Louise Bourque Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

"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...

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

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

Turmoil of unsheltered childhood: the dwelling as self.

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

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