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Krieghoff or the studio of a popular artist
Quebec, 2006, 51 minutes 15 seconds. A film co-writen and directed and edited by Jean Roy. A Eurêka! production.
Cornelius Krieghoff painted Canada for thirty years. He was particularly interested in first nations people and the rural French Canadians. His work is trailblazing. It is also the most sought-after, always breaking sales records for Canadian paintings.
But can we rely on the image he presents of the men and women who built this country?
The ethnological value of his work constitutes the fundamental framework of this film which presents the most complete synthesis of the research on the life and work of this painter who is impossible to avoid in the art history of Quebec and of Canada.
The most eminent researchers who had turned their attention to the work of this pioneer of Canadian painting were quite willing to participate in this film. In the same way, the largest museums in Quebec and in the rest of Canada (the McCord Museum of Canadian History, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts), lent their support and their works. The most important private collections in the country (Thomson, Beaverbrook and the Power Corporation) also collaborated for this film.
We are proud to present this important work which showcases more than 100 of the master's most renowned paintings. The production was filmed in the actual locations where the painter worked and lived, as far away as Bavaria where he lived during his childhood. This fact is not simply anecdotal, since up to the present day, no one ever filmed his childhood environment.
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| Intérieur canadien, 1850. | Village en hiver, 1850. |
Jean Roy has been involved in the milieu of documentaries in Quebec for over ten years. During the last seven years, he directed over 70 one-hour documentaries broadcast by Télé-Québec, Historia or Canal D. His large scale historical series – The 30 Days that Made Quebec and 100 Québécois Who Made the Twentieth Century – captured the public's attention and continue to serve research and education thanks to their widespread distribution in learning institutions and public libraries.
Following his film studies at the Laval University and the University of Montreal, Jean Roy worked as an editor for different Montreal producers for ten years before taking the leap to establish himself as a director.
Krieghoff or the studio of a popular artist is the fruit of four years of work by Eureka!, the independent production company he co-founded.
This title is available in DVD at the low cost of 24,99$.
Guests
 Guy Sioui-Durand, Art commissioner. |
 François-Marc Gagnon, Art Historian, Concordia University, Montreal. |
 Laurier Lacroix, Art Historian, University of Québec in Montreal. |
 Dennis Reid, Chief Curator, Art Gallery of Ontario. |
 Raymond Vézina, Historian, University of Quebec in Montreal. |
The Poster
illustration: Alain Daigle
Credits
produced by
From an original idea by
Jean Roy
Director
Jean Roy
Scriptwriters
Marie-Pierre Sirois
Jean Roy
Cast
| Cornelius Krieghoff | Pierre Taschereau |
McCord Museum Exhibition
Visitors
| Jeanne d’Arc Beaudry | Louise Lehoux | |
| Michel Bilodeau | Suzanne Morin | |
| France Choquette | Mélissa Panneton | |
| Alain Daigle | Alain Rondeau | |
| Valérie Duchesne | Benoît Roy | |
| Marie-Andrée Geoffroy | Marie-Pierre Sirois | |
| Christine Gribbin | Ariane Tétrault | |
| Mendes Jerson | Pierre Taschereau | |
| Nike Langevin | Stéphane Tremblay | |
| Thérèse Legendre | Isabelle Vaillancourt |
Montreal Society of Artists Exhibition
Ghislain Binette
Geneviève Bougie
Geneviève Choquette
Gilbert Delambre
Muriel Frenois
Huguette Giroux
Luc Giroux
Raymond Leriche
Kenny Brown
An Officer’s Room Exhibit
| The Officer | Kenny Brown |
Picnic
Madeleine Bolduc
Marc Bolduc
Fernand Choquette
Marie-Claude Choquette
Denyse Rondeau
McCord Museum Hall of Archives
| Archiviste | Nora Hague | |
| Chercheur | Jean Roy |
Ice Cone, Montmorency Falls
Claudèle Bolduc
Ève-Marie Deblois
Dominic Bourdeau
Maverick Bourdeau
Ralph Bourdeau
Éric Dallaire
Annie Gagnon
Painter and Copyist
Alexis Arts
Drawer
Daniel Rainville
Specialized Graphics
Normand Tessier
Wardrobe, Set Decorator And Makeup
Raymond Leriche
Guests
Guy Sioui-Durand
François-Marc Gagnon
Laurier Lacroix
Dennis Reid
Raymond Vézina
Research and Documentation
Geneviève Bougie
Marie-Pierre Sirois
Research for Interviews
Josée Leclerc
Visual Research
Geneviève Bougie
Jean Roy
Michelle Houle
Narrator
Liz MacRae
Second Narrator And Versionning
Sven Eriksson
Director of Photography
Joël Provencher
Cameraman (Germany)
Heinz-Albert Staubitz
Camera Assistants
Mylène Girard
Pascal Alain
Martin Gravel
Sound Recordings
Guy Boutin
Christine Lebel
Georges Sheehy
Grip
Geoffroy Coderre
Production Assistant
Catherine Lavoie
Editor
Jean Roy
Art and Scene Digitizer
Marie-Ève Proulx
Sound Postproduction
Les Productions S.M.J.F. inc.
Sound Editing and Mixing
Michel Marier
Jean-François Roy
Original Score
Jérôme Langlois
Production Managers
Kenny Brown
Isabelle Vaillancourt
Translation
Lorenzo Orzari
Revision
Kathleen Fee
Owners of Work of Art
Art Gallery of Ontario
Bibliothèque et archives Canada – dont
la Collection Peter Winkworth
Collection Power Corporation du Canada
Gallerie Kastel, Montréal
Glenbow Museum–Calgary
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal
Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada
Musée McCord d’histoire canadienne
Musée National des beaux-arts du Québec
New York Public Library / Art Resource, NY
Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY
Royal Ontario Museum
The Thomson Collection
Archival Material
Archives Nationales du Québec à Québec
Bibliothèque et archives Canada –
collections Robert-Lisle et Sir Wilfrid-Laurier
The Gazette
Musée canadien des civilisations
Office néerlandais du tourisme
La Presse
Sotheby’s
Städarchiv Schweinfurt
La Tribune
Raymond Vézina
Special Thanks and Acknowledgements
France Choquette
Jérôme Langlois
Mariette Pepin et Jean-François Roy
Raymond Vézina
Claude Godbout
Hugues Tremblay
Stéphane Tremblay
Alain Rondeau
Alain Tessier
Other Thanks and Acknowledgements
| Artv | Jacinthe Brisebois | |
| Bibliothèque municipale de Schweinfurt | Bernhard Strobl | |
| Bureau du film de Québec | Isabelle Drouin | |
| Café Krieghoff | Claude Bourbonnais | |
| Chutes de Saint-Henri | Olivette Parent-Couture | |
| Chutes de Lorette | Sœur Françoise Hébert Les Ursulines de Québec | |
| Chutes Montmorency | Jean Laurin | |
| Canyon Sainte-Anne | Hélène McNicoll | |
| Club de golf Montmorency | Michel Boily | |
| Commission des champs de bataille nationaux | Anne Chouinard | |
| La Fondation maçonnique du Québec | Peter J. Snickars | |
| Maison Krieghoff | Esther Greaves | |
| Mont Sainte-Anne | Maude Bédard | |
| Musée McCord | Suzanne Morin Nike Langevin Stéphanie Poisson | |
| Musée Canadien des civilisations | Rachel Duplesea | |
| Propriété de St-Basile-le-Grand | Paule Leblanc | |
| Propriété de St-Amable | Philippe Gemme | |
| Propriétaire du cheval | Lucky Luc enr. |
Administrative Assistant
Ghislain Binette
Production Accountant
Kenny Brown
producers
France Choquette
Jean Roy
© 2006
Copyright Eurêka! Productions
