Arthur Lamothe
Arthur Lamothe (1928-2013) was a filmmaker, producer and editor. He immigrated from France to Canada in 1953 and joined the National Film Board in the late 1950s as a researcher and writer. His first film was Manouane River Lumberjacks, a documentary made in 1962 about lumber camps. Lamothe left the NFB to start his own production company where he directed a full-length fictional film, Dust from Underground (1965), which was not a commercial success. He returned to documentaries, particularly those with a social perspective. In 1970, he produced for the Confederation of National Trade Unions a full-length film on the working conditions of construction workers: Hell No Longer. He then began working on a series of feature films on indigenous peoples under the title Chroniques des Indiens du nord-est du Québec which constituted the major part of his work. For many years, he collected the stories and the rituals of the First Nations, mainly the Innu, and documented their struggles. In 1980, Arthur Lamothe was the first recipient of the Albert-Tessier Prize awarded by the Quebec government.
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Mémoire battante
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Three memories – that of the Innu, the Jesuit, and Lamothe – juxtapose without contradicting each other, define without harming each other, evaluate without diminishing each other. In this feature-length film, Arthur Lamothe captures the daily life of the Innu and the culture of an indigenous people gradually being decimated.
Hell No Longer
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...
Le train du Labrador
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.
Mémoire battante
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Three memories – that of the Innu, the Jesuit, and Lamothe – juxtapose without contradicting each other, define without harming each other, evaluate without diminishing each other. In this feature-length film, Arthur Lamothe captures the daily life of the Innu and the culture of an indigenous people gradually being decimated.
Hell No Longer
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...
Le train du Labrador
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.
