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OUT THE WINDOW : AN ARTISTIC DIALOGUE ON THE POWER OF DESTRUCTION







A FILM REALISED BY 
MARGUERITE RANGER FOR
EDITH SEVIGNY MARTEL  

Directed by: 
Marguerite Ranger

Director of Photography: Viviane BarilTechnical Support: 
Thomas Gendreau

Editing: 
Marguerite Ranger and Gabrielle Côté
Sound Design: 
Raphaël B. Lévesque

Color Grading: 
Victor Buchou



At the core of situationist thinking lies a simple intuition: our environments are never neutral. They shape perception, movement, and identity, just as we continuously reshape them in return. Objects, too, participate in this exchange: they accumulate presence, they reorganize space and sometimes, they ask to be displaced.

This sensitivity to lived environments is central to Out the Window, a collaborative project by filmmaker Marguerite Ranger and ceramicist Edith Sévigny Martel, in which a hand-built vessel is deliberately dropped from the window of the artist’s Montreal studio. The gesture is abrupt, almost humorous at first glance. Yet what unfolds through the film is something quieter: a reflection on attachment, spatial awareness, and the subtle agency objects can acquire in our lives.


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