The Lost Tapes du Hip-Hop au Québec
The recurrent cycle Noir.e.s à la caméra allows us to discover works directed or produced by African or Afrodescendant filmmakers throughout the history of cinema.
This animated film by Martine Chartrand (Black Soul) recounts the friendship between a young Félix Leclerc and Frank Randolph Macpherson, a Jamaican chemical engineer and university graduate who worked for a pulp and paper company. An inveterate jazz fan, Macpherson inspired Leclerc, who wrote a song about the log drives and entitled it “MacPherson” in honour of his friend. Paint-on-glass animation shot with a 35mm camera. (NFB)
Martine Chartrand
Martine Chartrand is a Haitian Canadian filmmaker, visual artist and teacher. She practices a paint-on-glass animation technique to create her films. Throughout Chartrand's career, she has been involved with numerous films and has made three animated shorts which have been exhibited across Canada and internationally. Wikipedia
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Archival footage found from a music video shot by Will Prosper from 2004 to 2007 feeds this feature film that takes stock of the state of hip-hop in Quebec.
Will Prosper
Will Prosper, whose real name is Wiel Prosper, is a Quebec filmmaker, social worker, and anti-racist and civil rights activist, co-founder of Républik Montréal-Nord and Hoodstock. He is a columnist for HuffPost and La Presse and a Quebec correspondent for the Haitian magazine Challenges. Wikipédia
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