This twopart video is a newcomers portrait of Montréal I spent my first winter in Québec in a cold dark first floor apartment I sat in the kitchen beside the electric heater drinking coffee while watching the electric meter wondering how I would pay my bills At night I looked at the illuminated Q on the Hydro Québec building and imagined how much it cost to keep it lit In the second section a man looks for meaning in the tile patterns of the ChampdeMars metro station I took his search to an end more absurd than anything I could hope to enact The moral of these two tales is Dont lose you sense of humour Its from this cliché that the video derives its title Nelson Henricks
