STE. ANNE
a film by Rhayne Vermette
FEATURE PRESENTATION
SCREENING IN-PERSON + ONLINE
IN-PERSON SCREENING:
JUNE 9, 2022 • 9 PM
@ LIGHT HOUSE ARTS CENTRE
(1800 ARGYLE STREET, HALIFAX)
VIEWABLE ONLINE IN ATLANTIC CANADA
FOR 48 HOURS FOLLOWING IN-PERSON SCREENING
2021 / CANADA / 80 mins
In Ste. Anne, Rhayne Vermette’s dreamy first feature, a woman returns home without explanation after a mysterious four-year absence. She attempts to restore her connection to the daughter she left behind, but she’s preoccupied with an empty lot in Ste. Anne, Manitoba, and an overwhelming sense that something dark is coming.
Vermette’s real-life family members and friends fill out the cast—including herself as Renée in the lead role—and are captured in intimate scenes of community life in the Métis Nation. Meanwhile, memories conjure ghosts, film grain trembles over the prairies, and the barrier between the land and Renée’s inner life becomes imperceptibly thin.
Lovingly shot on 16 mm, and featuring an otherworldly score from Bret Parenteau, Ste. Anne is the kind of assured, entrancing debut that feels as though it were pulled from the earth fully formed. —Evan Bower
A pre-recorded virtual Q+A with filmmaker Rhayne Vermette will follow the screening.
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ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Rhayne Vermette
Rhayne Vermette was born in Notre Dame de Lourdes, Manitoba. It was while studying architecture at the University of Manitoba, that she fell into the practices of image making and storytelling. Primarily self taught, Rhayne’s films are opulent collages of fiction, animation, documentary, reenactments and divine interruption. Ste. Anne is her first feature narrative.