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Michel Brault

Known For
Camera

Known Credits
9

Gender
Male

Birthday
June 25, 1928 (98 years old)

Place of Birth
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Michel Brault

Biography

Michel Brault (25 June 1928 – 21 September 2013) was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s. Brault was a pioneer of the hand-held camera aesthetic.

Known For

Directing

2007Happiness Bound...Director
1999The Long Winter...Director
1996Ozias Leduc, comme l'espace et le temps...Director
1994Mon amie Max...Director
1992Shabbot Shalom!...Director
1991Montreal Stories...Director
1989A Paper Wedding...Director
1976La Révolution du Dansage...Director
1974Le son des français d'Amérique...Director
1974Orders...Director
1973The Lever and the River...Director
1971Acadia Acadia?!?...Director
1969Éloge du chiac...Director
1968Les enfants de Néant...Director
1968Beluga Days...Director
1967Between Sweet and Salt Water...Director
1964Geneviève...Director
1964That Tender Age...Director
1964The End of Summer...Director
1963Of Whales, the Moon, and Men...Director
1963Seven Surprizes...Director
1962Visit to a Foreign Country...Director
1962Children of Silence...Director
1961Wrestling...Director
1958The Snowshoers...Director
1949Perpetual Movement...Director

Camera

2000Anne Hébert, 1916-2000...Director of Photography
1989Bye Bye Victor...Director of Photography
1989Dead Man Out...Director of Photography
1987The Great Land of Small...Director of Photography
1986No Mercy...Director of Photography
1986Half a Lifetime...Director of Photography
1984Louisiana...Director of Photography
1982The Forties...Director of Photography
1981Threshold...Director of Photography
1980Good Riddance...Director of Photography
1979A Scream from Silence...Director of Photography
1975La Tête de Normande St-Onge...Director of Photography
1975Before the Time Comes...Director of Photography
1975Eliza's Horoscope...Director of Photography
1974Orders...Director of Photography
1973Kamouraska...Director of Photography
1973The Lever and the River...Director of Photography
1973Tickets s.v.p...Director of Photography
1972The Time of the Hunt...Director of Photography
1971Mon oncle Antoine...Director of Photography
1971Acadia Acadia?!?...Camera Operator
1970Un pays sans bon sens!...Director of Photography
1970Marie-Christine...Director of Photography
1970Between You and You All...Director of Photography
1969Préambule...Director of Photography
1969Éloge du chiac...Director of Photography
1969The Pan-african Festival in Algiers...Director of Photography
1968Poussière sur la ville...Director of Photography
1968Les enfants de Néant...Director of Photography
1968Beluga Days...Director of Photography
1967Between Sweet and Salt Water...Director of Photography
1966The Devil's Toy...Director of Photography
1965Ville-Marie...Director of Photography
1964Jusqu'au cou...Director of Photography
1964The End of Summer...Director of Photography
1963Take It All...Director of Photography
1963Of Whales, the Moon, and Men...Director of Photography
1962September Five at Saint-Henri...Director of Photography
1962Alone or with Others...Director of Photography
1962Visit to a Foreign Country...Director of Photography
1962The Punishment...Director of Photography
1962Children of Silence...Director of Photography
1962The Joy of Winter...Director of Photography
1961Strangers of the Earth...Director of Photography
1961Wrestling...Director of Photography
1961Chronicle of a Summer...Director of Photography
1961Festival in Puerto Rico...Director of Photography
1961Golden Gloves...Director of Photography
1960Normetal...Director of Photography
1960Alfred DesRochers, poète...Director of Photography
1959Télesphore Légaré, garde-pêche...Director of Photography
1959Jour de juin...Director of Photography
1959Félix Leclerc, troubadour...Director of Photography
1959Fred Barry comédien...Director of Photography
1958The Days Before Christmas...Director of Photography
1958Police...Director of Photography
1958The Snowshoers...Director of Photography
1958Washed Hands...Director of Photography
1958A Day in June...Camera Operator

Writing

1999The Long Winter...Writer
1991Montreal Stories...Writer
1974Orders...Writer
1967Between Sweet and Salt Water...Writer
1963Of Whales, the Moon, and Men...Writer

Production

1980The Skiff of Renald and Thomas...Executive Producer

Editing

1969Éloge du chiac...Editor
1967Between Sweet and Salt Water...Editor
1961Wrestling...Editor
1958The Snowshoers...Editor
1949Perpetual Movement...Editor

Crew

1962Captive Feast...Cinematography

Art

1949Perpetual Movement...Art Direction

Acting

2011The Private Life of Cinemaas self
2009From Office to Box-Officeas Michel Brault
2008Capturing Realityas Self
2007Les p'tites vuesas Self
2006Rebels with a Cameraas Self
2004La beauté du gesteas Self
2002Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Storyas Self
1985Cinéma, cinémaas Self
1967Québec...?as