A visual artist falls in love with his muse from whom he hides the fact that he is losing his sight. He descends into madness and shuts out the world when he ultimately becomes a painter without vision.

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Treepot Media presents a Jith Paul film
Sasha Chichagov and Martine Roquebrune in
“ALGEBRA: A reunion of broken parts”
Story by Jennifer Mulligan
Director of Photography Karim Ayari
Produced by Richard Towns
Directed and edited by Jith Paul
Colourist Karim Ayari
Sound design & mix by Howard Sonnenburg
Music by Justin R. Durban
Also featuring: Jennifer Vallance, Julien Masterson, Lisa Bentivoglio, Richard Groen and Jennifer Ide
Executive Producers: Karim Ayari and Jith Paul
B-Cam Operator: Nicolas Séguin
Field Audio: Chris Chitaroni, Kevin Friel
Stills Photographers: JF Dufault, Frank Pomerleau and Mylene Paquin
DMT: Kevin Friel
Makeup: Jennifer Roach and Heather Farmer
Extras: Jean-François Dufault, Michel Lessard, Michelle Jolin, Julien Masterson, Thomas Jardine, Christina Roman, Mike Staples, Lee Cyr, Thomas Heidenreich, Vicki Mavraganis, Andrée Grégoire and Phil Desmarais Production Assistants: Keith Fox, Katelyn Murray and Robert Charbonneau
Original art by Sasha Chichagov
Special Thanks to: Jean-François Dufault, Nicolas Séguin, Carmello Zucco, Mary and Brendan Jaekl, Wallack’s, Stephanie Davy and Invest Ottawa, JP Chartrand and Tony the Concierge, SAW Video.
Camera supplied by Parktown

WINNER: Best Technical Quality, Digi60 Film Festival, Ottawa, Canada, 2012
Official Selection, Toronto Independent Film Festival, 2013
Official Selection, ProFiRe Short Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2013
Official Selection, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market, France, 2014
Official Selection, Resolution 2014 in Ottawa, Canada
Official Selection, Valle d'Itria Film Festival, Italy, 2014
Official Selection, National Screen Institute (NSI) Canada Online Film Festival, 2014
Official Selection, Siliguri International Film Festival, West Bengal, India, 2014
Official Selection, Three Cities Fest, Los Angeles, New York, Santo Domingo, 2015
Official Selection, Festival international Entr'2 marches, Cannes, 2015
Official Selection, Picture this…film festival, Calgary 2016
Official Selection, Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival, Halifax, 2018