The Loon
Canada, 19 mins, Digital
When Dodo finds out her best friend Clara has a crush, she struggles to accept their new dynamic and orchestrates destructive situations to avoid being left behind, threatening to spoil their idyllic lakeside holiday.
Director: Paula Bourgie
Writer: Paula Bourgie
Producer: Tudor Pislariu and Jeanne Motulsky
Director of Photography: Max Hart Barnwell
Editor: Paula Bourgie
Composer: Mada Mada
Cast: Éléonore Loiselle, Marguerite d'Amour, Thomas Delorme
Contact: Paula Bourgie, paulabourgie@gmail.com
Program E
Saturday, May 11th at 7:00 PM
About the Writer/Director
Paula Bourgie is a Montréal-born filmmaker and animator whose work often blends genres and mediums. Her precise visual style and whimsical universes are anchored in themes of nostalgia, family, death and identity. Since 2018, Paula has been working on her short film trilogy “Nostalgie”, exploring the liminal space between teenage and adulthood and the fear of change. Her Columbia thesis film completes the trilogy, following “Vestiges” (2018) and “Les Aventuriers de l’Ouest” (2020). She is currently completing her stop-motion short, “The Undertaker’s Daughter”, which she designed, built and animated during the pandemic.