Mathieu Laverdière

Фильмы

Solo
Cinematography
Follows Simon, who must deal with the disappointment of two impossible loves: a passionate but destructive crush on Oliver and a distant and cold relationship with his mother Claire, who has just moved back in after a 15-year absence.
Stampede
Camera Operator
After a difficult separation, Serge Jr. takes his daughter Lily, 9, on a truck ride across Canada. They head to Alberta and its legendary Badlands World’s Best Truck Rodeo, a race Lily and him have been dreaming about. On the road, under his daughter’s increasingly worried gaze, Serge will eventually need to face the music.
Une révision
Cinematography
A professor of philosophy teaches lessons to his awakened students. One day, one of his students decides to put his lessons into practice, and she goes on a journey that shakes her deepest convictions.
Underground
Director of Photography
Maxime is a miner with a troubled past. After an explosion at his mine, Maxime attempts to find redemption by saving his fellow miners.
G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!
Director of Photography
Over the last 25 years, the Montreal post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor has released seven albums and presented visually extraordinary shows around the world. At State’s End is their latest show, captured at the majestic Cinéma Impérial. It features six 16 mm projectors playing images in a loop to accompany the music from the band’s latest album. Part documentary, part experimental film, At State’s End! is a unique auditory and visual experience.
Акробат
Director of Photography
Заснеженный Монреаль. Пока строительные краны в центре города танцуют свой гипнотический балет, в недостроенной квартире случайным образом встречаются два незнакомца. Их случайная встреча приводит к сильному влечению и зависимости друг от друга.
Laughter
Director of Photography
As a civil war shakes the Quebec province of Canada, Valerie is the sole survivor of a mass execution where her boyfriend is killed. Years later, she’s in a close relationship with her new partner, Gabriel. At the Long Term Care Center where she works as an orderly, she befriends Jeanne, an erudite and funny woman, dealing with an important physical handicap. Mixing realism and worrying strangeness, The Laugh presents a humane exploration of the survivor’s syndrome, the grieving process, the distance of time, the power of love, and the joy of being alive.
Птицы падали дождем
Director of Photography
В глухом лесу, отрезанные от всего мира живут пожилые затворники. В сезон лесных пожаров умирает их старый товарищ по имени Бойчук, что навсегда меняет привычный жизненный уклад. Как и еще одно обстоятельство: явление восьмидесятилетней старушки, которую незаслуженно продержали всю жизнь в лечебницах. Затем их убежище обнаруживает фотограф, которой поручено сделать репортаж о стихийном бедствии. Две старушки найдут рисунки покойного Бойчука, в которых он ведёт повествование о своём трагическом прошлом, связанном с лесными пожарами.
Before We Explode
Director of Photography
The Third World War is on the horizon. Despite attempts at nuclear deterrence, the threat of atomic bombings between North Korea and the United States is bringing the world's population back into a Cold War-like climate. In the small town of Baie-St-Paul (Québec, Canada), Pier-Luc is afraid: afraid of dying, of course, but, above all, afraid of dying before he could make love for the first time. With his buddies, Hubert and Samuel, he goes through "the summer of last chances" and takes drastic measures in order to lose his virginity - Before we explode.
Just Me and You
Director of Photography
8-year-old Eva and her father go on a Montreal-Mexico road trip aboard an 18-wheeler.
The Seven Last Words
Director of Photography
The Seven Last Words sounds out the experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on seven themes expressed in an oratorio: forgiveness, hope, relation, abandonment, distress, triumph, and life after the death.
Сторожевой пес
Director of Photography
Джей Пи живет в небольшой квартире на окраине Монреаля вместе с младшим братом Винсентом, матерью Джо и своей подружкой Мел. Вместе с братом Джей Пи выходят каждый вечер на улицы города, где помогают своему дяде-наркоторговцу реализовать его товар.
Seule
Director of Photography
The Cyclotron
Director of Photography
In 1944, an Allied spy must find and execute a Berlin scientist who discovered the way to build an atomic bomb. Things get complicated when memories of love and quantum mechanics get intertwined in the chase.
The Quiet Zone
Cinematography
Otherworldly frequencies and textured, fluctuating images beautifully visualize the distress of people who suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity, and who must live in exile from cities in order to find solitude from the noise.
Любовь во время гражданской войны
Director of Photography
Алекс молодой наркоман, который продает свое тело в Монреале. Он находится в окружении Бруно, Симона, Жанна, Эрика и Велма, все они попали в ту же спираль принуждения. Заложники общества потребления, они падшие ангелы темного и бурного времени.
Габриэль
Director of Photography
Фильм рассказывает о Габриэль (Габриэль Мэрион-Ривар) – молодой женщине с синдромом Вильямса, характеризующегося некоторой задержкой умственного развития. Несмотря на болезнь, она невероятно жизнерадостна и любит музыку. Когда она встречает Мартина (Александр Ландри), так же, как и она, участника хора, эти двое становятся неразлучны. Однако, поскольку эти герои фильма «Габриэль» (Gabrielle) отличаются от других людей, окружающее их люди с опаской относятся к их отношениям. В то время как хор готовится к участию в важном музыкальном фестивале, Габриэль делает все, что в ее силах, чтобы получить независимость. Настроенная решительно, она вынуждена противостоять убеждениям других людей, а также своим собственным ограничениям в надежде на то, что ее любовь окажется сильнее предрассудков.
Их первая ночь
Director of Photography
Ночной клуб, рейв, вспышки света, бешеный ритм. Полуобнаженные тела, руки, губы, головокружение… В какой-то момент они потеряли контроль и оказались в одной постели. Что они смогут сказать друг другу утром? Как трудно раскрыть душу тому, кому с легкостью даришь тело.
Vent solaire
Director of Photography
The movements are simple, but the body struggles to follow.
Guilt
Director of Photography
A nightmarish accident that leads to an elderly man’s death one night after getting drunk with his best friend Yves. Neither chooses to confess just yet. Yves, the brasher member of the duo, succeeds in living on with his life, but Gabriel, more shy and honest, feels the guilt choking him as days turn into weeks and weeks become months...
Twice a Woman
Director of Photography
The story of Catherine, who, after her violent husband puts her life in serious danger one night, decides to run away with her son and start a new life under a fresh identity.
Cinema for the Blind
Cinematography
Driven by an image which will not leave him, Philémon takes a room at the Hôtel de la Mer. This unseemly boarding house contains a «cinema for the blind«, where the interior drama of the residents is secretly projected. Philémon slips, step by step, into a mute dream, where he attemps to lose sight of himself.
Men for Sale
Director of Photography
An intimate and unflinching look over 12 months at the hardscrabble lives of hustlers in downtown Montreal.
Lost Song
Director of Photography
Pierre and Elisabeth, a couple in their thirties, move with their baby into a cottage on a lake for the summer. The setting is idyllic, and the couple’s happiness seems within reach. Every day, Pierre goes to work in the city while Elisabeth rehearses for an upcoming voice recital. Despite the benevolent presence of her mother-in-law who lives in the neighbouring house, the young woman feels isolated and overwhelmed in her new role as a mother. Her entourage is concerned, but no one fully grasps the extent of Elisabeth’s distress. Muted violence soon takes hold and tightens its grip.
Passage
Cinematography
Exquisitely filmed in black-and-white, this experimental narrative follows four friends on a road trip as they discover the complicated arena of unseen desire that arises when ecstasy and sexuality mix.
Одинокий ребенок
Director of Photography
Уильям постоянно ведет видео-журнал своей жизни, и хранит его в качестве сувенира. Предчувствуя конец отношений с Мередиком, своим молодым любовником, Уильям проводит с ним два дня в кемпинге, и пользуясь ситуацией, снимает их поездку и время, проведенное с другой молодой гей-парой.
Dive
Cinematography
Dive is an urban fairy tale about a self-destructive man who can't feel anything. From the moment he sets eyes on a mysterious young woman, something inside him stirs. Unbeknownst to him, she is part of the White Eye community, a marginalized group of hyper-sensitive beings inhabiting the same world as humans. When her true identity is revealed, his destructive nature reaches its peak as he contemplates a drastic escape from his melancholy.