As part of the Phonurgia Nova Awards 2023
Purpose of residency: creation, recording, research
La ville intérieure is a sound fiction based on a literary short story from the collection Dormir sans tête by Montreal author David Clerson. The project features characters wandering the corridors of a mysterious underground city with multiple acoustic properties. The residency at GMEM is a phase of research and technical exploration in sound immersion.
"While most of the rooms in this underground city are empty, there is furniture in some of them - evidence of a more or less recent occupation - and one of them, in the eighth basement (was it the ninth?), contains a bathtub, which I found full. The water was warm, almost hot, and I plunged in. Farther on, I could hear a drop falling, and elsewhere, a discreet, almost inaudible creaking. With my eyes closed, I put my head under the water. Only my lips and nose emerged. I breathed in slowly, while all around me stretched the city, whose pieces I imagined repeating endlessly, and whose heart I believed I was. When I got out of the tub, I dried myself with my T-shirt, as if it had been a towel, and walked outside." - excerpt from The Inner City, David Clerson
Support
Conseil des arts de Montréal ; La Sacem
Jenny Cartwright
Documentary filmmaker
Jenny Cartwright explores themes of self-determination and inequality through subjects such as gentrification, activism, work and poverty. It is through this bias towards people who have been sidelined that she attempts to combine poetry and manifestos.
In 2019, she produced her first sound documentary, Debouttes!, which won the NUMIX award for best podcast in the history category. With this project, she discovers a medium reminiscent of literature in its strong evocative power: love at first sight is strong, and sound creation becomes her medium of choice.
In 2022, Quels morceaux de nous a-t-elle emporterés avec elle? wins the NUMIX international award in the immersive sound experience category.
His work has been presented at the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM), VOX, center de l'image contemporaine, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), La grande rencontre des arts médiatiques de Percé, Cinéma politica, Fantasia and Longueur d'ondes.
David Cherniak
Documentary filmmaker, sound artist
Documentary filmmaker and audio artist living in Tio'tia:ke / Montreal, David Cherniak is active as a director of photography, sound designer, scriptwriter and producer. In 2021, he co-signed Création de Richesse / Labour of Love and Bienvenue aux dames. He produced the sound documentary Quels morceaux de nous a-t-elle emporteré avec elle ? and more recently Nous sortirons de nos cuisines.
Jenny Cartwright
David Cherniak
co-directors