Adoland Gaspesia the movie

ADOLAND GASPÉSIE – LE FILM, MA CHAMBRE C’EST MON TERRITOIRE
2016

Caroline Hayeur’s first medium-length film looks at the daily lives and dreams of eight adolescents from the Gaspésie region. Between confession and introspection, Hayeur invited teens from the Québec Peninsula to share their stories from the personal and intimate spaces of their bedrooms.

Filming, on route to the Gaspésie, 2016 © Victor Hayeur

ADOLAND GASPÉSIE – LE FILM is a follow-up to the eponymous photographic series produced across Québec and first launched in 2011. Conceived as part of an artist residency at the Rencontres internationals de la photographie en Gaspésie (2016), this new project now enters the private space of the teenager’s bedroom. To do this, Hayeur gave each of the project’s eight participants an iPod with a list of previously written questions and a mission to document their responses. The project encourages the teens to freely express themselves, with no intermediary, and to create a self-portrait in their image.

Meeting with teens from the Gaspesian region: introduction to image-making, sharing their photo/video projects,
2015 © Victor Hayeur

Hayeur collects the eight iPods with stories (photos, videos) and conducts interviews with each participant in their chosen location. Using stop-motion animation, Hayeur creates a dialogue between their images and her own.

Excerpt from the photo exhibition ADOLAND, Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie,
Maria, 2015 © Caroline Hayeur

ADOLAND GASPÉSIE – LE FILM, MA CHAMBRE C’EST MON TERRITOIRE

Technical description:
ADOLAND GASPÉSIE – LE FILM, MA CHAMBRE C’EST MON TERRITOIRE, 2016, 32 min 24 s

BY ORDER OF APPEARANCE: Shyleigh (Gesgapegiag), Alexa (New Richmond), Thomas (Carleton-sur-Mer), Catherine (Carleton-sur-Mer), Alexandre (Cap d’espoir, Percé), Sara (Saint-Majorique, Gaspé), Félix (Haldimand, Gaspé), Camille (Cap-au-Renard, La Martre) et Victor et Grizzly (Montreal).

Film crew, Caroline Hayeur and Victor Hayeur, 2015 © Caroline Hayeur

Scenario, photography, video, animation, editing and directing: Caroline Hayeur
Sound: Victor Hayeur
Original soundtrack: Myléna Bergeron et Victor Hayeur (générique de fin)
Image and sound (iPod): Alexa Appleby L., Sara Bouchard, Alexandre Cormier, Camille Desrosiers, Catherine Lapointe, Shyleigh Larocque, Félix Martin, Thomas Nadeau
Script: Grizzly le chien
Scenario and directing advice: Isabelle Hayeur
Editing advice: Sylvain Garant
Project manager: Emmanuel Galland
Artist assistant: Kamielle Dalati Vachon
Driver: Victor Hayeur
Online: Alain Omer Duranceau
Sound design: Matthieu Bourque, Télé-Québec
Music right: Isabelle Hayeur
Communications: Emmanuel Galland

Participants research: Annie Chénier, Fleurdelise Dumais, Marie-Ève Forest, Pauline Gaultier et Patricia Lamy (Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie), Anne Sohier (Municipalité de Marsoui), Marie Nowak (Centre d’artistes Vaste et Vague), Christian Caissy (Maison des jeunes de Maria Le Trèflerie), Sabrina Fortin (Maison des jeunes L’Intermède de Gaspé), Estelle Marcoux (Télé-Québec Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine), Agathe Chabot

Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie: Pauline Gaultier (chargée de projets), Claude Goulet (directeur général et artistique), Marie-Eve Forest et Patricia Lamy (Communications en Gaspésie)

Exhibition history:
2016 to 2021 – ADOLAND GASPÉSIE – LE FILM, MA CHAMBRE C’EST MON TERRITOIRE, (2016, 32 min. 24 s), La Fabrique culturelle, Télé-Québec

Related: Making of: ADOLAND Gaspésie – le film (2016, 4 min 36 s)
Producer: Estelle Marcoux
Coordinated by: Télé-Québec Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine: Caroline Bujold, Janie Poirier

The project was supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and Télé-Québec’s La Fabrique culturelle. It was produced as part of an artist residency at the Rencontres internationaes de la photographie in Gaspésie.

La Fabrique culturelle
Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie
Victor Hayeur