes! each of these films whispers: Jean-Claude Labrecque's Essai à la Mille (1970), Alexandre Larose's Brouillard (2009), Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt's Neuf Oeufs Noirs (2010), Serge de Cotret's Sacré-coeur de Satan (2008), Solomon Nagler's The Sex of Self-Hatred (2004), Karl Lemieux' Mouvement de Lumière (2004), Étienne O'Leary's Chromo Sud (1968). Co-produced with Christine Metropoulos and SF Cinematheque, *$9.99.
