Onze jours en février
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
The March 29 and April 3 screenings will be followed by a Q&A with the director
What really happened during the eleven days of February 2016 that make up the Jutra affair? By reuniting today with some of the key witnesses thrust overnight into an unparalleled media storm, the documentary reconstructs, using archival and previously unseen footage, the sequence of events that led to a rewriting of History.
Jean-Claude Coulbois
Born in Paris, Jean-Claude Coulbois has been living and working in Quebec since 1968. Alternating between editing (Higelin, Lettre à mon père, Cap tournante) and directing, he embarked from 1995 on a series of films questioning various aspects of Quebec culture through the links between theater and societal evolution. This production explores different forms of direct cinema: from the short film Joyeux Noël, Julie (1997) to the feature documentary* Un Miroir sur la scène* (1997), a two-part retrospective look at the theatrical emergence in Quebec. Subsequently, he explores Le Territoire du comédien (1999) before following the creative process experienced by a group of actors during rehearsals for a text from Michel Tremblay directed by André Brassard, through a documentary chronicle, La Naissance d'une messe (2002). He also directed a documentary on Robert Gravel, Mort subite d'un homme-théâtre, in 2012, and the third installment of the Un Miroir sur la scène trilogy, Nous autres, les autres, in 2016.
