Northern Ontario Premiere of Denis Côté’s latest feature, Mademoiselle Kenopsia, is set for Thursday Jan. 18, at 6:30 p.m. at Sudbury Indie Cinema. The filmmaker will join afterwards for a live moderated Q&A.
Denis Côté is an independent filmmaker and producer living in Quebec. His experimental films have been shown at major film festivals around the world. A release from the Indie states Côté is “an uncompromising and prolific maverick who challenges audiences rather than offering clear, classically structured narratives.”
Côté has won acclaim and awards at home and abroad for his independent features and documentaries. “Côté’s films are starkly minimalist, strangely poetic, dryly funny and thematically enigmatic,” the release continues. “His deadpan style and marginalized characters have earned him an international reputation as one of Canada’s leading auteurs.”
Twice his films have made the Top Ten TIFF List, and his work has premiered at Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, and TIFF.
Mademoiselle Kenopsia premiered at the 76th Locarno Film Festival in August 2023, and had its Canadian premiere in the Wavelengths program at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. It has been described as a performance art piece, and a strong collaboration with Quebec actor Larissa Corriveau. The 80 min. feature is presented in French, with English subtitles.
Set on carrying out her task with dedication, Mademoiselle Kenopsia shows a woman obsessed with watching over anonymous interiors and occupying them. She becomes an echo of how we relate to time, solitude and the melancholy of forsaken spaces.
Mademoiselle Kenopsia’s Northern première is being presented through a collaboration between Sudbury Indie Cinema, the city’s arthouse cinema and Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario (TNO), the local francophone theatre company.
This special film event includes a bilingual Q&A which will be moderated by local filmmaker Andréanne Germain. Germain's interests are shared between the creative, technical and business facets of filmmaking. Her work has been shown on Radio-Canada, TFO, TV5, Canal D, TVO, at the Montreal International Documentary Festival, the Berlin Sci-fi Film Festival, the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie and through the National Film Board of Canada's website.
Tickets are $20 at the door, or $15 by purchasing in advance online purchase here.
