Worlds Within; In the World

• Main Author: Marshall, Bill
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Edinburgh University Press 2018
• Subjects: Canada; atikamekw
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474414982.003.0016

This epilogue underscores the fact that 'cinéma-monde' always came with a question mark: it was a hypothesis, a heuristic device, conjuring up a 'what would happen if' we looked at Francophone film production through a slightly different lens. Moving forward from this mapping of the possibilities of cinéma-monde while at the same time highlighting the persistence of the national, the essay proposes that one way to take ‘monde’ seriously is to situate Francophone film production within world history. An example taken is Chloé Leriche’s Avant les rues (2016, Canada), filmed in an Atikamekw community, which raises questions of colonialism, indigeneity, ecology and the cosmos. It suggests that connections can be formed in terms of parts of wholes, in other words of the worlds within , for example, Quebec or French national cinema.