The Films of Louise Bourque
After 30 years of living in exile in the United States and elsewhere, Acadian filmmaker Louise Bourque has recently returned to settle in Montreal. A singular figure in contemporary experimental cinema, Bourque is known for her manipulation of film stock (painting, alteration, scratching, deterioration, burying, etc.) and for works that probe the unconscious, interiority, memory, archives, and trauma. Each of her films reflects a deeply considered artistic process whose techniques resonate with the themes explored, while moving beyond strict formalism to embrace an expressive language that speaks directly to the senses and the unconscious.
Her films have been screened in over fifty countries and broadcast on PBS and Sundance Channel in the United States, as well as on Télé-Québec in Canada and SBS in Australia. Her work has been presented in renowned museums and galleries around the world, including the Musée de la Civilisation and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in Quebec City, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
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_Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum_ is a first person autobiographical experimental film exploring the ramifications of the devastating breakup of a romantic relationship. A triptych of self-portraits — entire camera rolls, each subjected to different methods of intervention with the celluloid itself — are intercut with short excerpts of altered footage from a B movie trailer and punctu...
L'éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It
L'éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It
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The house that bursts; the scene of the crime; the nucleus. A universe collapses on itself: all hell breaks loose.
Jours en fleurs
Duration: 5 minutes
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_Jours en fleurs_ is a reclamation of flower-power that celebrates both the fertile and the fierce forces of nature, reinventing their relationship to the feminine. Images of flowering trees soaked in menstrual blood for several months undergo a gestation of decay, whose visceral ravages give rise to a beauty that is at once dark and luminous, endowing them with the Baudelairean “formless and m...
Jolicoeur Touriste
Duration: 11 minutes
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An enclosed space, a struggle against the constraints of personal isolation explored through a fractured narrative. A man living in a broken-down rented room in a Tourist Inn travels through his drunkenness, his memories and his fantasies, transcending the limits of time and space which suddenly intertwine. A film about loss and absence.
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
New product!Duration: 13 minutes
Subscription access
_Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum_ is a first person autobiographical experimental film exploring the ramifications of the devastating breakup of a romantic relationship. A triptych of self-portraits — entire camera rolls, each subjected to different methods of intervention with the celluloid itself — are intercut with short excerpts of altered footage from a B movie trailer and punctu...
L'éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It
L'éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It
New product!Duration: 8 minutes
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The house that bursts; the scene of the crime; the nucleus. A universe collapses on itself: all hell breaks loose.
Jours en fleurs
Duration: 5 minutes
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_Jours en fleurs_ is a reclamation of flower-power that celebrates both the fertile and the fierce forces of nature, reinventing their relationship to the feminine. Images of flowering trees soaked in menstrual blood for several months undergo a gestation of decay, whose visceral ravages give rise to a beauty that is at once dark and luminous, endowing them with the Baudelairean “formless and m...
Jolicoeur Touriste
Duration: 11 minutes
Subscription access
An enclosed space, a struggle against the constraints of personal isolation explored through a fractured narrative. A man living in a broken-down rented room in a Tourist Inn travels through his drunkenness, his memories and his fantasies, transcending the limits of time and space which suddenly intertwine. A film about loss and absence.
