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OCEAN

50 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2002
Directed byCatherine Martin
Produced byLes Productions Virage
LanguageFrench
Short descriptionA 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.
Film subjects Emigration & Migration , Rural Life
Regis du cinemas, general

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One of the ten best movies of 2002. Canada's Top Ten

Film details

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

Direction

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.

 

Filmography

 

Feature films
• UNE JEUNE FILLE (A JOURNEY), 85 min, 2013
• TROIS TEMPS APRÈS LA MORT D’ANNA (MOURNING FOR ANNA), 87 min, 2010
• DANS LES VILLES (IN THE CITIES), 87 min, 2006
• MARIAGES (MARRIAGES), 95 min, 2001

 

Documentaries and documentary essays
• ÉLOGE DE L’OMBRE (IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS), 86 minutes, 2023
• CERTAINS DE MES AMIS (SOME OF MY FRIENDS), 115 min, 2017
• L’ESPRIT DES LIEUX (THE SPIRIT OF PLACES), 84 min, 2006
• OCÉAN (OCEAN), 50 min, 2002
• LES DAMES DU 9E (THE LADIES OF THE 9TH FOOR), 50 min, 1998

 

Short and medium length fictions or film essays
• LES FINS DE SEMAINE (WEEKENDS), 30 min, 1995
• L’OMBRE (THE SHADOWS), 15 min, 1992
• NUITS D’AFRIQUE , 48 min,1990
• ODILE OU RÉMINISCENCES D’UN VOYAGE, 23 min, 1985
• DE TEMPS ET D’EAU, 2 min., 2011
• QUAND J’AURAI VU LES ÎLES, 14 min, 2010
• ALICE, 30 sec, 2007