Malena Szlam's film Lunar Almanac is inseparable from the Montreal experimental film creation group Double Negative. This group, which in the early 2000s returned to the active use of film and its performative variations, also highlights this medium in its films. Shot on 16 millimeter Ektachrome (historical format of experimental cinema), according to a usage close to the writing, highly singular, it also exposes a practice where one repeats the job a hundred times. The exercise of filming the moon becomes an illustration of the passage of time, of the effort to capture in the image the particularity of this strange satellite. It is with this film that the visual identity of the first disc of the musical project Jerusalem In My Heart was built, underlining the fertile and constant relationship between the current music scene surrounding the Montreal label Constellation Records and the community of experimental film practitioners.

 

Guillaume Lafleur
Director of Broadcasting and Programming
Cinémathèque québécoise