A psycho-sexual poetic politico historico and reflective film document about the Canadian identity and the failed revolution of 1837 – 1838. To understand the disease’s origins is not equivalent to finding an effective therapy, but it is undoubtedly a crucial prerequisite. Entre la Langue et L’Océan. Surréaliste, radical, esthètiquement riche et techniquement ambitieux, ceci est un film qui résiste toute classification. A man tries to invent a liberated state and ends up in a penal colony. After awhile he hesitates to remember the cause of his incarceration. He only remembers what he left behind not what he was hoping to attain. His goal now is to live without the monstrosity of hope other than the transcendence that is called his death. Including a transgender New York messiah, a sado-masochist Governor General, and the diarist entries of the failed revolutionary. A critical examination of the events surrounding the Canadian Rebellions of 1837 and 1838 and the subsequent expulsion of a political detainee from the Lower Canada Rebellion to the Australian penal colony of the British Empire. The film is grounded in the documented exile experiences of François Maurice Lepailleur —a participant in the aforementioned rebellions. Inspiré des écrits d’un prisonnier, François Maurice Lepailleur, exilé en 1840-42, ce film utilise une stratégie de montage et de collage à finde subtilement dévoiler son sujet…On découvre le Gouverneur Général de Canada qui prend sa pause-café avec des cochons, une révolutionnaire cracheur de feu, un bourreau qui a perdue sa mémoire, et quelqu’un du’un sexe ambigu, Jésus de New York: voici une vision extravagante et ludique d’un pays nommé “improbable et ridiculement chanceux”. The film was also inspired by The Imaginary Canadian by Anthony Wilden, a psychoanalytical reading of “the Canadian identity” problem. Anthony Wilden is a significant figure in translating and interpreting Lacan’s work, as well as being one of Canada’s most insightful communication theorist.
