Bio

Over the years, I have been involved in groups such as PRIM Artists Center, G.I.V., Vidéographe, Coop Vidéo, V-Tape and institutions such as the Cinémathèque québécoise and the NFB. Currently a professor of documentary practices at UQAM School of Media, I am particularly interested in experimental forms of documentary cinema. I co-direct the Research Laboratory on Audiovisual Practices in Documentary at UQAM (Labdoc).

- Diane Poitras

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

Desire Lines (Video Compilation)

  • 2025
  • Various Artists

This is video compilation is part of the educational guide produced as part of Archive/Counter-Archive’s (A/CA) Case Study, Through Feminist Lenses: Video Works at Groupe Intervention Vidéo with Groupe Intervention Vidéo.

A woman with short hair in a black coat twirls on a snowy sidewalk near a Pharmaprix store.

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