Accompanied by an intense and obsessive score by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, La dureté du mental (Mental Toughness) is a spatio-sportive odyssey in 35mm CinemaScope.
Transforming Olympic wrestling and pole vaulting Soviet films from the 1980s into expressive, painterly imagery, the film appears as a manifesto for analogue cinema in all its forms, from live projection to alchemical work.
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Charles-André CoderreCharles-André Coderre lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. He makes films and works on 16mm live projections for several film and music performances. His films are distributed by Light Cone (Paris), CFMDC (Toronto), and Vidéographe (Montréal). Since 2017, he co-organized the OK LÀ! music & expanded cinema series in Verdun (Canada).