SPECIAL OFF SITE PRESENTATION
PLEASE NOTE! All films in the DOCUMENTARIES OF THE 21st CENTURY IN QUEBEC series will be screened at the Salle Martial-Caron at the College universitaire de Saint-Boniface, 200 De Cathedrale Ave.
* Admission is free and all are welcome
L'ATELIER DE MON PERE
Dir. Jennifer Alleyn | 2008 | 72 mins. | French with English subtitles
Who was the man I called father? A painter, an artist, a secretive soul.
Jennifer Alleyn has been immersed in the visual art world all her life, being the daughter of the versatile and famous artist Edmund Alleyn who marked Canadian Art history at a time when it was in complete transformation, particularly between the 1950s and 1970s. When he passed away in 2004, Jennifer inherited her father’s studio on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in Montreal, still impregnated with his creative soul and containing a great number of his important works. In L’Atelier de mon père (My Father’s Studio), incorporating elements from the only filmed interview she ever managed to do with her camera-shy father, she brilliantly brings back to life his genius, his innovative spirit and his unique integrity as an artist. There is also an autobiographical side to this since, through Alleyn’s immersion in her father’s life, she reveals quite a bit of herself.
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