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Chants d'amours

Chants d'amours

LAMATHILDE | CANADA | 2020 | 3 MIN | NO DIALOGUE

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LAMATHILDE | CANADA | 2020 | 3 MIN | NO DIALOGUE

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Synopsis

Chants d’amours is a powerful video work based on the appropriation of homophobic and transphobic slurs. By reinterpreting them, Lamathilde and her LGBTQ+ friends from Montreal transform stigma into poetic and political resistance, hoping to inspire more love, dignity, and resilience through words.

Filmmaker Bio

Lamathilde, a French-Canadian artist working at the intersection of video, performance, sound, and digital art, offers a political and poetic reflection on power relations, intimacy, and physicality. Trained in film and linguistics, she adopts a DIY approach, combining humor, poetry, and subversion. Since 1999, her work has been shown at various festivals and galleries around the world (I+N, FIFA, Pink Screens, Les instants vidéos, Mix Festival, etc.)

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