Louise Bourque Filmes

The story of two friends on the cusp of adolescence, Rachel Samson's warm-hearted animation is an ode to those special summer days that contain major...

An unearthed time capsule consisting of footage of the maker's youthful self – an “exquisite corpse” with nature as collaborator....

Between the city, the suburbs and the theft of an automobile.

Turmoil of unsheltered childhood: The dwelling as self.

Workprint for a little prayer (H-E-L-P)

The mother figure revisited is a recurring theme in Louise Bourque’s work. A celluloid deterioration that addresses the ephemeral quality of...

In making this piece, Bourque literally distorted the personal home movie images appearing on the film plane through various manipulations in the...

Rooftop Song is a part of 3 videos made at the Lenox Hotel in Buffalo, N.Y.

Punk rock, direct animation with a tip of the hat to Len Lye.

SPPP is an autobiographical experimental film exploring the ramifications of the devastating breakup of a romantic relationship. The film examines my...

The house that bursts; the scene of the crime; the nucleus. A universe collapses on itself: all hell breaks loose.

"Louise Bourque's 'Imprint' focuses obsessively on home-movie images of her family's house, which seems gloomily oppressive, almost filling the...

"Using as it's text Samuel Beckett's 'Not I,' this shocking gift incorporates optically printed home movie footage and an eerily slick close-up of...

“In home movies, the gesture of waving provides the future viewer with the acknowledgment of a constant ‘goodbye.’ Yet when the...

An enclosed space, a struggle against the constraints of personal isolation explored through a fractured narrative. A man living in a broken-down...

Home movies shot on the set of The People in the House.

"A statue of the Madonna from a shrine in the house where I grew up takes on an uncanny appearance as if in response to an incantation (an...

"'The People in the House' examines the dynamics of a family in crisis and questions the role of religious devotion in the perpetuation of...

"Jours en fleurs" is a reclamation of flower-power in which images of trees in springtime bloom are subjected to the floriferous ravages of...

The images of Houdini chained and attempting to free himself: the stop-and-start (interruption-repetition) of his actions; the high-contrast of the...