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| Français | Still from "Le Phare", 2012 |
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Unlike the Eiffel Tower or the Empire State Building, Montreal's iconic urban landmark is not tall and solid, but horizontal and spectral. Le Phare provides a portrait of this nocturnal marker, a spinning beacon that has been raking four long beams of light across Montreal's environs since 1972. The nightly presence of these intense, rotating night-time rays is reassuring for many, and yet, also oddly perplexing: the beacon does not provide reconnoitring for aviation; it is not synched to act as a time-keeping device, and it does not commemorate a specific event. Indeed, the beacon serves no practical function or particular memorializing role whatsoever. It is an evanescent, immaterial monument only to itself.
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