OCEAN
50 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2002Directed byCatherine Martin
Produced byLes Productions Virage
LanguageFrench
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.
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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