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Beautiful Like Elsewhere

In a quiet retirement home for a few residents watch a late night film and a nurse enjoys a cigarette. Welcome to the end of time and the land of dreams.””
“Beautiful Like Elsewhere” unfolds in a home for elderly women, and looks at the end of the world from another dimension. I wanted to shine a spectacular light on a female centric universe, and play with graphic conventions to create cinematic tensions. As much about light, color, texture as it is about sound, “Beautiful Like Elsewhere” evokes a mysterious dreamscape of shimmering tableaux that seem to exist just on the edge of consciousness. I am attracted by cinematic experiences that do not draw on conventional narratives to achieve storytelling – I am interested in experiential cinema.

Simard Elise