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Transportation (28)

Driving and Trucking (4)

  • 5′2″ 80 000 LBS
    5′2″ 80 000 LBS
    Nathalie Trépanier 1999 51 min
    This feature documentary shines a light on a group of women who are passionate about their non-traditional job – trucking. Filmed in 1999, it follows the women all across Quebec as they do their job and address the big-ticket items in life: love, family, freedom, and solitude. Filled with humour and the contagious good spirits of the women involved.
  • Eye Witness No. 93
    Eye Witness No. 93
    Hector Lemieux 1957 11 min
    This short documentary offers the inside story of the trucking business in the mid-20th century. Told from the point of view of the driver of a large long-distance trailer transport, the film describes his customary 388-mile run between Montréal and New York and, in the process, shows what a highly organized operation trucking has become.
  • Taxi!
    Taxi!
    Barry Greenwald 1982 57 min
    This feature documentary studies one of the city’s most visible yet most anonymous character: the taxi driver. Filmed by day and night, the film offers an entertaining and sometimes comical look at the drivers, fleet operators and dispatchers who are expected to deliver passengers, parcels… and even babies.
  • Ignition
    Ignition
    Doug, Jr. Smarch 2009 3 min
    This animated short evokes the experience of driving alone on an unlit rural road at night. Darkness is broken by the beam of headlights, creating dancing shadows that obscure what lies beyond the road.

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