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Built from the audio tracks of dubbed vampire films and footage from home movies, Les immortelles is a film collage in four chapters that places mother-daughter relationships at the heart of a tale on immortality. As they come together and grow apart, the floating, recombined bodies seek to coexist between life and death. Featuring members of my family (the mother, the daughter, the sister, the granddaughter) this film explores the traces of the memories that we carry within us, and that, ghost-like, prolong our lives outside of ourselves.

Myriam Jacob-Allard is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily with video, performance, craft and installation. Her practice focuses on popular culture and drawing on collected stories as well as on songs and family myths, her work reflects on matrilineal transmission, memory and forgetfulness. Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as in international festivals. Screenings of her work include: IFF Rotterdam, Festival Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (Jury Prize), Dok Leipzig, Uppsala SFF, IFF Message to Man (Centaur Prize for Best Experimental Film), Tallinn Photomonth, among others, and recent exhibitions include: National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, Glassbox Nord in Paris, Dazibao in Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Mains d’oeuvres in Paris, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. She holds an MFA in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM. The recipient of many grants and awards, she was awarded the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art (2015), she received the Quebec Studio in Paris Grant (2022) and the Quebec Studio in Berlin Grant (2025).