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Sep 21, 2013 · Media in category "Michel Brault" The following 10 files are in this category, out of 10 total. Daudelin - Vingt ans de cinéma au Canada français, 1967 (page 19 crop).jpg 1,026 × 819; 421 KB
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Brault grew up in a wealthy family in Montréal. His stockbroker father and his mother, the granddaughter of former QuébecPremier Félix-Gabriel Marchand, wanted him to become an architect, but his true passion was for the cinema. While a student at the Seminaire de Saint-Jean, Brault’s burgeoning interest in photography was encouraged by a young man...
Brault studied philosophy at the Université de Montréal (1949–50) and directed the short film Matin (1950). In the summer of 1950 he was hired as an assistant cameraman by the NFB in Ottawa, but he found the almost exclusively anglophone working environment discouraging and left after three months. In 1951, he joined the editorial team of the photo...
After seeing Les Raquetteurs and meeting Brault at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in Santa Barbara, CA in 1959, French anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch asked Brault to come to France and contribute cinematography to the landmark documentary Chronique d’une été(1961). While in France in 1960, Brault consulted with the Éclair Corporation on ...
Brault, who also said that his goal as a filmmaker was to “bear witness to reality in order to effect change,” explored issues of Québec’s national identity in such documentaries as Perrault’s Un pays sans bon sens! (1970) and L’Acadie, l’acadie?!? (1971), which he co-directed with Perrault. His most political film, Les Ordres (1974), was a vérité-...
Brault’s high standing did not deter him from making short films. A Freedom to Move (1985), the first Canadian film shot in the 70mm Omnimax format, was made for Expo 86 in Vancouver; Diogène (1990) played at numerous international film festivals; and "La dernière partie" was a segment in the omnibus feature Montréal vu par... (1991). He was also o...
Brault died of a heart attack at age 85 while en route to the Film North festival in Huntsville, ON, where he was to receive a lifetime achievement award. At the Toronto International Film Festival, just prior to Brault’s death, director Denis Villeneuve told the Toronto Star, “When I was designing the shots for Prisoners, I was thinking of Michel ...
Film of the Year (Pour la suite du monde), Canadian Film Awards(1964) Special Award (Pour la suite du monde), Canadian Film Awards (1964) Best Feature Cinematography (Mon oncle Antoine), Canadian Film Awards (1971) Best Feature Cinematography (Le Temps d’une chasse), Canadian Film Awards (1972) Best Feature Direction (Les Ordres), Canadian Film Awa...
1958–2013. Michel Brault, OQ (25 June 1928 – 21 September 2013) [1] was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s. Brault was a pioneer of the hand-held camera aesthetic.
Apr 1, 2007 · Michel Brault and Claude Jutra were at the forefront in helping Québec establish a national cinema distinct from their fellow Canadians. Jutra began making films at the age of eighteen, when he enlisted the help of Brault to produce Movement perpetual, which garnered recognition at the 1950 Canadian Film Awards. Both men went to work for the ...
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Sep 24, 2013 · Michel Brault (1928-2013) By Catherine Perreault. Films, News. September 24, 2013. Reading time: 4 minutes. It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of one of the founders of Québec cinema, the great Michel Brault. He succumbed to a heart attack on Saturday, while visiting Toronto. He was 85 years old.
