Louise Bourque

Louise Bourque (born 1963) is an Acadian French Canadian experimental filmmaker.

Background and career

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.

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.

Selected filmography

• 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)

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References

See also

Other female Canadian collage filmmakers similar in content:

• Christina Battle
• Christine Lucy Latimer

External links

• IMDb
• Louise Bourque: Scene of the Crime, a video essay by Stephen Broomer on Vimeo