Louise Bourque's œuvre is an irreducible totality in which personal and family secrets hide behind layers of photochemical emulsion. It offers an obsessive world that is both visceral and oneiric, dotted with repetitive motifs. Death and birth, fertility and decomposition. These oppositions run through Bourque's work and find an echo in her practice; she creates out of images that are "dead" (unused, discarded, forgotten) and buried (in the garden of the familial house).
Louise Bourque is a key figure of the North American experimental film scene. She lived and taught filmmaking in the United States before returning to Canada in the 2010s. In 2021, a retrospective of her films was presented at the Cinémathèque Québécoise, accompanied by an installation. This event will be the first monographic screening of her work in France.
Program
- Self Portrait Post Mortem (2002, 35mm, color, sound, 2' 30)
- Fissures (1999, 16mm, color, sound, 2' 30)
- Just Words (1991, DCP, color, sound, 10' 00)
- Jours En Fleurs (2003, 35mm, color, sound, 4' 59)
- Imprint (1997, 16mm, color, sound, 14' 00)
- Remains (2011, 16mm, color, sound, 4' 50)
- Going Back Home (2000, 35mm, color, sound, 1' 00)
- L'éclat Du Mal, The Bleeding Heart Of It (2005, 35mm, color, sound, 8' 00)
- A Little Prayer (H-E-L-P) (2011, 35mm, color, sound, 8' 00)
- Help (2009, 35mm, b&w, silent, 1' 00)
- Bye Bye Now (2022, 35mm, color-b&w, sound, 8' 27)