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Mireille Dansereau began her professional life as a dancer who turned her attention to filmmaking and began by studying at the Royal College of Art in London where she received an arts degree in cinema and television She returned to Canada and worked at the National Film Board of Canada BFB in 1967 where she made her first short film emMoi un jourem She also worked at Radio Canada and RadioQuebec CBC A pioneer in Qubec film she was a cofounder of LAssociation Cooprative de Productions AudioVisuelles ACPAV the production company behind her first feature emLa vie rveem 1972 which was the first fiction feature directed by a woman in Qubec outside of the NFB In 1987 she adapted MarieClaire Blais poetically metaphoric novel emLe Sourd dans la ville Deaf to the Cityem which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival Programmers described it in part by writing On paper this remarkable new film by Mireille Dansereau might resemble something unbearably dark and oppressive but on screen it has a truly rare power it is dark and oppressive but it is also haunting beautiful and full of indelible imagesbrbrbr
Features & TV Movies:
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Moi, un jour… (1967, short)
Compromise (1968, short)
Forum (1968, documentary)
Les marchés de Londres (1969, short, documentary)
Coccinelle (1970, short)
Couples – Étude pour un lit et une baignoire (1971, short, documentary)
La vie rêvée (1972)
J’me marie, j’me marie pas (1972, documentary)
Le Père idéal (1974, short)
Rappelle-toi co-directed with Vartkes Cholokian, 1975, short)
Famille et variations (1976, documentary)
L’Arrache-cœur (1979)
Germaine Guèvremont (1980, short, documentary)
Les Baltes à la recherche d’un pays (1980, documentary)
Les Nordiques ou un peuple sans artifice (1980, documentary)
Un pays à comprendre (1981, documentary)
Le Frère André (1982, documentary)
Le sourd dans la ville (1987)
Entre elle et moi (1992, short, documentary)
Les seins dans la tête (1994, short, documentary)
Les cheveux en quatre (1996, short, documentary)
L’idée noire (2000, short)
Danny le montagnais (2001, short, documentary)
Eva (2003, short, documentary)
Louisiane, pour mémoire (2005)
Les cerisiers ont envahi les espaces comme incendie (2010, short, documentary)
Le Pier (2014, short, documentary)
Vu pas vue (2019)
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