Robert Paquin

Birth: 1946, Montreal, Canada

Education:
Licence ès lettres, université de Montréal, 1968
M.A., université de Montréal, 1975
Ph.D., King’s College, London, England, 1980

 

Career:
I have taught translation, film translation, English language and literature at several universities in Canada and Austria; I have translated novels, plays, essays and poetry; I have translated/adapted films and TV shows for synchronized dubbing and for subtitling; I am also a poet (Les Hommes – paroles sans musique).  JARP, Montréal, 1985), a bluesman (Poussières bleues, Disques JARP, 027677200106, May 2000), and now a film maker.

Filmography :

• Aéroport, (1 min. 24 s) 2006, screened at Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, in Montreal in 2008
• L’Amitié (sur un tableau de Jim Palmer), (3 min. 40 s) 2006
• Airport, ( 1 min. 49 s) 2007
• Friendship (on a painting by Jim Palmer), (3 min. 40 s) 2007, screened at the International Festival of Cinema and Technology, in Seattle in 2008, and in Los Angeles in 2009
• Les Mots fantômes (The Phantom Words), (3 min. 42 s) 2008
• Sentinelle (Sentinel), (1 min. 44 s) 2009
• Corps et âmes (Bodies and Souls), (6 min. 26 s) 2010