This short, silent film captures a Sunday afternoon at a community skating rink. Iconic Quebec director Gilles Carle has the camera follow toddlers learning to skate, young girls flashing their skates and boys decked out in the colours of their favourite hockey teams. A picture perfect moment on a bright winter's day.
Cinematography
Carle finds poetry in wobbly toddlers and winter light.
Direction
Invisible camera lets life happen unposed.
Director
Gilles Carle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures peak Quiet Revolution Quebec: Catholic, working-class, and hockey-obsessed before the province transformed.
Carle shot this while working at the NFB, years before becoming one of Quebec's most provocative auteurs with films like 'La Vie heureuse de Léopold Z.'
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