Jacques Drouin Movies

Far from home and cut off from family and friends, Montreal’s Indigenous homeless population is the focus of No Address. Dreams of a better...

A late-spring coastal sequence documenting seal hunting and processing on the sea ice.

A late-spring sequence documenting domestic life, craft production, and a coordinated seal hunt on the sea ice.

Beginning with Noam Chomsky's response to a college student who role-plays "Jane U.S.A."--someone who naively believes she lives in a democratic...

Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A crime story of a stolen car told out of narrative order,...

A summer river sequence documenting stone-weir fishing, communal labor, and domestic life.

Animation by Jacques Drouin.

A summer sequence documenting the communal construction of a kayak and associated domestic and subsistence practices.

This short animated film follows Antoine, a young boy fascinated by his mysterious neighbour, a man rumoured to have once been a big game hunter....

This short documentary zooms in on Churchill, Manitoba, on the western curve of Hudson Bay. The town boomed for a while after it became the railhead...

This video focuses primarily on the implications of the structure and format of television, especially the consequences of concision, and how these...

An animated film created from pastel drawings by Clorinda Warny, Premiers Jours traces the complete cycle of life, from birth to adulthood, in four...

Experimental short piece by Jacques Drouin

Jacques Drouin's artistic trajectory is closely tied to the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen. No other filmmaker has employed the device with such...

Animated short film made in three parts on the pin screen by Alexeieff-Parker. With these three exercises, director Jacques Drouin experiments with...

This feature-length documentary paints a lively portrait of Father of Confederation and first premier of Newfoundland Joseph Roberts Smallwood, or...

Student film directed by Jacques Drouin.

The dramatic story of two youths--one French and one Indigenous--who share a pivotal time in Canada's history: the first contact between European and...

Alexander Alekseev, Alyosha, Alfeoni ... artist, animator, inventor. The author of "Night on Bald Mountain" — one of the most mysterious films...