Summary
The VR film BODIES OF WATER invites you to hold your breath and let yourself be transported and transformed by water in the company of curious individuals. As night falls, they invade a public swimming pool. These bodies of water, immersed in the watery mass, transgress the limits of their natural environment and metamorphose. They then engage in a contemporary dance that reveals them differently. The aquatic environment makes them supple and light, but also vulnerable and combative. This poetic mass, encompassing and suffocating, unites, separates and constitutes them. BODIES OF WATER explores the transformation of human bodies as they interact with water - a fluid and adaptable medium that simultaneously presents resistance. It takes you underwater for an immersive experience that unfolds an uncommon and otherwise inaccessible contemporary dance.
Directed by: Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin.
Choreographer: Caroline Laurin-Beaucage.
Production: Art et Essai.
Festivals
Festival | 81st Mostra de Venise: Venice Immersive 2024: Official In-Competition.
Festival | SXSW LONDON 2025 Screen Festival: Official Selection.
Festival | Shanghai International Film Festival China 2025: Official Selection.
Festival | Kaohsiung Film Festival: Official Selection XR Competition (2025)
Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin & Caroline Laurin-Beaucage
Director
Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin directs XR projects, dance and fiction films. Her first VR film 21 GUN SALUTE (2020) portrays the bonding relationship between robots and deminers. She currently works on the immersive script of L'ENFANT PERDU an animated VR film and she is releasing this year BODIES OF WATER (2024) an underwater VR film premiering at Mostra 81, À BRAS-LE-CORPS a dance film about protest and UNE MAISON DANS LA MAIN an AR opera using volumetric captures. Her work has been shown in Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Germany and the United States. Choreographer's biography: Choreographer, performer, and teacher, Caroline Laurin-Beaucage has a repertoire of about ten works, including installations, in situ performances and architectural projection. Her work has been presented in Montreal (Danse Danse, Agora de la danse, Tangente, FTA, OFFTA), as well as in Canada, France, Spain, Hungary, Germany, South Korea, Switzerland, and Israel. She is co-founder of the structure for choreographers Lorganisme. She joined UQAM’s Department of Dance in 2020 where she is developing the field of dance and new technologies.
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