Creative Process

 

Questioning myself about the relation between the imaginary and the construction of the personality, has determined for 20 years the action plan where I wish to integrate Arts to childhood and childhood to Arts. In order to continue this search and to have the point of view of a blind child, I invited Antoine to the creation process of this movie.

For the first time, he plays a symbolic game where he becomes Detective Antoine, where he explores the world that surrounds him and his own magical mind. With incredible enthusiasm, he collaborates to the soundtrack creation by capturing and choosing sounds; creating and recording sounds; collaborating to the editing. Therefore, Antoine proposes us a point of view, worthy of his universe.

During a two years period, Antoine and I have worked together, which allowed us to understand his uniqueness, to follow his actions, his emotions and his intentions. His knowledge of the world passes through the rapidity and sensibility of his touch, by his passion of talking, by his remarkable interest in learning, by his movements to feel the space and by his difficulty in establishing relationships with his peers.

Like every other five years old child, Antoine is not aware of the immensity and the challenges of the world. It is through the reconstruction of his imaginary that he will be able to live these situations. Through missions that I gave him, the "Hunter of sounds" brought to life imaginary situations. Therefore, his creative mind, his self-expression and his capacity of making relations, were stimulated in a totally different form.

I wanted Antoine to be introduced to audio-visual arts, which allowed him to comprehend the unknown, to imagine it and to reinvent it. That is how he pretends to see, to drive a car, to sound hunt or even catch the silence. He wants to be, live and become.The pleasures of hearing himself, manipulating objects and remembering the procedures are renewed at every meeting.

With great interest and remarkable skills, he learns how to manipulate a camera, he understands the mechanism of filmmaking and chooses the equipment to capture the sounds. He verifies, compares, suggests and chooses. Without skipping any details, he collaborates to each creation stages. His detective missions gave him the motivation to search, the pleasure to dream and the satisfaction to learn. He also gave himself the liberty of becoming a journalist and invented a radio show where he asks questions, explains his missions and shares his discoveries.

As a journalist-sound hunter-detective Antoine not only improved his capacity of organization and making assumptions: for the first time he will question water cycles and for the next fifteen months, will follow its transformations. Antoine also predisposed himself to pleasure. He created movements, sounds, three dimensional images, messages and sculptures who were all the reflections of his perceptions.

Antoine and I developed a precise work method that allowed us to capture diversified and complete quantity of different moments of his life, from the age of five to six, either from school, home or an unknown Montreal. I developed a type of caption that allows me to demonstrate the dream-like every day life of someone that sees and moves differently. I tried to capture the sudden manifestations of narrative memories or projections. He continuously chooses and explores music and singing as a form of narration.

Through his steps, his hearing and his touch, Antoine visited the images that he will never see. He integrated them in his uneatable and quiet universe.

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