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MARCH 2010

Pierre Perrault

Ten years ago, one of the great Quebecois masters of documentary cinema passed away. Filmmaker, poet and writer, Pierre Perrault focused all his attention on the spoken language and man’s relationship with nature. He has left an extraordinarily rich cinematographic work.
(In collaboration with NFB, National Film Board of Canada.)

La Bête Lumineuse (Shimmering Beast)

The Quebecois tradition of moose hunting serves as a pretext to sound the Quebecois soul and exalt its "spoken words". In a Maniwaki shack, a group of city dwellers set about their annual return to nature... as if working a small (...)

Cornouailles (The Ice Warrior)

To film this metaphor of how a country is built, the filmmaker patiently waited some miles from the North Pole, on Ellesmere island, to film the inevitable battle between two muskoxen in quest of the same territory. (Following the Canadian (...)

Pays de la terre sans arbre ou le Mouchouânipi (Land Without Trees, or The Mouchouânipi)

A journey into the heart of the Amerindian territory of the Mouchouânipi. The customs and culture of this tundra people through the eyes of the white man.

Pour la suite du monde (The Moontrap)

Two ancestral accounts of the Île-aux-Coudres inhabitants: a raw, hard, but always eloquent language, the legendary porpoise fishing, and life at sea governed by the moon and the tides.

Le Règne du jour (The Times That Are)

Alexis Tremblay, the wonderful storyteller of Pour la suite du monde (The Moontrap), travels round France, in search of his ancestors.