A GARDEN UNDER THE LINES
116 min, documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2008Directed byBruno Baillargeon
Produced byBruno Baillargeon with Les Vues du jardin
LanguagesItalian, Creole, French, English
Film details
Synopsis
The film takes place within this formerly agricultural wasteland, now dominated by high-voltage power lines, where each passing spring is witness to the rebirth of these gardens in exile. A lush, uniquely pastoral tableau emerges, while echoes of the omnipresent city resonate off camera. Against this backdrop, a double menace lurks: that of the impending disappearance of this green space, to be replaced by asphalt, and that, more dramatic, of the disappearance of a generation of immigrants, born in the countryside but urbanized by fate, who have come here in search of their rural roots, reviving the ageold traditions of the land they left behind. Over the seasons of planting, harvesting and friendly conversation, the common theme that emerges is that of the land.
Credits
Photography, Sound and Direction : Bruno Baillargeon
Editing : René Roberge
Sound Editing : Olivier Calvert
Sound Mixing : Clovis Gouailler
Production : Bruno Baillargeon / Les Vues du jardin
Financial partners
Conseil des arts du Canada
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Aide au cinéma indépendant canadien (ACIC – ONF)
Direction
Bruno Baillargeon
Bruno Baillargeon has a Phd in comparative litterature. He has been producing, editing, writing and directing fiction and documentary films since 1991.
Filmography
The Work of Days (2014 / 104 min)
A Garden Under the Lines (2008 / 117 min)
La formation pas à pas (2008 / 22 min)
Spécial cas (2008 / 45 min)
La santé au travail, une histoire de coeur (2007 / 35 min)
6 fictions sur un thème de Gilles Groux (2006 / 6 X 3 min)
Orage sur le Bellavista (2005 / 190 min)
Les chercheurs d’or (2002 / 70 min)
Le Beau top (2001 / 11 min)
Jacques Forgues, chauffeurs dramaturge (2000 / 12 min)
Le Prix de la vie (1998/ 52 min)
Les Galeries Wilderton (1992 / 12 min)