Polka

Written and Directed by Michèle Lemieux

Produced by Christine Noël

Polka transports us inside Velázquez’s painting, changing dimensions to reveal the elementary particles that make up matter. We see the 240,000 pins of the Alexeïeff-Parker pin screen embark on a journey through the great works of art history, from one iconic image to another. The film is an irreverent metaphor for the matter that makes up a painting, a ballet of pins that leads us, through multiple detours, to the creation and then the disintegration of Velázquez’s painting, illustrating the life cycle of atoms and particles.

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