Le Scrapeur
- 1976
- 25m
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- Trivia-(The director talks about the making of this film): - "I self-produced 'Le Scrapeur' with zero budget, and a keen sense of "cinematic tinkering". It was a time when many so-called "artisanal" films were made thanks to a somewhat underground system of mutual aid between a large number of artisans of our cinema who - themselves - were "trafficking" their first films. We wanted to make a place for ourselves, we got to know each other, we decided to help each other and we didn't mind pulling all the strings. In this climate of relatively anarchic cooperation, several dozen films of different lengths were made every year in the 1970s. In the case of my film 'Le Scrapeur', I made the film entirely from recycled materials. It was the subject of the film and due to lack of means, I decided to produce it with the same principle. For my film supply, I depended on a friend who was a news cameraman at Radio-Canada; he regularly gave me 16mm black and white reels that were past their prime. They were still good and it was good for me. For the sound, I would get magnetic tapes from the NFB (National Film Board) garbage cans and put them through the degausser. For the equipment, I had sources to borrow an Éclair camera and a Nagra recorder in the short term. For the image, I had decided to go ahead and make the camera myself, but for the sound I depended on the availability of my friends Alain Corneau, Dominique Chartrand and Esther Auger who took turns, whom I still thank today. The most difficult thing was the lab. But I had finally found a trick; I had made a friend who worked nights at the Quebec Film Lab. I would show up between midnight and three in the morning and he would develop and print me three or four reels at a time. The editing was done by my late friend Marcel G. Sabourin who worked as an assistant editor for Claude Jutra in Jean-Claude Labrecque's room in Old Montreal. So after his daytime hours, he stayed behind to edit my film at night at his own expense. In short, you see the system; we lived as much by day as by night. Once the editing was completed, I managed to convince Jean-Marc Garant and Jean Roy (of the NFB) to give me technical help for the mixing, the negative editing and the rest in order to print a few copies. They had a lot of money in their drawers and they could give help without having to report to anyone. The ACIQ (Programme Aide au cinéma indépendant du Québec) did not exist at the time. Once the film was finished, it was shown at many festivals, it was broadcast on Télé-Québec and the Cinémathèque - thanks to Pierre Véronneau - was able to find money to have it subtitled. Thus, the film was able to circulate in English Canada. My brother Bertrand Carrière was a set photographer, and he also signed the film's music on his slide guitar. We were all decided, determined; we wanted to make it, and we lasted." (Testimony of Bruno Carrière, April 2018).
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