| Description |
1 streaming video file (30 min.) : digital, stereo, sound, black and white |
| Series |
National Film Board Screening Room |
| Summary |
This film introduces us to the "automatistes," followers of a form of abstract art that developed in Montréal; a movement initiated by Paul-Émile Borduas. The meaning of the movement is explained by the artists themselves when narrator Bruce Ruddick drops in at their cooperative studio, visits the painter Paterson Ewen at his home and joins the crowd at L'Échouerie, the artists' rendezvous. Dr. Robert Hubbard, chief curator of the National Gallery of Canada, comments on non-objective art in general and automatism in particular |
| Analysis |
Québécois artists Montreal Québécois visual arts Automatistes, Les Automatism Abstract paintings Riopelle, Jean-Paul Borduas, Paul-Émile Culture Art criticism |
| Credits |
Director/script, Jean Palardy ; executive producer, Robert Anderson ; photography, Walter A. Sutton ; sound, E.C.H. Muir, John Locke ; editing, David Mayerovitch, Gwen Barnhill ; narrator, Bruce Ruddick ; producer/cast, Robert Anderson ; cast, Bruce Ruddick |
| Performer |
Narrator, Bruce Ruddick ; cast, Robert Anderson, Bruce Ruddick |
| Notes |
15-17 |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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In English |
| In |
National Film Board Screening Room |
| Subject |
Artists -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal
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Art, Abstract -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal
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Art, Abstract.
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Artists.
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Québec -- Montréal.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
National Film Board of Canada.
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