Louise Bourque (born 1963Handmade Cinema) is an Acadian French Canadian experimental filmmaker.Light ConeThe Film-Makers Cooperative
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.Joe Gibbons, the Bank-Robbing Filmmaker - Page 2 of 2 - Boston Magazine
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.Imprints: The Films of Louise Bourque|Experimental CinemaA CONVERSATION WITH LOUISE BOURQUE - Big Red & Shiny
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) Sources:Self Portrait and Other Ruins: The cinema of Louise Bourque|Experimental CinemaLetterboxdLouise Bourque - THE FILMS OF LOUISE BOURQUE - 12/3/05 - HallwallsMUBI
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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