La dureté du mental (Mental toughness)

"It's a distraction for many, a profession for a few, when for me sport is my whole life. And if fighting is the reason you're living. If every muscle clamors : train me, exercise, put on a sprint. Find a competitor or at least fight against a pole. It's hard to get started but it's otherwise difficult to stop. Even with your back against the mat. Never mind. You have to stand up and go further. You will now have to fight against yourself." Transforming Olympic wrestling and pole vaulting Soviet films from the 1980s into expressive, painterly imagery, the film appears as a film practitioner's decathlon. This work was commissioned by the Cinémathèque québécoise.

Year

2025

Director

Charles-André Coderre

Duration

20 min

Country

Canada

Language

French