French painter Jacques Monory, opens his Paris studio to the camera. He evokes the obsessions of a lifetime: monochrome, philosophy and…revolvers. Now in his seventies, the artist is at peace with his legacy. A compelling look into the life and work of a major player on the contemporary art scene.
| Director | Jennifer Alleyn |
| Editing | Stéphane Lafleur |
| Artist | Jacques Monory |
| Sound | Olivier De Nesle |
| Sound mixing | Sylvain Bellemare |
| Cinematography | Jennifer Alleyn |
Image tirée du film La vie imaginée de Jacques Monory // Image from the film The imaginary life of Jacques Monory
Image tirée du film La vie imaginée de Jacques Monory // Image from the film The imaginary life of Jacques Monory
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Jennifer Alleyn
Jennifer Alleyn is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker, writer and photographer living in Montreal. Born in Switzerland in 1969, Jennifer Alleyn obtained a degree in Film Production at Concordia University in 1991. She jumped right away into The Race Around the World (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) to shoot 26 documentaries within 26 weeks on 5 different continents, on her own.
In the last ten years, she has been directing and producing independent films, switching from fiction to documentary, art house cinema and television. In 2005, she directs 13 episodes of Canadian Case Files (Group Fair Play) and a short film, Svanok, Winner of Best fiction at New York FF.
Alleyn wrote and directed a segment Aurore et Crépuscule of the 1997 collective feature film Cosmos; winner of the CICEA award in Cannes at the Directors’ Fortnight. In 2008, she made My Father’s Studio, a portrait of Canadian artist Edmund Alleyn. The film won Best Canadian film at the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) and also received a Gémeaux Award. She directed the 2010 film Ten times Dix about painter Otto Dix, which received the ARTV Springboard to the World Award. In 2018, she directed and produced her first feature, Impetus, a hybrid drama which blurs the frontier between fiction and Cinema-vérité, for which she receives the Creation Award 2019 for her “outstanding contribution to the development of Québec cinema” from L’Observatoire du cinéma au Québec in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the Université de Montréal
Her practice now includes installation and photography. She has exhibited her work at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada), Galerie C (Switzerland) and her films have been distributed and released on television and in theatres in America and Europe. Her recent projects explore grief and inner exile.
In 2021, a cycle of work on uprooting and migration begins, which will be presented at the Contemporary Art Symposium in Baie-St-Paul, in which Jennifer is one of the twelve participating artists.
Biographies have been provided by third parties.
In the last ten years, she has been directing and producing independent films, switching from fiction to documentary, art house cinema and television. In 2005, she directs 13 episodes of Canadian Case Files (Group Fair Play) and a short film, Svanok, Winner of Best fiction at New York FF.
Alleyn wrote and directed a segment Aurore et Crépuscule of the 1997 collective feature film Cosmos; winner of the CICEA award in Cannes at the Directors’ Fortnight. In 2008, she made My Father’s Studio, a portrait of Canadian artist Edmund Alleyn. The film won Best Canadian film at the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) and also received a Gémeaux Award. She directed the 2010 film Ten times Dix about painter Otto Dix, which received the ARTV Springboard to the World Award. In 2018, she directed and produced her first feature, Impetus, a hybrid drama which blurs the frontier between fiction and Cinema-vérité, for which she receives the Creation Award 2019 for her “outstanding contribution to the development of Québec cinema” from L’Observatoire du cinéma au Québec in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the Université de Montréal
Her practice now includes installation and photography. She has exhibited her work at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada), Galerie C (Switzerland) and her films have been distributed and released on television and in theatres in America and Europe. Her recent projects explore grief and inner exile.
In 2021, a cycle of work on uprooting and migration begins, which will be presented at the Contemporary Art Symposium in Baie-St-Paul, in which Jennifer is one of the twelve participating artists.
Biographies have been provided by third parties.
La sieste (2020); Le réveil (2020); Impetus (2018); Respondere (2016);
La terre nous est étroite (2013); A few lost words (2012) Ten times Dix (2011); My Father’s Studio (2008); The imaginary life of Jacques Monory (2006); Svanok (2005); The Rossys (2002); Imaginer le rien (2001); Le regard de Delphine (2000); Cosmos (1996); Les enfants de Shefferville (1996); Petit conte moderne sur l’amour antique (1993)
La terre nous est étroite (2013); A few lost words (2012) Ten times Dix (2011); My Father’s Studio (2008); The imaginary life of Jacques Monory (2006); Svanok (2005); The Rossys (2002); Imaginer le rien (2001); Le regard de Delphine (2000); Cosmos (1996); Les enfants de Shefferville (1996); Petit conte moderne sur l’amour antique (1993)
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