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Youth garden

Spring is jubilant and youngsters in beauty, feet in the bread and books to the heads. The painting is moving, between rustling of the tree and trembling of the hand. In the frantic race of life, death is not the last arrival and the gay knowledge gives the cemetery even festive tunes.

  • Hélène Matte
    Director
  • Claudia Funchal
    Key Cast
    "The Death"
  • David Nadeau
    Key Cast
    "The King"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Jardin de Jeunesse
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short
  • Completion Date:
    July 10, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • GLOBAL SHORTS
    Los Angeles
    United States
    October 24, 2019
    Special mention Winner
  • Dumbo Film Festival
    New York
    United States
    February, 2020
    semi finalist
  • Melkbos Short Film Festival
    Cap occidentale
    South Africa
    April 4, 2020
  • Soundscreen Festival

    Italy
    September 1, 2020
  • Quinte Film Festival
    Toronto
    Canada
    October 1, 2020
  • Film and Video Symposium
    Los Angeles
    United States
    October 1, 2020
  • Berlin Flash Film
    Berlin
    Germany
  • Audio Shoot International Musix&Video Festival

    November 1, 2020
Director Biography - Hélène Matte

Hélène Matte is a poet who comes from the visual arts. She particularly deals with drawing and poetry as acts of presence . Author, organizer’s events and performance artist , her practice is interdisciplinary. She has to her credit several presentations in Europe, Canada and elsewhere, as Festival Art Link to Stockholm (Sweden, April 2014 ) and the presentation of the poem action The Fuel of Life at the National Museum of Santiago, Chile ( June 2014 ). In 2003 she made the CD of electro-acoustic poetry Chansons dégoulinantes et poèmes acculés au pied du mur (Dripped songs and Poems Backs to the Wall) as well as the multidisciplinary show of the same title . In 2005, her audio poems Lever du jour sur Kinshasa became a videographic project and was published by Planète Rebelle. In 2007, her show TRAVEL TRAVEL won the prize VIDERE. In 2008, she became the first champion of SLAM poetry of her region and participate in the provincial finals . Since, her work is presented on many stages and participates in international events . In 2009, she participated in the International Poetry Festival of Namur (Belgium) and present a performance at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec and at the Galerie Jean -François Meyer (Marseille, France). In 2010, she is active in the Spring of Poets of Quebec, Expoésie (Périgueux, France), and present at the festival Québec en toutes lettres a multimedia installation. In 2011, she was in the festivals Voix d’Amériques and Metropolis Blue and participates in a literary tour of Colombia. During her scholarship until she gets a PhD in Litterature , Performing arts and Screen, she made her third stand-up show VI_DE_DI_EU , following by Les Robes. She has also developed many projects of cultural mediation with children and she worked as responsable in a art workshop for people who live with mental disease. She is also working with community movement and school, introducing youth to many kind of poetry. Actually, her interdisciplinary project ZumTrobaR, is dedicated to the interpretation of Paul Zumthor's text, with the multi-instrumentalist musician Michel Côté.

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