SURVEILLANT

A film by Yan Giroux

Director

Yan Giroux

Production

Alt Collection

Language

French

Year

2011

17 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

It’s another quiet summer day in Park Dufresne. The neighborhood teens loiter about until a young park monitor arrives for his first day of work. Tension rises as the two worlds clash in an unbalanced territorial struggle. In this impressionistic film, the banal day-to-day rituals of a suburban park take on a poetic tone through carefully planned and choreographed takes.

Screenplay: Yan Giroux

Direction of Photography: Ian Lagarde

Editing: Yan Giroux

Sound Design: Marie-Pierre Grenier

Music : Marie-Hélène L. Delorme

Production : Annick Blanc

Cast: Olivier Leduc, Manuel Aubé-Perron, Claudia Laureau, Martin Dubreuil

Yan Giroux

Yan Giroux independently produced his documentaries between 2007 and 2012, allowing him to develop his vision, which would later grow with more resources and ambition in his fiction short films. In addition to being recognized locally, his shorts have been showcased in several international festivals, including Sundance Film Festival. His first feature film, For Those Who Don’t Read Me (2018), won several awards at the Gala Québec Cinéma.

 

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