“We’re surrounded by images, but do we really know how to see them?”
The Canadian filmmaker Helen Doyle set out to explore this question with the help of ten photographers and visual artists: Stanley Greene, Philip Blenkinsop, Canadian photographers Bertrand Carrière and Lana Šlezić, Nadia Benchallal, Letizia Battaglia, the artists Alfredo Jaar and Paolo Ventura, Geert van Kesteren, and the Cambodian designer Sera Phousera Ing, who shared their experiences and concerns about the evolution of their profession given how images now surround us in our daily lives. This question has been raised many times since the advent of the Internet and the digital age. But this was less a discussion than a warning about the potential effects of an image.
Part photo essay, installation and graphic novel, Helen Doyle has each of these observers describe the meaning of their approach and their calling to convey a message. Aware of the visibility of their works and concerned by their impact, they open up to the camera, exhibiting some of the emotions of what they’ve seen and experienced in order to inform viewers. We learn about how they create their images and how they share it with others.
It was after having met several artists and photographers during shoots in Sarajevo and Chechnya that Helen Doyle became interested in these image-makers and wanted to understand their engagement. The interviews in this documentary educate us in the way we see today’s chaotic world.
The film received the award of Best Canadian Film at Montreal’s international Film “sur l’Art festival in 2013” and continues to be screened at several international festivals. Helen Doyle is an independent screenwriter and director based in Quebec.
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DANS UN OCÉAN D’IMAGES
CANADA, 2013
COULEUR french/English
90 min
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