The National Film Board of Montreal has recently released a very moving, new, bilingual DVD of feminist artist Paule Baillargeon.
Intimate and rebellious, the movie director tells it like it was for women in Quebec. With the help of her own drawings, sketches, movie extracts and new images she pulls out moments of her life, from a very young age in her natal Abitibi till now at 64.
A Very Personal Film
With music and images, her voice recalls the Montreal Massacre, Pierre Elliott-Trudeau, blindfolds, the Quebec Quiet Revolution which certainly never was anything but bloody when it comes to women, her dog, her mother, her father, women who have nothing and that go crazy and men who have everything and go idiot, her home region of Abitibi which is so far north and where she had no books or coloring pencils of her own, the women's rebellion, her movies, the invisible women of today who look like walking gaskets, slaving women who used to work like dogs but were said to be unworking mothers, abandonment, postfeminism with perhaps no knowledge of valium-taking grand-mothers, her mother who wore slacks and who was dying from lack of love...
EXTRACTS
It's certainly more than worth watching and listening to for if women don't know their history, they are bound to repeat the same mistakes and re-enslave themselves with post-feministic theories and old forgotten blindfolds.
Certainly the City of Montreal won't be of any help - in a recent year it instituted the Women's History Month which lasted 15 days since it was announced 15 days late, and it never came back.
In Pieces can be both purchased in DVD format or downloaded.
Filmographie de Paule Baillargeon (complete list of her movies)
DVD Trente tableaux, film documentaire de l'ONF, artiste, féminisme rarissime au Québec, prise de conscience anti-masculiniste
Paule Baillargeon : « Anasthasie, c'est moi. »
Since 2002 ServicesMontreal.com
March 8 International Women's Day
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A Very Personal Film
With music and images, her voice recalls the Montreal Massacre, Pierre Elliott-Trudeau, blindfolds, the Quebec Quiet Revolution which certainly never was anything but bloody when it comes to women, her dog, her mother, her father, women who have nothing and that go crazy and men who have everything and go idiot, her home region of Abitibi which is so far north and where she had no books or coloring pencils of her own, the women's rebellion, her movies, the invisible women of today who look like walking gaskets, slaving women who used to work like dogs but were said to be unworking mothers, abandonment, postfeminism with perhaps no knowledge of valium-taking grand-mothers, her mother who wore slacks and who was dying from lack of love...
EXTRACTS
I'm nothing now.
A surprise desire for happiness.
... because it's the nightmare of my life.
Apparently I have everything a girl could want, and more.
But acting on my wishes is not for me.
... someone who murders me while I'm not paying attention.
Anasthasie is me!
War words become love words in the man's mouth.
Know Your Women's History
It's certainly more than worth watching and listening to for if women don't know their history, they are bound to repeat the same mistakes and re-enslave themselves with post-feministic theories and old forgotten blindfolds.
Certainly the City of Montreal won't be of any help - in a recent year it instituted the Women's History Month which lasted 15 days since it was announced 15 days late, and it never came back.
In Pieces can be both purchased in DVD format or downloaded.
Filmographie de Paule Baillargeon (complete list of her movies)
DVD Trente tableaux, film documentaire de l'ONF, artiste, féminisme rarissime au Québec, prise de conscience anti-masculiniste
Paule Baillargeon : « Anasthasie, c'est moi. »
Since 2002 ServicesMontreal.comMarch 8 International Women's Day
Cinema
Books, CDs,DVDs
English Articles
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