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Martin Bureau

Filmmaker and painter Martin Bureau was born in Saint-Ubalde, grew up in Saint-Félicien and now lives and works in Quebec City. He has developed a multidisciplinary art practice that combines documentary film, painting and video installations. His films, including the features A Tent on Mars (2009) and Playa Coloniale (2012), co-directed with Luc Renaud, and the short subjects Hell Runs on Gasoline! (2015) and Bonfires (2017), have been screened at over a hundred festivals in Canada and internationally, earning multiple nominations and awards. His visual art works have been shown in renowned galleries, artist-run centres, biennale exhibitions and museums in Canada and around the world, and are part of many public and private collections. Bureau deploys his varied techniques to cast a critical eye on social, geopolitical and environmental issues, using a language he describes as a “poetics of disaster.”