Mamori transports us into a black-and-white universe of fluid shapes, dappled and striated with shadows and light, where the texture of the visuals and of the celluloid itself have been transformed through the filmmaker’s artistry. The raw material of images and sounds was captured in the Amazon rainforest by filmmaker Karl Lemieux and avant-garde composer Francisco López, a specialist in field recordings. Re-filming the photographs on 16 mm stock, then developing the film stock itself and digitally editing the whole, Lemieux transmutes the raw images and accompanying sounds into an intense sensory experience at the outer limits of representation and abstraction. Fragmented musical phrases filter through the soundtrack, evoking in our imagination the clamour of the tropical rainforest in this remote Amazonian location called Mamori.
Mamori
January 13, 2010
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Francisco López
Field Director
Karl Lemieux
Director
Julie Roy
Producer
René Chénier
Executive Producer
Francine Langdeau
Line Producer
Michèle Labelle
Administration
Diane Régimbald
Administration
Francisco López
Original Music Composer
Francisco López
Sound Designer
Jean-Paul Vialard
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Gaspard Gaudreau
Title Designer
Susan Gourley
Digital Imaging Technician
Pierre Plouffe
Digital Imaging Technician
Guillaume Marin-Lafond
Compositor
Diane Ayotte
Administrative Assistant
Julie Laperriere
Technical Supervisor
Karl Lemieux
Cinematography
Mathieu Bouchard-Malo
Editor
Françoise Laprise
Online Editor
Karl Lemieux
Animation