A pioneer of experimental cinema, Louise Bourque is an Acadian filmmaker based in Montreal. Much of her work is deeply rooted in documentary cinema, or more broadly in reality. Adopting a highly personal, even autobiographical approach, she deploys a sensory visual and auditory poetry that embodies a rare sense of interiority. With renewed aesthetic vigor, she revisits various archives, notably elements of her own works and home movies shot by her father. She literally sculpts the film material through a complex, artisanal process involving optical printing manipulations, contact prints, and reuses that multiply the forms of alteration and transformation of the film, ranging from hand development to dyeing, including manual, mechanical, or chemical wear and tear brought about with skill, meticulousness, and thoughtful experimentation. Adapting her artistic gestures and techniques to the nature of each project, she artfully explores ingenious reflections on memory, nostalgia, trauma, and identity.