MY FAMILY IN 17 TAKES

Claudie Lévesque

Subjects: Family

Directed by

Claudie Lévesque

Language

French

Produced by

Claudie Lévesque

27 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2011

The youngest of 17 children, the filmmaker presents us with an intimate family portrait in 17 rolls of Super 8.

Synopsis

The youngest of 17 children, the filmmaker presents us with an intimate family portrait in 17 rolls of Super 8. Through original films and carefully constructed archives, the members of one family recount the events surrounding the death of the oldest brother and share their beliefs on life after death, into which is woven a parallel experience just as haunting to the director.

 

 

Credits
Screenplay and direction : Claudie Lévesque
Image : Nicolas Canniccioni

Editing : Pascale Paroissien

Production : Claudie Lévesque

 

Financial partners

Conseil des Arts et des lettres du Québec

Conseil des Arts du Canada

ONF – Aide au Cinéma Indépendant

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Direction

Claudie Lévesque

Claudie Lévesque obtained her B.A. in Film Production from Concordia University in 1991. For more than ten years, she has worked in film and video as an artist and cultural worker at artist run centers - Les Films de l’Autre and Main Film. Her works have been presented in several festivals and special events. Since 2003, she participates in the Montreal Super 8 Festival as well as other collective creations where she directs several shorts, namely The Rise and fall of a long distance relationship (2008), Les souliers de Dorothée (2006) and Magie Blanche, winner of the Kodak Prize for best technique at the 2nd Montréal Super 8 Festival in 2004. My family in 17 takes (2011) is her first experimental documentary.

  Filmography   Magie Blanche (2004) The Rise and fall of a long distance relationship (2008) Les souliers de Dorothée (2006) My family in 17 takes (2011)