Movies: Dominic Gagnon

A reflection on the fate of humanity in the Anthropocene epoch, White Noise is a roller-coaster of a film, a whirlwind of sounds and images. The fourth feature-length work by Simon Beaulieu, this film essay plunges viewers into a subjective sensory a...

A Film crew is documenting the behavior patterns of two mock-commando units comprised of adolescent boys admist a paintball war, while they search for hidden prototype of a revolutionary military weapon in the Boreal forest. The rivaling teams are re...

A couple's impasse is refracted through the world’s great tragedies, and the news of "what is happening in Kosovo”. A tender, indifferent, cynical and bittersweet slice of melodrama....

"Flag as inapproriate". This unconspicuous button with a flag icon appears underneath every single YouTube video we watch marking the limits of our freedom in the Internet. Once flagged by anonymous users, after being checked by the also anonymous Yo...

Rip in Pieces America is an uncensored proclamation from an invisible USA. Dominic Gagnon turns no blind eye in his ultra-intense collage film which consists entirely of more or less anonymous webcam clips that due to their controversial or explicit ...

On the one hand, there is Murdochville, founded in Gaspésie in 1950 following the discovery of a large copper deposit. In 1970, it had over 5,000 inhabitants. Today, since the mine closed, fewer than 1,000 people live there. On the other hand, there...

Some images, maybe a little bit of music, some people talking with each other, you know what? Just watch it. I didn't yet. Not that I don't want to, but I'm busy you know. School and everything....

Images taken from the project « Alors dansez maintenant »...

A large electronics store welcomes vendors and customers. Cameras are there to show that the company’s slogans are not lies. A manipulation transforms the recordings and instils doubt....

“We use the strength of resilience pro- voked by six emotional states: bore- dom, sadness, solitude, anger, disgust and indifference.” The manifesto of the At-Work collective appears onscreen, proclaiming artistic and intellec- tual guerrilla tactics...

With over 2000 uploads, Frenchman Georges denounces the alienating and dehumanising reality of Chinese society. The most successful and political film by Canadian director Gagnon who for years has chronicled the coding of a new world order in the dig...

Men, seen from afar, driven by the dynamics of work. The machine is no longer an extension of the bodies, of their strength. Man is now driven by the machine. The alienation of humanity is accomplished....

It all began with The Society of the Spectacle, the book and the film. Gagnon updates the discourse, juxtaposing Guy Debord’s voice onto contemporary images taken from the internet. Social alienation in the global market era takes shape on screen....

Exploration of the internet and our current era through YouTube videos. Dominic Gagnon reconstructs the south as seen through vlogs, found footage, video games, raging storms and burning palm trees....

Images are shown on a screen split into four, while a voice-over fills these spaces with fantasies, with a mix of encyclopaedic culture and visionary intelligence, made of anecdotes, lucid reflections, paranoid obsessions, urban legends, memories of ...

Television spare parts follow each other and grow in number on an electronic soundtrack. From an installation made of materials found in the street, this film emphasises the end of an era, that of analogue and passivity, and the beginning of another,...

A team of astronauts is launched into space during the pandemic. As the planet takes a pause, its inhabitants share their experiences of COVID-19 and the consequences it might have on their mental health....

Car races, planes and airports, men and women waiting, an eagle in flight, a bison in the fog. Sustained music and silence. Analogical editing, without words, orchestrates it all. The encounter between electronic sonorities and images frozen in a vac...

The Arctic filmed by its inhabitants....

Just out of jail, sitting in his car, Joseph drinks iced coffee, smokes cigarettes and makes videos. He loves a USA that he can see disappearing before his eyes, and his rants are a powerful trip into a reactionary and savage American psyche....