Notes for an Artwork. Robert Altman's Quintet and Future Past

• Main Author: Landon, Paul
• Other Authors: Bellemare-Page, Stéphanie, Chartier, Daniel, Walecka-Garbalinska, Maria, Duhan, Alice
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Presses de l'Université du Québec et Université de Stockholm 2015
• Subjects: North; Nordicity; Winter; Image of the North; Robert Altman; Quintet; Future Past; Exposition universelle; 1967; Montréal; Île Notre-Dame; Arctic; Nunavut; Apocalypse; Nord; Nordicité; Imaginaire du Nord; World Exhibition; Notre-Dame Island; Arctique; Notre Dame Island; Arctique*
• Online Access: http://archipel.uqam.ca/11543/1/222053171.pdf

This paper is based on a collection of notes I made after watching the film Quintet and after taking a walk in one of the locations where this film was shot. I considered how the film presents an Arctic climate as the weather conditions of an unknown, catastrophic future. The second part of the pape...