Ana Tapia Rousiouk
Biography
Ana Polina Tapia Rousiouk (born 1993; Québec) is a composer, editor, sound designer and director of Ecuadorian and Ukrainian origin. She has made independent work exploring sound and listening. In 2014, she directed her first documentary film, Les pratiquants, an exploration of meaning in the ritual aspects of playing a musical instrument, as seen through the students at the Vincent-d'Indy music academy. She co-directed her debut feature film, Le rêve et la radio/The Dream and the Radio (2022), with Renaud Després-Larose, world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2022.
Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Constance Garcia Rousiouk
Raoul and Beatrice’s eyes meet in the Montreal metro. This sets off a chain of events that will affect the whole city. He's a rock star activist on a secret mission, she's a bohemian who wanders the streets at night, handing out books to the homeless. Every Thursday evening, she meets Constance and Eugène in their small candlelit apartment, for their weekly reading ritual. Constance broadcasts her live-sampled, politically conscious sound art on an independent radio station; Eugène has been working on a novel for years, whilst trying to shut himself off from the outside world. The three young friends all dream of their own poetic revolution, inspired by the situationists, on whom Raoul has modelled his persona.
Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • as Narrator
Koroviev, a police officer who teaches poetry in a brigade of police poets, is in search of a precious Bible annotated by Pierre Maheu, the captain of the St. Elias, a legendary ship. His quest leads him to befriend a young thief who introduces him to a mysterious woman named Coriandre.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Narrator
Suite canadienne by Ludmilla Chiriaeff, broadcast in 1958 during l’heure du concert on Radio-Canada, shows ballet dancers disguised as peasants, traversing a fantasized colonial rurality. The discovery of this archival document represents the starting point of Adam Kinner's project.