LES VIDÉOGRAPHES: AU DELÀ DU RÉEL
LES VIDÉOGRAPHES is a program created by Luc Bourdon in collaboration with Karine Boulanger, Denis Vaillancourt and the Vidéographe team.
Composed during the pandemic period, this project responds to the ultimate desire and need to gather in front of the big screen and see the video works of yesterday and today in the presence of the public and artists.
On November 28, 1971, Vidéographe officially opened its doors on rue Saint-Denis, in the heart of the Latin Quarter.
1971-2021... 50 years of history!
The former Executive Director of the Festival international du nouveau cinéma et des nouveaux Médias de Montréal (FCMM), Luc Bourdon has made over fifty works which have been shown at festivals and on television both within Canada and abroad. In 1998, the Canada Council for the Arts awarded Bourdon the Bell Canada Prize in recognition of excellence in video art. Working in many areas, he juggles fiction and documentary, essay and experimentation, installation and reporting, as well as film production and broadcasting.
List of works in program
This program pays tribute to the imagination of videographers with an introduction guided by Robert Forget, founder of Videographe, who talks about the beginnings of the collective. Filmed on the premises of rue Saint-Denis, Robert Forget comments on the possibilities offered by the invention of the video medium.
Produced in 1972, the ENTRÉE EN SCÈNE video allows us to capture the atmosphere of the time and to understand Videographe’s objectives, that is to say to experiment and appropriate the world of the image, and to make these media accessible to people.
Over the decades, this new tool will allow us to stage a world created by videographers who are anxious to go beyond reality and offer the public a magnified reality, manipulated or simply imagined according to their will. This imaginary takes shape here with a selection of short videos made by striking videographers.
