A film by Derek Eliott-Bagley
MEMENTO MORI
Fiction · 2020 · Quebec · 15 min
Synopsis
An elderly woman lies on her deathbed, ignored by her various family members as they wait around the house for her to die. After her death, the family is forced to reckon with the aftermath of her seemingly inconvenient demise and the impact of her questionable personal legacy.
Technical details
- Category
- Fiction
- Genre
- Satire
- Year
- 2020
- Country
- Quebec
- Running time
- 15 min
- Picture
- Colour
- Sound
- Stéréo
Cast
Frédérique Attuel Annie Martin Lisette L'Italien Zacharie Courschene Charlotte Poitras Francis Giguère Lise Lalonde
Crew
- Direction
- Derek Eliott-Bagley
- Screenplay
- Derek Eliott-Bagley
- Production
- Taylor Wash (studio sanssouci)
- Direction of photography
- Claude Précourt
- Art direction
- Raphael Trottier
- Editing
- Ryan O'Mara
- Sound design
- Matt Heritz - Marc-André Bolduc
- Original score
- Max Mueller
Stills
Festivals and awards
- 2022
- Courts Mais Trash
- North Bellarine Film Festival
- 2021
- LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival
- Brooklyn Film Festival
- Fantasia International Film Festival
- HollyShorts International Film Festival
- Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
- 2020
- image+nation festival lgbtqueer de montréal
Filmmaker
Derek Eliott-Bagley
A queer filmmaker from Chicago, Derek Elliott Bagley marks his Canadian cinematic début with the premiere of “Memento Mori”. He began his career as a political scientist and historian, receiving his BA in Government and MA in History and Philosophy; however, his true love and lifelong obsession has always been cinematic arts. Since adolescence his heroes have included the global leaders of arthouse cinema: Bergman, Fassbinder, Sembène, Almodóvar, Jarman, Fellini, Denis, and Eisenstein to name a few. After 7 years of working in Democratic Party politics, Bagley decided to take a risk and leave his political work in order to make films. After 3 years of experimenting with short cinema and attending DePaul University’s graduate program in Cinema Production for a year – Bagley branched out on his own by co-founding Studio Sanssouci with his close friend and constant collaborator, Taylor Wash. He currently lives in Montréal with his husband, Marc-André - to whom this film is dedicated.