Renaud de Putter

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Mittimatalik, community of 1300 inhabitants, located 6 ° from the Arctic Circle in the Canadian Far North. The temperature is only positive there for two months a year. This is where the directors have chosen to put their camera down to explore the influence of an extreme environment on the mental universe and to try to understand how this environment is reflected in the imagination. The film, at the same time poetic and anthropological, listens to the accounts of the inhabitants' dreams, which it confronts with the daily gestures and life of the village, a life naked to the immensity of a natural world beyond the human environment everywhere.

Early 20th century. Singer Marie Toulinguet has lost her voice. Deeply affected by this personal tragedy, she is haunted by frightening memories of her childhood in Newfoundland (Canada). She remembers an Indian doll, a gift from her mother. It was made by a maid named Shanawdithit, the last survivor of the Beothuk Indians. As Marie relives her loss of voice, a bond is reestablished between her and the Indian woman who is dead. Through this enigmatic relationship, Marie can reconcile herself with her past and perhaps invent a future.

1910. Charlotte Dufrène, a former demimondaine secluded in elegant society close to Paris, has to accept a strange proposal: to become the pretend companion of Raymond Roussel, an eccentric writer and secret homosexual. She would spend twenty-three years by his side, accompanying him right to the end of a hallucinated quest. From Brussels, where she then retreats, she recalls the day preceding this decisive meeting and the flamboyant celebration that was then given in her honor. Letters sent by Charlotte Dufrène between 1933 and 1964 support this narrative.

Heterogenous collections of filmed and graphic images together form a poetic reflection on the hectic times in which we live.