With a bachelor’s degree in multidisciplinary arts from Concordia University, Brigitte Lacasse moves between fiction and documentary, film scores, improvised music, performance art, art direction and cultural mediation. Both scripted and improvised, mixing denunciation with inventiveness and self-mockery, her recent creations are built around social issues that she tackles first and foremost from a personal standpoint.
Her achievements to date include a number of film scores and multidisciplinary happenings, three European musical tours, numerous sound recordings and assorted cultural mediation initiatives. She also produced three fiction features by Claude Fortin as co-director of Les Productions de la petite Gidouille, a company she started with Fortin. Between 2001 and 2006, she helped launch the Rimouski-based artist-run organizations Paralœil, Tour de Bras and Coopérative Paradis. From 2014 to 2021, she worked as a cultural mediator at the Musée régional de Rimouski while making her first film, Hospital(ity) Chronicles. She is currently working on a documentary entitled La Maison; a podcast, Liaisons médicales, that continues her musings on health care; and a music project, Deer Island.
As director
Chroniques hospitalières, 49 min, Documentary, 2021
As producer
L’Autobiographe amateur (Claude Fortin), 116 min, Fiction, 1999
100 % Bio (Claude Fortin), 101 min, Fiction, 2003
Chroniques hospitalières (Brigitte Lacasse), 49 min, Documentary, 2021
As composer
L’Autobiographe amateur (Claude Fortin), 116 min, Fiction, 1999 — collaboration with Mireille Charron
Ter (segment, Karina Soucy), Documentary, 2009
L’Âme d’un lieu (Nicolas Paquet), 78 min, Documentary, 2009
La Règle d’or (Nicolas Paquet), 75 min, Documentary, 2011 — collaboration with Olivier D’Amours
Une pelletée après l’autre (Guillaume Lévesque), Documentary, 2012
Ceux comme la terre (Nicolas Paquet), 85 min, Documentary, 2014
Chroniques hospitalières (Brigitte Lacasse), 49 min, Documentary, 2021