Imprint

color, sound, 14 min
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"Family portraits are frozen memories, saturated with melancholy and nostalgia. Bourque portrays her family in a very ambiguous way in her authentic 8mm home movies. By bleaching, scratching and perforating ...
Rental format: 16mm

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"Family portraits are frozen memories, saturated with melancholy and nostalgia. Bourque portrays her family in a very ambiguous way in her authentic 8mm home movies. By bleaching, scratching and perforating the films she creates a rawness which greatly contrasts with the actual content of the films themselves- children playing gently and the warmth associated with 'home'. The abstracted memories slowly blur into a concrete reality in the film, but the strong desire for love and tenderness still lurks apparent behind this facade of distorted images."- Annemick Engbers, Impakt Festival catalogue, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1998

Films

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    Just Words
    Experimental

    Just Words
    Louise Bourque

    16mm, color, sound, 10 min
    Rental format: 16mm
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    Fissures
    Experimental

    Fissures
    Louise Bourque

    16mm, color, sound, 2.5 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Hand-Processed
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    Going Back Home

    Going Back Home
    Louise Bourque

    35mm, color, sound, 2.3 min
    Rental format: 35mm
    • Biography / Autobiography
    • Children / Youth
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    Self Portrait Post Mortem
    Experimental

    Self Portrait Post Mortem
    Louise Bourque

    35mm, color, sound, 2 min
    Rental format: 35mm
    • Biography / Autobiography
    • Found Footage
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    Jours en fleurs
    Experimental

    Jours en fleurs
    Louise Bourque

    35mm, color, sound, 4.5 min
    Rental format: 35mm
    • Biography / Autobiography
    • Cameraless / Handmade
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
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    L'ECLAT DU MAL (THE BLEEDING HEART)
    Experimental

    L'ECLAT DU MAL (THE BLEEDING HEART)
    Louise Bourque

    color, sound, 6 min
    Rental format: 35mm
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
    • Hand-Processed
    • Family