Hélène Bourgault (May 16, 1945 - October 14, 2006) was a Canadian video and film artist. Bourgault was born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada and died in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Bourgault was a founding member of GIV, the Groupe Intervention Video, a feminist video production and distribution collective in Montreal, Quebec. As a member of GIV, she co-directed several video documentaries with fellow artist Helen Doyle, including Chaperons Rouges (1979) which was included in a notable traveling exhibition called Rebel Girls: A Survey of Canadian Feminist Videotapes 1974-1988. Chaperons rouges has won two awards, one at the Second Video Open in Toronto in 1979 and another at the Festival international de films de femmes in Sceaux in 1981.
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1945
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14 October 2006 (aged 61)
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