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The Noise of engines
A film by
Philippe Grégoire
The Noise of Engines is my first feature film, and for this reason, it seems important to approach this debut with a gesture of humility. I would have liked to be a young filmmaker full of talent who made a series of successful short films and travelled the world, but that is not my story. I am the son of shopkeepers, and grew up in an agricultural region of Quebec located about twenty kilometres from the Canadian-American border. It is by working as a part-time customs agent at that border that I was able to pay for film school and save enough money to finance my short films. I didn’t like the job, and it is a part of my life that I kept hidden from my film colleagues for a long time. The Douanier Rousseau is certainly the most famous custom agent who also lead a career as an artist, but that remains a rather marginal reality. This first feature film is an opportunity for me to come back on this very singular work experience which took place at a time when I was dreaming of cinema. The Noise of Engines allows me to shed light on a part of my life that I had tried to deny.
Robert Naylor: Alexandre
Tanja Björk: Aðalbjörg
Naïla Rabel: Laura
Marie-Thérèse Fortin: Johanne
Alexandre Agostini: Directrice
Marc Beaupré: Letellier
Maxime Genois: Rémillard
Scénariste / réalisateur: Philippe Grégoire
Producteurs: Andrew Przybytkowski & Philippe Grégoire
Directeur de la photographie: Shawn Pavlin
Directrices artistiques: Suzel D. Smith, Gabrielle Falardeau
Costumières: Amélie Richter
Monteur: Kyril Dubé
Montage et mixage sonore: Julien Éclancher
Compositeur musical: Joël-Aimé Beauchamp
Alexandre, an instructor at the Canadian customs college, returns home to his small town after his employer places him on compulsory leave. As he forms a new friendship with a female Icelandic drag racer, he finds himself under surveillance by police investigators trying to get to the bottom of the sexually explicit drawings that have been troubling the town.
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ONE MAN | 2016, short film
AQUARIUM | 2013, short film
BEEP BEEP | 2011, short film
Philippe Grégoire holds a Bachelor’s degree in Film and Comparative Literature from the Université de Montréal and a Master’s degree in Communication in the Experimental Media Creation profile from the Université du Québec à Montréal. He also graduated from L’inis in screenwriting. His short films, one man, aquarium and Beep Beep, have been presented in over 110 film festivals and in over 20 different countries. Philippe Grégoire grew up in Napierville, a small agricultural community 45 kilometers away from Montreal and close to the Canada-United States border. He found a way to pay his film school tuition fees by working as a part-time customs officer and he hated the job. Philippe has dual Canadian and Italian citizenship and, although he once owned a car with big wheels and a spoiler, he never worked at the drag strip of his hometown and his parents were the proud owners of a hardware store. The Noise of Engines is his first feature film and his first autofiction work.
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