Making Movie History: André Lamy
2013 · 5m · Canada
Directed by Denys Desjardins
Genres: biography, documentary, historical
Tones: contemplative
André Lamy moves from cofounding Onyx Films to leading the NFB and the Canadian Film Development Corporation through periods of expansion.
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A by-the-book institutional history that treats Canadian cinema like a filing cabinet—competent, sure, but where's the weirdness, the conflict, the thing that makes you squirm?
Desjardins locates Lamy within a precise historical continuum of Canadian cultural policy and auteur cinema, assembling archival material with the discipline of someone who understands how institutions shape aesthetic possibility.
The editing rhythm between Lamy's testimony and period footage does the real work here—that specific sync between voice and image is what transforms a bureaucratic résumé into something that actually *breathes*.