This early work from Pierre Perrault, made in collaboration with René Bonnière, chronicles summer activities in the Innu communities of Unamenshipu (La Romaine) and Pakuashipi. Shot by noted cinematographer Michel Thomas-d’Hoste, it documents the construction of a traditional canoe, fishing along the Coucouchou River, a procession marking the Christian feast of the Assumption, and the departure of children for residential schools—an event presented here in an uncritical light. Perrault’s narration, delivered by an anonymous male voice, underscores the film’s outsider gaze on its Indigenous subjects. The film is from Au Pays de Neufve-France (1960), a series produced by Crawley Films, an important early Canadian producer of documentary films.
Harmonium in California
Le fantôme de Mirabel
The Great Blue Heron
La grande bataille : un an de mobilisation au CHUM
La bataille de Rabaska
SAQ : 100 ans d’histoire
Healing Dolls
Nanook of the North
The Devil and Father Amorth
Anticosti: La chasse au pétrole extrême
Daughter of the Crater
Léa devant la caméra
