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Albedo
198254 minFilm: Fiction, Documentary
Direction: Jacques LeducRenée Roy
Production: Jacques Bobet
Based on the journals and photographs of the late David Marvin of Montréal, Albedo chronicles the life of a photographer who, tormented by deafness and the hardships of living, killed himself in 1975. Surrealistic in style, the film parallels Marvin's life with that of a dying Montréal neighbourhood, Griffintown, which he faithfully documented. With English subtitles.
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Subject categories
- People with disabilities > Artists with DisabilitiesHearing impairedPortraits
- Urbanism > Montreal and NeighbourhoodsPoetic ImpressionsQuébec
- Visual Arts > PhotographyQuébec
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Suicide
- Health/Personal Development > Bullying & Discrimination
- Civics/Citizenship > Human Rights
- History and Citizenship Education > Modernization of Quebec Society (1929-1980)
- Geography > Territory: Urban
Credits
- director
- Jacques Leduc
- Renée Roy
- producer
- Jacques Bobet
- camera
- Jean-Pierre Lachapelle
- Pierre Letarte
- Jacques Tougas
- sound
- Yves Gendron
- editing
- Pierre Bernier
- Suzanne Bouilly
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- music
- René Lussier
- Jean Derome
- Pierre St-Jacques
- Ti-Lou Babin
- cast
- Paule Baillargeon
- David Chagnon
- Pierre Foglia
- Luce Guilbeault
- Jean-Pierre Saulnier