Monique Moumblow
Six Years | 2008 | 24:00mins | DV | Canada
Monique Moumblow (born in Hamilton, Ontario) received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1992. Initially, she was primarily interested in performance and worked collaboratively with Anne Russell. This collaboration eventually led to a video titled Liabilities. In 1993 Moumblow moved to Montréal where she began to focus on single-channel video. Her tapes have screened at festivals and galleries in North America and Europe, including the Centre d’Art Contemporaine de Basse Normandie, the Festival International du Court-Metrage (Clermont Ferrand), Impakt (Utrecht), and The International Short Film and Video Festival (Oberhausen). Her videos have been awarded prizes at Cinematexas, The Images Festival (Toronto) and L’Immagine Leggera (Palermo) and are included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Netherlands Media Art Institute. Moumblow has been actively involved with various artist-run centres in Montréal and was co-founder of Sugar Press. She is currently an MFA candidate at Concordia University.
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A doorbell wakens a woman, and when she goes to answer it, no one is there. The next morning the entire house smells of sour milk. She brings her daughter to school, hours pass, then days… or perhaps years. The woman’s thoughts appear as subtitles on the screen as a voice attempts simultaneous translation of these subtitles into Swedish. The voice hesitates, stumbles and sometimes fails. The distance between the woman’s thoughts and words become a central part of the story.
Featured in: The Enduring
