Passiflora

Directed by Fernand Bélanger and Dagmar Teufel

Canada, 1986 (documentary / fiction, 85 minutes, colour, French)

Film Description:
"With the near simultaneous appearance in Montreal in the summer of 1984 of Michael Jackson and Pope John Paul II, something of a definitive note for a media and celebrity-stricken era was struck. [...] Abstract and impressionistic, Passiflora makes no claims to objective documentary reality. It uses history for political and didactic ends, and it does so with a creative energy and originality that distinguishes it as one of the preeminent experiments in documentary form of the past decade."
-- Festival of Festivals (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Produced by:	Jacques Vallée
Cinematography:	Serge Giguère
Film Editing:	Fernand Bélanger
Music:	René Lussier, Jean Derome, André Duchesne
Production Company:	Office national du film du Canada / National Film Board of Canada

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Notes about Passiflora

Filmed in Montreal.
Shown at the Festival of Festivals (Toronto) in 1986.

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Quote about Passiflora [in French]

"Dans Passiflora, on ne compile pas des discours ou des opinions comme c'est la tâche du docu-reportage traditionnel. C'est l'acte de parole qui est à l'honneur, geste coercitif ou geste de révolte; exercice d'un pouvoir ou délimitation d'un espace de liberté. Le cinéma est un moyen privilégié pour rendre ces actes, et Passiflora ne s'en prive pas."
-- Marion Froger (source)

Bibliography for Passiflora

Book Chapters

Froger, Marion. "La textualité dans le cinéma d'essai documentaire québécois." In Cinéma et littérature au Québec : rencontres médiatiques, edited by Michel Larouche, 109-129. Montréal: XYZ éditeur, 2003. [in French]

Brief Sections of Books

Waugh, Thomas. The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. (pp. 148-154)