LAMENT

This film offers a lament for a troubled world by means of a cardboard model of the Earth as seen from space. (16 mm film, including plant-based, hand-processing, transferred to 4K video, colour and black-and-white, sound, 2025.)

Lament includes pieces that are plant-based, hand-processed film.

Director Biography - Jeffrey Langille

Jeffrey Langille began filmmaking in the 1990s using Super 8, editing film by hand on his kitchen table. His practice has retained this connection to materiality, including work with tape loops, analog synthesizers, and 16mm film. His interests include experimental electronic music, field recording, and photography. He attended film school in the 1990s, and completed an MFA at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, in 2015.

His work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally and has received support from the British Columbia Arts Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Yukon Advanced Artist Award, and the Canada Council for the Arts. He was shortlisted for the Yukon Prize in 2023. After 25 years in Vancouver, he now lives on the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation, in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada.

Director Statement

My recent work often begins with sound experiments using a modular synthesizer. I’m looking for a space for listening and for sensation without the cause-and-effect strictures of narrative or linguistic thought. Sound is always experienced in the ‘now,’ immediate, and ephemeral. I am also interested in decentering human perspectives by allowing cameras to assert their agency in various ways, revealing their capacity to register events differently from human perception.