Mary Stephen Short Film Program
A program of rarely screened short works directed and/or edited by Stephen. Featuring Stephen’s newly restored shorts The Great Canadian Puberty Rite (1974), a nonfiction film following young Canucks participating in the annual rite-of-passage that is travelling across the country during the summertime; her The Memory of Water (2018), about a Hong Kong–born filmmaker’s eventful return to her hometown after decades of living abroad; Rosette’s Rosette sort le soir (1983), a freewheeling Super-8 short starring Rohmer favorites Pascal Greggory and Arielle Dombasle; and Anne-Sophie Rouvillois’s La Proposition (2009), tracking the complications that arise when a young woman agrees to pose nude for a painter.
The Great Canadian Puberty Rite(1974, 20min) by Mary Stephen
The Memory of Water(2018, 20min) by Mary Stephen
Rosette sort le soir(1983, 11min) by Rosette
La Proposition(2009, 15min) by Anne-Sophie Rouvillois
Q&A with director/editor Mary Stephen on Friday, October 3rd
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