A new online cinema is born. The digital magazine Panorama-cinema announced Monday the arrival of the Panopticon, an Internet distribution platform which does not intend to offer films currently showing.
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To kick off the project, Panopticon offers eight short films by filmmaker Denis Côté made between 1999 and 2005, in a restored version. This restoration was carried out at CineGround from a digitization by François Auger, who previously directed the Cinémathèque québécoise.
On the program, we find in particular Second waltz (2000), Kosovolove (2000), The sphat (2003), toys (2005) and Tennessee (2005).
A collection of 110 pages entitled Denis Côté: Critical Notebook 1999-2005which contains 26 of the best texts written by the artist during his time working for the weekly HEREis also available for free download on le-panoptique.ca.
Unlike Netflix, Club illico and company, The Panopticon does not require a subscription. Instead, it offers seven-day rentals at variable rates, the profits of which will be shared between the rightsholders and Panorama-cinema.