This experimental documentary explores intergenerational transmission through the story of Dolorès; almost a century of women’s history and Quebec history. Through intimate audio encounters, she invites us to relive her life in a non-chronological way, revealing her victories, her regrets, but above all the feminist roots of a woman who always wanted more than she was allowed to dream for. With a fiery character, a resilience tinged with optimism and a spirit of perpetual questioning, she offers us a retrospective on the last century marked by a quest for intellectual and financial independence. The image, for its part, is a terrain for deconstruction. Shot on Super 8 and Super 16 film, both expired and recent, it materializes the challenges of transmission. The more distant the memories, the more elusive they are; when they are recalled with joy, the more figurative they become. This process, both technical and poetic, questions the nature of the cinematic trace: the inscription of an image on plastic film, and its inscription in a historical landscape. The film thus takes on a meditative dimension, in which Dolorès’ voice, soft and lively, accompanies us like that of a warm-hearted grandmother. The image, at once abstract and pictorial, plunges us into a contemplation of memory; fragile and untameable.
