ArcadiA, whose title evokes the ancestral search for the ideal place to live, is a poetic video tale about the relationship with the territory and the quest for a peaceful and harmonious world, an updated quest, which distinguishes the point of view of the Human from that of the Earth.
ArcadiA was produced at the invitation of the Festival Acadien de la Poésie, during a creative residency in Caraquet (New Brunswick).
Director statement
I use video-poetry as an art form capable of delicately showing the complex nuances of reality.
Bio
Mathieu Samaille majored in literature and studied drama and digital arts. He is a Canadian and French Citizen.
In 2018, his experience in interdisciplinary arts, including writing, directing and editing, led to an interest in video-poetry, an immersive and ontological art form that explores the sensorial bonds between text, sound and image, transposing literary processes in media arts.
He was awarded the Grand-Prix de Vidéo-Poésie at the Festival de la Poésie de Montréal 2019. Since then, his videos have toured in a lot of countries (Canada, USA, Italy, Spain, France, Greece, Sweden, England, Poland, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico…). A copy of his video-poem, Madame Jarrar, was acquired for classroom use by the Department of “Art, Film, and Visual Studies” of Harvard University. With the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, a solo installation of his work premiered in Montreal in October 2022. As a single channel, Mort un Moment (Momently Gone) toured internationally in 2023. ArcadiA premiered at Festival International du Film sur l’Art (FIFA) 2025 in National Competition (short films)
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved.
Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.
