In this engrossing and complex new Korsakow film titled Archiving R69, Monika Kin Gagnon explores what it means to deal with a creative project that remains unfinished after its creator has died. Gagnon’s father, Charles, was a distinguished Canadian artist and filmmaker who passed away in 2003, leaving behind notes and a rough cut of a film he called R69. The film was intended to be a study of his friend and fellow artist Yves Gaucher, and included footage taken inside their studio, around the neighbourhood, and at the opening of their group show at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in 1970.
Gagnon fille has combined these elements with new material on her own process to create a reflexive and evocative document about a politically fraught time in Québec’s history. The project also reveals an unanticipated use for Korsakow: the nonlinear ‘completion’ of a linear project that would otherwise have been unfinishable. View Archiving R69 here.
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