Jean-Claude Labrecque
Born: 1938-06-19 in Québec City, Québec, Canada
Died: 2019-05-31
Known For: Directing
Biography
Jean-Claude Labrecque, CM CQ (June 19, 1938 – May 31, 2019) was a director and cinematographer who learned the basics of filmmaking at the National Film Board of Canada. Jean-Claude Labrecque was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and trained as a camera assistant at the NFB. As a cinematographer, he shot many of the early key films of Claude Jutra (À tout prendre), Michel Brault (Entre la mer et l’eau douce), Gilles Carle (La vie heureuse de Léopold Z), Gilles Groulx (Le Chat dans le sac) and Don Owen (Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail, The Ernie Game). He turned to directing in 1965 with 60 Cycles, about a long-distance bike race on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River, which has been described as a virtual encyclopedia of camera techniques. It won 22 international awards and was nominated for a BAFTA. He left the NFB in 1967 to set-up his own production company, although he continued to freelance with the Board.
Filmography
2018
- Doc humanité as Self
2017
- Labrecque, une caméra pour la mémoire as Himself
- Chronique de la nuit de la poésie 1980 ... (Director)
2015
- Remembering Maria Chapdelaine as Self
- Chronique de la nuit de la poésie 1970 ... (Director)
2009
- Félix ... (Writer)
2008
- Forever Québec ... (Cinematography)
2007
- Summit Circle ... (Director of Photography)
2006
- Live Before the Letter as Self
2005
- Novena ... (Director of Photography)
2003
- À hauteur d'homme ... (Writer)
2002
- Le RIN ... (Scenario Writer)
2001
- Marriages ... (Cinematography)
- The Woman Who Drinks ... (Director of Photography)
1997
- Le chemin du Roy as Jean-Claude Labrecque
1995
- The Emperor's New Clothes ... (Additional Camera)
1993
- La nuit de la poésie, 15 mars 1991 ... (Editor)
- André Mathieu, musicien ... (Cinematography)
1991
- Amoureux fou ... (Second Unit Director of Photography)
1990
- L'histoire des trois ... (Director)
1987
- Le frère André ... (Director)
1985
- Cinéma, cinéma as Self
1984
- Les années de rêves ... (Director)
1982
- Marie Uguay ... (Director)
1980
- The Coffin Affair ... (Director)
- La Nuit de la poésie 28 mars 1980 ... (Director)
1978
- 26 Times in a Row ... (Director of Photography)
1977
- Games of the XXI Olympiad ... (Director)
- Michèle Lalonde ... (Director)
1976
- On s'pratique... c'est pour les Olympiques ... (Director)
- Québec fête juin '75 ... (Director)
1975
- Les vautours ... (Director)
1974
- Les beaux dimanches ... (Director of Photography)
- Claude Gauvreau - Poète ... (Director)
1973
- The Conquest ... (Director of Photography)
- The Heavenly Bodies ... (Director of Photography)
1972
- The Wise Guys ... (Screenplay)
1971
- The Apprentice ... (Director of Photography)
- La nuit de la poésie 27 mars 1970 ... (Director)
- Une balle de gin ... (Director of Photography)
- Those Damned Savages ... (Director of Photography)
1970
- Charles Gagnon ... (Director of Photography)
- Essai à la mille ... (Director)
1969
- Canada the Land ... (Director of Photography)
1968
- The Ernie Game ... (Director of Photography)
- A Great Big Thing ... (Director of Photography)
- From Mother to Daughter ... (Director of Photography)
- La vie ... (Director)
1967
- La visite du Général De Gaulle au Québec ... (Director)
- Between Sweet and Salt Water ... (Director of Photography)
- The Times That Are ... (Director of Photography)
1966
- Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail ... (Director of Photography)
1965
- The Merry World of Leopold Z ... (Director of Photography)
- 60 Cycles ... (Director of Photography)
- Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials ... (Director of Photography)
- No Vacation for Idols ... (Director of Photography)
1964
- Such a Simple Game ... (Director of Photography)
- The Cat in the Bag ... (Director of Photography)
- Jusqu'au cou ... (Director of Photography)
- Solange in Our Countryside or Very Little for Me, the Sun ... (Director of Photography)
- The Big Swim ... (Director of Photography)
- Walls of Memory ... (Cinematography)
1963
- À tout prendre ... (Director of Photography)
- De Montréal à Manicouagan ... (Director of Photography)
- The Big Swim ... (Director of Photography)