Olivier Godin is a Québécois filmmaker and screenwriter who studied cinema at Collège Ahuntsic and then at Concordia University. His short films La boutique de forge (2012) and Bengal Light (2014) each won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the Festival du nouveau cinéma. In 2013, he was awarded the CALQ Prize for Full Love, recognized as the best work of art and experimentation. In 2014, the Cinémathèque québécoise presented a first retrospective of his work, the same year his notable second feature film Nouvelles, Nouvelles was released. He is also the author of the feature films The Art of Speech (2016), Waiting for April (2018), There Are No False Undertakings (2020), and Ireland Blue Book (2023). La suite canadienne (2023) is his first foray into documentary filmmaking. He occasionally writes about cinema, mainly for the magazine Hors champ.
In 1958, Ludmilla Chiriaeff's ballet _Suite canadienne_ was broadcast during the concert hour on Radio-Canada. This piece, now considered foundational for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, features dancers dressed as peasants in the settings of a fantasized colonial rurality. The discovery of this archival document is the starting point for the creation project led by amateur dancer and saxophonist...
In 1958, Ludmilla Chiriaeff's ballet _Suite canadienne_ was broadcast during the concert hour on Radio-Canada. This piece, now considered foundational for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, features dancers dressed as peasants in the settings of a fantasized colonial rurality. The discovery of this archival document is the starting point for the creation project led by amateur dancer and saxophonist...