Michel Brault

Biography

Michel Brault (25 June 1928 – 21 September 2013) was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s. Brault was a pioneer of the hand-held camera aesthetic.

Birthday

Jun 25, 1928

Place of birth

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Deathday

Sep 21, 2013

Credited in

As cast

Live Before the Letter
As Self
Québec...?
As
La beauté du geste
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As Self
Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story
As Self
Capturing Reality
As Self
Cinéma, cinéma
As Self

As crew

Télesphore Légaré, garde-pêche
No picture available
Role: Director of Photography
Fred Barry comédien
Role: Director of Photography
Alone or with Others
Role: Director of Photography
Of Whales, the Moon, and Men
Role: Director
Orders
Role: Director
A Paper Wedding
Role: Director
Montreal Stories
Role: Director
The Devil's Toy
Role: Camera Operator
Mon amie Max
Role: Director
The Long Winter
Role: Writer
The Long Winter
Role: Director
Geneviève
Role: Director
Between Sweet and Salt Water
Role: Director
Between Sweet and Salt Water
Role: Writer
Between Sweet and Salt Water
Role: Editor
The Snowshoers
Role: Director
Children of Silence
Role: Director
Acadia Acadia?!?
Role: Director
Wrestling
Role: Director
Éloge du chiac
Role: Director
Beluga Days
Role: Director
The End of Summer
Role: Director
Louisiana
Role: Director of Photography
Visit to a Foreign Country
Role: Director
Washed Hands
Role: Director of Photography
The Great Land of Small
Role: Director of Photography
Bye Bye Victor
Role: Director of Photography
The Forties
Role: Director of Photography
Before the Time Comes
Role: Director of Photography
Orders
Role: Director of Photography
The Lever and the River
Role: Director of Photography
Acadia Acadia?!?
Role: Camera Operator
Marie-Christine
No picture available
Role: Director of Photography
Éloge du chiac
Role: Director of Photography
Les enfants de Néant
Role: Director of Photography
À tout prendre
Role: Director of Photography
Of Whales, the Moon, and Men
Role: Director of Photography
Children of Silence
Role: Director of Photography
Les enfants de Néant
Role: Director
The Skiff of Renald and Thomas
No picture available
Role: Executive Producer
Strangers of the Earth
Role: Director of Photography
The Snowshoers
Role: Editor
A Day in June
No picture available
Role: Camera Operator
Festival in Puerto Rico
Role: Director of Photography
A Scream from Silence
Role: Director of Photography
Tickets s.v.p
No picture available
Role: Director of Photography
Visit to a Foreign Country
Role: Director of Photography
Un pays sans bon sens!
Role: Director of Photography
Between You and You All
Role: Director of Photography
Between Sweet and Salt Water
Role: Director of Photography
Golden Gloves
Role: Director of Photography
Beluga Days
Role: Director of Photography
Good Riddance
Role: Director of Photography
Le son des français d'Amérique
Role: Director
Seven Surprizes
No picture available
Role: Director
Perpetual Movement
Role: Art Direction
Perpetual Movement
Role: Editor
Perpetual Movement
Role: Director
Of Whales, the Moon, and Men
Role: Writer
Poussière sur la ville
Role: Director of Photography
Ville-Marie
Role: Director of Photography
The Lever and the River
Role: Director
Félix Leclerc, troubadour
Role: Director of Photography
Wrestling
Role: Director of Photography
Wrestling
Role: Editor
That Tender Age
Role: Director
Chronicle of a Summer
Role: Director of Photography
Montreal Stories
Role: Writer
No Mercy
Role: Director of Photography
Threshold
Role: Director of Photography
Mon oncle Antoine
Role: Director of Photography
The Time of the Hunt
Role: Director of Photography
The End of Summer
Role: Director of Photography
The Punishment
Role: Director of Photography
Normetal
No picture available
Role: Director of Photography
The Days Before Christmas
No picture available
Role: Director of Photography
Police
Role: Director of Photography
The Snowshoers
Role: Director of Photography
Kamouraska
Role: Director of Photography
Anne Hébert, 1916-2000
Role: Director of Photography
Alfred DesRochers, poète
No picture available
Role: Director of Photography
Éloge du chiac
Role: Editor
Orders
Role: Writer
Préambule
No picture available
Role: Director of Photography
Happiness Bound
Role: Director
Dead Man Out
Role: Director of Photography
Normande
Role: Director of Photography
Shabbot Shalom!
Role: Director
September Five at Saint-Henri
Role: Director of Photography
The Panafrican Festival in Algiers
Role: Director of Photography
The Joy of Winter
Role: Director of Photography
Jour de juin
Role: Director of Photography
Jusqu'au cou
Role: Director of Photography
Half a Lifetime
Role: Director of Photography
Eliza's Horoscope
Role: Director of Photography
Captive Feast
Role: Cinematography