Jean-Claude Labrecque

Biography

Jean-Claude Labrecque, CM CQ (June 19, 1938 – May 31, 2019) was a director and cinematographer who learned the basics of filmmaking at the National Film Board of Canada. Jean-Claude Labrecque was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and trained as a camera assistant at the NFB. As a cinematographer, he shot many of the early key films of Claude Jutra (À tout prendre), Michel Brault (Entre la mer et l’eau douce), Gilles Carle (La vie heureuse de Léopold Z), Gilles Groulx (Le Chat dans le sac) and Don Owen (Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail, The Ernie Game). He turned to directing in 1965 with 60 Cycles, about a long-distance bike race on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River, which has been described as a virtual encyclopedia of camera techniques. It won 22 international awards and was nominated for a BAFTA. He left the NFB in 1967 to set-up his own production company, although he continued to freelance with the Board.

Directed

1. Games of the XXI Olympiad (1977) — Director
2. The Wise Guys (1972) — Director
3. À hauteur d'homme (2003) — Director
4. Les vautours (1975) — Director
5. Canada the Land (1971) — Director
6. Le RIN (2002) — Director
7. 60 Cycles (1965) — Director
8. Heritage Minutes (1991) — Director
9. Le frère André (1987) — Director
10. Remembering Maria Chapdelaine (2015) — Director
11. Essai à la mille (1970) — Director
12. Les années de rêves (1984) — Director
13. La Nuit de la poésie 28 mars 1980 (1980) — Director
14. The Coffin Affair (1980) — Director
15. André Mathieu, musicien (1993) — Director
16. La nuit de la poésie 27 mars 1970 (1971) — Director
17. La vie (1968) — Director
18. Michèle Lalonde (1977) — Director
19. Marie Uguay (1982) — Director
20. La visite du Général De Gaulle au Québec (1967) — Director
21. L'histoire des trois (1990) — Director
22. Québec fête juin '75 (1976) — Director
23. La nuit de la poésie, 15 mars 1991 (1993) — Director
24. Claude Gauvreau - Poète (1974) — Director
25. Félix (2009) — Director
26. Forever Québec (2008) — Director
27. On s'pratique... c'est pour les Olympiques (1976) — Director
28. 26 Times in a Row (1978) — Director
29. Chronique de la nuit de la poésie 1970 (2015) — Director
30. Chronique de la nuit de la poésie 1980 (2017) — Director
31. Heritage Minutes: Paul-Émile Borduas (1995) — Director
32. Heritage Minutes: Pauline Vanier (1995) — Director
33. Heritage Minutes: Hart & Papineau (1995) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Remembering Maria Chapdelaine (2015) — Self
2. Labrecque, une caméra pour la mémoire (2017) — Self
3. Cinéma, cinéma (1985) — Self
4. Le chemin du Roy (1997) — Jean-Claude Labrecque
5. Rebels with a Camera (2006) — Self
6. From Office to Box-Office (2009) — Jean-Claude Labrecque
7. The Private Life of Cinema (2011) — self
8. Doc humanité (2018) — Self