Online cinema
Claude Jutra, portrait sur film
Paule Baillargeon
Like a shadow play, this intimate and subtle portrait explores the complex personality of Claude Jutra (1930-1986), a daring and innovative filmmaker who catapulted Quebec cinema into the modern age. His rich legacy includes some of Canada’s most best-loved films: Mon oncle Antoine, À tout prendre, WOW and Kamouraska. Archival materials and film excerpts also offer insight into the life and work of an artist who rubbed shoulders with famed French directors Truffaut, Cocteau and Rouch.
Le petit Jean-Pierre, le grand Perreault
Paule Baillargeon
Choreographer Jean-Pierre Perreault re-invented sound dance and, thanks to his unique vision, left an indelible mark on his art. Filmmaker Paule Baillargeon interviewed the creator of Joe soon before his death in December 2002. This intimate portrait of an artist who was inspired by the “real world” features excerpts from choreographies, as well as photographs, drawings and paintings by the all-round creator.
Trente tableaux
Paule Baillargeon
Paule Baillargeon is 37 years old, 11 years old, 65 years old. . . In this film composed of fragments, she tells her story: the story of a woman, a filmmaker, a mother, a feminist, an artist. Of an actress, too, who delivers a powerful narrative that is both soothing and unsettling. These potent images, her images—filmed, painted, photographed, drawn, animated—merge into the portrait of a life that has been wild, rebellious and gentle. The tableaux are not so much autobiography as an authentic tale, as unpredictable and unique as any life.
L’odeur après la pluie
Sara Bourdeau
Claire, récente veuve sexagénaire, partage maintenant sa maison de banlieue avec sa soeur Gisèle. Par une journée de canicule, Julien, une ancienne flamme de Claire, débarque à l’improviste avec de fermes intentions. Qui a dit que la vie cesse un jour de nous surprendre?
Ma tribu c’est ma vie
Myriam Verreault
Un documentaire interactif qui nous plonge dans les univers de huit fans de musique pour observer comment Internet transforme leur identité et leurs relations interpersonnelles.
La vie imaginée de Jacques Monory
Jennifer Alleyn
Depuis son atelier de la banlieue parisienne, le peintre Jacques Monory présente les toiles de sa prochaine exposition. Dans ce portrait intimiste, le septuagénaire, en paix avec la trace qu’il laissera, évoque au passage les obsessions de toute une vie. Au menu : monochromie, philosophie et révolvers.
Véronic Dicaire – Grand V
Marie-Pascale Laurencelle
Le documentaire propose, sur un ton intimiste, d’explorer le processus de création du spectacle que l’artiste donne depuis 2013 à Las Vegas, tout en faisant un survol des années passées. Il retrace, en effet, les étapes qui ont permis à Véronic Dicaire de se hisser au rang des performeurs de calibre mondial tout en allant à la rencontre de l’humain dans toutes ses contradictions et ses remises en question. Nous deviendrons ainsi les témoins privilégiés de l’éclosion du réel talent de Véronic Dicaire.
Symphonie Locass
Martine Asselin
Mettez le groupe hip-hop Loco Locass, un chef d’orchestre, une trentaine de musiciens en herbe et des professionnels invités dans une grange en plein bois dans la région du Bas Saint-Laurent. Donnez à cette joyeuse bande une semaine pour réussir à mettre sur pied un spectacle symphonique, tout en apprenant à travailler ensemble. C’est la naissance d’une symphonie loquace! Sur le site enchanteur du Camp musical St-Alexandre à Kamouraska, la nature vibre aux accents d’une musique hybride, hip-hop symphonique aux racines profondément québécoises.
McLarena
Mouna Andraos
Collective canons – McLarena is a commissioned work by the Quartier des Spectacles and the National Film Board of Canada for the McLaren Wall-to-Wall tribute, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Norman McLaren’s birth. The installation is inspired by the film Canon (1964), created by Norman McLaren and Grant Munro. The film illustrates the principle of a musical and visual canon with a character proceeding through a sequence of movements, which are reproduced in regular intervals.
Roberta
Caroline Monnet
Housewife and grandmother Roberta struggles to fit the conformist society she lives in and turns to amphetamines and booze to cure her boredom. Film made as part of iN Retrospect: Embargo Collective II, celebrating imagineNATIVE’s 15th anniversary, this collective includes five short films created by five renowned artists: Aviliaq (Entwined) by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Skyworld by Zoe Leigh Hopkins, Bihttoš (Rebel) by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Intemperance by Lisa Jackson and Roberta by Caroline Monnet.
MacPherson
Martine Chartrand
In Quebec during the early 1930s, young poet Félix Leclerc befriended Frank Randolph Macpherson, a Jamaican-born chemical engineer. A jazz fan, and a university graduate who worked for a pulp and paper company, Macpherson inspired Leclerc, who wrote a song about the log drives. Leclerc, through his poetry, transformed his friend Macpherson into a log driver who dance on logs. Between documentary and fiction, MacPherson depicts turning points in history, and with great sensitivity, captures in lavis images the deep feelings shared by the Jamaican engineer and one of the poet’s sisters.
Âme noire
Martine Chartrand
Black Soul is an exhilarating immersion into the heart of Black culture via a whirlwind voyage through the defining moments of Black History. As an old lady initiates her grandson into his past, a series of perpetually transforming painted images unfolds before our eyes.In a mesmerizing swirl of light and colour, the boy traces his ancestry to mighty Pharaohs and to valiant kings whose praises are sung by a griot beneath the baobab tree.Suddenly the beating of drums conjures forth the slave market and far-flung exile to the Caribbean and eventually the snows of the Americas.