Two shows, two new seasons: to discover the intimacy of particular interiors or to provoke wonder in the face of extraordinary residences, these are the mandates of the series The houses and Spaceswhich each leave for a turn (of the owner).
Series The housesthe second part of which is currently being broadcast, offers a human and poetic immersion in personalities, known and less known, who have a particular attachment to their walls.
Built by Chantal Carignan during the pandemic, under the impetus of her own move and that of many relatives, the program consists of interfering in the intimacy of the partitions of others to reveal all their emotional charge. Former journalist, content creator and community worker, Mme Carignan is supported in this project by her son Ludovic Champagne, a doctoral student in literature, to breathe a poetic touch into the various episodes, broadcast on NousTV Mauricie and available on the web.
“It started from a reflection on attachment, but also on the anxiety attacks that we experience in our homes, which I wanted to turn towards others. We enter the house of guests, who talk to us about it in an interview, then my son composes a long poem constituting the narrative framework of the whole show. It’s slow TV, ”explains the one who has moved more than 11 times in her life.
Recycled chalet, crazy artistic loft, ancestral or family home, just like ordinary bungalows, but with a particular soul, have for example been brought to the menu of this second season, strong of six episodes. We discover, with delicacy and emotion, these habitats through the eyes of artists, adventurers or animators like MC Gilles, through an assemblage of famous faces and others more anonymous.
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Ludovic Champagne, poet, and his mother Chantal Carignan were able to speak with MC Gilles (in the center) about his house, in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, last July.
“We try to have people known to the public, but also others less known, but having a particular attachment to their house. This one does not need to be grandiose: we visited that of the painter Marcel Dargis, which is a bungalow among many others, but which constitutes the space he needs to create his gigantic paintings. It’s its oxygen,” reports Chantal Carignan, who has settled herself in a tiny house in the heart of the Mauritian forest.
From January 2023, the series The houses will be broadcast on all provincial NousTV community channels. In the meantime, the various episodes are offered, as they become available, on the channel’s website and on YouTube.
Spaces come back in place
Meanwhile, the show’s second season Spaces, hosted by Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, will be available on the Vrai platform starting January 10. Angle of attack: how all kinds of unusual houses have managed to fit perfectly into the regions in which they have been established. We will go beyond the borders of Quebec, since in addition to the Eastern Townships and Montreal, the film crew went to the Maritimes and Toronto. Emphasis will also be placed on the impact of architecture on the daily life of the inhabitants of these residences unlike any other.
On the menu of this second version, we will visit eight places of life, including a renovated old house, a loft in an old factory, a house perched on a mountain and a house-museum lined with works of art, among others.