Marthe Blackburn
Marthe Blackburn, née Morisset (1916 - 1991) was a Canadian screenwriter from Quebec.[1] A television writer for Radio-Canada and later a film writer for the National Film Board of Canada, she was most noted for her collaborations with director Anne Claire Poirier.[2] Blackburn and Poirier were Genie Award nominees for Best Original Screenplay at the 1st Genie Awards in 1980 for A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête).[3]
She was the author of "Le retour de l’âge", a short theatrical piece which was part of the collaborative feminist theatre work La nef des sorcières alongside pieces by Luce Guilbeault, France Théoret, , Marie-Claire Blais, and Nicole Brossard.[4] She was one of the co-directors of the documentary film À qui appartient ce gage?, and had a small acting role in the 1980 film Cordélia.
She was married to composer Maurice Blackburn, with whom she collaborated on the libretto for his opera Une mesure de silence,[5] and was the mother of science fiction writer Esther Rochon.[6]
Filmography[]
- Les filles du Roy (1974)
- Before the Time Comes (Le temps de l'avant) (1975)
- Shakti (1976)
- Dernier envol (1977)
- A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête) (1979)
- Azzel (1979)
- Dominga (1979)
- Beyond Forty (La Quarantaine) (1982)
- Firewords, Part 1: Louky Bersianik (1986)
- Firewords, Part 2: Jovette Marchessault (1986)
- Firewords, Part 3: Nicole Brossard (1986)
- Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman (1987)
- Salut Victor (1989)
- Dessine-moi une chanson (1991)
References[]
- ^ Blackburn, M. (1983). "Scénariser, ou habiter un écran imaginaire". Nuit blanche, magazine littéraire (10), 46–47.
- ^ Francine Prévost, "L’itinéraire cinématographique d’Anne-Claire Poirier". Séquences, Numéro 116, Avril, 1984, p. 12–26.
- ^ "Feature film nominations". Ottawa Journal. March 15, 1980. p. 53. Retrieved January 3, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Louise H. Forsyth, "La nef des sorcières (1976) : l’écriture d’un théâtre expérimental au féminin". L'Annuare théâtrale, Issue 46, Autumn 2009. p. 33–56.
- ^ "Canadian Opera Premieres". The Globe and Mail, November 3, 1956.
- ^ Gadbois, V. (1986). "Esther Rochon, un grand nom de la SFQ". Québec français (62), p. 22.
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