Since 2022, the Knowlton Film Festival has celebrated the region’s artistic vitality by entrusting the creation of its poster to a visual artist from the Eastern Townships. Starting this year, the selected artist’s work will also be exhibited in the foyer of the Théâtre de Lac Brome for the duration of the festival.

For its fifth edition, the festival has given carte blanche to Pascale Bussières, also a visual artist, and to Ulric Collette, graphic designer and photographer.

The poster, created from a photograph taken by Pascale, features an iconic Lac Brome artifact: the millstone from the old flour mill built by Paul-H Knowlton in 1836, which was located near the Mills Pond spillway and now stands in Coldbrook Park (see 17). Its twin, installed here in the middle of a local field to be transformed into a sculpture, is metamorphosed once again in the eyes of the two artists and on the occasion of the launch of the fifth Knowlton Film Festival!

“The millstone of the old mill, 188 years old, carries in its pores the history of our village. I saw in its stone a link to our territory, in its furrows a rotation of time and image. Its very shape reminds us of the iris that contracts, of the lens that concentrates light.”
Pascale Bussières

“Alternately transformed into a digital sensor, a coil or a lens, the massive, ancient object becomes lighter, more animated and the center of a countdown. Five, four, three, two, one, silence, we’re rolling! A phenakistiscope, an optical toy invented in 1832, winks at the equally age-old origin of the moving image, and a flour mill that has now disappeared reappears in the field of vision”.
Ulric Collette