Distracted Blueberry (2019)
Barry Doupé

Telematic’s featured On-Line Screening

(French, 273mins.)

Screening Times: 9:00 AM, 2:00PM, 7:00PM, Midnight

Wednesday, Sept. 30th – Sunday, October, 14th
Artist-talk: Thursday, Oct. 6th, 5:00pm (PDT)

A four-and-a-half hour animated film, exploring the death drive in male sexuality and the limits of embodied existence, through the story of a boundary pushing performance art band. Rife with extreme violence, the film is simultaneously humorous, jarring the audience with its excesses and absurdity. The realities it depicts are informed by emotional states. They are surreal, psychic realities, riddled with anxiety, realized as strange landscapes in shared dreams and nightmares.

XXX VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: Sex, Violence, Scatology XXX

Bio: Barry Doupé (b. 1982 Victoria, BC) is a Vancouver based artist
primarily working with computer animation. His films use imagery and
language derived from the unconscious; developed through writing
exercises and automatic drawing. He often creates settings within
which a characters' self-expression or action is challenged and
thwarted, resulting in comic, violent and poetic spectacles.

His films have been screened throughout Canada and Internationally
including the Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan),
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, the Netherlands),
Anthology Film Archives (NY, New York), Lyon Contemporary Art Museum
(Lyon, France), Pleasure Dome (Toronto, ON), MOCCA (Toronto, ON),
Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK), Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), the
Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver,BC) and the Tate Modern (London, UK).