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Where are you Gadou! (clip)

Where are you Gadou! is the theme song for the mini-series Salut, Gadou!, a fictitious tribute to the Saint-Jean-Baptiste neighbourhood’s history of community involvement (downtown Quebec). It is based on a novel by the same name by Malcolm Reid, published in 1982. Reid’s novel was inspired by the neighbourhood’s Saint-Gabriel movement (1976) and the operation to rescue what is now the community’s youth centre.
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When she learns that the local youth centre is in danger, Geneviève refuses to give in without a fight. She tries to convince her friend Gadou to participate in the movement to save it.  »

Starting in June 2021, a cultural outreach project transformed an entire inner-city neighbourhood into a playground for fiction and learning about civil society. Readings and group discussions were fuel for writing scenes and poems. Young people imagined how the story might take shape in today’s world before participating in organizing, filming, and creating the original soundtrack.

Salut, Gadou! is the winner of the 2022 Literary Prize of Intergeneration Quebec.

  • Hélène Matte
    Director
  • Jeremie Thibault
    Director
  • Hélène Matte
    Writer
  • Hélène Matte
    Producer
  • Hélène Matte
    Key Cast
    voice, composition
  • Sandrine Bélanger-Rivard
    Key Cast
    violon
  • Aurélie Bernatchez
    Key Cast
    guitar
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Salut, Gadou?, le clip
  • Project Type:
    Music Video
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 1 second
  • Completion Date:
    March 12, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec
    Québec (Quebec)
    Canada
    June 4, 2022
Director Biography - Hélène Matte, Jeremie Thibault

Hélène Matte has been working in Québec City’s cultural scene for over twenty years as a multitalented free agent. She is a writer and a poet, a curator and a mediator, a performer and a visual artist, a mother and a citizen. Her artistic practice examines the notions of the voice, encounters and experimental poetry. She practices action art, draws and writes. While Matte has exhibited and performed in Europe, Canada and elsewhere in the Americas, she is also active locally, initiating, coordinating and supervising projects such as Apprentis poétes ! (Planète Rebelle, 2015) and Vies de Quartier (2016). Hélène Matte regularly publishes her work and has directed and produced numerous works of video poetry (Aurora Revelatìon, Fotogenia Festival 2020).

Travailleuse culturelle depuis plus de vingt ans à Québec, Hélène Matte est un électron libre portant de nombreux chapeaux : écrivaine et poète, commissaire et médiatrice, performeure et artiste visuelle, mère de famille et citoyenne. Sa pratique interroge les notions de voix, de rencontre et de poésies expérimentales. Elle investit l’art-action, le dessin et l’écriture. Elle a réalisé des expositions et performances en Europe, au Canada et ailleurs en Amériques, mais agit aussi au niveau local où elle initie, coordonne et anime des projets rassembleurs tels Apprentis poètes ! (Planète Rebelle, 2014) et Vies de Quartier (2016). Hélène Matte publie régulièrement et a réalisé plusieurs stand-up poétiques et nombreuses vidéopoésies.

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