A Museum in the City

201152 min 3 secFilm: Documentary

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Direction: Luc Bourdon

Production: Colette Loumède (National Film Board of Canada)Luc ChâtelainLucie MarionLuce Roy (Echo Media)

Script: Luc Bourdon

Produced by Echo Media in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

In the documentary A Museum in the City, Luc Bourdon invites us to visit the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA). This exploration takes us behind the scenes at the institution and looks back over its 150-year history. In gallery after gallery, the director gradually discovers the soul of the place, a soul that does not reside in the artworks alone. In addition to curators, educators, artisans, and the institution’s visionary director, Nathalie Bondil, we meet the dynamic and dedicated team of volunteers, patrons and other art lovers without whom the Museum would not exist.

 

A film about a museum has to be a film about art. Luc Bourdon chose to make a film about the art of bringing a museum to life.

Subject categories


  • Arts > Art Galleries and Museums
  • Indigenous Studies > Arts
  • Geography > Territory: Urban
  • Arts Education > Visual Arts

Credits


writer
Luc Bourdon
director
Luc Bourdon
research
Hélène Legault
assistant director
Hélène Legault
visual archives research
Nancy Marcotte
director of photography
Bernard Fougères
director of photography - assistant
Marie-Andrée Pâquet
additional camera
François Beauchemin
location sound
Richard Lavoie
additional location sound
Marcel Chouinard
Marcel Fraser
production assistant
Toma Parent
trainee
Diana Goudrouffe
technical direction
Francis Youri
editing
Michel Giroux
Vincent Guignard
graphic design
Paul Martin
technical support - editing
Danielle Raymond
Isabelle Painchaud
Pierre Dupont
online editing
Denis Pilon
Yannick Carrier
titles
Gaspard Gaudreau
musical composition
Michel F. Côté
musical composition performer
Michel F. Côté
Ellwood Epps
Guillaume Dostaller
Pierre-Yves Martel
recording studio
Studio 270
special collaboration
Mathieu Gaudet
sound design
Michel Gauvin
dialogue editing
Marie-Ève Livernoche
translation
Centre national de sous-titrage
subtitles
Centre national de sous-titrage
sound effects editing
Bruno Ouellette
Michel Gauvin
muse
Joëlle Tétreault
re-recording
Martin Messier
production manager
Luce Roy
post-production manager
Luce Roy
assistant to the producer
Margaux Delattre
Ginette Joly
Annick Jutras
production accountant
Lise Pruneau
production accountant - assistant
Donia Arzouni
Jocelyne Bragdon
Marie-Soleil Parent-Letendre
legal counsel
Vanessa Loubineau
contract manager
Sylvie Poulin
marketing manager
François Jacques
marketing manager - assistance
Émilie Nguyen Ngoc
Geneviève Bérard
administrator
Johanne Dubuc
production coordinator
Hélène Regimbal
Dominique Brunet
administrative assistant
Lise Lévesque
technical coordinator
Richard Cliche
Daniel Pellerin
associate producer
Maryse Chapdelaine
Mélanie Lasnier
documentary photography
Bernard Fougères
rights clearances
Michèle Houle
producer
Colette Loumède
Luce Roy
executive producer
Luc Châtelain
Lucie Marion