Seances (2016)
April 28, 2016Release Date
Seances (2016)
April 28, 2016Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Mathieu Amalric
Actor
Deena Aziz
Actress
Vasco Bailly-Gentaud
Actor
Jacques Bonnaffé
Actor
Guy Maddin
Director
Evan Johnson
Writer
Robert Kotyk
Writer
Bob Kotyk
Writer
Kim Morgan
Writer
David Christensen
Producer
Phyllis Laing
Producer
Alexandre Nazarian
Casting
Benjamin Kasulke
Director of Photography
Phyllis Lang
Producer
John Gurdebeke
Editor
Galen Johnson
Director / Production Design
Olivier Ligen
Costume Design
Élodie Mard-Pasqualini
Costume Design
Victoire Du Bois
Céline Bonnier
Amira Casar
Adèle Haenel
Ariane Labed
Charlotte Rampling
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 28, 2016
StatusReleased
Running Time13m
Filming LocationsMontreal, Canada · Paris, France
Genres
Wiki.
Seances is a 2016 interactive project by filmmaker and installation artist Guy Maddin, with co-creators Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, and the National Film Board of Canada, combining Maddin's recreations of lost films with an algorithmic film generator that allows for multiple storytelling permutations. Maddin began the project in 2012 in Paris, France, shooting footage for 18 films at the Centre Georges Pompidou (this installation was titled Spiritismes, the French word for "seances", leading to press confusion about the project title) and continued shooting footage for an additional 12 films at the Phi Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Paris and Montreal shoots each took three weeks, with Maddin completing one short film of approximately 15–20 minutes each day. The shoots were also presented as art installation projects, during which Maddin, along with the cast and crew, held a “séance” during which Maddin "invite[d] the spirit of a lost photoplay to possess them."