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Louise Bourque

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Portrait of filmmaker Louise Bourque

Louise Bourque (born 1963[1]) is a Acadian French Canadian experimental filmmaker.[2][3]

Background and career

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She taught cinema in her native Edmundston and in Boston, Mass. She lives in Montreal after a 25-year absence. She had a relationship with fellow filmmaker Joe Gibbons in the late 1990s before breaking up.[2][4]

Since 1989, her works involve physical manipulation of emulsion and imprints of memory and trauma using her own home movies and other types of found footage.[5][6]

Selected filmography

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  • Bye Bye Now (2022)
  • The Bleeding Heart of It (2006)
  • Self Portrait Post Mortem (2002)
  • Going Back Home (2001)
  • The People in the House (1994)
  • Just Words (1991)

Sources:[7][8][9][10]

References

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See also

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Other female Canadian collage filmmakers similar in content:

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