Robert Fortier
Robert Fortier is a Canadian producer and filmmaker born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. He worked at the NFB where he made films like The Mad Canadian (1976) and The Devil at your Heels (1981). He also directed Harmonium in California (1980), which follows a tour of the cult Quebec band, as it attempts a breakthrough in the United-States.
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Harmonium in California
This short documentary follows Québec band Harmonium as they tour California in the mid-’70s, in an effort to promote the province as well as to introduce the group to the world’s biggest music market. Here, we follow the ups and downs of the journey of the band, who came to feel the pulse of Americans and see if culture, their culture, can succeed in crossing borders and impose itself?
Harmonium in California
This short documentary follows Québec band Harmonium as they tour California in the mid-’70s, in an effort to promote the province as well as to introduce the group to the world’s biggest music market. Here, we follow the ups and downs of the journey of the band, who came to feel the pulse of Americans and see if culture, their culture, can succeed in crossing borders and impose itself?
