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Latulippe Hugo
In 1994-95 Hugo Latulippe travelled around the world as part of the Radio-Canada competition La Course destination monde. In 1996-97 he criss-crossed North America making 60 short films for the TV5 program Bons baisers d'Amérique. Then, as a staff director with the National Film Board's Culture and Experimentation Studio, he made the documentary Voyage au nord du monde with the painter Réal Bérard.
From the moment it opened in theatres in September 2001, Bacon: The Film set off intense media and public debate and mobilized groups all over Quebec. The film was shown by universities and colleges during a screening and discussion tour that drew over 30,000 people in just a few months. In June 2002, the Quebec government and the hog farming industry gave in and announced public hearings on the future of giant hog farms. The magazine Séquences lionized the young filmmaker: " Bacon by Hugo Latulippe [is] a film such as Che would have made." [TRANSLATION] Latulippe then broadened his campaign and published a companion book, Bacon, le livre: "Pigs were just an excellent pretext, really. A clear metaphor to get people to think about the relationship we have (or no longer have) with other living beings, Nature, and our own nature."
With What Remains Of Us,(2004) Hugo Latulippe is again speaking out against the dehumanization of the world: "I believe, naively perhaps, that documentary film can contribute to the world in which I live. It's my practical side." The filmmaker/essayist has also shoot Requiem pour l'humanité, a film inspired by Brahms's Opus 45, in collaboration with his friend, conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
