VIDEOGRAPHERS - THE GAY KNOW
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
The LGBTQ+ cultural affirmation movement was part of Videographe’s collection in the early 1980s with the first works by Marc Paradis. It was also the decade of AIDS that ravaged the community here and elsewhere.
This program bears witness to this era, initially relying on videos made by Marc Paradis, Esther Valiquette and Dennis Day. Works that speak of a lived experience and the quest for an identity that has since evolved greatly.
The works produced in the 2000s, through its contrasts and resonances, stimulate the reflection on the subject - this joyful knowledge which occupies a prominent place in the Videographe collection - while making it possible to evaluate the path traveled, the evolution of the discourse, its similarities and its differences.
