80 du Parc
80 du Parc is set in an ongoing meditation on riding the city transit system, and on the buses and metros of Montreal, in particular; it explores urban travel through patterns and rhythms, movement, color, shapes, people, weather, the changing seasons. The narrative emerges from this is an investigation of what it means to live in a big city, in a densely populated area where one has many neighbors and very little connection to them. We see them often, we know their faces, perhaps something about their schedules, but no more than this. What happens in other peopleÂ’s lives, and how are we responsible for one another? In the film, we follow the Narrator's travels on public transit through the city, as she sees strangers whose faces have become familiar solely through the routine of morning and evening rush hours. But one person in particular draws her in: a woman wearing a beige coat, who always sits in the back of the bus, staring out the window. The first time the Narrator notices this woman, it's because her right eye has the traces of a black and purple bruise. She wants to ask the woman if she is all right, but how does one do that, what would she say exactly? Though the two women see each other almost every day on the bus, they never meet; yet, the Narrator is intensely concerned about the other and keeps trying to connect.