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Welcome to the twelfth installment of the Haunted Montreal Blog! Released on the 13th of every month, the April edition focuses on research we are carrying out into La Cinémathèque québécoise. Located in a former Catholic girls’ school, this film library and cinema is reputed to be haunted.

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Montreal’s hip Quartier Latin neighbourhood plays host to numerous theatres, cinemas and cultural and educational facilities. Located in the eastern part of the Quartier des Spectacles, the area is renowned for both entertainment and education.  La Cinémathèque québécoise is a government-funded film library, set in an old Catholic elementary school,  that screens movies which were often made in Quebec. A popular cinematic diversion in a bustling area, the facility is enjoyed by thousands of local cinephiles and tourists every year.

However, despite the cinema’s jovial atmosphere, there are persistent rumours that the building is haunted by the ghost of a little schoolgirl. Janitors have reported seeing her on many occasions, and in 2005, the girl’s spirit was spotted by an employee in one of the projection rooms, clutching a stack of school books. Could the ghost be one of the school’s former students, and if so, why is she haunting the building?

Looking at the history of the vicinity, Montreal’s Red Light District was bursting at the seams in this same area during the roaring 20s. The ramshackle neighborhood was characterized not only for its numerous brothels and prostitutes working the street corners, but also by its rampant poverty and severe overcrowding. Never the best place to raise children, the Red Light District was an unsanitary and dangerous place to be at times. Not only was rampant violence a common theme in the neighborhood, but older children, usually female, were also at risk of being recruited and trafficked by unscrupulous pimps.

Religious authorities with the Catholic School Commission of M

The 2015 edition of Éléphant ClassiQ, the very first event of its kind in Canada, will take place in Montréal, November 19-22, 2015. The four-day programme honouring the masterpieces of French-language cinema includes: nineteen full-length films, presented in their restored versions, meetings with international stakeholders in the cinematographic industry and exhibits. Éléphant ClassiQ will be held at three Montréal theatres: the Imperial Cinema, Salle Claude-Jutra at the Cinémathèque québécoise, and Salle Pierre-Bourgault at UQAM’s Pavillon Judith Jasmin.
 

Spokesperson

The spokesperson for this year’s edition of Éléphant ClassiQ is Québec director Maxime Giroux, whose film Félix & Meira has been selected as Canada’s official entry in the best foreign-language film category at the Oscars. Riding a wonderful wave of national and international recognition and, after winning awards at numerous festivals, Maxime Giroux had a most gratifying year in 2015, with the release of his third feature film.
 

Opening and closing

This first edition will open on Thursday, November 19, at 8:00 pm at the Imperial Cinemawith the projection of the famous popular French comedy La Folie des Grandeurs by Gérard Oury (1971), starring Louis de Funès, Yves Montand and Alice Sapritch.During this opening evening, which will also celebrate Gaumont’s 120th anniversary, Nicolas Seydoux, its president, and Danièle Thompson, the film’s scriptwriter and daughter of director Gérard Oury, will be the guests of honour. Many renowned guests will also be on hand for the occasion. During this evening, La Folie des Grandeurs will be preceded by the short film Comment Monsieur prend son bain, directed by Alice Guy, the very first female director in the history of cinema. 

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About Éléphant: The memory of Québec cinema

Éléphant: The memory of Québec cinema, launched by Quebecor on November 8, 2008, is a large-scale project dedicated to restoring and digitizing in HD Québec's heritage of feature films, and making it available as it is digitized.To date, nearly 225 films have been restored and digitized. It is a particular source of pride to Éléphant that the films can be viewed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Once they have been restored and digitized, the movies can be accessed via video on demand on Videotron's illico platform, including channel 900, illico mobile and illico.tv.The films are also being gradually added, in the original version with subtitles, to iTunes in Canada, the U.S., France and all other European and African countries where French or English is one of the official languages.

The Éléphant website at www.elephant.canoe.ca contains the largest existing database and information bank on Québec cinema.Also produced under the aegis of Éléphant, the book Les images que nous sommes, 60 ans de cinéma québécois by anthropologist Serge Bouchard (Éditions de l’Homme) provides an original and incisive history of 60 years of Québec cinema. It is available in bookstores and in digital format. The digital version, available on iTunes, includes 73 movie excerpts. 

Éléphant: The memory of Québec cinema is fully funded by Quebecor. It is a philanthropic enterprise from which Quebecor derives no financial benefit.Aside from a small amount to cover a portion of the platform’s operating costs, all revenues from distribution of the movies on illico goes to the rights holders and filmmakers.

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8 Spanish film participate in this annual Festival devoted to the promotion and presentation of the world’s finest productions on art and media art.

Beatus: The Spanish Apocalypse

The history and the cultural ramifications of one of Spain’s most precious treasures, the illuminated and illustrated medieval manuscripts based on the Commentary on the Apocalypse, written in about 776 by the monk Saint Beatus of Liébana, in the Cantabria mountains. Professor John Williams, a medieval scholar, takes viewers on a journey across Spain and into the past in order to establish the historical, cultural, religious and artistic context in which the monks lived from the eighth to the seventeenth century.

Silo 468

Silo 468 recounts how a remnant of the industrial past, an oil silo by the sea near Helsinki, was turned into a permanent interactive light installation by the Madrid based Lighting Design Collective. The walls were perforated with 2,012 holes, in reference to Helsinki’s designation as World Design Capital in 2012. The natural light, wind and movement of light on the water are the variables in the lighting concept. During the day, the holes in the steel structure allow the natural light to enter the bright red interior, creating undulating motifs. At night, the computer-controlled LED domes react to the weather.

Children of Flamenco

Amós, a guitar virtuoso from Salamanca who performs around the world and composes his own music, and Abraham, a singer from Madrid’s gypsy community who has stayed in his family circle, are both child prodigies on the contemporary Spanish flamenco scene. They each understand this culture differently. One is on a quest for perfection, and the other is cultivating tradition and the philosophy of life associated with it. The film tells the story of two different paths to acquiring virtuosity and of the passing of music and culture from father to son.

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