Helen Doyle (2013)

A freelance scriptwriter and director since 1973, Helen Doyle has won a number of awards for her work, recognized in Québec, Canada and abroad.
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FILM: « DANS UN OCÉAN D’IMAGES, J’AI VU LE TUMULTE DU MONDE » (“FRAMEWORKS: IMAGES OF A CHANGING WORLD”)

Location coming soon

Longueuil (Québec) | www.informactionfilms.com/fr/productions/dans-un-ocean-dimages.php et www.tatoumemo.wordpress.com

In 2002 she founded her own production house, Tatouages de la mémoire, where she produced Soupirs d’âme (Soul Murmur) and Birlyant, une histoire tchétchène (Birlyant, a Chechen Story). In 2008 her work was acknowledged with a career grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and in 2009, by a retrospective at the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montreal. In 2011 she received a residency grant, again from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, for work in Rome on a project entitled Sur les traces de Pasolini (In the Footsteps of Pasolini). In 2013, her latest documentary feature film, Dans un océan d’images, j’ai vu le tumulte du monde (Frameworks: Images of a Changing World, produced by InformAction films), received the award for Best Canadian Film at the 31st International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in Montreal. A boxed set and a monograph on her work are in preparation.

FILM PRESENTED AT THE RENCONTRES: « DANS UN OCÉAN D’IMAGES, J’AI VU LE TUMULTE DU MONDE » (“FRAMEWORKS: IMAGES OF A CHANGING WORLD”)

(HD — 90 minutes) Dans un océan d’images is a quest of Helen Doyle’s for the meaning and impact of images. We are bombarded by images, but are we still able to truly see them, especially those of conflict and its aftermath? In an evolving practice, photographers and visual artists propose new strategies and adopt different methods for offering us images that are significant. Those that emerge and force us to look lead us to see the tumult of the world differently. With the participation of Letitzia Battaglia, Nadia Benchallal, Philip Blenkinsop, Bertrand Carrière, Stanley Greene, Alfredo Jaar, Geert van Kesteren, Sera Phousera Ing, Lana Šlezić and Paolo Ventura.

Upcoming film

September 2013

  • Theater release of the film Dans un océan d’images, j’ai vu le tumulte du monde, in Montreal

Recent or significant exhibit

2010

  • “La Fiancée de Tonnerre” (The Thunder Fiancée), photographs on material 40 inches x 60, presented as part of the Danielle-Marie Chanut exhibit and installation “Des singularitez et chimères” (Singularities and Chimaeras), Musée des Arts Naïfs et Populaires de Noyers, France

Distinctions or awards

2013

  • Award for Best Canadian Film at the 31st International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal for Dans un océan d’images, j’ai vu le tumulte du monde