Hélène Bourgault
Hélène Bourgault (May 16, 1945 - October 14, 2006) was a Canadian video and film artist.[1] Bourgault was born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada and died in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[2] Bourgault was a founding member of GIV, the Groupe Intervention Video, a feminist video production and distribution collective in Montreal, Quebec.[3] As a member of GIV, she co-directed several video documentaries with fellow artist Helen Doyle,[3] including Chaperons Rouges (1979) which was included in a notable traveling exhibition called Rebel Girls: A Survey of Canadian Feminist Videotapes 1974-1988. Chaperons rouges has won two awards, one at the Second Video Open in Toronto in 1979 and another at the Festival international de films de femmes in Sceaux in 1981.[3]
Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada[1] and the Cinematheque quebecoise.[4]
Filmography[edit]
Director[edit]
Pays d'abondance? (1970), documentary short
Partir pour la famille? (1974), documentary short
Témoignage de Francine (1979), video documentary short
Une nef ... et ses sorcières (1977), with Hélène Roy, Helen Doyle, and Nicole Giguère
Chaperons rouges (1979), video co-directed with Helen Doyle
Le Centre Flora Tristan (1984), video documentary short
Fem do chi, self défense pour femmes (1984), documentary short
End of a Millennium/Fin de millénaire (1994), for the National Film Board of Canada, documentary
Les soeurs Lumière: 100 ans de cinéma de femmes (1996), documentary
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Hélène Bourgault". www.gallery.ca. Archived from the original on 2019-05-11. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ^ "Hélène Bourgault". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
- ^ a b c "Hélène Bourgault". Vithèque. 13 February 2017. Archived from the original on 11 May 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ^ "Oeuvres – 16 résultats pour ""Hélène Bourgault"" - La Cinémathèque québécoise".
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