Ma vie c'est pour le restant de mes jours (My Life Is for the Rest of my Life)
A film by Robert Morin and Lorraine Dufour
Synopsis
Drama, video, colour, 28 mins., 1980, Québec, Canada, OFV with English subtitles
In a rural tavern, male and female strippers come out in succession to do their routines. Mario is a regular here, and spontaneously decides to integrate his stunt routine into a woman's strip-tease act. The alcohol flows and the atmosphere deteriorates in a quasi-orgy, with other customers joining in. Brigitte, Mario's girlfriend, can't stand it. After things calm down, Mario's girlfriend confronts him and demands that he abandon, for the sake of their relationship, what he considers to be his true calling(s): a dual career as stuntman and upholsterer. But Mario refuses to turn his back on his destiny, exclaiming, "It's my life, for the rest of my life!"
Credits
Camera : Robert Morin, Jean-Pierre St-Louis
Sound : Gilbert Lachapelle
Editor : Lorraine Dufour, Robert Morin
Written and directed by : Robert Morin, Lorraine Dufour
Producers : Robert Morin, Lorraine Dufour
Production : Coop Vidéo de Montréal
Distributor : Vidéographe
Mentions
Festivals and Events
2008 - L'Hybride – salle de diffusion alternative (Lille, France)
2006 - Festival international du documentaire de Marseille - Rétrospective (France)
1991-92 - Galerie Nationale du Canada - Rétrospective (Canada)
1991 - Festival de Lausanne (Suisse)
1990 - Galerie A Space - Rétrospective (Toronto, Canada)
1990 - Cinémathèque québécoise (Montréal, Canada)
1989 - Filmer à tout prix (Bruxelles, Belgique)
1989 - Document and Dream, Artists Space (New York, USA)
1989 - Manifestation internationale de vidéo et de télévision de Montbéliard (France)
1982 - Événement vidéo La Chambre blanche (Québec, Canada)
1981 - Festival du nouveau cinéma et de la vidéo (Montréal, Canada)
1980 - Festival de films et vidéos de femmes (Québec, Canada)
1980 - Maison du Québec (Paris, France)
1980 - Exposition "Export 80" (Canada)
1980 - Festival "que'qu'chose qui me sort des yeux" (Bordeaux, France)