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Louise Bourque is an Acadian French Canadian filmmaker who recently relocated to Montreal after 25 years of absence, twenty of which were spent in the United-States where she made films and taught cinema. Over the years, her films have been screened in some fifty countries across five continents. Bourque has received numerous awards and honors for her work and she has been the recipient of many prestigious grants.
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01 January 2011
The images of Houdini chained and attempting to free himself: the stop-and-start (interruption-repetition) of his actions; the high-contrast of the images; the stroboscopic effect created by the rhythm of the shutter; the gashes in the emulsion from the hand-processing - combined with the layers of sound, all evoke the violence of a tortured soul in search of escape.
01 January 2013
SPPP is an autobiographical experimental film exploring the ramifications of the devastating breakup of a romantic relationship.
27 December 1990
Between the city, the suburbs and the theft of an automobile.
01 January 1991
"Using as it's text Samuel Beckett's 'Not I,' this shocking gift incorporates optically printed home movie footage and an eerily slick close-up of actress Patricia MacGeachy as she rants at lightening speed Beckett's words about home, family and the confines and alienation associated with being a woman.
01 January 2011
The mother figure revisited is a recurring theme in Louise Bourque’s work. A celluloid deterioration that addresses the ephemeral quality of the captured moment (the present) while revealing the insistent power of human presence in even the most deteriorated of states.
01 January 2013
Punk rock, direct animation with a tip of the hat to Len Lye.
01 January 1989
An enclosed space, a struggle against the constraints of personal isolation explored through a fractured narrative.
05 November 2002
An unearthed time capsule consisting of footage of the maker's youthful self – an “exquisite corpse” with nature as collaborator.
01 January 1991
Home movies shot on the set of The People in the House.
01 January 2003
"Jours en fleurs" is a reclamation of flower-power in which images of trees in springtime bloom are subjected to the floriferous ravages of menarcheal substance in a gestation of decay.
06 October 2022
“In home movies, the gesture of waving provides the future viewer with the acknowledgment of a constant ‘goodbye.
01 January 1994
"'The People in the House' examines the dynamics of a family in crisis and questions the role of religious devotion in the perpetuation of dysfunction.
01 January 2011
"A statue of the Madonna from a shrine in the house where I grew up takes on an uncanny appearance as if in response to an incantation (an oft-recited prayer from my childhood).
01 January 2005
The house that bursts; the scene of the crime; the nucleus. A universe collapses on itself: all hell breaks loose.
01 January 2005
Rooftop Song is a part of 3 videos made at the Lenox Hotel in Buffalo, N.Y.
01 January 1997
"Louise Bourque's 'Imprint' focuses obsessively on home-movie images of her family's house, which seems gloomily oppressive, almost filling the frame; she repeats the images with various alterations - tinted, bleached, partly scraped away - as if attacking the place, turning its darkness into light.
23 July 1999
In making this piece, Bourque literally distorted the personal home movie images appearing on the film plane through various manipulations in the process of doing her own low-tech contact printing.
09 September 2024
The story of two friends on the cusp of adolescence, Rachel Samson's warm-hearted animation is an ode to those special summer days that contain major changes.
05 April 2026
“Without really knowing why, I was convinced I’d find a treasure in my family’s box of home movies.
