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Pierre Perrault : l'action parlée
Pierre Perrault : l'action parlée
Duration: 52 minutesSubscription access
A documentary about Quebec filmmaker Pierre Perrault (1927-1999), a pioneer of direct cinema, filmed as part of the French television series _Cinéastes de notre temps_ in 1968. Using a lightweight camera and synchronized sound, Perrault employed modern techniques to explore the traditions of the Quebec people. Here, he talks about the making of his films about the inhabitants of Île-aux-Coudres...
Portrait d'Edgar Varèse
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Interview with the Quebecois poet, novelist, and essayist Fernand Ouellette about his book on musician Edgar Varèse. He explains how he came to write the book, talks about his love for Varèse, the role of the machine in his music, the audience's reception... All interspersed with rare excerpts from interviews with Edgar Varèse.
Jane by Charlotte
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With the tremor of time passing by, Charlotte Gainsbourg started to look at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, both overcoming a shared sense of reserve. Through the camera lens, they expose themselves to one another, begin to step back, leaving space for a mother-daughter relationship to unfold.
A Dog Called Money
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A journey alongside PJ Harvey, following the creative process of her new album _The Hope Six Demolition Project_, conceived through her travels around the globe, to Afghanistan, Kosovo and the slums of Washington DC.
Desolation Center
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The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southern California that are now recognized as the inspiration for Burning Man, Lollapalooza, and Coachella.
Jean Carignan, violoneux
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A man of the people and a cab driver, Jean Carignan is first and foremost one of the world's greatest violinists. Under his fingers, the reels or "rigodons" appear as complex and erudite music, calling for a virtuosity worthy of Paganini; a musical genre transmitted "by ear" and still popular, whose "greats" are called Skinner, Coleman, and Allard. Jean Carignan performs a considerable repertoi...
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
Subscription accessMark Cousins examines life and death in the atomic age. Using only archival film, his documentary shows an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear age set to the soundtrack of the Scottish band Mogwai: protest marches, the Cold War, Chernobyl and Fukushima, but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, how X-rays and MRI scanners have helped improve people's lives.
My Best Fiend
In the 1950s, a teenage Werner Herzog was transfixed by a film performance of the young Klaus Kinski. Years later, they would share an apartment where, in an unabated, 48 hour fit of rage, Kinski completely destroyed the bathroom. From this chaos, a violent, love-hate, profoundly creative partnership was born. In 1972, Herzog cast Kinski in Aguirre, Wrath of God. Four more films would follow. I...
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
Ce documentaire réalisé en 1965 brosse un portrait décontracté de Leonard Cohen, à 30 ans, en visite dans sa ville natale de Montréal. Le poète, romancier et auteur-compositeur vient « renouer avec ses affiliations névrotiques ». Il lit sa poésie à une foule enthousiaste, se promène dans les rues de la ville, se détend dans une chambre d'hôtel à trois dollars la nuit et... prend un bain !
MTL Punk - The First Wave
When the punk movement reached Montréal in 1977, it ignited the passions of a handful of young people who were forever changed by it. Thirty years later, some of the players from this momentous time give a surprisingly frank account of their experiences at this key period in their lives — the music and the drugs, as well as a burning need to do things differently. The film includes rare archiva...
Here Is What Is
Here Is What Is is a sonic journey to the source of the art in the recording studio. It is an invitation to experience a year of creation, looking over Daniel Lanois' shoulder. The songs featured throughout the film are true to the dedication of verite, documenting a take, live off the floor. It is a film made with the same heart and soul that every Lanois sonic project receives.
Liberty Street Blues
This feature documentary uses music to reveal the many faces of jazz, New Orleans style. Colourful and alive with music, the film captures the street life and traditions of this vibrant city and explores the roots of the music that springs from the soul of the African-American community.
Wavemakers
An intriguing human and musical journey that uncovers the magic behind the most sensitive of electronic instruments, the ondes Martenot. Integrating vérité cinema, never-before-seen archives and an entrancing soundtrack, Wavemakers tracks an ensemble of Martenot aficionados from the New World to the Old, as they seek to unravel the mysteries of this extraordinary instrument.
Jazz
Dans une Amérique plus divisée que jamais, Detroit, ville fantomatique, révèle la face sombre du rêve américain. Dans une des nombreuses maisons abandonnées vit une vieille femme, Jazz. Elle chante des vieux morceaux de Billie Holiday, des histoires d’amour tristes, des destins déchus, des passions déchirantes. Sur son porche, elle regarde le temps qui passe, loin du chaos qui secoue son pays. ...
I’m Gone : A Film About Amy
Elle aime les robes de princesse en dentelle blanche et se balader dans les cimetières. Elle a aussi aimé, un peu trop, l’héroïne et n’essaie pas de s’en cacher. Heureusement, c’est quand elle est sobre que cette mère de trois enfants, aujourd’hui adultes, arrive à composer les mélodies *dark country* de son groupe "No Family". C’est à Bell Island, en Nouvelle-Écosse, que nous retrouv...
20,000 Days on Earth
Neither a music documentary nor a concert film, 20,000 Days On Earth still contains electrifying performances. Audiences see a song grow from the tiniest of ideas to an epic performance at Sydney Opera House. Cave also opens up to a psychoanalyst as he discusses how his early years continue to inform his work, and journeys through his memories via mementos from his personal archive. This categ...
Le reel du pendu
Long métrage documentaire tourné à trois endroits aussi éloignés les uns des autres – la Louisiane, l'Acadie et le Québec – mais où l’on joue "Le reel du pendu", une pièce musicale interprétée au violon, à l’harmonica, à la guitare ou à l’accordéon depuis plus de deux cents ans. À travers cette musique improvisée d'un condamné à mort, le spectateur est invité à découvrir pour son compte « le so...
Step Across the Border
Le compositeur britannique Fred Frith, né en 1949, a reçu une formation classique. Pourtant, c'est la guitare électrique qui a révélé sa virtuosité, sa fantaisie, son exceptionnelle capacité d'improvisation. Les rockers le prennent pour un jazzman, les jazzmen pour un rocker, et ses amis pour un homme libre, tout simplement. Frith, en effet, se joue des genres comme des frontières. Ce film le t...
Come Worry With Us !
La violoniste Jessica Moss et le chanteur-guitariste Efrim Menuck luttent pour équilibrer leur vie de parents avec leur vie de musiciens au sein de la formation montréalaise Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra. Ils font partie d’un nombre grandissant de groupes ayant accepté un bébé au sein de leur tournée. Gagner sa vie n’a jamais été aussi difficile pour les musiciens : la génération des ...
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Au printemps 1972, alors que la Columbia menace de ne pas reconduire son contrat, Leonard Cohen part sur les routes d'Europe pour une tournée de la dernière chance. Tony Palmer est mandaté par le gérant du chanteur pour tirer un film de ce voyage de Dublin à Jérusalem. Il filme Leonard Cohen à son plus haut point d'incandescence. Un exceptionnel document exhumé par chance, après trente-cinq ann...
Pierre Perrault : l'action parlée
Pierre Perrault : l'action parlée
Duration: 52 minutesSubscription access
A documentary about Quebec filmmaker Pierre Perrault (1927-1999), a pioneer of direct cinema, filmed as part of the French television series _Cinéastes de notre temps_ in 1968. Using a lightweight camera and synchronized sound, Perrault employed modern techniques to explore the traditions of the Quebec people. Here, he talks about the making of his films about the inhabitants of Île-aux-Coudres...
Portrait d'Edgar Varèse
Subscription access
Interview with the Quebecois poet, novelist, and essayist Fernand Ouellette about his book on musician Edgar Varèse. He explains how he came to write the book, talks about his love for Varèse, the role of the machine in his music, the audience's reception... All interspersed with rare excerpts from interviews with Edgar Varèse.
Jane by Charlotte
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With the tremor of time passing by, Charlotte Gainsbourg started to look at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, both overcoming a shared sense of reserve. Through the camera lens, they expose themselves to one another, begin to step back, leaving space for a mother-daughter relationship to unfold.
A Dog Called Money
Subscription access
A journey alongside PJ Harvey, following the creative process of her new album _The Hope Six Demolition Project_, conceived through her travels around the globe, to Afghanistan, Kosovo and the slums of Washington DC.
Desolation Center
Subscription access
The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southern California that are now recognized as the inspiration for Burning Man, Lollapalooza, and Coachella.
Jean Carignan, violoneux
Subscription access
A man of the people and a cab driver, Jean Carignan is first and foremost one of the world's greatest violinists. Under his fingers, the reels or "rigodons" appear as complex and erudite music, calling for a virtuosity worthy of Paganini; a musical genre transmitted "by ear" and still popular, whose "greats" are called Skinner, Coleman, and Allard. Jean Carignan performs a considerable repertoi...
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
Subscription accessMark Cousins examines life and death in the atomic age. Using only archival film, his documentary shows an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear age set to the soundtrack of the Scottish band Mogwai: protest marches, the Cold War, Chernobyl and Fukushima, but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, how X-rays and MRI scanners have helped improve people's lives.
My Best Fiend
In the 1950s, a teenage Werner Herzog was transfixed by a film performance of the young Klaus Kinski. Years later, they would share an apartment where, in an unabated, 48 hour fit of rage, Kinski completely destroyed the bathroom. From this chaos, a violent, love-hate, profoundly creative partnership was born. In 1972, Herzog cast Kinski in Aguirre, Wrath of God. Four more films would follow. I...
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
Ce documentaire réalisé en 1965 brosse un portrait décontracté de Leonard Cohen, à 30 ans, en visite dans sa ville natale de Montréal. Le poète, romancier et auteur-compositeur vient « renouer avec ses affiliations névrotiques ». Il lit sa poésie à une foule enthousiaste, se promène dans les rues de la ville, se détend dans une chambre d'hôtel à trois dollars la nuit et... prend un bain !
MTL Punk - The First Wave
When the punk movement reached Montréal in 1977, it ignited the passions of a handful of young people who were forever changed by it. Thirty years later, some of the players from this momentous time give a surprisingly frank account of their experiences at this key period in their lives — the music and the drugs, as well as a burning need to do things differently. The film includes rare archiva...
Here Is What Is
Here Is What Is is a sonic journey to the source of the art in the recording studio. It is an invitation to experience a year of creation, looking over Daniel Lanois' shoulder. The songs featured throughout the film are true to the dedication of verite, documenting a take, live off the floor. It is a film made with the same heart and soul that every Lanois sonic project receives.
Liberty Street Blues
This feature documentary uses music to reveal the many faces of jazz, New Orleans style. Colourful and alive with music, the film captures the street life and traditions of this vibrant city and explores the roots of the music that springs from the soul of the African-American community.
Wavemakers
An intriguing human and musical journey that uncovers the magic behind the most sensitive of electronic instruments, the ondes Martenot. Integrating vérité cinema, never-before-seen archives and an entrancing soundtrack, Wavemakers tracks an ensemble of Martenot aficionados from the New World to the Old, as they seek to unravel the mysteries of this extraordinary instrument.
Jazz
Dans une Amérique plus divisée que jamais, Detroit, ville fantomatique, révèle la face sombre du rêve américain. Dans une des nombreuses maisons abandonnées vit une vieille femme, Jazz. Elle chante des vieux morceaux de Billie Holiday, des histoires d’amour tristes, des destins déchus, des passions déchirantes. Sur son porche, elle regarde le temps qui passe, loin du chaos qui secoue son pays. ...
I’m Gone : A Film About Amy
Elle aime les robes de princesse en dentelle blanche et se balader dans les cimetières. Elle a aussi aimé, un peu trop, l’héroïne et n’essaie pas de s’en cacher. Heureusement, c’est quand elle est sobre que cette mère de trois enfants, aujourd’hui adultes, arrive à composer les mélodies *dark country* de son groupe "No Family". C’est à Bell Island, en Nouvelle-Écosse, que nous retrouv...
20,000 Days on Earth
Neither a music documentary nor a concert film, 20,000 Days On Earth still contains electrifying performances. Audiences see a song grow from the tiniest of ideas to an epic performance at Sydney Opera House. Cave also opens up to a psychoanalyst as he discusses how his early years continue to inform his work, and journeys through his memories via mementos from his personal archive. This categ...
Le reel du pendu
Long métrage documentaire tourné à trois endroits aussi éloignés les uns des autres – la Louisiane, l'Acadie et le Québec – mais où l’on joue "Le reel du pendu", une pièce musicale interprétée au violon, à l’harmonica, à la guitare ou à l’accordéon depuis plus de deux cents ans. À travers cette musique improvisée d'un condamné à mort, le spectateur est invité à découvrir pour son compte « le so...
Step Across the Border
Le compositeur britannique Fred Frith, né en 1949, a reçu une formation classique. Pourtant, c'est la guitare électrique qui a révélé sa virtuosité, sa fantaisie, son exceptionnelle capacité d'improvisation. Les rockers le prennent pour un jazzman, les jazzmen pour un rocker, et ses amis pour un homme libre, tout simplement. Frith, en effet, se joue des genres comme des frontières. Ce film le t...
Come Worry With Us !
La violoniste Jessica Moss et le chanteur-guitariste Efrim Menuck luttent pour équilibrer leur vie de parents avec leur vie de musiciens au sein de la formation montréalaise Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra. Ils font partie d’un nombre grandissant de groupes ayant accepté un bébé au sein de leur tournée. Gagner sa vie n’a jamais été aussi difficile pour les musiciens : la génération des ...
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Au printemps 1972, alors que la Columbia menace de ne pas reconduire son contrat, Leonard Cohen part sur les routes d'Europe pour une tournée de la dernière chance. Tony Palmer est mandaté par le gérant du chanteur pour tirer un film de ce voyage de Dublin à Jérusalem. Il filme Leonard Cohen à son plus haut point d'incandescence. Un exceptionnel document exhumé par chance, après trente-cinq ann...
