Directing

Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre

Murdochville, Quebec, Canada

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Jutra poster
NR

Through the magic of editing and animation, Claude Jutra is seen in dialogue with himself at various stages of his life – becoming the spirited narrator of his own biography. Excerpts from family films, interviews, and clips from some of Jutra's well-known works are seamlessly intertwined with these sequences, forming a portrait of a man whose life was devoted to creativity. Jutra is simultaneously a homage, a love letter to cinema, and the dramatic story of a brilliant artist whose life was all-too-short.

Jutra

2014

Jutra poster
NR

Through the magic of editing and animation, Claude Jutra is seen in dialogue with himself at various stages of his life – becoming the spirited narrator of his own biography. Excerpts from family films, interviews, and clips from some of Jutra's well-known works are seamlessly intertwined with these sequences, forming a portrait of a man whose life was devoted to creativity. Jutra is simultaneously a homage, a love letter to cinema, and the dramatic story of a brilliant artist whose life was all-too-short.

Jutra

2014

Femelles poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Femelles

2012

Femelles poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Femelles

2012

Femelles poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Femelles

2012

Post-Partum poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Post-Partum

2004

Post-Partum poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Post-Partum

2004

Passages poster
NR

Animated short film recounting the first childbirth of director Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre. The filmmaker discovered with great emotion that she was pregnant with her first child. She was waiting with all her love for this little angel, far from suspecting that her childbirth would be a real nightmare, would turn into a tragedy and that she and her baby would find themselves on the verge of death...

Passages

2008

Passages poster
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Animated short film recounting the first childbirth of director Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre. The filmmaker discovered with great emotion that she was pregnant with her first child. She was waiting with all her love for this little angel, far from suspecting that her childbirth would be a real nightmare, would turn into a tragedy and that she and her baby would find themselves on the verge of death...

Passages

2008

Passages poster
NR

Animated short film recounting the first childbirth of director Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre. The filmmaker discovered with great emotion that she was pregnant with her first child. She was waiting with all her love for this little angel, far from suspecting that her childbirth would be a real nightmare, would turn into a tragedy and that she and her baby would find themselves on the verge of death...

Passages

2008

Flocons poster
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This short animation was created using tests created in the production of A Chairy Tale (1957) by master of animation Norman McLaren. Flocons is set to the music of Tchaikovsky and features none other than Canadian filmmaker Claude Jutra, who plays a character imprisoned in the celluloid on which McLaren paints directly. Flocons aims to celebrate the 100th anniversary, in 2014, of Norman McLaren’s birth.

Flocons

2014

McLaren's Negatives poster
NR

An intimate look at cinematographic creation, this visual essay shares with us secrets of the legendary Canadian animator Norman Mclaren and his personal view of filmmaking.

McLaren's Negatives

2006

McLaren's Negatives poster
NR

An intimate look at cinematographic creation, this visual essay shares with us secrets of the legendary Canadian animator Norman Mclaren and his personal view of filmmaking.

McLaren's Negatives

2006

McLaren's Negatives poster
NR

An intimate look at cinematographic creation, this visual essay shares with us secrets of the legendary Canadian animator Norman Mclaren and his personal view of filmmaking.

McLaren's Negatives

2006

Oscar poster
6.0

Brilliantly mixing animated sequences and archival footage, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre paints a touching portrait of virtuoso pianist Oscar Peterson.

Oscar

2016

Oscar poster
6.0

Brilliantly mixing animated sequences and archival footage, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre paints a touching portrait of virtuoso pianist Oscar Peterson.

Oscar

2016

La théorie Lauzon poster
NR

An exploratory film on Jean-Claude Lauzon, the mythical black sheep of Quebec cinema, taking us on an extraordinary yet psychoanalytical journey retelling the relationship between a father and son. Using archival footage, animation, historical figures who populate his imagination, and clips from his films, an enigmatic, warm portrait of the man is created.

La théorie Lauzon

2022

Le Projet Sapporo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Projet Sapporo

2010

Le Projet Sapporo poster
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Le Projet Sapporo

2010