Hélène_Bourgault
Hélène Bourgault
Canadian video and film artist
Hélène Bourgault (May 16, 1945 - October 14, 2006) was a Canadian video and film artist.[1] Bourgault was born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada and died in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[2] Bourgault was a founding member of GIV, the Groupe Intervention Video, a feminist video production and distribution collective in Montreal, Quebec.[3] As a member of GIV, she co-directed several video documentaries with fellow artist Helen Doyle,[3] including Chaperons Rouges (1979) which was included in a notable traveling exhibition called Rebel Girls: A Survey of Canadian Feminist Videotapes 1974-1988. Chaperons rouges has won two awards, one at the Second Video Open in Toronto in 1979 and another at the Festival international de films de femmes in Sceaux in 1981.[3]
Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada[1] and the Cinematheque quebecoise.[4]