Clairtone
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 screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and choreographer Mairéad Filgate.
Acclaimed director Ron Mann delves into the captivating rise and fall of Clairtone, an audacious Canadian electronics company founded by Peter Munk and David Gilmour during the vibrant 1960s. Renowned for their high-end stereos and color televisions that epitomized iconic mid-century design, Clairtone soared to international acclaim, becoming a symbol of Canadian ingenuity and modernity. However, within seven years of its meteoric rise, Clairtone Sound Corporation was no more. Narrated by Nina Munk, Peter’s daughter, Clairtone chronicles the highs and the lows of one of Canada’s most unsung innovations and innovators: the one-of-a-kind stereos and the immigrant father who made them.
Ron Mann
Ronald Mann is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. He began making films at a young age, creating Super 8 films in the 1970s, and producing short films while in high school. He did not attend film school; instead, he learned filmmaking firsthand, and using his own funds. His notable works include Imagine the Sound (1981), Comic Book Confidential (1988), as well as Grass (1999), and Go Further (2003), both featuring Woody Harrelson. He also directed In the Wake of the Flood (2010), featuring author Margaret Atwood, and Altman (2014), a documentary on the life and career of film director Robert Altman. Mann has served as a mentor to and worked with many filmmakers from the Toronto New Wave of the 1980s, including Atom Egoyan, Bruce McDonald, Jeremy Podeswa, and Peter Mettler.
