IMPETUS

Jennifer Alleyn

Jennifer Alleyn (Switzerland, 1969) is a filmmaker and photographer who works and lives in Montreal. She majored in film at Concordia University in 1991 and she traveled the world in 1992 for the television show La course destination monde, making twenty-six documentaries in just as many weeks. She made her debut in cinema and fiction in 1996 with the segment Aurore et Crépuscule from the collective film Cosmos, which was presented at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. Her following shorts Le regard de Delphine (2000) and Svanok (2005) received awards from the Festival of Soleure in Switzerland and the Short Fiction Award in New York.
Her documentaries L’atelier de mon père – My Father’s Studio (2008) and Dix fois Dix (2010) respectively paid tribute to the artists Edmund Alleyn and Otto Dix; both films participated in Montreal’s International Festival of Films on Art. In 2011, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts exhibited an installation that she created with the writer Nancy Huston. She also presented a selection of her work in Switzerland in 2016.

FILMOGRAFIA

Cosmos (coregisti/codirectors Denis Villeneuve, André Turpin, Manon Briand, Marie-Julie Dallaire, Arto Paragamian, ep. Aurore et Crépuscule, cm, 1996), Le regard de Delphine (doc., 2000), Imaginer le rien (doc., cm, 2001), Les Rossy (doc., cm, 2002), Svanok (cm, 2005), La vie imaginée de Jacques Monory (doc., cm, 2006), L’atelier de mon père (doc., mm, 2008), Dix fois Dix (doc., mcm, 2011), A Few Lost Words (cm, 2013), La terre nous est étroite (doc., cm, 2014), Respondere (doc., cm, 2016), Impetus (doc., 2018).