[Fall 2025]

Tout ceci est impossible
by Franck Michel

Montréal, Cinémathèque québécoise et Somme Toute, 2025, 312 pages

[EXCERPT]

Since his earliest days as a photographer, Bertrand Carrière has maintained a close relationship with cinema. He began his career as a set photographer and devoted his first book, Témoin de l’ombre (1995), to that craft. Since then, his interest in cinema has led him to punctuate his art career with different film-related projects, including the present book, Tout ceci est impossible, in which he probes the medium’s principles.

This ambitious volume, co-published by La Cinémathèque québécoise and Somme Toute, contains three projects that explore the border between still and moving images. In its 312 pages, Tout ceci est impossible groups together a wealth of images, accompanied by short essays by Guillaume Lafleur, the Cinémathèque’s director of distribution, programming, and publications, and Robert Daudelin, film historian and former director of the Cinémathèque; Carrière himself wrote the afterword.

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[ Complete issue, in print and digital version, available here: Ciel variable 130 – PLANTS AND GARDENS ]
[ Complete article in digital version available here: Tout ceci est impossible ]

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Franck Michel lives in Rimouski. Having worked for more than thirty-five years in the field of visual arts, he has organized more than fifteen exhibitions and edited many publications for artist-run centres, galleries, and museums in Quebec and abroad, mostly around representation of the landscape in photography and as sensory space. As a
cultural manager, he has been the director
of several organizations, including the Musée régional de Rimouski.