VESLEMØY’S SONG
While helping her grandmother clean her storage locker, Audrey (Deragh Campbell) finds the biography of a woman who was once a world-famous Canadian violinist, Kathleen Parlow. She embarks on a journey of archival inquiries that takes her to the New York Public Library, where she will experience frustrating short-circuited adventures that independent archivists encounter when attempting to re-piece the past. A miniature epic of defeat shot on hand-processed 16mm film, in which failure becomes a way of relating to the world, of making and dealing with what we cannot change, the source of a kind of wit needed to survive. A film made with incredible detail which moves fast between concrete, minimalistic images that touch upon the aesthetics of deterioration.
Written by Lucía Salas
Available to watch on The Criterion Channel and DAFilms.
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Starring Deragh Campbell, Joan Benac, Steve Benac
2018 / 8 min / Canada / English / 1:37.1
Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 2018
Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto 2018
Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver 2018
New York Film Festival, New York City 2018
BFI London FIlm Festival, London 2018
Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montréal, Canada, 2018
Verin International Short Film Festival, Verin, 2018
Stockholm International Film Festival, Stockholm, 2018
Gimli Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada, 2019
DocLisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019
Petrohradská Kolektiv, Prague, Czech Republic, 2021
Punto de Vista, Pamplona, Spain, 2022
ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, U.K., 2023
Winner:
• Verin ISFF, Camira Jury Prize, 2018
• Best Canadian Short Film, Gimli Film Festival, Winnipeg, 2019
Nomination:
• Short Film Competition Award, BFI London Film Festival, London 2018