Mary Stephen Short Film Program
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Director: Multiple Dirs
1974 / 66min / Digital
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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