La tranchée

Using brush and India ink to contemporise archival World War I images, Claude Cloutier pulls us into the inner reality of his protagonist through half-real, half-surreal scenes that reveal the symbolic importance of the earth. The Trenchesis an intense cinematic experience, a powerful anti-war film that poses the question: Why? The dirty war that raged nearly one hundred years ago is no different from all those erupting today that reduce men and women to mere canon fodder.