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Gerçure (A Touch of flu) 1988 - 17 min. - fiction - Umatic video French with English subtitles Because of her leaky boots, a young woman catches a big flu. She talks about it as if she was a tv news anchor. A French journalist investigates. A doctor explains the case. Joe six-pack gives us his opinion.. with Isabelle Guilbault, Jacques Bureau and Vratislav Hadrava |
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presentation
When Isabelle Guilbault went to present Gerçure at the Jeux de la Francophonie in Rabat in September 1990, she had caught the ‘flu, owing to the hotel’s full-throttle air conditioning. The audience thought that it was her natural state, despite the fact that the role had been magnificently composed with the help of make-up artist Mireille Ouellet. Fiction caught up with life. 
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| credits woman with the flu Isabelle Guilbault professor Vratislav Hadrava reporter Jacques Bureau voice of French radio Dominique Roustain (non credited) and extras of Mont-Royal metro director of photography Normand Fortin music and sound design Jean Corriveau sound recordist Justine Pimlott cameras Gilles Lavigne Anne-Marie Monette special effects Denis Rice make up Mireille Ouellet assistant camera and video record Josée Morin assistant director Suzanne Méthé continuity Chantal Neveu images Super 8 et montage Jeanne Crépeau assistant editor Anne-Marie Monette sound editing technician Richard Angers re-recording Jean Corriveau graphic arts Manon Briand a vidéo by Jeanne Crépeau thanks to Michel Sénécal and Suzanne Kassabgui du Dépt. des Communications of UQAM Louise Brodeur and Christophe Flambard of Vidéographe co-production Les films de l’autre inc. and Le Vidéographe inc. Gerçure © Jeanne Crépeau 1988 |
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| The very clever Normand Fortin in the appartment where we shot Gerçure. |
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notes
I started
this video as part of my studies at the University of Quebec in
Montreal, with my partners in crime Normand Fortin, Gilles Lavigne,
Josée Morin, and Chantal Neveu. My colleagues motivated me to
direct an exercice despite the fact that I was very sick.
I made my most autobiographical (sic) film. I had the pleasure of working with an actress that I had seen performing in our secondary school troupe: Isabelle Guilbault. I remember the irrepressible fits of laughter that often arose, which we managed to contain during takes. Gerçure travelled widely, thanks to the joyful dynamism of Jean Tourangeau and Luc Bourdon from Vidéographe. I presented the film in Berlin in February 1989. When the train arrived at the border of the Deutsch Demokratische Republik, a German officer placed a temporary visa in my passport. |
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