Director
Caroline Monnet & Daniel Watchorn
Production
Eric Cinq-Mars
Language
Cree
13 min, short film, Quebec, Canada, 2014
An eight year old girl experience a series of traumatic events while quarantined in the infirmary of a residential school for Native children in Canada.
Synopsis
In this haunting and artistically-crafted short drama, an eight-year-old girl and her infant cousin endure a traumatic experience while quarantined in the infirmary of a residential school.
Credits
A film by: Caroline Monnet et Daniel Watchorn
Image: Eric Cinq-Mars
Art direction: Léa Valerie Létourneau
Editing: Elisabeth Olga Tremblay
Sound conception: Frères Lumières
Sound recording: Stéphane Barsalou
Production : Eric Cinq-Mars
With: Jasmyne Hébert, Estelle Richard et François Aubin
Financial partners
Conseil des Arts et des lettres du Québec
Conseil des Arts du Manitoba
Caroline Monnet
Caroline Monnet is a multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais, Québec. She studied Sociology and Communication at the University of Ottawa and the University of Granada (Spain). Her work has been shown internationally, including TIFF, VIFF, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal), VideoFormes, Urban Shaman Contemporary Art Gallery (Winnipeg), World Event Young Artist (Nottingham, UK); Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, GER) and ARSENAL Montréal). Monnet is currently working on a number of projects including writing and directing a commissioned short drama for ImagineNATIVE’s Embargo Collective II.
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Emptying the Tank, 15 min, Documentary, 2018
Creatura Dada, 3 min, Fiction, 2016
Tshiuetin, 10 min, Documentary, 2016
Mobilize, 3 min, Experimental, 2015
The Black Case, 13 min, Fiction, 2014
Roberta, 21 min, Fiction, 2014
Gephyrophobia, 3 min, Documentary, 2012
Tashina, 5 min, Fiction, 2010
Warchild, 5 min, Fiction, 2010
Ikwé, 4 min, Experimental, 2009
Daniel Watchorn
Daniel Watchorn was born in Aylmer, Quebec, in 1978. He has a B.A. in Film Studies from Concordia University. Up until 2011, he played guitar in the Canadian rock band Priestess. He now composes music for film, television and the web with collaborator Vincenzo Nudo under the name Frères Lumières. He first worked with Caroline Monnet co-writing the short experimental film Gephyrophobia, which appeared at the Cannes film festival, in 2012. The Black Case(2014), also co-written and co-directed with Caroline Monnet, is Daniel’s first foray into directing.
The Black Case, 13 min, Fiction, 2014