Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a series of film sequences in unique configurations, potentially hundreds of thousands of new stories are conjured by code. Each will exist only in the moment—no pausing, scrubbing, or sharing—offering the audience one chance to see the generated film. This project, co-created by the ever imaginative Guy Maddin, is a visual discourse on the impact of loss within film. All the sequences pay homage to lost silent films from the early day of cinema. Seances is nostalgic but it is also frequently hilarious. Part of the joy and sadness of Seances is that many possible narratives are created but they can be only viewed once before they disappear forever.
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Seances Cast
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Geraldine Chaplin
She was 71, now 80 years old
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Udo Kier
He was 71, now 80 years old
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Charlotte Rampling
She was 70, now 78 years old
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Mathieu Amalric
He was 50, now 59 years old
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Amira Casar
She was 44, now 53 years old
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Mathieu Demy
He was 43, now 52 years old
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Maria de Medeiros
She was 50, now 59 years old
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André Wilms
He was 68, now 77 years old
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Jacques Bonnaffé
He was 57, now 66 years old
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Céline Bonnier
She was 50, now 59 years old
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Jean-François Stévenin
He was 72, now 80 years old
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Adèle Haenel
She was 27, now 35 years old
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Ariane Labed
She was 31, now 40 years old
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Grégory Gadebois
He was 39, now 48 years old
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Jacques Nolot
He was 72, now 81 years old
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Elina Löwensohn
She was 49, now 58 years old
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Slimane Dazi
He was 55, now 64 years old
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Seances Crew
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Guy Maddin as Director. He was 60 (now 68) years old
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Directing |
