L’éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It

Film Maker: Bourque, Louise
Year: 2005
Country: Canada
Language
Format: 35mm
Length: 8
Genre: Animation, documentary, experimental, hand-processed
Category: cameraless, Childhood, Families, found footage, Landscape, Mental Health, Politics + Policy, Portraits, Race + Ethnicity, Work about Women, Work by Women, Youth

The house that bursts; the scene of the crime; the nucleus. A universe collapses on itself: all hell breaks loose. “In my dream there’s a war going on. It’s Christmas time. I’m running and I’m carrying myself as a child. It’s dark in the tunnel and I’m heading towards the light, the daylight.” – Louise Bourque, from the film’s voice-over narration Selected Screenings & Awards: Editing Award, Cinematexas, Austin, TX, 2005; Director’s Citation, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ, 2006; Opening Night film, Media City Festival, Windsor, ON, 2006; Whitney Biennial, New York, NY, 2006; Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, 2006; International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2005; Impakt, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2005; European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, German, 2006; 48th Bilbao International Film Festival, Bilbao, Spain, 2006