2025 | single-channel (26 min) and multi projection installation

Festivals
03/2025: 63rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, US (Shorts in Competition)
03/2025: 28e édition des Rencontres Internationales Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse, FR
09/2025: Des films en commun #28, Videodrome 2, Marseille, FR
11/2025: Beijing International Short Film Festival, CH (International Competition)

Solo exhibition
06/2025: Glassbox Sud, Montpellier, FR
10/2025: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE

« The film positions itself as a homage to the classic vampire genre and revolves around the vampire bite as a central act of transformation—and of deep, physical connection between two or more individuals. The vampire’s bite—traditionally staged as a singular, transformative moment—is understood here as a multilayered act: fate is transmitted not only vertically from mother to daughter, but also circularly within the generation—between sisters, between granddaughter and grandmother, as a sign of shared responsibility, of an unspoken pact. Immortality thus becomes not only a burden of origin, but also a weight carried in the present. » — Maximilian Rauschenbach

« It’s generally through a series of small steps that Myriam Jacob-Allard envisions the mechanics of a story. Bit by bit, people, things and gestures take shape to form the outlines of counternarratives reflecting that which was said and that which remains to be seen, sketching out funny and sad family stories through fragments that are copied, isolated, repeated or superimposed — basically cut-and-paste. […] The ”in the case of a film” notes of Myriam Jacob-Allard are reconstructions of excerpts gathered from vampire movies and embodied by the women who make up the artist’s family. Mother, sister, niece — each protagonist chosen from this imposed community is a threat to the narrative and sym-bolic structure: the nuclear, patriarchal western family with its obsession with legacy, its deadly desire for eternity. In Myriam’s films, there are no fathers — no men at all. No pred-ators or prey. Immortality becomes a question of transmission, not contamination, a collective project on a black background. » — Ugo Ballara [Translated from the French by Ellen Warkentin]

Pitch Deck

lip sync : Alice Larouche · Émilie Jacob-Allard · Myriam Jacob-Allard · Claire Jacob
sound and image editor : Myriam Jacob-Allard
editor adviser : Michel Giroux
image : Simon Plouffe · Myriam Jacob-Allard
visuals effects : Myriam Jacob-Allard · Simon Beaupré · Charles Marchand · Geoffroy Lauzon
animation : Myriam Jacob-Allard
sound mixer : Bruno Bélanger
colorist : Sylvain Cossette
subtitles & translation: T&S Coop

For their support in this project, the artist would like to thanks: Alice Gervais, Claire Jacob, Émilie Jacob-Allard, Alice Larouche, Simon Plouffe, Denis Allard, Hubert Larouche, Nicholas Larouche, Michel Giroux, Antonia Hernández, Jean-Philippe Thibault, Anne Golden, Monique Moumblow, Joël Morin-Ben Abdallah, Geoffroy Lauzon, China Wood, Bob Wood, France Choinière, Emma Roufs, le Conseil des arts du Canada, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, PRIM.