A trailer is parked deep in the forest. Its occupants are Mikael and his wife Melanie. Mikael is a film director. He is seeking locations for an opera video. Melanie lives in her own world, listening to the sounds of strange characters. Are they the product of her imagination? For Mikael, it is all madness, and he has nothing but contempt for this woman obsessed by a mad fear of bears (ursuphobia).

Then Susan and Rikard arrive. Susan, the beautiful diva with a superb voice whom Mikael admires, is the star of his production, Rikard the video cameraman. The two couples have complex inter-relationships.

The crew films the video. It is finished - or is it? Another episode takes place, one of seduction, fear and death involving Rikard and Melanie. The two are caught in a web created by Mikael. His act tragically causes Melanie to meet her doom. Other events will follow in a path of complicity and disappearances. The course of events will bring back Mikael to his true fate...

 

"Non narratif, non linÈaire..." ("Non narrative, non linear...")

Michel Euvrard, Le Devoir

"...il s'en dÈgage une cohÈrence certaine, un humour fÈroce et une grande fÈbrilitÈ de cinÈaste...de bizarroÔdes personnages punky, surrÈalistes et invisibles." ("...shows a sure coherence, a wild humour and a lively energetic direction...outlandish, punkish, surreal, invisible characters.")

Michel Villeneuve, Liaison St-Louis

  

STARRING:
KATHY HORNER, ATTILA BERTALAN, SUSAN EYTON-JONES with MARK ETTLINGER, ROTWANG, KENNON RAINES, JUDY RADUL, JOCELYNE MALOUF

CAMERA/D.O.P.:
MICHEL LAMOTHE

SOUND:
SIMON GOULET, ATTILA BERTALAN

EDITORS:
FLORENCE MOUREAUX, BASHAR SHBIB

SOUND EDITOR:
JOHN BROOKE

ASSITANT CAMERA:
FRANCE RENAUD

PRODUCTION MANAGER:
CLAUDE FORTIN

DECOR:
ACHRAF CHBIB, DEBORAH CREAMER

VIDEO:
CHRISTOPHE FLAMBARD

ORIGINAL MUSIC:
FRANCOIS GIROUX, JEAN-ROBERT BISAILLON, DISAPPOINTED A FEW PEOPLE

SOPRANO:
SUSAN EYTON-JONES

PIANO:
PAUL STEWART

CONDUCTOR:
BETTY DOROSCHUK

ORCHESTRA:
MEMBERS OF THE McGILL MUSIC FACULTY

DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, WRITER: BASHAR SHBIB

PRODUCED WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF:
LA SOCIETE GENERALE DU CINEMA DU QUEBEC, TELEFILM CANADA

PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH:
MAIN FILM, VIDEOGRAPHE INC., FILM ARTS, CANADA ARTS COUNCIL and
THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD