Alice’s Four Stories

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Alice’s Four Stories

Les quatre récits d’Alice
Myriam Jacob-Allard
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
Canada
2019
5 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
English

Testimony versus “prosthetic memory”: The director dubs the sound recordings of her grandmother, collected over a period of ten years, in which the old lady recaps her encounter with a tornado as a child, in front of a green screen. While the details of her memories change through repeated narration over time, the found footage from feature and disaster films, weather reports and landscape images suggests a mediatised participation in the events.

Borjana Gaković

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Director
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Script
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Cinematographer
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Editor
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Producer
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Sound
Bruno Bélanger, Claire Jacob, Myriam Jacob-Allard
Narrator
Alice Gervais