The films of Jeannine Gagné
After ten years with Les Films de l'Autre, Quebec filmmaker and producer Jeannine Gagné founded Amazone Film, a company specializing in the production of auteur films. She is also a visiting professor at INIS, as well as a consultant in production and scriptwriting. Her work has been the subject of a retrospective at the Cinémathèque québécoise, a tribute at Regard sur le court in Saguenay, and the RVCQ celebrated the 10th anniversary of her company in 2009. She has directed experimental films, documentaries, and fictions, including the documentaries Drôle de fille (1987), Bébé Bonheur (1995) and L'insoumise, based on the work of Marie-Claire Blais (1998), followed by the feature-length fiction film Au fil de l'eau (2003).
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No Story Here
Duration: 10 minutes
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_No Story Here_, the first film by Jeannine Gagné, co-directed with Michel Lamothe, offers a striking portrait of working-class Montréal in the 1970s. Created without a script and using just 600 feet of film, this student short freely blends images and sounds, the latter serving as echoes of the popular psyche, already foreshadowing _City Dawn_.
The Rebelious One
Duration: 53 minutes
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Half-fiction and half-documentary, _The Rebelious One_ is both a personal interpretation and a poetical rendition of Marie-Claire Blais' work that follows the Quebec writer's literary journey through eleven of her novels. Like a continuous thread leading us through the discovery of her writings, the voice, the vision and the keen consciousness of Blais recall the social events and the human dra...
City Dawn
Duration: 50 minutes
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Through the juxtaposition of moments so natural they seem stolen from the city itself, _City Dawn_ recreates the reality of a winter morning. Black-and-white fragments are layered with narrative snippets, delivered with the spontaneity of the moment. As the sun rises, a woman treads through the snow, a silhouette stands out against the whiteness of a park, a window washer and a waitress go abou...
No Story Here
Duration: 10 minutes
Subscription access
_No Story Here_, the first film by Jeannine Gagné, co-directed with Michel Lamothe, offers a striking portrait of working-class Montréal in the 1970s. Created without a script and using just 600 feet of film, this student short freely blends images and sounds, the latter serving as echoes of the popular psyche, already foreshadowing _City Dawn_.
The Rebelious One
Duration: 53 minutes
Subscription access
Half-fiction and half-documentary, _The Rebelious One_ is both a personal interpretation and a poetical rendition of Marie-Claire Blais' work that follows the Quebec writer's literary journey through eleven of her novels. Like a continuous thread leading us through the discovery of her writings, the voice, the vision and the keen consciousness of Blais recall the social events and the human dra...
City Dawn
Duration: 50 minutes
Subscription access
Through the juxtaposition of moments so natural they seem stolen from the city itself, _City Dawn_ recreates the reality of a winter morning. Black-and-white fragments are layered with narrative snippets, delivered with the spontaneity of the moment. As the sun rises, a woman treads through the snow, a silhouette stands out against the whiteness of a park, a window washer and a waitress go abou...
