Martin Bureau
Raised in Lac Saint-Jean, painter and videographer Martin Bureau lives and works in Saint-Jean-de-l’île-d’Orléans. For over a decade, he has been exhibiting his paintings and video installations at venues and events, including the Bienal de Video y Nuevos Medios (Santiago, Chile), Galerie Lacerte Art Contemporain (Quebec City/Montreal), L’Oeil de poisson and Manif d’art 2 (Quebec City), Galerie Orange (Montréal) and the Drabinsky and Lonsdale galleries in Toronto. His works feature in many public and private collections. He co-directed in 2008 his first documentary A Tent on Mars with Luc Renaud, with whom he worked again in 2012 for the documentary Playa Coloniale, which takes a political look at all-inclusive tourism in Cuba.
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Bonfires
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Huge bonfires are lit by Protestants in Northern Ireland on July 12 each year, as part of the celebrations of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. They are made from wooden pallets, tires, and garbage. To the Protestants, they are symbols of identity affirmation; to the Catholics, they mean arrogance and humiliation.
A Tent on Mars
Thirty years after the closure of the Schefferville mining colony, the Innu, after having taken possession of the town abandoned by the non-Natives, are facing a new challenge: the reopening of the iron mines. Territory, identity and legitimacy feed the dialogue between two peoples, Quebecers and First Nations, who share a common struggle. Two identities that claim to be colonized, the former b...
Bonfires
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Huge bonfires are lit by Protestants in Northern Ireland on July 12 each year, as part of the celebrations of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. They are made from wooden pallets, tires, and garbage. To the Protestants, they are symbols of identity affirmation; to the Catholics, they mean arrogance and humiliation.
A Tent on Mars
Thirty years after the closure of the Schefferville mining colony, the Innu, after having taken possession of the town abandoned by the non-Natives, are facing a new challenge: the reopening of the iron mines. Territory, identity and legitimacy feed the dialogue between two peoples, Quebecers and First Nations, who share a common struggle. Two identities that claim to be colonized, the former b...
