Private Project

bonds

Synopsis (eng): «Bonds» is an experiment between two creatures who reinvent the bonds that ties them together through bondage. It explores how queer intimacy, consent and eroticism intersects with power play, the relation to the camera and d.i.y feminist filmmaking.

Synopsis (fr) : « bonds » est une expérience entre deux créatures qui réinventent le lien qui les unit à travers le bondage. Le film explore comment l'intimité queer, le consentement et l'érotisme se nouent avec les jeux de pouvoir, la relation à la caméra et la réalisation de films féministes d.i.y.

  • Myriam (dani) Tardif
    Director
  • Lari Jalbert
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    queer, feminist
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes 22 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 15, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    1280x720
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • FLIQS : queer film night
    Montréal
    Canada
    April 23, 2018
  • Toronto Queer Film Festival
    Toronto
    Canada
    November 2, 2018
  • Transformations TFFF
    Berlin
    Germany
  • MICGénero
    Mexico DF
    Mexico
    August 4, 2019
  • Internationales FrauenFilmFestival Dortmund
    Cologne
    Germany
    2020
  • Filministes
    Montréal
    Canada
    March 5, 2021
Distribution Information
  • Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV)
    Country: Canada
Director Biography - Myriam (dani) Tardif

dani Tardif is a multidisciplinary queer artist based in Tio'tia:ke, Montreal. Their practice is mainly focused on creating spaces where new forms of relationality – individual vs community, subject vs the common - can emerge, through practices of empowerment and subversion. After exploring cinema and theatre, they decided to study social sciences to get tools and experiences around research, research-creation and visual ethnography. In 2013, they directed and edited the documentary On a gagné: retour sur une victoire amère that was presented in multiple festival in Montréal, such as FIFEQ, Hors-Cadre and Cinema Politica Uqam. Following a MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Concordia, 2016, researching how the late capitalist era is producing an internalization of the cult toward the continuous betterment of the self, they turned to fiction. They worked as scriptwriter, director and editor on the medium-length film hron, a country of ghosts (expected for 2019). Lastly, they have been working on shorter, more experimental project inspired by themes of eroticism, intimacy, transcendence and power, as well as the tension between fiction and non-fiction, magic and politics. Their last films include bonds 2018 (TQFF, TransFormations, FLIQS, MICGénero) and fruits 2018 (FLIQS, SIP projections). Performance, drag, erotic short stories and visual art are also very much part of their work.

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