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Jacques Giraldeau (1927-2015) was a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Quebec. He spent most of his career at the National Film Board of Canada and became known primarily for his films about the history of Quebec as seen through the eyes of its artists. He had a fondness for the avant-garde and many of his films are considered to be experimental.




Biography


Giraldeau was born and raised in Montreal, and studied sociology and philosophy at the Université de Montréal where, with Jacques Parent, he co-founded Quebec's first film club. He also co-founded the Student Film Commission, acted as editor of the magazine Découpages and contributed film criticism to the newspaper Le Front Ouvrier.
Upon graduation, Giraldeau moved to Ottawa and joined the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), where he became friends with Michel Brault. In 1953, he left the NFB and set up his own company, Studio 7, through which he produced programming for Radio-Canada (CBC Quebec), including the 39-episode series for young people, Petites Médisances, which he and Brault created in the Direct Cinema style—Giraldeau called it "image journalism". In 1962, he returned to the NFB and remained there until his retirement in 1995, returning in 2007 for an NFB co-production, The Fleeting Shadow of Things, which is one of his best-known films.
With Guy L. Coté, and others, Giraldeau co-founded the Association of Quebec Directors and, in 1964, the Museum of Canadian Cinema, aka "Cinémathèque Canadienne", which would become the Cinémathèque Québécoise. Also in 1964, Giraldeau organized North America's first international symposium on sculpture; the Montreal event became his award-winning film The Shape of Things.
At the 1995 International Festival of Films on Art, a formal tribute was paid to Giraldeau. It was also the occasion of the NFB's release of many of Giraldeau's films in a VHS compilation; an expanded, 13-DVD compilation was released in 2009.
In 1996, Giraldeau was awarded the Prix Albert-Tessier, the lifetime achievement award in cinema from the Quebec government's Prix du Québec.
In 2000, the Canada Council awarded him the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts




Filmography


National Film Board of Canada

La neige a neigé - documentary short 1951 - director, co-editor with Douglas Tunstell
Monastery - documentary short, Roger Blais 1951 - writer, French script
The Puppeteers - documentary short 1952 - director
Eye Witness No. 48: Modes by Mail, Sentinel in the Gulf, School for Test Pilots 1953 - co-cinematographer with Gordon Burwash, Jean Roy, Grant McLean and John Foster
The Gold Seekers (La soif d’or) - documentary short, Robert Russell 1962 - co-cinematographer with Gilles Gascon and Jim Wilson
La soif d’or - documentary short, 1962 - directed the French version of The Gold Seekers
Le vieil âge - documentary short 1962 - director
Lonely Boy - documentary short, Roman Kroitor and Wolf Koenig 1962 - narrator (French)
Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 3: The City and Its Region - documentary short 1963 - co-cinematographer and co-director with 8 others
Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 4: The Heart of the City - documentary short 1963 - co-cinematographer and co-director with 15 others
Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 5: The City as Man’s Home - documentary short 1963 - co-cinematographer and co-director with 6 others
Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 6: The City as Man’s Home - documentary short 1963 - co-cinematographer and co-director with 13 others
Down Through the Years - documentary short 1964 - writer, director
Le diable est dans la ferme - short film, Hubert Fielden 1964 - co-producer with Jacques Bobet
The Shape of Things - documentary short 1965 - writer, director, co-editor with Marc Beaudet
Give Me a Hand - short film 1965 - editor, director
Element 3 - documentary 1966 - writer, director
Gros-Morne - documentary 1967 - director
Les fleurs c'est pour Rosemont - documentary 1969 - director
We Are All... Picasso! - documentary 1969 - director
Faut-il se couper l'oreille? - documentary short 1970 - director
Zoopsie - experimental short 1973 - writer, editor, animator, producer, director
La fougère et la rouille ou Collage 2 - documentary 1974 - director
Puzzle - animated short 1976, writer, animator, director
La Toile d'araignée - documentary feature 1979 - photography, graphics, writer, director, co-cinematographer with Thomas Vámos and Pierre Mignot, co-producer with Marc Beaudet
A Québécois Rediscovered: Joseph Légaré 1795-1855 - Raymond Brousseau 1980 - producer
Opéra zéro - animated short 1984 - animator, director
Moving Picture - short film 1988 - writer, director
Le Tableau noir - documentary feature 1989 - director
La Toile blanche - documentary feature 1989 - director
The Irises - animated short 1991 - co-director with Suzanne Gervais
Les amoureux de Montréal - documentary feature 1992 - writer, cinematographer, director
Blanc de mémoire - documentary feature 1995 - director
The Fleeting Shadow of Things - documentary feature 2007 - writer, cinematographer, director, co-producer with Yves Bisaillon
Studio 7

Petites Médisances - TV series, 39 episodes, 1954-1955 - producer and director
Les Bateaux de Neige - TV film 1956 - director
En Roulant Ma Boule - short film 1956 - cinematographer, director
Viendra le Jour - short film 1957 - producer, director




Awards


Les Bateaux de neige (1956)
12th Canadian Film Awards, Toronto: Best Film, Arts and Experimental, 1960
The Shape of Things (1965)
Festival of Cultural Films, La Felguera: Silver Panera – Best Documentary Film, 1966
Element 3 (1966)
Electronic, Nuclear and Teleradio Cinematographic Review, Rome: Grand Prize for Cinematographic Technique 1967
Salerno Film Festival, Salerno: First Prize – Trophy of the Festival, 1970
We Are All... Picasso! (1969)
Venice Film Festival, Venice: Bronze Medal, Films on Art, 1970
National Festival of Films about Art, National Museum in Kielce Poland, Second Prize, 1972
Moving Picture (1988)
International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, Montreal: Gutenberg Award, First Prize, 1988
The Irises (1991)
Montreal World Film Festival, Montreal: Jury Award, Short Films, 1991
Blanc de mémoire (1995)
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto: Best Direction, 1996




References






External links


Jacques Giraldeau at IMDb

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