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.
Filmography
As director
-Hospital(ity) Chronicles, 2021, documentary, 49 min.
As producer
-L’Autobiographe amateur, Claude Fortin, 1999, fiction, 116 min.
-100 % Bio, Claude Fortin, 2003, fiction, 101 min.
-Hospital(ity) Chronicles, Brigitte Lacasse, 2021, documentary, 49 min.
As composer (score)
-L’Autobiographe amateur, Claude Fortin, 1999, fiction, 116 min. (collaboration with Mireille Charron)
-TER, segment by Karina Soucy, 2009, documentary, short film
-L’Âme d’un lieu, Nicolas Paquet, 2009, documentary, 30 min.
-La Règle d’or (The Golden Rule), Nicolas Paquet, 2011, documentary, 75 min. (collaboration with Olivier D’Amours)
-Une Pelletée après l’autre, Guillaume Lévesque, 2012, documentary, 41 min.
-Ceux comme la terre (Living Like the Land), Nicolas Paquet, 2014, documentary, 73 min.
-Hospital(ity) Chronicles, Brigitte Lacasse, 2021, documentary, 49 min. (collaboration with Olivier D’Amours)