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La charge de l'orignal épormyable
Duration: 1h41A poet struggling to cope with society seeks refuge in an institution where therapists turn him into a test subject. He resists. They persist. He succumbs to the stupidity, cruelty, and madness of men. A teletheatre adaptation of Claude Gauvreau's cult play _La charge de l'orignal épormyable_.
What value, whether radiant or destructive, does love hold in women's lives? Does marriage enable them to realize their full potential? Can motherhood be separated from a relationship with a man, or is it a choice to be refused? To shed light on these questions and many others, four women in search of their liberation, belonging to the generation of 28-30-year-olds in the early 1970s, express t...
Le Quebec as seen by Cartier-Bresson
Duration: 20 minutesThe photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson were the first ever to be displayed in the Louvre, Paris. In this film the world-famous photographer turns his lens on the Québec scene, finding there the same fascination with form and movement that gives his work a mark of individuality.
An exploration of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France as it operated in the mid-1950s, treasure-trove and museum of words where precious rarities, all kinds of knowledge, catalogues and books collections are kept, listed, analysed, categorised, annotated, labelled, registered and consulted.
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...
Notes Towards an African Orestes
Duration: 1h12Pier Paolo Pasolini has a project for a film adaptation of Aeschylus *Orestia* that he would like to have played by Africans. He travels through Uganda and Tanzania in search of people who could convincingly play Orestes, Agamemnon or Clytemnestra. At the same time, he reads passages from Aeschylus *Orestia*, theorizes about ancient Greece, about archaic Africa in the process of tipping over in...
Winter Crossing at L'Île aux Coudres
Subscription accessOn an island the road ends where it begins, at the wharf. The wharf is the link to the rest of the world, until winter cuts it off. But the islanders know the winter sea and its movements. They judge the ice by its colours, avoiding the open channels, fighting through the slushy fragil ice, catching their footing on the chunk ice, and running all-out across the solid ice to the North Shore.
Not far from the North Pole on Ellesmere Island, for one hundred and twenty days, a watchful camera stalks a beast of fleece and hoof, the ancient musk-ox, in anticipation of the great bull's duel for dominance. By the light of late summer, in the hush of expectation of mating behaviour, battle is joined between the furry combatants.
A feminist perspective on the history and methods of contraception and women’s access to free abortions. It features a fictionalized account of three women and their relationship to abortion; contrasts the history of contraceptives to the cycles of manpower demands in a capitalist society; and speaks about contraceptives as a more or less adequate result of male research but for which women are...
_Quebec - Path of Conquest_ is a short propaganda film from 1942, made in order to encourage French Canadians - traditionally rather reluctant - to support compulsory military service. The film depicts the mobilization of French Canadians, who voluntarily enlisted and sent tanks, planes, ammunition, guns and food on cargo ships to the war fronts of Russia, England and North Africa.
This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to midnight, we take in the neighbourhood’s pulse: a mother fussing over children, a father's enforced idleness, teenage boys clowning, young lovers dallying - the unposed quality of daily life.
Through a tragic event on a construction site in Montreal, the filmmaker addresses the physical, psychological and social deaths of the Quebec worker, resulting from his working conditions and his dispossession. Construction workers denounce their working and living conditions in Montreal. Produced by the CSN, in tune with its times, this political film is a testament to Lamothe's activist film...
Nominingue... depuis qu'il existe
Subscription accessA chronicle of a small town in the Upper Laurentians that, at the turn of the 1960s, became a vacation spot par excellence. Nestled in the heart of a vast territory dotted with numerous lakes, mountains, and rivers, Nominingue was once perceived as a town of misery and hard-living. Over time, the municipality gradually became a place of rest for tourists, typical characters in a world full of ...
La lutte des femmes à Lip et ailleurs
In June 1975, in Lyon, 80 participants from Lip (a watch factory in Besançon), other factories, hospitals, the PTT or the MLAC (Movement for the Freedom of Abortion and Contraception), gathered to discuss the role of women workers and employees within companies and union struggles, the isolation of housewives and the need to include them in collective actions. "La lutte des femmes à LIP et...
The Places of a Fugue is the only film entirely shot by Georges Perec. It is an autobiographical account of the writer’s experience of running away from his aunt’s house at the age of eleven, an account he wrote about in 1965. It was the 11th of May 1947. He was eleven and two months old. He had just run away from home, 18 rue de l’Assomption, in the 16th district… Using the images of the act...
A collaboration between the late writer and filmmaker Bernard Queysanne based on the original text by Georges Perec, duly calibrated by both authors. A common reflection and a very concerted purpose, here, generate an innovative, singular work, out of time. Here is the libretto - for the film is constructed like a musical score, in several movements: a student questions his activities and proje...
Documentaire spectaculaire sur le hockey, sport national des Québécois, et l'équipe des Canadiens de Montréal des années 1950-1960. Les joueurs sont des héros nationaux : Jacques Plante, Bernard Geoffrion, Henri Richard et les autres. En 1955, l'idole Maurice Richard vient d'être puni pour avoir frappé un arbitre. Comme un seul homme, le peuple descend dans la rue, et c'est l'émeute...
This short documentary follows Québec band Harmonium as they tour California in the mid-’70s, in an effort to promote the province as well as to introduce the group to the world’s biggest music market. Here, we follow the ups and downs of the journey of the band, who came to feel the pulse of Americans and see if culture, their culture, can succeed in crossing borders and impose itself?
One Sunday in Canada visits an Italian community in the northwest sector of Montreal, where about half of the city's 150,000 Italians live. A very human story of people adapting to life in a new environment.
To exploit a huge iron deposit, a private company built a railway line in the middle of the Innu hunting territory, linking the Schefferville mines to the port of Sept-Îles. The documentary explores the condition of the indigenous people of Labrador, their state of dispossession, and the role and meaning of the railway in this context.
La charge de l'orignal épormyable
Duration: 1h41A poet struggling to cope with society seeks refuge in an institution where therapists turn him into a test subject. He resists. They persist. He succumbs to the stupidity, cruelty, and madness of men. A teletheatre adaptation of Claude Gauvreau's cult play _La charge de l'orignal épormyable_.
What value, whether radiant or destructive, does love hold in women's lives? Does marriage enable them to realize their full potential? Can motherhood be separated from a relationship with a man, or is it a choice to be refused? To shed light on these questions and many others, four women in search of their liberation, belonging to the generation of 28-30-year-olds in the early 1970s, express t...
Le Quebec as seen by Cartier-Bresson
Duration: 20 minutesThe photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson were the first ever to be displayed in the Louvre, Paris. In this film the world-famous photographer turns his lens on the Québec scene, finding there the same fascination with form and movement that gives his work a mark of individuality.
An exploration of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France as it operated in the mid-1950s, treasure-trove and museum of words where precious rarities, all kinds of knowledge, catalogues and books collections are kept, listed, analysed, categorised, annotated, labelled, registered and consulted.
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...
Notes Towards an African Orestes
Duration: 1h12Pier Paolo Pasolini has a project for a film adaptation of Aeschylus *Orestia* that he would like to have played by Africans. He travels through Uganda and Tanzania in search of people who could convincingly play Orestes, Agamemnon or Clytemnestra. At the same time, he reads passages from Aeschylus *Orestia*, theorizes about ancient Greece, about archaic Africa in the process of tipping over in...
Winter Crossing at L'Île aux Coudres
Subscription accessOn an island the road ends where it begins, at the wharf. The wharf is the link to the rest of the world, until winter cuts it off. But the islanders know the winter sea and its movements. They judge the ice by its colours, avoiding the open channels, fighting through the slushy fragil ice, catching their footing on the chunk ice, and running all-out across the solid ice to the North Shore.
Not far from the North Pole on Ellesmere Island, for one hundred and twenty days, a watchful camera stalks a beast of fleece and hoof, the ancient musk-ox, in anticipation of the great bull's duel for dominance. By the light of late summer, in the hush of expectation of mating behaviour, battle is joined between the furry combatants.
A feminist perspective on the history and methods of contraception and women’s access to free abortions. It features a fictionalized account of three women and their relationship to abortion; contrasts the history of contraceptives to the cycles of manpower demands in a capitalist society; and speaks about contraceptives as a more or less adequate result of male research but for which women are...
_Quebec - Path of Conquest_ is a short propaganda film from 1942, made in order to encourage French Canadians - traditionally rather reluctant - to support compulsory military service. The film depicts the mobilization of French Canadians, who voluntarily enlisted and sent tanks, planes, ammunition, guns and food on cargo ships to the war fronts of Russia, England and North Africa.
This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to midnight, we take in the neighbourhood’s pulse: a mother fussing over children, a father's enforced idleness, teenage boys clowning, young lovers dallying - the unposed quality of daily life.
Through a tragic event on a construction site in Montreal, the filmmaker addresses the physical, psychological and social deaths of the Quebec worker, resulting from his working conditions and his dispossession. Construction workers denounce their working and living conditions in Montreal. Produced by the CSN, in tune with its times, this political film is a testament to Lamothe's activist film...
Nominingue... depuis qu'il existe
Subscription accessA chronicle of a small town in the Upper Laurentians that, at the turn of the 1960s, became a vacation spot par excellence. Nestled in the heart of a vast territory dotted with numerous lakes, mountains, and rivers, Nominingue was once perceived as a town of misery and hard-living. Over time, the municipality gradually became a place of rest for tourists, typical characters in a world full of ...
La lutte des femmes à Lip et ailleurs
In June 1975, in Lyon, 80 participants from Lip (a watch factory in Besançon), other factories, hospitals, the PTT or the MLAC (Movement for the Freedom of Abortion and Contraception), gathered to discuss the role of women workers and employees within companies and union struggles, the isolation of housewives and the need to include them in collective actions. "La lutte des femmes à LIP et...
The Places of a Fugue is the only film entirely shot by Georges Perec. It is an autobiographical account of the writer’s experience of running away from his aunt’s house at the age of eleven, an account he wrote about in 1965. It was the 11th of May 1947. He was eleven and two months old. He had just run away from home, 18 rue de l’Assomption, in the 16th district… Using the images of the act...
A collaboration between the late writer and filmmaker Bernard Queysanne based on the original text by Georges Perec, duly calibrated by both authors. A common reflection and a very concerted purpose, here, generate an innovative, singular work, out of time. Here is the libretto - for the film is constructed like a musical score, in several movements: a student questions his activities and proje...
Documentaire spectaculaire sur le hockey, sport national des Québécois, et l'équipe des Canadiens de Montréal des années 1950-1960. Les joueurs sont des héros nationaux : Jacques Plante, Bernard Geoffrion, Henri Richard et les autres. En 1955, l'idole Maurice Richard vient d'être puni pour avoir frappé un arbitre. Comme un seul homme, le peuple descend dans la rue, et c'est l'émeute...
This short documentary follows Québec band Harmonium as they tour California in the mid-’70s, in an effort to promote the province as well as to introduce the group to the world’s biggest music market. Here, we follow the ups and downs of the journey of the band, who came to feel the pulse of Americans and see if culture, their culture, can succeed in crossing borders and impose itself?
One Sunday in Canada visits an Italian community in the northwest sector of Montreal, where about half of the city's 150,000 Italians live. A very human story of people adapting to life in a new environment.
To exploit a huge iron deposit, a private company built a railway line in the middle of the Innu hunting territory, linking the Schefferville mines to the port of Sept-Îles. The documentary explores the condition of the indigenous people of Labrador, their state of dispossession, and the role and meaning of the railway in this context.