WHAT REMAINS AFTER WE’RE GONE
72 min., Documentary, Canada, 2020Directed byNicolas Lachapelle
Produced byBrousse | Suzel D. Smith et Nicolas Lachapelle
LanguageEnglish
The harsh winter of a community of squatters in one of the great lost city of America.
Film details
Synopsis
A group of jilted souls have found refuge inside a forsaken neighbourhood scorched by brutal violence, fire and destruction. They try to build themselves a home but the memories of the place still walk among them. A sensorial reflexion about what we leave of us in the place we’ve been.
Credits
Written and directed by Nicolas Lachapelle
Produced by Suzel D. Smith and Nicolas Lachapelle (Brousse)
Cinematography : Nicolas Lachapelle
Editing : Daniel Dietzel
Sound design : Mourad Bennacer
Sound mix : Mourad Bennacer
Music : Mourad Bennacer
Sound : Tiago McNicoll, Bertand Desrochers et Ariel St-Louis Lamoureux
Direction
Nicolas Lachapelle
Nicolas Lachapelle has directed two feature-length documentaries (Lights Above Water, 2015 and What Remains After We’re Gone, 2020) and made a number of sound creations (Demolition Derby, 2017, Og Doï, 2020 and Beyond the 138, 2020). He has also worked as a filmmaker and mentor with marginalized youth through such organizations as the Wapikoni Mobile and Youth Fusion. He spent five years on Quebec’s North Shore, working as a video journalist for CBC/Radio-Canada. He now devotes his days to creating documentaries. Currently, he has two projects in the works: the first, on the Indigenous caribou hunt; the second, on a mysterious sound phenomenon on the Detroit/Windsor border. Both projects received support from the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec and Canada Council for the Arts. In 2021, he was designated the Quebec’s North Shore Artist of the Year by Culture Côte-Nord.
Filmography
ZUG ISLAND, 22 min, Documentary, 2022
WHAT REMAINS AFTER WE’RE GONE, 72 min, Documentary, 2020
BEYOND THE 138, 60 min, Sound Documentary, 2019
GAS RUNS THROUGH MY VEINS, 10 min, Sound Documentary, 2017
LIGHTS ABOVE WATER, 60 min, Documentary, 2016