Bio

Diane Poitras works in film and video. Poitras is co-founder of Les Productions de l'Impatiente with Ian Boyd. Her film works have been presented at the Cinémathèque Québécoise in a retrospective designed to highlight her contribution to the independent film and video scene in Quebec. Award: ""Pense à ton désir"" won best video at the Atlantic Film and Video Festival.

Works

When Silence Descends

  • 1995
  • Diane Poitras

A moment in the lives of two people in a hospital room. One of them, an elderly woman, is dying. The other, a much younger man, is watching over her.

Lorsque cesse le vacarme

Comptines

  • 1986
  • Diane Poitras

Un jour, à Belfast, en apprenant la mort d'un prisonnier, des femmes en colère se sont réunies sur la place. Et là, un couvercle de poubelle à la main, elles ont martelé le sol pour souligner le triste courage de ce neuvième gréviste de la faim à mourir en silence.

Comptines

Make A Wish ( Pense à ton désir )

  • 1984
  • Diane Poitras

In this fiction 2 women talk about their lives and different issues that come with aging...

Pense à ton désir