In November 2001, Quebec Painter Edmund Alleyn (1931-2004) agreed to be filmed in his Montreal studio by his daughter, filmmaker Jennifer Alleyn. There, something unexpected happened : an authentic encounter, with no beating around the bush, no mask. From a few existential questions –about life, painting, death- thruth emerged. The artist died of cancer in December 2004 before Jennifer could fi...
A filmmaker in the midst of a shoot in New York begins to question the origin of impulse. When her lead actor leaves the production, she must rely on ingenuity to see the project through. Moving between fiction and documentary, New York and Montreal, *Impetus* is a reflection on creation and reactivation. Blending poetic essay and autofiction, it is also a film about a film being built before o...
\*Des histoires inventées\*, c’est un long métrage documentaire qui se dépeint en un portrait d’auteur sur et avec André Forcier. C’est l’histoire d’un cinéaste d’exception et incontournable dans le paysage et un pilier au sein de l’identité propre de notre cinéma national. C’est l’occasion unique de revisiter l’ensemble de ses œuvres, reconnues comme étant fortement teintées de \_réalisme magi...
In November 2001, Quebec Painter Edmund Alleyn (1931-2004) agreed to be filmed in his Montreal studio by his daughter, filmmaker Jennifer Alleyn. There, something unexpected happened : an authentic encounter, with no beating around the bush, no mask. From a few existential questions –about life, painting, death- thruth emerged. The artist died of cancer in December 2004 before Jennifer could fi...
A filmmaker in the midst of a shoot in New York begins to question the origin of impulse. When her lead actor leaves the production, she must rely on ingenuity to see the project through. Moving between fiction and documentary, New York and Montreal, *Impetus* is a reflection on creation and reactivation. Blending poetic essay and autofiction, it is also a film about a film being built before o...
\*Des histoires inventées\*, c’est un long métrage documentaire qui se dépeint en un portrait d’auteur sur et avec André Forcier. C’est l’histoire d’un cinéaste d’exception et incontournable dans le paysage et un pilier au sein de l’identité propre de notre cinéma national. C’est l’occasion unique de revisiter l’ensemble de ses œuvres, reconnues comme étant fortement teintées de \_réalisme magi...