Documentary Field Notes and Flashpoints: archive

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With the Raging Grannies at Bread and Puppets

Myself and Martin Duckworth filming the Grannies in Vermont.
I am still working on my film about the Raging Grannies, the movement of elderly women fighting for peace, social justice and the environment with satirical songs and the occasional guerrilla action. I have decided to edit some of the Grannies’ songs as music videos, and so [...]

Méta-Morphosis: cinematic still photograpy at its best

Exposition Méta-Morphosis
My friend the excellent D.O.P. Stefan Nitoslawski, who received the prize for best direction of photography at Hot Docs in 1999, also works with experimental and artistic photography, studying the anatomy and movements of the human body in evocative photographs. The beautifully textured result is reminiscent of Norman McLaren’s ‘Pas de Deux.’ [...]

Les Femmes de Bruckman

Isaac Isitan avec une des travailleuses, Celia
Je viens de voir un très bon film sur la prise de contrôle d’une usine de vêtements en Argentine par les travailleurs, et surtout travailleuses. Un film réalisé par Isaac Isitan et co-produit avec Carole Poliquin, pour Isca Productions. C’est dans le contexte de la crise économique terrible de [...]

Leaving the Fold, Interview with Eric Scott

Rivens, father and sons

The other day I went to see an excellent documentary directed by Eric Scott and produced by my friend Frederic Bohbot and Evan Beloff of Bunbury Films, here in Montreal. The film is called ‘Leaving the Fold’ and it’s about young people who have left their Orthodox jewish families and culture to [...]

Le contenant le le contenu: Le Moulin à Images

Paul Lapointe
Je vous avais parlé, avant de partir en Europe, de la projection fantastique de Robert Lepage, ‘Le Moulin à Images’, dans le cadre du 400e de Québec. Voici la réaction de mon ami Paul Lapointe. Il a longtemps travaillé pour l’ONF avant de devenir producteur indépendent et de fonder la compagnie Érézi en octobre [...]

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