Michel Brault

Personal Info

Know For

Camera

Gender

Male

Birthday

1928-06-25 (85 years old)

Deathday

2013-09-21

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.

Production

1959

Télesphore Légaré, garde-pêche

as Director of Photography

1959

Fred Barry comédien

as Director of Photography

1962

Alone or with Others

as Director of Photography

1974

Orders

as Director

1989

A Paper Wedding

as Director

1991

Montreal Stories

as Director

1966

The Devil's Toy

as Camera Operator

1994

Mon amie Max

as Director

1999

1999

The Long Winter

as Director

1964

Geneviève

as Director

1958

The Snowshoers

as Director

1962

1971

Acadia Acadia?!?

as Director

1961

Wrestling

as Director

1969

Éloge du chiac

as Director

1968

Beluga Days

as Director

1964

1984

Louisiana

as Director of Photography

1958

Washed Hands

as Director of Photography

1987

The Great Land of Small

as Director of Photography

1989

Bye Bye Victor

as Director of Photography

1982

The Forties

as Director of Photography

1975

Before the Time Comes

as Director of Photography

1974

Orders

as Director of Photography

1973

The Lever and the River

as Director of Photography

1971

Acadia Acadia?!?

as Camera Operator

1970

Marie-Christine

as Director of Photography

1969

Éloge du chiac

as Director of Photography

1968

Les enfants de Néant

as Director of Photography

1963

À tout prendre

as Director of Photography

1963

Of Whales, the Moon, and Men

as Director of Photography

1962

Children of Silence

as Director of Photography

1968

1980

The Skiff of Renald and Thomas

as Executive Producer

1992

Strangers of the Earth

as Director of Photography

1958

1958

A Day in June

as Camera Operator

1961

Festival in Puerto Rico

as Director of Photography

1979

A Scream from Silence

as Director of Photography

1973

Tickets s.v.p

as Director of Photography

1962

Visit to a Foreign Country

as Director of Photography

1970

Un pays sans bon sens!

as Director of Photography

1970

Between You and You All

as Director of Photography

1967

Between Sweet and Salt Water

as Director of Photography

1961

Golden Gloves

as Director of Photography

1968

Beluga Days

as Director of Photography

1980

Good Riddance

as Director of Photography

1963

Seven Surprizes

as Director

1949

Perpetual Movement

as Art Direction

1949

1949

1968

Poussière sur la ville

as Director of Photography

1965

Ville-Marie

as Director of Photography

1959

Félix Leclerc, troubadour

as Director of Photography

1961

Wrestling

as Director of Photography

1961

Wrestling

as Editor

1964

That Tender Age

as Director

1961

Chronicle of a Summer

as Director of Photography

1991

1986

No Mercy

as Director of Photography

1981

Threshold

as Director of Photography

1971

Mon oncle Antoine

as Director of Photography

1972

The Time of the Hunt

as Director of Photography

1964

The End of Summer

as Director of Photography

1962

The Punishment

as Director of Photography

1960

Normetal

as Director of Photography

1958

The Days Before Christmas

as Director of Photography

1958

Police

as Director of Photography

1958

The Snowshoers

as Director of Photography

1973

Kamouraska

as Director of Photography

2000

Anne Hébert, 1916-2000

as Director of Photography

1960

Alfred DesRochers, poète

as Director of Photography

1969

1974

Orders

as Writer

1969

Préambule

as Director of Photography

2007

Happiness Bound

as Director

1989

Dead Man Out

as Director of Photography

1975

Normande

as Director of Photography

1992

Shabbot Shalom!

as Director

1962

September Five at Saint-Henri

as Director of Photography

1969

The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

as Director of Photography

1962

The Joy of Winter

as Director of Photography

1959

Jour de juin

as Director of Photography

1964

Jusqu'au cou

as Director of Photography

1986

Half a Lifetime

as Director of Photography

1975

Eliza's Horoscope

as Director of Photography

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