19 Jan DémArt artist in residence: Florence Dubois

The entire Main Film team is delighted to welcome Florence Dubois, artist-in-residence as part of the DémART program supported by the Conseil des Arts de Montréal.

These internships aim to facilitate the professional integration of artists and workers from culturally diverse backgrounds.

In this context, Main Film wishes to support Florence in the creation of a short hybrid film entitled Son Ombre Depuis Le Ciel.

Florence Dubois

Florence is a poet, screenwriter, and director with a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Montreal. She made her way into film through screenwriting residencies, both fiction and nonfiction, with organizations such as Black on Black Film, the Phi Centre, and House Conspiracy Brisbane. She also has several nonfiction and poetry publications in magazines such as ROOKIE Mag New York, Muse Médusa, Pavillons, and Moebius (forthcoming issue). Her work is generally intermedia in nature, creating a dialogue between text and image in various forms, exploring the intersections of neo-paganism and postcolonial feminism and, always, hybrid identity from the perspective of the diaspora.

Her project Son Ombre Depuis Le Ciel as part of the DémArt residency:

Synopsis :

Trinity, a young aviation student, is preparing to join the small squadron of bush planes that supply the surrounding area with food and medical supplies. One evening, when she learns that her mother urgently needs medical assistance on the other side of the river, Trinity steals a plane from her school to go and fetch her. Thus, to preserve what remains most precious to her in a world that is falling apart, Trinity must learn to disobey. In a speculative fiction with no specific place or time, the story blends real archives to question us about selective mobility, resource sharing, and our relationship to the established order.