Hélène Bourgault
Born in 1945, Hélène Bourgault is a Canadian video and film artist and founding member of GIV, Groupe Intervention Vidéo, a feminist video production and distribution collective in Montreal. She co-directed several documentary videos with her colleague Helen Doyle, including Chaperons Rouges (1979), which was part of a major travelling exhibition entitled Rebel Girls: A Survey of Canadian Feminist Videotapes 1974-1988. In 1977, she co-directed Une nef...et ses sorcières, a film about the process of staging the play of the same name at the TNM, which deals with situations of contradiction experienced by women. In 1984, she co-directed Fem do chi, self-defense for women in which we discover a self-defense course for women. Her works are part of the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Cinémathèque québécoise.
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