Robert Morin


Robert Morin is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 2009, he received the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.

Biography

Robert Morin is known for his very personal, dark, and pessimistic "interior views" of family, crime, law enforcement, and human suffering, with his work regularly moving back and forth between relatively conventional dramas with multi-actor casts, and experimental personal essay films in which Morin, or a single actor cast as a stand-in, stars in essentially a film-length philosophical monologue from the perspective of a character who, whether by choice or circumstance, has become an outsider to mainstream society.
After studying literature and communications, in 1971 he began to work as a cameraman, joining ORTQ in Rimouski, where he directed films and videos. In 1977, with a group of friends and colleagues, Morin founded La Coopérative de Production Vidéo de Montréal, where he continues to produce his own work. After creating close to 30 short films with his colleagues over 10 years, he directed his first feature-length film Scale-Model Sadness in 1987.
His film Requiem for a Handsome Bastard won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film at the 1992 Toronto International Film Festival, and received four Genie Award nominations at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992, including Best Picture and Best Director.

Filmography

Feature films

  • Scale-Model Sadness - 1987
  • - 1989
  • Requiem for a Handsome Bastard - 1992
  • Windigo - 1994
  • Yes Sir! Madame... - 1994
  • Whoever Dies, Dies in Pain - 1998
  • Opération Cobra - 2001
  • The Negro - 2002
  • Yule Croak - 2005
  • May God Bless America - 2006
  • Daddy Goes Ptarmigan Hunting - 2008
  • Diary of an Aid Worker - 2010
  • The Four Soldiers - 2013
  • 3 Indian Tales - 2014
  • Heaven Sent - 2016
  • Infiltration - 2017
  • Wild Feast - 2023
  • Six Neorealist Portraits - 2026

    Short films

  • La femme étrangère
  • Le voleur vit en enfer
  • Mauvais mal
  • On se paye la gomme
  • Toi t'es-tu lucky
  • Le mystérieux Paul
  • A Postcard from Victoria
  • Ma richesse a cause mes privations
  • Il a gagné ses épaulettes
  • Gus est encore dans l'armée
  • Ma vie c'est pour le restant de mes jours
  • Le royaume est commencé
  • ''Même mort il faut s'organiser ''