{"id":70326,"date":"2023-01-11T12:40:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T17:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/?p=70326"},"modified":"2023-01-30T10:49:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T15:49:03","slug":"emotional-rocks-the-year-long-boulder-at-clermont-ferrand-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/must-read\/emotional-rocks-the-year-long-boulder-at-clermont-ferrand-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Rocks: The Year Long Boulder at Clermont-Ferrand 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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If Tartarus of Greek mythology was real, it\u2019s safe to say Sisyphus, sentenced to eternal punishment, would still be down there, trying his damnedest to push a boulder up a hill. Funny; I hadn\u2019t considered Sisyphus\u2019 plight when I watched The Year Long Boulder<\/em><\/a>, the first short film by writer \/ director Brielle LeBlanc and producer Se\u00e1n M. Galway. Yet the king of Corinth is precisely the first thing LeBlanc mentions as creative inspiration for their work.<\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u201cIt\u2019s an ancient image, Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the hill,\u201d LeBlanc begins. \u201cHe pushes against the immovable and remains in that battle for eternity.\u201d But of course.<\/p>

Divided into quarters (one for each season), The Year Long Boulder<\/a> <\/em>is, well, about boulders. Emotional ones, namely, like the kind weighing heavily on Billy\u2019s mind:<\/p>

Billy (Em Grisdale), a poet who lives with their roommate Dylan (Marley O’Brien), isn\u2019t sure if they\u2019re about to kindle a romantic relationship with their new friend, or if the budding-but-exciting connection is strictly platonic. As fall turns to winter, as spring turns to summer \u2014 as questions turn to anxieties \u2014 Billy, with help from Dylan as emotional rock, finds the strength to speak to their true feelings, even if rejection is to be etched in stone.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The story of\u00a0The Year Long Boulder<\/i><\/a>, then, becomes not about the impossible act of attempting to move something unmovable, but rather about surrendering to the space the boulder takes up and working with it.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cI became interested in the image of a person and a boulder being emotionally intertwined,\u201d LeBlanc says. \u201cThe story of The Year Long Boulder<\/i>, then, becomes not about the impossible act of attempting to move something unmovable, but rather about surrendering to the space the boulder takes up and working with it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

In Billy\u2019s case, they work with their boulder by writing about it. Poems, specifically, workshopped with Dylan in their apartment. \u201cThere is a lightness that Dylan brings, which always acts to counter the heavy parts of Billy\u2019s internal world,\u201d says LeBlanc, much a poet of their own. These poems are a way for Billy to process, even refine, their inner thoughts.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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As audience members, we get to hear and watch Billy recite these poems, these inner thoughts, which, simultaneously, are overlaid as hand-written scrawls atop<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>The Year Long Boulder<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<\/i>use of film stock.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

When the seasons change, Billy\u2019s writing \u2014 read aloud in their apartment \u2014 transports them, and us, to a giant boulder (physical, this time) sitting motionless by the sea. Photographed on a mix of 16mm and Super 8, it\u2019s this rock that Billy climbs and scrambles no matter the weather, and it\u2019s special every time.<\/span><\/p>

“It was a logistical challenge \u2014 everyone kept saying so \u2014 but going with analog over digital created a tunnel for my vision to follow,\u201d LeBlanc explains. \u201cThe film is divided into two worlds: the material private home and Billy\u2019s internal poetic coastline. I knew they had to be visually contrasted. I wanted a really clear image for the static wide shots in the dialogue sequences between Billy and Dylan, and 16mm was an easy choice,\u201d they add. \u201cWith the boulder, Super 8 gave us the flexibility we needed for run-and-gun montages.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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But how does one locate a giant boulder for the second world? The titan of the title \u2014 so essential to the film \u2014 was hard to find. \u201cIt took three location scouts and many nights on Google Maps Satellite to find our film star,\u201d LeBlanc says. \u201cOn the drive back from the second scout, listening to a Patsy Cline tape, exhausted in the back seat, I saw the boulder on the side of the highway. Wordlessly, I marked the coordinates and returned to them at a later date. When we returned and crested the hill before the boulder for the first time, I knew with certainty that it would be the visual stamp for the film.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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While hefty in size and thematic import, the boulder is still only half of LeBlanc\u2019s equation. Billy\u2019s story, a full year long, encompasses each season, the changes of which are seen subtly, such as updates to the apartment and the clothes on their coat hooks.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cLooking at seasons more abstractly, there are timeless habits revolving around them that affect our actions,\u201d says LeBlanc. \u201cWinter is often a time for turning inward, both physically and mentally. Contrastly, summer can be impulsive and active. The fall \u2014 excited, fresh, bountiful. Spring \u2014 an awakening, a hopeful stretch.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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It\u2019s not a spoiler to mention Billy\u2019s story ends with the arrival of summer (\u201cimpulsive and active\u201d is a great way to describe it), because, perhaps, the warm weather is the ideal time to make a move. \u201cIt\u2019s interesting to think about the effect of the seasons on Billy: In reality, we never see them outside of their domestic sphere, which is crucial. And I think in a way, that the house exists semi-separated from the exterior world. It\u2019s almost as though the house has its own seasons.\u201d<\/p>

It\u2019s true. As the calendar advances, every instance we see of Billy and Dylan\u2019s living room looks different than the last, each meticulously designed: A rotating visual array of art, knickknacks, instruments\u2026 everything. There\u2019s even a chess board set to the classic Giuoco Piano (\u201cquiet game\u201d) opening, which, LeBlanc reveals, intentionally puns on the film\u2019s plot.<\/p>

\u201cIn Billy\u2019s reality, the division of a year into seasons may seem to indicate definitive change, but that shift is so gentle, you only really notice it in hindsight. And maybe that\u2019s it \u2014 maybe the changes of seasons \/ changes of self are so much less definable or visible than we think.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cThe movement of change, though slow, still results in a transformation. I wonder what Billy would say if someone asked them how their year was,\u201d LeBlanc asks. \u201cAre we really so conscious of our changes? Or do we just experience them in a benevolent sweeping motion, being softly impacted by those innate seasonal tendencies?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Year Long Boulder<\/a><\/em> plays as one of the nine shorts selected for \u201cSeasons, Change,\u201d the latest iteration of Telefilm Canada\u2019s Not Short on Talent at Clermont-Ferrand 2023.<\/h5>
In creating Boulder, LeBlanc and Galway have launched Enodia Films, their production company, which has two short films on its development slate (including Burnt Toast, which captures two neighbours on their front steps talking about the gentrification of their street, with LeBlanc directing from a script they wrote). Galway, additionally, has written a project to direct, one entitled Metaphysical Import-Export, an experimental piece about transmisogyny in history.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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JAKE HOWELL<\/strong>
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Jake Howell is a Toronto-based writer and freelance film programmer.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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