Event

CARCASSES

5:30pm
CARCASSES / Dir. Denis Cote / 2009 / Canada / 72 min. / 35mm
Jean-Paul Colmor lives by himself, but he is hardly alone. Many lives are represented all around him in
the old cars and piles of discarded objects that litter his land in Saint-Anable near Montreal. Colmor
works at repairing what others have tossed aside. Into his peaceful and cluttered sanctuary come four
teenagers with Down syndrome, who find refuge in Colmor's second-hand world. Provocative and
poetic, Denis Cote's Carcasses is a fascinating blend of fact and fiction. Colmor is an engaging subject,
equally comfortable espousing his philosophies for Cote's camera or silently working on a car with the
director as voyeur. By including the constructed narrative of the teen's arrival, Cote forces a social
interpretation of his images, questioning how a society assesses the value of things to determine what
should be kept and what should be thrown away.
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