L’état des lieux / The State of Things
July 21 – August 9, 2014
Screening, Exhibition
About the Program
The installation L’État des lieux / The State of the Moment and film screening of L’État du monde / The State of the World was co-presented by grunt gallery, Queer Arts Festival, and Dazibao. Initiated by filmmaker Rodrigue Jean, Épopée is a collection of short films written and made in collaboration with male drug addicts and sex trade workers in Montréal. Set in the district known to residents as "the box," an area bounded by the streets St. Dennis, De Lorimier, Viger, and Sherbrooke, the project was initiated following the shooting of the film Men for Sale (2008), when participants expressed the desire to create fictional works in addition to the documentary. The project started with writing workshops that transformed into a website with short films written and acted out by the participants. Made up of stories—9 Fictions and 13 Trajets—written and filmed in collaboration with male sex workers, Épopée uses cinema (writing, shooting, editing, and screening) as a gesture and an instrument of freedom and community. These films are not portraits, whether real or fictional, of their protagonists; instead they combine to paint a highly emotional and political portrait of our first world, its structure and the segregation on which it is based. L’État des lieux was installed as an alternating projection at grunt gallery from July 21 to August 9, 2014. L’État du monde was screened at the Roundhouse on August 5, 2014.Curator
Tarah HogueIdentifier
2014.0721 LETCollection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (second location)116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
Roundhouse Community Arts Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6Z 2W3
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
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