Fissures

1999 • Directed by

Louise Bourque

Documentary

A film about forgetting and remembering, about past presences and the traces thet leave.

In making this piece, Bourque literally distorted the personal home movie images appearing on the film plane through various manipulations in the process of doing her own low-tech contact printing. The point of contact in printing is continuously shifted so that the film plane appears warped and the images fluctuate, creating a distorted space of fleeting apparitions, like resurfacing memories.