Director
Catherine Martin
Production
Les Productions Virage
Language
French
50 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2002
A Road-Movie on rails, Ocean offers both a journey between Montreal and Halifax, as well as a sensory evocation of the intimate experience of travelling.
Synopsis
The Océan, a majestic luxury train, is the only passenger train between Montréal and Halifax. The film records a lyrical and dreamy journey from an intimate perspective – of sensations, fleeting moments and the minutia of life. Travelling a wide landscape, we stop to reminisce with local inhabitants whose testimonies belong to a bygone age.
Credits
Script and Direction : Catherine Martin
Photography : Carlos Ferrand
Sound Recording : Philippe Scultety, Martyne Morin
Music : Robert Marcel Lepage
Editing : Natalie Lamoureux
Sound Editing : Hugo Brochu
Sound Mixing : Bernard Gariépy Strobl
Production : Claude Cartier (Les Productions Virage)
Financial Partners
Fonds canadien de télévision
Téléfilm Canada
FCT
Crédit d’impôt cinéma et télévision – Gestion SODEC
SODEC
Crédits d’impôts du Québec
Rogers Documentary Fund
Catherine Martin
Catherine Martin was born in Québec. She writes and directs all her films, fictions as well as documentaries. Her films have been shown at numerous international festivals (Berlin, Toronto, Oberhausen, Nyon, Buenos Aires, Karlovy Vary, etc.) and won awards in Canada and abroad. Since 2017, she has done her own camerawork, sound recording and picture editing, acting as a producer and director of her documentary essays.
In Praise of Shadows, 86 min, Documentary, 2023
Some of my Friends , 115 min, Documentary, 2017
A Young Girl, 85 min, Fiction, 2013
Of Time and Water, 2 min, Experimental, 2011
Three Times After Anna’s Death, 87 min, Fiction, 2010
Quand j’aurai vu les îles, 14 min, Fiction, 2010
Alice, 1 min, Fiction, 2007
In the Cities, 87 min, Fiction, 2006
The Spirit of Places, 84 min, Documentary, 2006
Ocean, 50 min, Documentary, 2002
Marriages, 95 min, Fiction, 2001
The Ladies of the 9th Floor, 50 min, Documentary, 1998
Weekends, 30 min, Fiction, 1995
The Shadow, 15 min, Fiction, 1992
African Nights, 48 min, Fiction, 1990
Odile or Reminiscences of a Journey, 23 min, Fiction, 1985