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La raison avant la passion -- Film Description:
"[Reason over Passion is] a feature-length avant-garde film which brackets a section of treated and rephotographed footage of Pierre Elliott Trudeau at the 1968 Liberal convention with a series of hand-held tracking shots of the Canadian landscape from coast to coast, punctuated throughout by electronic beeps on the soundtrack and overlaid with multiple anagrams of the words 'reason over passion' (Trudeau's famous phrase) as superimposed subtitles."
-- Kay Armatage


Source:
Armatage, Kay. "Joyce Wieland, Feminist Documentary, and the Body of the Work." Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 13, no. 1-2 (1989). (p. 93)