Louise Bourque
Louise Bourque (born 1963[1]) is a Acadian French Canadian experimental filmmaker.[2][3]
Background and career
She taught cinema in her native Edmundston and in Boston, Mass. She lives in Montreal after a 25-year absence. She had a relationship with fellow filmmaker Joe Gibbons in the late 1990s before breaking up.[2][4]
Since 1989, her works involve physical manipulation of emulsion and imprints of memory and trauma using her own home movies and other types of found footage.[5][6]
Selected filmography
- Bye Bye Now (2022)
- The Bleeding Heart of It (2006)
- Self Portrait Post Mortem (2002)
- Going Back Home (2001)
- The People in the House (1994)
- Just Words (1991)
Sources:[7][8][9][10]
References
- ^ Handmade Cinema
- ^ a b Light Cone
- ^ The Film-Makers Cooperative
- ^ Joe Gibbons, the Bank-Robbing Filmmaker - Page 2 of 2 - Boston Magazine
- ^ Imprints: The Films of Louise Bourque|Experimental Cinema
- ^ A CONVERSATION WITH LOUISE BOURQUE - Big Red & Shiny
- ^ Self Portrait and Other Ruins: The cinema of Louise Bourque|Experimental Cinema
- ^ Letterboxd
- ^ Louise Bourque - THE FILMS OF LOUISE BOURQUE - 12/3/05 - Hallwalls
- ^ MUBI
See also
Other female Canadian collage filmmakers similar in content:
- Christina Battle
- Christine Lucy Latimer
External links
- IMDb
- Louise Bourque: Scene of the Crime, a video essay by Stephen Broomer on Vimeo
