Producer, screenwriter and filmmaker, Isabelle Hayeur has written and directed three feature films: La bête de foire (1993), Luce-Guilbault prize at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Les Siamoises (1999), presented at the prestigious London Institute of Contemporary Arts and Le Golem de Montréal (2004), opening film at the FIFEM (Montreal International Children's Film Festival). She has created more than twenty films and videos with choreographers such as Ginette Laurin, Marie Chouinard and Susan Marshall in New York. In 2005, Richard Desjardins ask her to direct the video production of his show Kanasuta (nominated at l'ADISQ for the best music DVD). Her latest short film, A Short History Of Madness (2014), won 3 prestigious awards. She then co-directed with Nicole Giguère a feature documentary, Prisons sans barreaux (2020). She was a founding member and then president of Réalisatrices Équitables from 2013 to 2019.
\_A Short History Of Madness\_ is a contemporary dance film. Traveling through time in six architectural scenes, it touches on key moments in the treatment of mental illness in Quebec, from the end of the 19th century to today. The film introduces us to six mentally ill characters who are interpreted by dancers. It then goes on to follow a woman, Jacqueline, who ends up on the street after losi...
A Short History Of Madness is a contemporary dance film. Traveling through time in six architectural scenes, it touches on key moments in the treatment of mental illness in Quebec, from the end of the 19th century to today. The film introduces us to six mentally ill characters who are interpreted by dancers. It then goes on to follow a woman, Jacqueline, who ends up on the street after losing a...
\_A Short History Of Madness\_ is a contemporary dance film. Traveling through time in six architectural scenes, it touches on key moments in the treatment of mental illness in Quebec, from the end of the 19th century to today. The film introduces us to six mentally ill characters who are interpreted by dancers. It then goes on to follow a woman, Jacqueline, who ends up on the street after losi...
A Short History Of Madness is a contemporary dance film. Traveling through time in six architectural scenes, it touches on key moments in the treatment of mental illness in Quebec, from the end of the 19th century to today. The film introduces us to six mentally ill characters who are interpreted by dancers. It then goes on to follow a woman, Jacqueline, who ends up on the street after losing a...