TRAVAUX PUBLICS (PUBLIC WORKS)
Running time: 20:00
Year: 1995
Format: S-VHS, colour/b&w, mono
Directors: Pierre Beaudoin and Nelson Henricks
This ironic and humorous pseudo-documentary features interviews about work with different people living in the city of Hull, Québec: a taxi driver, a parking ticket officer, an aesthetician, two children and dreaming young idealist who is also a museum guard at the National Gallery of Canada. The video begins in a conventional manner, but through editing and image processing begins to take on a humorous tone, resulting in a construction which interrogates difference as well as the elaboration of identity, art and aesthetics.
Production credits directed by : Pierre Beaudoin and Nelson Henricks with: Jean-Guy Bélair, Stéphane Bouchard, René Guay, Émilie Martineau, Dominic Martineau et Lorette Poirier interviews by: Pierre Beaudoin camera and sound: Nelson Henricks original music Nelson Henricks additional music: Henry Mancini, Riz Ortolani & Nino Oliviero, Bernard Herrmann, et Vivaldi editing: Nelson Henricks thanks to: Marc Demers, Jean Gagnon, Francine & Julien Martineau, et Normand Rivest thanks also to: Yasmin Karim, Lorraine Gilbert, Chantale Beaudoin et Concordia University, Studio "C" Réalisé au centre de production Daïmôn à Hull (Québec), dans le cadre d'une résidence d'artiste. / Produced at Daïmôn video production center in Hull, Québec during an artist in residence project. Copyright Pierre Beaudoin & Nelson Henricks, 1995.