About Endlessness
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
With ABOUT ENDLESSNESS, Roy Andersson adds to his cinematic oeuvre with a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality.
Roy Andersson
Born in Göteborg, Sweden, in 1943, Roy Andersson studied film at the Swedish Film Institute in Stockholm. After graduating, he directed A Swedish Love Story, which won several prizes at the Berlinale in 1970. Worried that this success would be too much for him, he made a radically different film five years later, Giliap, in which he tried his hand at black humor. This one does not meet the expected success, Andersson then leaves the world of cinema for an advertising career. He did not give up his vocation, however, and in 1981 he founded Studio 24 in order to be fully independent. He then made two short films in which he began to forge the style and tone that would make the recent period of his work so successful - four films released from 2000 to 2019 and acclaimed worldwide.
