Dialogues pour un homme seul
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.
In a small, strangely empty theatre, author-composer-singer Edgar Bori fills the space with his presence, his poetry, and his gentle spirit. In this production with minimal staging, we follow Bori, as if he were in author residency, across the different stages of his career: reflections, creation, reading texts, meetings at cafes, work in the studio and on stage. Poetic speech, timeless melodies, the words of the author-composer blend with those of dramaturge Michel Garneau who, from time to time, lends his powerful voice charged with meaning. And so, we are transported into a teeming and enchanting universe where imagination comes out victorious, over the course of Dialogues pour un homme seul. Alone but not completely. Appearing and disappearing at his side are his musical accomplice Jean-François Groulx and his muse Josianne Paradis.
Jean-Pierre Gariépy
He studied music at the Vincent d'Indy School, then architecture and photography in Brest, France, before working as a photographer from 1976 to 1986. He then took film courses at Concordia University (1980-1983) and helped found the Dazibao gallery (1980) and the Main Film production cooperative (1982). He signed three videotapes before winning a screenwriting competition organized by the NFB, which allowed him to direct his first feature film. It was SOUS LES DRAPS, LES ÉTOILES. He then directed two television films that he did not script: LE VIOLON D'ARTHUR (1991) and SI BELLES (1994). After working on the television program Clip'Art, Gariépy directed two documentaries at the NFB: IMPRESSIONS SUR LA LIBERTÉ (1996), a reflection on the passage of three young Quebecers to Belarus, and LE PONT DE L'EXIL (1997), which presents the journey of four exiles. From 1999 to 2005, he worked as a programming advisor at the NFB and then returned to directing.
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Photo : Maxence Bilodeau
