SOMETHING LIKE IMMORTALITY
81 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2003Directed byPascale Ferland
Produced bySylvain L’Espérance
LanguageFrench
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Synopsis
While travelling the roads of the Quebec countryside, one often sees off-beat structures and fabulous installations. These curious constructions are the work of local people who, even with no artistic training, are compelled by an almost-visceral desire to create. This film shows us the work and everyday life of three such artists. Harshly judged by their compatriots, they face the devastating reality of living on the fringe of a society that seeks to ostracize them at all cost.
Credits
Director : Pascale Ferland
inspired by a screenplay of Pascale Ferland and Valérie Rousseau in collaboration with la Société des arts indisciplinés
Directior of photography : François Vincelette
Sound : Pierre Bertrand
Editor : René Roberge
Sound Editor : Martin Allard Hugo Brochu Marie-Eve Livernoche
Music : Éric Morin
Producer : Sylvain L’Espérance
Financial partners
SODEC
ONF
Le Fonds canadien du film et de la vidéo indépendants
Société des arts indisciplinés – Fonds Jeunesse Québec
Musée québécois de culture populaire
Direction
Pascale Ferland
Pascale Ferland has been a screenwriter, director, and producer for over twenty years. After studying visual arts at UQAM, where her video works received awards, she developed a personal body of documentary films, grounded in fieldwork and driven by a desire to create dialogue between form and ideas. In 2003, she directed her first documentary, Something Like Immortality, followed by Tree With Severed Branches (2005) and Adagio for a Biker (2008), which earned her the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award from the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2012, she wrote, directed, and produced her first feature-length fiction film, Riptide. Her 2018 documentary, Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political, achieved wide recognition and won numerous awards. Her most recent film, In the Forest (2025), extends this creative path and resonates at the heart of contemporary debates on our relationship with nature and the land.
Filmography
IN THE FOREST, 124 min, Documentary, 2025
PAULINE JULIEN : INTIMATE AND POLITICAL, 77 min, Documentary, 2018
RIPTIDE, 98 min, Fiction, 2013
ADAGIO FOR A BIKER, 90 min, Documentary, 2008
TREE WITH SEVERED BRANCHES, 80 min, Documentary, 2005
SOMETHING LIKE IMMORTALITY, 82 min, Documentary, 2003