Screening Dates
  • September 4, 2017 7:00
Free Admission

“An all-male hunting trip becomes the occasion for a portrait of male savagery in this documentary by legendary Québécois poet, filmmaker, and anthropologist Pierre Perrault. Perrault follows nine men on a week-long trip in rural Quebec, charting the social dynamics of this diverse group and how the men relate to each other. One among them—an earnest, philosophical teacher and poet—is so out of place that he soon becomes an even more pathetic victim of testosterone-driven persecution than the moose the men have come to kill. La bête lumineuse marked a decisive left turn from the lyrical films (including Pour la suite du monde) that brought Perrault international acclaim, but the director defended this raw, unsparing work as his most beautiful” (TIFF/​Canada on Screen).

preceded by

Very Nice, Very Nice
Canada 1961
Arthur Lipsett
7 min. DCP

The Oscar-nominated first film by Arthur Lipsett, a member of the NFB’s animation unit, is a pioneering work of experimental collage, fashioning found images and sound outtakes into a suggestive, satirical critique of contemporary society. Stanley Kubrick was a fan.

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