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Anémique cinéma (1987) seems to
be Roy’s first appearance on film. It is a short film in somewhat over-exposed black and white,
with no
dialogue and an instrumental track over rotating images of a beautiful young couple,
spinning disks and spirals of text. It is a pastiche of a 1926 film Anemic Cinema made by French Dada artist Marcel Duchamp (1887 – 1968), in association with Man Ray. This is a 7 minute black and white film, using "contracting and expanding spirals of ten optical discs alternating with nine verbal discs". These sites give a clear indication that the Quebecois version is not an
original concept. The images of Roy and the girl spin, rotate, morph from young to old, from male to female, and are interspersed with Duchamp’s original rotorelief disks. The inscriptions on the verbal disks are : "This could be the only way, When love breaks down we turn away" and "If this is love, I don’t know, Guess I’m not sure what I’m looking for." Source unknown, but not great literature. Roy, at 24, looks stunning. Bernar Hébert and Michel Ouelette had founded their production company, Ciné qua non, 5 years before this was shot. The girl is called Louise Bédard. She may be the founder of Louise Bédard Danse although this has not been verified. |
