ANNE-MARIE BOUCHARD

Anne-Marie Bouchard lives and works in Québec City. She directed several experimental videos and installations. Her work is about exploring the mysteries and wonders of the world and questioning the way we perceive and analyze it. To sense, to feel, to be immersed, and to question: her cinema is poetry.

Her work has been shown in festivals like Chicago International Music and Movies Festival, Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois (Montréal), Les Instants Vidéo de Marseille (France), Cinema on the Bayou (Louisiane), San Diego Underground Film Festival, International Film Festival Ireland, Traverse Video (Toulouse, France), Les instants vidéo (Marseille, France), amongst others.

 

Statement

Experimental video artist, I work with video and film as visual and audio matter, exploring alternative and homemade processes. I question the way we are constructed as individuals, the way we grasp and perceive the world through the constant narrative we tell ourselves. Reality has no narrative at first, it is just there – until we, humans, attempt to make sense out of it with language and linearity. I seek to think differently, to express the world through another process. I organize my work in a poetic structure, where I appeal first to the senses, then to the intellectual associations of a non-narrative editing form. My work is about exploring the mysteries and wonders of the world and questioning the way we perceive and analyze it.