Press release
The Clementine short film of Fleuve | Espace danse embarks on world tour
As the company celebrates its 15th year, the 2nd short film of Fleuve | Espace danse is currently touring international film festivals and receiving various accolades.
Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, March 16, 2021 – As the company celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, the second short film by Fleuve | Espace danse is currently touring international film festivals and collecting numerous honors. Earlier this year, director and choreographer Chantal Caron was delighted to learn of Clémentine’s official selections at the Seoul Short Film Festival in South Korea (finalist in the Experimental category), the Venice Shorts Film Festival in Los Angeles, the Roma Short Film Festival (Honorable Mention for Best Dance Film), the Tokyo International Short Film Festival in Japan (Experimental finalist), the New Wave Short Film Festival in Munich (Dance Film finalist), and the Depth of Field International Film Festival in Nassau, where the film received a choreographic award.
After its premiere at the Cinédanse Ottawa Festival and its nomination for the Prix Lumière in September 2019, the film caught the attention of the prestigious San Francisco Dance Film Festival, where it was screened in November 2019. In 2020, the pandemic did not slow its momentum: Clémentine was presented at the Waterproof Festival (Ciné-Corps) in Rennes, the R.E.D International Film Festival in Norway (Screendance finalist), the Women Over 50 Film Festival in the United Kingdom (winner of Best Experimental), the Experimental Dance and Music Film Festival in Toronto (cinematography award), the Festival Quartiers Danses, the Montréal Independent Film Festival (Semi-finalist, Experimental category), and the Sicily Independent Film Festival in Italy, where it won the Best Experimentalaward.
Upcoming screenings include the XXIV Rencontres Internationales Traverse in Toulouse in May 2021, as well as the International Short & Symbolic Art Film Festival in Saint Petersburg on March 27, where the film is nominated for Best Actress (Clémentine Schindler) and Best Experimental.
Clémentine is conceived as a visceral cry bridging the mineral, the beast, and the human — an unexpected encounter with raw matter, merging with its shadows and its light. A journey through glitter and mud, the film seeks a return to a pure and natural state, where memories sink in order to free the soul. The short film, just under eight minutes in length, was shot in 2017 along the shores of Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies with a small team and limited budget. Excerpts are available on the company’s Facebook and Vimeo pages.
Chantal Caron and her team are currently completing the editing of Prendre le Nord, filmed in the summer of 2019 with a full production crew and a cast of 12 professional dancers. Following this project, she will begin post-production on the short film La Marée Noire, shot during a snowstorm on the ice floes of the Saint Lawrence in February 2020. Les Images cachées, released in fall 2020 and featuring unreleased footage filmed in 2015 and 2016 with performer Emily Leduc Gagné and students from the École de danse Chantal Caron, is now available on the company’s Vimeo page: Fleuve Espace danse.
Fleuve Espace danse will return to the road this summer with the productions Le Souffle de l’aube and La Marée Noire, a new work that continues the thematic thread of the short film of the same name. The company is also developing a new ambulatory performance, following the successful experience of Les Moires, presented in September 2020 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli as part of the annual event À Ciel Ouvert | Danser sur l’infini de l’horizon…
