Guy Borremans (July 11, 1934 - December 29, 2012) was a

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cinematographer and photographer.Jean-François Nadeau
"Décès du photographe Guy Borremans"
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'', January 2, 2013. He was most noted for his work on Clément Perron's film '' Day After Day (Jour après jour)'', for which he won the

Canadian Film Award The Canadian Film Awards were the leading Canadian cinema awards from 1949 until 1978. These honours were conducted annually, except in 1974 when a number of Quebec directors withdrew their participation and prompted a cancellation. In the 1970s ...

for Best Black-and-White Cinematography at the 15th Canadian Film Awards in 1963.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . pp. 61-63. Born and raised in Dinant,

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, Borremans moved to Canada with his family in 1951. Strongly influenced by surrealism, he was closely associated with the

Les Automatistes Les Automatistes were a group of Québécois artistic dissidents from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The movement was founded in the early 1940s by painter Paul-Émile Borduas. Les Automatistes were so called because they were influenced by Surrea ...

arts movement. As a cinematographer, he was associated primarily with documentary films, with other credits including ''

À St-Henri le cinq septembre ''À St-Henri le cinq septembre'' (English release title: ''September Five at Saint-Henri'') is a 1962 National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary film directed by Hubert Aquin about the first day of school for children and their families in th ...

'', ''

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Manouane River Lumberjacks ''Manouane River Lumberjacks'' (french: Bûcherons de la Manouane) is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Arthur Lamothe and released in 1962. Considered an important milestone in the Cinema of Quebec,Marc-André Lussier"Arthur Lamoth ...

(Bûcherons de la Manouane)'' and ''

24 heures ou plus ''24 heures ou plus'' (also written as ''24 heures ou plus...'' or ''Vingt-quatre heures ou plus...'') is a radical political documentary about Quebec society, shot in 1971 and completed by director by Gilles Groulx by mid-January 1973. However, t ...

''. He was married to actress

Luce Guilbeault Luce Guilbeault (5 March 1935 – 12 July 1991) was a Canadian actress and director from Quebec. She was one of the leading figures of Quebec repertory theatre of the 1960s and one of the most-sought actresses of Quebec cinema in the 1970s. She ...

. Following her death in 1991, he remarried to Mary Kostman. He died on December 29, 2012, in

Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières (, – 'Three Rivers') is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of ...

. In 2016 Ariel Borremans, his son with Guilbeault, published the book ''Ma mère dans l'oeil de mon père'', a collection of his photographs of Guilbeault throughout their marriage.

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* 1934 births 2012 deaths 20th-century Canadian photographers 21st-century Canadian photographers Canadian cinematographers Artists from Quebec Belgian emigrants to Canada Best Cinematography Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners {{Canada-cinematographer-stub