LES VIDÉOGRAPHES – LE DEVOIR DE MÉMOIRE
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
From the very beginning of Vidéographe, the political scene has produced works, often made collectively, that are eager to offer an alternative to the official media.
As an introduction to this program, the 1972 homemade SELECTOVISION advertising illustrates the group’s philosophy of making videos documenting the social and political struggles broadcasted on the community television network.
The duty to act in the face of social and political injustices has thus led videographers to produce videos with the aim of raising our awareness. Today, we have a rich tradition of creating and disseminating militant works, especially those that focus on the international and local scene.
The four documents gathered in this program bear witness to four events that are as many objects of memory as scars inscribed in the history of the populations of South Africa, the United States, the former USSR, and Gaspésie.
