Helen Doyle
Independent filmmaker and screenwriter, Helen Doyle was one of the founders of Vidéo Femmes' collective in Quebec, in 1973, along with Nicole Giguère et Hélène Roy. There, she produced and directed powerful productions on the status of women. In 2000, she founded her own production company, Tatouages de la mémoire. In 2008, she was awarded the first Grant for Achievement in Cinema from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Her work was the subject of a retrospective at the Cinémathèque québécoise in 2009 called L’exil et l’engagement. Her documentary Frameworks - Images of a Changing World (2013) was awarded Best Canadian film at FIFA, won 3 Gémeaux Prize including Best documentary, and an Étoile de la Scam. In spring of 2015 was released La liberté de voir – Helen Doyle cinéaste, a special boxset accompanied by a monograph on her work. In 2018, she received the Barbara Helen Greene Prize in recognition of her career as a documentary filmmaker and in 2024, she released her 14th film : After the Odyssey.
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Les mots/maux du silence
Fragments of poems, readings, texts, excerpts from plays, songs, and reflections, pieced together like a patchwork quilt. What’s the purpose of medications, electroshock therapy, institutions? What if all of it only serves to suppress rebellion? What’s the purpose of psychiatry and our prejudices, the daily responses… to those women we label as _mad_?
Frameworks: Images of a Changing World
Frameworks: Images of a Changing World
_Frameworks_ is a quest for the meaning of images. Bombarded by thousands of images every day, are we still able to truly see them, especially those of conflict and its aftermath? In a constantly changing field, creators of images are developing new visions of the photographic art form and looking for new strategies to capture our attention with significant images. Helen Doyle has chosen the wo...
Les mots/maux du silence
Fragments of poems, readings, texts, excerpts from plays, songs, and reflections, pieced together like a patchwork quilt. What’s the purpose of medications, electroshock therapy, institutions? What if all of it only serves to suppress rebellion? What’s the purpose of psychiatry and our prejudices, the daily responses… to those women we label as _mad_?
Frameworks: Images of a Changing World
Frameworks: Images of a Changing World
_Frameworks_ is a quest for the meaning of images. Bombarded by thousands of images every day, are we still able to truly see them, especially those of conflict and its aftermath? In a constantly changing field, creators of images are developing new visions of the photographic art form and looking for new strategies to capture our attention with significant images. Helen Doyle has chosen the wo...
