Jacques Dufresne – Les nouveaux cinémas
The exhibition Jacques Dufresne – Les nouveaux cinémas highlights the Festival du nouveau cinéma through photographs taken by Jacques Dufresne from 1980 to 2000. A photographer assigned to the festival for several years, Jacques Dufresne captured the essence of the event through his portraits of both local and international filmmakers. This selection of photographs will allow you to discover the spirit of this essential Montreal festival, founded in 1971 and, to everyone’s pleasure, still going strong today.
Header: Jacques Dufresne, 1987 | photo: Robert Kramer, Collections de la Cinémathèque québécoise
Detail of a portrait of Bruce LaBruce by Jacques Dufresne, 2000
The exhibition is produced in collaboration with
Jacques Dufresne
A freelance photographer with a passion for travel, Jacques Dufresne has had a prolific career. In his early days, he worked for the Quebec City newspaper L'Action. His first assignment was to photograph filmmaker Louis Malle at Château Frontenac, an encounter that was to prove decisive for the rest of his career. In the early '70s, he took part in the group exhibition “Anthologie de la photographie Québécoise” at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and over time his work was presented in several solo exhibitions, notably in Montreal, New York (New York Films Academy), Mexico and Thessalonica. At the same time, he contributes to various magazines and journals, including OVO, 24 images, Cahiers du cinéma, Libération, Voir and Mirror. His career has also been marked by his contribution to various advertising campaigns and the creation of several cinema posters. In particular, he worked with poster artist Benjamin Baltimore. The Cinémathèque française owns several of his photographs. In 1983, he became the official photographer for the Festival du nouveau cinéma, immortalizing many of the faces of contemporary cinema. The current exhibition presents only a selection of his work for the FNC.
