Papier Accordéon

7 min, 10 s | 9:16 | 2021
Short Documentary
English

SYNOPSIS: Papier Accordéon unfolds over 24 hours with alternating narratives of the day in the life of two long-distance friends, corresponding in respective isolation. Sharing fleeting whispers as if finishing each other's sentences, 547km apart. Shot in Super8, the film uses language and subtitles to capture the experience of being lost in translation.

SERIES: This film is a part of Otherly, a series of seven short documentaries about belonging in the age of ephemeral media. The creators are female, non-binary, and genderqueer, whose voices aren’t always heard. Co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada and POV Spark (production arm of PBS). Premiered on Instagram Stories.

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SCREENINGS & NOMINATIONS:

• Festival du nouveau cinéma, FNC Explore: Interactive Projects

• The Webby Awards, Social: Art, Culture & Lifestyle (series nominated)

• Columbia University Digital Storytelling Lab, Digital Dozen Breakthroughs in Storytelling Awards 2022 (series nominated)

• BFI Expanded, Shifting Perspectives: A focus on female and non-binary creators in XR, Presented in partnership with Women in Immersive Tech (WiIT)

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• Mentioned in “Material Memories and Dispossession: Exploring Representations of the Migrant Woman's Archive,” presented at The 23rd Annual Film Studies Association of Canada Graduate Colloquium - “SPECTRE”

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• Festival du nouveau cinéma - Les Dialogues Forum: Jess Murwin & Grace An

• Screened in Expanded Canadian Documentary course at University of Toronto, 2021.

• 2021 list of Columbia University Digital Storytelling Lab's 50+ Immersive Things that mix storytelling, performance, play, design & code

• Columbia’s Digital Storytelling Lab Announces its Annual Digital Dozen

• POV Spark Launches ‘Otherly’