vidéo-club — Filming Your Family
Filming Your Family brings together Comment vs dirais-je? by Louis Dionne, Ma sœur by Rosalie Pelletier, and Le beau Jacques by Stéphane Thibault in one program.
Sarah Foulkes is a filmmaker and cultural worker. She is most interested in exploring labour and narrativity through image and sound.
Joseph Rozenkopf graduated from the University of Montreal with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and from UQAM with a certificate in museology and art diffusion. At the crossroads of these two disciplines was born an interest in the operations of cultural institutions in Quebec and questions about their practices. It is with the discovery of artist-run centers and Vidéographe that he was able to begin his career within these institutions.
List of works in program
The three works in this program tackle different themes, and yet in each one the camera plays a similar role. At once, the camera is a witness, a mirror, and a magnifying glass. It is the tool that allows filmmakers to explore complex family relationships, to start a conversation, to create meaning, and to weave these intimate experiences into a collective narrative. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and often concerning, each one is unscripted and takes place over the course of one day, one week or a Formula 1 race.
And you, the audience, are invited to become this camera – “the one that judges or the one that loves.” (Comment vs dirais-je?, 1995).
Filming Your Family was programmed by Sarah Foulkes and Joseph Rozenkopf. It presented on January 27th, 2026 as part of the vidéo-club series, a Vidéographe initiative in collaboration with Cinéma Moderne. Every three months, Vidéographe invites cinephiles and the cine-curious to an evening of screening and discussion around a program drawn from works in the collection.
Please note that Ma sœur is currently unavailble to watch on Vithèque. Please check back in April 2026 to view the program in its entirety.
