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Mémoire bilan,
1988
Interactive documentary
What were Quebecers thinking in 1988?
What were the questions of the day?
Created for the inaugural exhibition of the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City in 1988, one of the modules, Mémoire Bilan, was intended to take the pulse of Quebec society at the time. Arranged in five stations (image and sound on a touch screen with a compilation of user's choices) this interactive documentary was made up of about a hundred short testimonies (maximum 60 seconds, no editing) covering a wide range of subjects, from the environment to the family, culture and other key social issues.

Users could express their agreement or disagreement with the speaker's opinion. Following his or her intervention, he or she would learn what percentage of the people who had voted before shared the same opinion, or not, on a given issue. The exhibition was presented from 1988 to 2004 (3 million visitors according to the research and evaluation services of the Musée de la civilisation).
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Standard Betacam video
60 minutes
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Current Affairs subject

Main collaborators

Concept
Philippe Baylaucq
Philippe Dubé

Research and scriptwriting
Philippe Baylaucq
Élaine Caire

Cinematography
Philippe Baylaucq
Philippe Herbison

Sound recording
Jean Corbeil

Interviews
Philippe Baylaucq
Élaine Caire

Editing and
post-production
Guy Laurent (Magiscope)

Producers
Binette et associés

Exhibition creators
GSM Design

General Exhibition commissionner
Philippe Dubé

Sculptural Environment
Mémoire Bilan
Pierre Leblanc

Mémoire bilan,
1988
Co-Writer and Director
Produced by Binette et Associés and GSM Design for the Musée de la Civilisation, Quebec City.

Mémoires retraces the milestones in the history and culture of the people of Quebec. Thanks to a large scale staging featuring 1,000 objects, it takes us through the early days, a period of inventions and adaptation to a difficult environment, the many sorrows and celebrations, then on to todays institutions and the challenges of the future.

Mémoires is the first major synthesis of Quebec history to be told by highlighting emotion. Indeed, the thread running through this presentation of our history is sensibility, drawing on both imagination and reality.

Along the way, we'll see an ancestral kitchen, an industrial loom, Queen Victoria's head-less monument, a children's hearse, a propeller-driven snowmobile, a 19th-century float and a lover's double rocking-chair ... This journey through time reveals the collective memories that have forged Quebecers cultural identity.

Excerpt from the press release for the exhibition Mémoire: un portrait des Québécois
© Musée de la civilisation, 2023

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