“You don’t decide to become a collector,” says Bernard Landriault. It’s the collection that germinates within you. Collecting is a very personal, life-changing adventure in every respect, in which a very significant part of ourselves… and our money… is invested.“
A duo of art collectors filmed from the inside. The film reveals Bernard Landriault and Michel Paradis’s actions, thoughts and relationship with artworks and artists. Like most collectors, they are sensitive, open-minded and passionate. At home, at the gallery, at the museum or in the artist’s studio, collectors reveal themselves in small ways, their living relationship with art, their philosophy and their motivations. Their choices are guided by emotion, intuition and reflection. Collectors have a deep connection with the works and artists they continue to follow and support. VIVRE AVEC L’ART… un art de vivre, an encounter with Art, with those who love it and make it, and a reflection on the power of Art to transform human beings.
A duo of art collectors filmed from the inside. The film reveals Bernard Landriault and Michel Paradis’s actions, thoughts and relationship with artworks and artists. Like most collectors, they are sensitive, open-minded and passionate. At home, at the gallery, at the museum or in the artist’s studio, collectors reveal themselves in small ways, their living relationship with art, their philosophy and their motivations. Their choices are guided by emotion, intuition and reflection. Collectors have a deep connection with the works and artists they continue to follow and support. VIVRE AVEC L’ART… un art de vivre, an encounter with Art, with those who love it and make it, and a reflection on the power of Art to transform human beings.
| Director | Anne-Marie Tougas |
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Anne-Marie Tougas
A graduate of the Université de Montréal in landscape architecture, Anne-Marie Tougas is a Montreal-based filmmaker. Producer, director and cinematographer, she is interested in universal human values and themes that are both meaningful and questioning, and in the role of art in our lives. Her film Raymond Klibansky de la philosophie à la vie was a prizewinner at the 20th International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), and it was widely shown around the world. Her film L’espace que j’ai vu…un portrait de pierre thibault, 2007, winner of the audience award at the Rencontres cinéma — architecture in Annecy and widely distributed in France, was in official competition at the 25th FIFA. Vivre avec l’art …un art de vivre was the opening film of the 28th FIFA. Artistic creation and expression are an integral part of Anne-Marie Tougas’ approach. All her feature-length films on art have been in competition at the International Festival of Films on Art and screened both locally and internationally. Since 2020, the filmmaker has been experimenting with the cinematographic transposition of living poetry in situ, in the form of short films. Eau Vive, in competition at the FIFA, was selected for a special screening at the Centre culturel canadien in Paris.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
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