For Québec artists Rino Côté, Josianne Cyr, Philippe White and Christiane Théberge, chairs found by the side of the road are transformed into functional works of art. Using digital tools, carpentry, painting and sculpture, they took up the challenge of giving a second life to these objects considered to be waste. The fruits of their labor were auctioned off by the colorful Mike Diiorio as part of the Fab City Montréal campus in 2021. Profits from these sales will be used to develop a bench made from recycled plastic for the Ahuntsic-Cartierville community.

Remix ta chaise film crew

Director: Yannick B. Gélinas; editor and camera: Yannick B. Gélinas; artists: Rino Côté, Josianne Cyr, Philippe White, Christiane Théberge; with the participation of François Auclair, Annie Ferlatte, Mike Diiorio (auctioneer); original music: Simon Bellefleur; Production: Métanoïa and Communautique; thanks to Monique Chartrand, director of Communautique.

Yannick B. Gélinas, independent filmmaker

Yannick B. Gélinas has been a independent filmmaker for 25 years, creating both auteur works and cultural commissions. She has collaborated with the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the NFB, Fortier Danse création and the Ville de Montréal. In 2013, she won a Gémeau for the documentary on the Montréal music scene ‘From Montreal’. Filmmaker-in-residence at the NFB in 2009 for a project on waste, she is highly concerned by the global ecological situation. In 2021, she presented Les Entretiens Fab City, a series of short video portraits, at the Fab City International Summit in Montréal. In 2022, her achievements are presented at the Economic Forum of the Americas under the theme ‘Leading the Green Transition’. The same year, she completed the documentary Remix ta chaise, about 4 artists who transformed chairs destined for the garbage into works of art.

Production Métanoïa and Communautique, running time: 20 min 20 sec, 2022.

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Communautique’s mission is to support citizen participation by promoting information literacy, the appropriation of information and communication technologies and contribution to their development. Communautique has been working for 24 years to democratize access to technology in a perspective of economic, cultural and social development. It is a pioneer in the arrival of Living Labs, which it has greatly contributed to making known, as well as in the advent of Fab Labs in Québec. He opened échofab, the first Fab Lab in Canada, co-founded the Coop Fab Labs Québec and is leading the advent of the Fab City movement in Québec.

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