Michel Brault
Born: 1928-06-25 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died: 2013-09-21
Known For: Camera
Biography
Michel Brault (25 June 1928 – 21 September 2013) was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s. Brault was a pioneer of the hand-held camera aesthetic.
Filmography
2009
- From Office to Box-Office as Michel Brault
2008
- Capturing Reality as Self
2007
- Les p'tites vues as Self
- Happiness Bound ... (Director)
2006
- Rebels with a Camera as Self
2004
- La beauté du geste as Self
2002
2000
- Anne Hébert, 1916-2000 ... (Director of Photography)
1999
- The Long Winter ... (Writer)
1996
- Ozias Leduc, comme l'espace et le temps ... (Director)
1994
- Mon amie Max ... (Director)
1992
- Shabbot Shalom! ... (Director)
1991
- Montreal Stories ... (Director)
1989
- Dead Man Out ... (Director of Photography)
- Bye Bye Victor ... (Director of Photography)
- A Paper Wedding ... (Director)
1987
- The Great Land of Small ... (Director of Photography)
1986
- No Mercy ... (Director of Photography)
- Half a Lifetime ... (Director of Photography)
1985
- Cinéma, cinéma as Self
1984
- Louisiana ... (Director of Photography)
1982
- The Forties ... (Director of Photography)
1981
- Threshold ... (Director of Photography)
1980
- Good Riddance ... (Director of Photography)
- The Skiff of Renald and Thomas ... (Executive Producer)
1979
- A Scream from Silence ... (Director of Photography)
1976
- La Révolution du Dansage ... (Director)
1975
- La Tête de Normande St-Onge ... (Director of Photography)
- Eliza's Horoscope ... (Director of Photography)
- Before the Time Comes ... (Director of Photography)
1974
- Orders ... (Director)
- Le son des français d'Amérique ... (Director)
1973
- Kamouraska ... (Director of Photography)
- Tickets s.v.p ... (Director of Photography)
- The Lever and the River ... (Director of Photography)
1972
- The Time of the Hunt ... (Director of Photography)
1971
- Mon oncle Antoine ... (Director of Photography)
- Acadia Acadia?!? ... (Director)
1970
- Un pays sans bon sens! ... (Director of Photography)
- Marie-Christine ... (Director of Photography)
- Between You and You All ... (Director of Photography)
1969
- The Panafrican Festival in Algiers ... (Director of Photography)
- Éloge du chiac ... (Director)
- Préambule ... (Director of Photography)
1968
- Les enfants de Néant ... (Director of Photography)
- Poussière sur la ville ... (Director of Photography)
- Beluga Days ... (Director)
1967
- Québec...?
- Between Sweet and Salt Water ... (Director)
1966
- The Devil's Toy ... (Director of Photography)
1965
- Ville-Marie ... (Director of Photography)
1964
- That Tender Age ... (Director)
- The End of Summer ... (Director)
- Geneviève ... (Director)
- Jusqu'au cou ... (Director of Photography)
1963
- Take It All ... (Director of Photography)
- Of Whales, the Moon, and Men ... (Director)
- Seven Surprizes ... (Director)
1962
- Visit to a Foreign Country ... (Director)
- The Punishment ... (Director of Photography)
- Children of Silence ... (Director)
- The Joy of Winter ... (Director of Photography)
- Alone or with Others ... (Director of Photography)
- September Five at Saint-Henri ... (Director of Photography)
- Captive Feast ... (Cinematography)
1961
- Chronicle of a Summer ... (Director of Photography)
- Festival in Puerto Rico ... (Director of Photography)
- Golden Gloves ... (Director of Photography)
- Wrestling ... (Director)
- Strangers of the Earth ... (Director of Photography)
1960
- Normetal ... (Director of Photography)
- Alfred DesRochers, poète ... (Director of Photography)
1959
- Félix Leclerc, troubadour ... (Director of Photography)
- Fred Barry comédien ... (Director of Photography)
- Jour de juin ... (Director of Photography)
- Télesphore Légaré, garde-pêche ... (Director of Photography)
1958
- A Day in June ... (Camera Operator)
- The Snowshoers ... (Director)
- Washed Hands ... (Director of Photography)
- Police ... (Director of Photography)
- The Days Before Christmas ... (Director of Photography)
1949
- Perpetual Movement ... (Art Direction)