OVER MY DEAD BODY
Canada 2012 – Director: Brigitte Poupart – Original language: English, French – Subtitles: English – Length: 80 min.
„I don’t wake up with a hard-on anymore. At 34 my sex drive is gone. I might as well be dead.” Dave St-Pierre has cystic fibrosis and urgently needs two new lungs or he will be dead in 24 months time. Dave St-Pierre is a world famous dancer-choreographer who provokes audiences with his naked, in your face physicality. Brigitte Poupart, his confidante and collaborator follows St-Pierre’s wait for a lifesaving organ donation and documents his exhaustion, sorrow, doubt and increasing isolation as well as their closeness, his vulnerability and his will to live.
Between choreography and an organ transplant. A dance on the edge of an abyss - and not just metaphorically. An emotional and aesthetically compelling piece of work! Silvia Bauer
Writer: Brigitte Poupart. Camera: Brigitte Poupart, Dave Saint-Pierre, Jean Ranger, Alexis Landriault, Richard Jutras, Jean-Marc Abela, Adam Thompson. Sound: Brigitte Poupart, Dave Saint-Pierre, Jean Ranger, Alexis Landriault, Richard Jutras, Jean-Marc Abela, Adam Thompson. Editing: Jean Ranger, Alexis Landriault. Music: Misteur Valaire. Production: Coop Vidéo de Montréal. Producer: Virginie Dubois, Stéphanie Morissette, Brigitte Poupart. International Sales: Les Films du 3 Mars
