7 Queens

Verena Paravel captures images during an aimless walk beneath the elevated tracks of the #7 subway line in New York. 7 Queens ventures into the fragile zone of fleeting relationships and questions the conventions of ethnographic film, or rather, it offers us an (anti)-ethnographic and sensitive film. Through a series of spontaneous interactions, this film experiments with physical limits and thresholds, aiming to capture evanescent forms of intimacy through random, and sometimes unfinished encounters.

Directed by

Verena Paravel

2008 | 22 min | English

Filmmaker’s country : United States, France
Country of filming : United States

*The screening will be followed by a discussion with:

Nat Nesvaderani, an Iranian-American professor in the Anthropology Department at Université de Laval. Her research focuses on migration, refugees, youth, affect and humanitarianism in South-West Asia and North Africa. She is also interested in cinema and feminist, gender and sexuality studies.

Marion Froger, a professor at the Université de Montréal in the Department of Art History, Cinema and Audiovisual Media, will also be joining us. She will take a socio-anthropological look at cinema as a social experience, embedded in the relationships between creators, spectators and representations.

Moderated by Émilie Tullio, doctoral student in film studies at the Université de Montréal in cotutelle with Université Paris-Saclay in visual sociology.