Caroline Monnet is an Anishinaabe French and Canadian contemporary artist and filmmaker known for her work in sculpture, installation, and film.[2]
Caroline Monnet | |
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| Born | April 3, 1985 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, Canadian, French[1] |
| Education | University of Ottawa B.A. |
| Website | carolinemonnet |
Early life and education
editMonnet is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist and filmmaker based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She grew up in both Douarnenez, France, and Outaouais, Quebec, Canada.
Her father emigrated to Canada from France, and Monnet has French citizenship through him.[1] Her mother is Canadian and a member of the Kitigan Zibi First Nation.[1]
She is the younger sister of artist and playwright Émilie Monnet.[3]
Monnet has B.A in communications and sociology from the University of Ottawa and has studied at the University of Granada in Spain. She is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talents and TIFF Talent Lab 2016.[4]
Career
editMuch of her work explores her Algonquin (Quebec) and French (France) heritage.[5][6]
Monnet began her film career making short films. In 2010, Caroline Monnet released the short film Warchild, which made its debut at the Présence Authochtone Montréal First Peoples' Festival in August 2011.[7] In 2012, Monnet released Gephyrophobia, a short film about two individuals sharing the Outaouais River that was featured at Talent Tout court at Cannes Film Festival.[2] In 2014, Monnet's short film, The Black Case, was screened at the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival; this piece uses inspiration from real events to demonstrate the unbearable traumas experienced in residential schools.[8]
She was nominated for a Canadian Screen Awards for Best Short Drama for Roberta (2014) and Best Short Documentary for Tshiuetin (2016).[9][10] In 2015, released a short film, Mobilize, which uses old footage from the National Film Board of Canada archives, set to a score by Tanya Tagaq.[11][12] She won a Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Film Festival for Best Experimental Film for Mobilize.[13]
Her first feature film entitled Bootlegger produced by Microclimat Films was selected for both CineMart and Berlinale Co-Production Market 2016.[14][15] She was the first Canadian filmmaker selected for the 33rd session of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival's Cinéfondation residency in Paris (from October 2016 to February 2017).[16] Monnet is also a founding member of the Aboriginal digital arts collective ITWÉ.[17]
In 2017, Monnet released her documentary entitled Emptying the Tank through CBC.[18]
In 2019, she was one of seven directors, alongside Kaveh Nabatian, Juan Andrés Arango, Sophie Deraspe, Karl Lemieux, Ariane Lorrain and Sophie Goyette, to direct segments of the anthology film The Seven Last Words (Les sept dernières paroles).[19]
Monnet is one of the co-founders of daphne, the first Indigenous artist-run centre in Québec, along with Skawennati, Hannah Claus and Nadia Myre.[20]
Artistry and style
editMonnet is primarily a self-taught artist.[21] This allows her to approach her art with a level of freedom and naivety. Although Monnet wishes she had returned to school to pursue her arts, she strongly believes that the most valuable lessons are not taught in school.[2] She is widely known for her sculpting, work in film and installation.
Monnet's work in film, painting, and sculpture deals with complex ideas around Indigenous identity and bicultural living through the examination of cultural histories.[22] She is interested in themes of identity, representation, and modernity.[21] Monnet has made a signature for working with industrial materials, combining the vocabulary of popular and traditional visual culture with the tropes of modernist abstraction to create unique hybrid forms.[21]
Exhibitions
editHer works have been exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), as part of Rencontres Internationales (Paris/Berlin/Madrid), Axenéo7, Plug in ICA, Arsenal Montréal, Arsenal Contemporary NY, Walter Phillips Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery, McCord Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Art (Montréal) among others.[23]
Awards
editFilmography
edit| Movie | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Warchild | 2010 | [7] |
| Gephyrophobia | 2012 | [2] |
| Roberta | 2014 | |
| The Black Case | 2014 | [8] |
| Tshiuetin | 2016 | |
| Emptying the Tank | 2018 | [18] |
| Bootlegger | 2021 |
References
edit- ^ a b c Migwans, Crystals (25 September 2019). ""Monuments Unmoored": Works by Carolin Monnet". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Gephyrophobia". National Screen Institute. 16 March 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
- ^ Franca G. Mignacca, "A Celebration of Indigenous Artists". The Link, January 17, 2017.
- ^ Kay, Jeremy (3 August 2016). "Toronto film festival unveils Canadian selections". Screen Daily. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ "Martha Street Studio | Caroline Monnet". printmakers.mb.ca. Archived from the original on 22 April 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ "Six emerging Aboriginal artists in Canada who are inspiring change". National Post. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ a b "Warchild". nativelynx. 19 October 2018.
- ^ a b "INDIGENOUS FILMS FROM BC & BEYOND". vlaff. 18 October 2018.
- ^ "Roberta – Festival Scope: Festivals on Demand for Film Professionals World Wide". pro.festivalscope.com. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ "Indigenous talent among 2017 Canadian Screen Award nominees". CBC News. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
- ^ Canada, National Film Board of, Mobilize, retrieved 19 November 2016
- ^ "Indigenous people 'kicking ass on-screen' in new film". CBC News. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ^ "NFB/distribution – National Film Board of Canada". www.nfb.ca. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ "CineMart completes line-up for 33rd edition". IFFR. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ "Supple Magazine » Berlinale Co-Production Market Matches 36 New Feature Film Projects with International Co-Production Partners". www.supplemagazine.org. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ "33rd Session". Cinéfondation: Festival de Cannes. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Dam, Freja. "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Caroline Monnet – 'Mobilize' | IndieWire". www.indiewire.com. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ a b "COMING SOON TO CBC SHORT DOCS: EMPTYING THE TANK". CBC. 19 October 2018.
- ^ Justine Smith, "Anthology film The Seven Last Words is unified by music and human vulnerability". Cult MTL, June 14, 2019.
- ^ Dunlevy, T'Cha. "Introducing daphne, Montreal's first Indigenous artist-run centre". Montreal Gazette. Archived from the original on 19 November 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
- ^ a b c "A Brief Conversation with Caroline Monnet – BlackFlash Magazine". BlackFlash Magazine. 6 February 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ Dam, Freja. "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Caroline Monnet – 'Mobilize' | IndieWire". www.indiewire.com. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ "AMIK(WAA) by Caroline Monnet". Video Pool Media Arts Centre. 22 August 2014. Archived from the original on 15 January 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2017.