Mouche à feu
This recurring program showcases works from Québec’s audiovisual heritage, digitized and restored by the Cinémathèque québécoise, or thanks to its contribution. Since 2018, we have restored around fifty independent films thanks to the support of the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec as part of its Digital Cultural Plan. Other works have been restored in collaboration with local or international cultural organisations, using elements preserved in our collections.
A vivid and authentic portrait of Kenneth Wallingford, a Métis country singer from Maniwaki.
Presented in collaboration with
Richard Desjardins, Robert Monderie
Richard Desjardins is a Québécois singer-songwriter and filmmaker born in Rouyn-Noranda, as is director, researcher, and screenwriter Robert Monderie. They first teamed up in 1977 for their debut documentary, Comme des chiens en pacage, an unflinching portrait of Rouyn as the city celebrated its 50th anniversary. They then filmed Mouche à feu in 1982, about the wanderings of a Métis musician recently released from prison. They followed this up in 1999 with their first feature-length film, L’erreur boréale. Monderie directed La loi de l’eau on his own in 2001: he sounded the alarm over a resource widely believed to be inexhaustible but threatened by private exploitation. Narrated by Julien Poulin, this film was written in collaboration with Desjardins, as were Le peuple invisible (2007), which exposes the plight of the Algonquin people, stripped of their lands and cut off from their culture, and Trou story (2011), which denounces the “shameless” exploitation of the region’s mineral resources by mining companies.
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This restoration is part of the implementation of a measure in Quebec's Digital Cultural Plan.
