Présentement à l’affiche à la Cinémathèque (Montréal, p.Q.) :
 

Deprogrammed
Mia Donovan, Canada, 2015, 86 min

 

Deprogrammed chronicles Ted ‘Black Lightning’ Patrick’s anti-cult crusade. His practice of ‘deprogramming’, also known as ‘reverse brainwashing’, started in the early 1970s and quickly snowballed into a vast underground movement composed of concerned parents, ex-cultist-turned-deprogrammers and some sympathetic law-enforcers whose mission was to physically and mentally remove individuals from ‘cults’.

My stepbrother Matthew’s love of heavy-metal-music, juvenile delinquent tendencies and fixation on the Satanic Bible led his father to hire Patrick to deprogram Matthew while confining him to a motel room for 8-days. In 2011, after 18-years of estrangement, I sought Matthew out and discovered that the deprogramming that he endured did more harm than good. This led me to a deeper inquiry into Ted Patrick’s pioneering technique, resulting in a 2-year journey to track down others who’d been deprogrammed. Through interviews and the never-before-seen archives of the actual deprogrammings of those individuals, the film will begin to unravel what it might mean to be in a high-control group under a form of ‘thought-control’, the line where free will begins to blur.

Along with extensive interviews with the now 84-year-old Father of deprogramming himself as he reflects on his career, news archives will also reveal the changing attitude that the public and law enforcement agencies developed towards Ted Patrick’s controversial approach to deprogramming. Looking back at the involuntary deprogramming era (1971 until around 1990) this documentary questions how much the practice was a result of moral panic and how much of it was in fact a matter of cultic mind-control?

 

eyesteelfilm.com/deprogrammed

 

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Marjoe (1972) by HOWARD SMITH & SARAH KERNOCHAN (October 24, 2012)
Deliver Us From Evil (2006) by AMY J. BERG (October 23, 2012)
Jesus Camp (2006) de HEIDI EWING & RACHEL GRADY (September 20, 2011)

N-Zone
Arthur Lipsett, Canada, 1970, 45 min

 

ARTHUR LIPSETT pieces together his visions of this fragmented world from odds and ends, even leftovers, from other people’s photography and sound recording. By juxtaposing his snippets of « found film » with snatches of comment or dialogue echoing the banality of human communication, LIPSETT shows the emptiness of much of what we say or do. N-Zone is one man’s surrealist sampler of the human condition.

 

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The Arthur Lipsett Project: A Dot on the Histomap (2007) by ERIC GAUCHER (March 15, 2012)
Images tirées du film N-Zone (1970) d’ARTHUR LIPSETT (July 9, 2011)
Remembering Arthur (2006) by MARTIN LAVUT (May 12, 2011)
A Trip Down Memory Lane (1965) &
Very Nice, Very Nice (1961) by ARTHUR LIPSETT (May 12, 2011)
21-87 (1964) by ARTHUR LIPSETT (January 31, 2011)
Free Fall (1964) d’ARTHUR LIPSETT (April 28, 2010)

Turning The Art World Inside Out
Jack Cocke, UK, 2013, 69 min

 

Alan Yentob travels the world to discover why so-called « Outsider Art » has gone from being one of the most overlooked art-forms of the late 20th century, to one of the most essential of the 21st century.

In this episode from the acclaimed BBC documentary strand « Imagine », Yentob travels from Japan’s Miho Mountains to Creative Growth in California, encountering self-taught artists like Shinichi Sawada, Ionel Talzapan, George Widener and William Scott, alongside Joe Coleman, Heinrich Reisenbauer, Dan Miller and Paul Laffoley.

There are contributions from some of the genre’s many activists and admirers, including Johann Feilacher (Gugging, Vienna), James Brett (The Museum of Everything, London), curators Massimiliano Gioni (New Museum, NY) and Ralph Rugoff (Hayward Gallery, London) and art critics Roberta Smith (New York Times) and Jerry Saltz (New York Magazine).

They are joined by gallerists Frank Maresca (Ricco Maresca, NY) and Henry Boxer (Henry Boxer Gallery, London) and pioneers John Maizels (Raw Vision, London) and Rebecca Hoffberger (American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore), who together try to assess the challenges posed by an alternative art historical narrative.

 

 

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Bozarts (1969) de JACQUES GIRALDEAU (June 20, 2013)
R.I.P., Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman (1997) by ROBERT-ADRIAN PEJO
(December 26, 2011)
MARCEL BARIL: figure énigmatique de l’art québécois (2002) (November 23, 2011)

Black Narcissus
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1947, 100 min

 

After opening a convent in the Himalayas, five nuns encounter conflict and tension – both with the natives and also within their own group – as they attempt to adapt to their remote, exotic surroundings.

 

Les relations ANGLO-FRANCO dans le cinéma québécois, dixième partie

 

Montréal New Wave
Érik Cimon, Canada, 2016, 90 min

 

Long métrage documentaire portant sur l’émergence du courant New Wave québécois de la fin des années 1970 au milieu des années 1980. Le film propose un voyage dans le temps en compagnie de ceux et celles qui ont donné naissance à la spécificité québécoise de ce mouvement culturel mondial, qu’ils aient été musiciens, performeurs, designers, peintres ou danseurs, tant du côté anglophone que francophone.

 

 

On y découvre l’esprit singulier, l’humour auto-dérisoire et l’originalité de ces artistes qui voulaient à tout prix se démarquer de ceux qui les avait précédés. MONTRÉAL NEW WAVE témoigne de l’effervescence remarquable de cette génération de créateurs qui ont su propulser le Québec sur la scène internationale, alors même que celui-ci était appelé à faire un choix déterminant sur son propre avenir en tant que société.

 

 

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Les relations ANGLO-FRANCO dans le cinéma québécois :

Between the Solitudes (1992) by ABBEY JACK NEIDIK (January 13, 2016)
La langue à terre (2013) de JEAN-PIERRE ROY & MICHEL BRETON (January 8, 2016)
Les États-Désunis du Canada (2012) de MICHEL BARBEAU, GUYLAINE MAROIST & ÉRIC RUEL (December 8, 2015)
Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis (1973) by ROBIN SPRY (May 1, 2015)
Le journal de madame Wollock (1979) de GILLES BLAIS (January 15, 2015)
Le sort de l’Amérique (1996) de JACQUES GODBOUT (January 16, 2015)
Speak White (1980) & Le temps des bouffons (1985) de PIERRE FALARDEAU et JULIEN POULIN (January 20, 2015)
Le mouton noir (1992) & Les héritiers du mouton noir (2003) de JACQUES GODBOUT (January 22, 2015)
Le confort et l’indifférence (1981) de DENYS ARCAND (January 26, 2015)
Le chat dans le sac (1964) de GILLES GROULX (April 7, 2014, à la toute fin de l’entrevue)
Québec Soft (1985) de JACQUES GODBOUT (June 24, 2011)
Mon oncle Antoine (1971) de CLAUDE JUTRA (December 24, 2010)
Les événements d’octobre 1970 (1974) de ROBIN SPRY (October 6, 2010)

 

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Identité culturelle, sept septembre MMXII, St-Henri, Montréal p.Q. (September 7, 2012)