A feature-length documentary portrait of Québécoise painter Johanne Corno, who has lived and worked in New York City for more than 20 years. Ignored by the art intelligentsia in Québec, she settled abroad to escape that creative constraint, and built an enviable international career. Today, she casts a lucid eye on her work and describes the resources she draws on to survive in the jungle of the contemporary art world.
Direction
Édoin lets Corno's personality dominate every frame.
Production
Intimate studio access reveals raw creative process.
Editing
Tight 78 minutes, no art-doc bloat.
Director
Guy Édoin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Corno embodies a specifically Québécois artistic diaspora—talent that had to leave to be seen.
The 'jungle' metaphor isn't accidental; Corno explicitly frames the art market as predatory survival.
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