This film will be presented during the La Nuit du court event on March 22nd, 2025 at Concordia University.
A photographer and a filmmaker meet and begin a shared journey, connecting two places that have now become one. Through this poetic wandering, Dox Dadje explores Aïssatou Ciss’s photographic universe, marked by her reflections on childhood, adolescence, and dreams. Minimalist yet deeply evocative, the film weaves a dialogue between the photographer and the filmmaker, revealing their artistic and human bond.
In the presence of director Éléonore Coyette on March 22nd in Montreal.
A photographer and a filmmaker meet and begin a shared journey, connecting two places that have now become one. Through this poetic wandering, Dox Dadje explores Aïssatou Ciss’s photographic universe, marked by her reflections on childhood, adolescence, and dreams. Minimalist yet deeply evocative, the film weaves a dialogue between the photographer and the filmmaker, revealing their artistic and human bond.
In the presence of director Éléonore Coyette on March 22nd in Montreal.
Other festival:
St-Louis Docs, International Jury’s Special Mention, Senegal (2024)
St-Louis Docs, International Jury’s Special Mention, Senegal (2024)
| Director | Eléonore Coyette |
| Editing | Eleonore Coyette |
| Artist | Aïssatou Ciss |
| Sound | Iannis Heaulme |
Session
• Université Concordia - H110, Pavillon Henry F. Hall
Saturday, march 22, 2025, 07:00 p.m. — 10:26 p.m.
Production
Eleonore Coyette
Available in French only
Éléonore Coyette capture, dans ses films, l’indocile battement de coeur du monde. Sa grammaire visuelle est celle d’une poétesse.
Ses réalisations, oniriques et organiques, nous connectent à des êtres puissants et à l’âme des espaces qu’elle traverse. L’artiste nous invite à prendre de la hauteur pour mieux saisir la profondeur des êtres, à nous hisser sur les toits pour recouvrer la beauté des villes. Dans cet oeil-là, la lenteur et l’élégance sont magnifiées avec une justesse rare.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team and edited by Le FIFA’s team
Éléonore Coyette capture, dans ses films, l’indocile battement de coeur du monde. Sa grammaire visuelle est celle d’une poétesse.
Ses réalisations, oniriques et organiques, nous connectent à des êtres puissants et à l’âme des espaces qu’elle traverse. L’artiste nous invite à prendre de la hauteur pour mieux saisir la profondeur des êtres, à nous hisser sur les toits pour recouvrer la beauté des villes. Dans cet oeil-là, la lenteur et l’élégance sont magnifiées avec une justesse rare.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team and edited by Le FIFA’s team
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Aïssatou Ciss
Born in Senegal in 1993, Aïssatou Ciss is an eminent photographer who lives and works between Gorée Island and Dakar. She has a background in law and she started working on movie sets. For Aïssatou Ciss photography is a way to express herself, to tell her own stories and the stories of others. The themes of identity, transmission and archiving of memory are central to her work. Her first photographic series questions the different stages of his childhood. She likes to capture her native land, does not hesitate to invite the viewer to slow down by observing moments of life. She discovered art photography through the International Meetings of Contemporary Art organized by Les Ateliers Sahm, in Brazzaville.
She has participated in several international exhibitions, in Greece, Italy, the Ivory Coast, in Cameroon, Senegal, Belgium and Paris. Admitted to the TRAME program at the Cité Internationale des Arts, she is currently working on choices of exile. Her choices of experimentation turn mainly to Africans from all over Africa, combined. In this context, she will meet various nationalities: Cameroonians, Tunisians, Beninese… carrying with them the harsh reality of a sometimes voluntary and involuntary exile.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team and edited by Le FIFA’s team
She has participated in several international exhibitions, in Greece, Italy, the Ivory Coast, in Cameroon, Senegal, Belgium and Paris. Admitted to the TRAME program at the Cité Internationale des Arts, she is currently working on choices of exile. Her choices of experimentation turn mainly to Africans from all over Africa, combined. In this context, she will meet various nationalities: Cameroonians, Tunisians, Beninese… carrying with them the harsh reality of a sometimes voluntary and involuntary exile.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team and edited by Le FIFA’s team
In the same session
Université Concordia - H110, Pavillon Henry F. Hall
Saturday, march 22, 2025, 07:00 p.m.
