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synopsis

After the collection of Greek films Spaces #1 comes Spaces #2. The series of seven films by world-renowned filmmakers such as Denis Côté, Radu Jude, and Jia Zhangke is inspired by Georges Perec's book Espèces d'espaces and the lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic. A condition for the creation of the series of short films was that the directors shoot them in their homes. The permitted exteriors were a terrace, garden, or balcony. Côté's post depicts a black-and-white emotional reality filled with watching porn videos and melodramas. The doses of affected emotions and orgasmic moments act as a drug that allows one to forget for a while the isolation and frustrating aimlessness of coronavirus timelessness.


"The best thing I have heard about myself was when a film critic from Toronto said, 'When you start watching a Denis Côté film, you never know what’s gonna happen.'" (Denis Côté)

biography

Denis Côté (1973) is a Canadian independent filmmaker living and working in Quebec. He started out as a film critic, and his debut Radisson (2005) won the Golden Leopard at Locarno for Best Video Film. Vic+Flo Saw a Bear (2013) and Hygiène sociale (2021) received top accolades at the Berlinale.

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director:

Denis Côté