Artist in Montreal

This short film introduces us to the automatistes followers of an abstract art form that developed in Montreal The movement initiated by PaulÉmile Borduas is explained by the artists themselves when narrator Bruce Ruddick drops in at their cooperative studio The film also captures painter Paterson Ewen at his home and joins the crowd at LÉchouerie the artists rendezvous spot Dr Robert Hubbard chief curator of the National Gallery of Canada comments on nonobjective art in general and automatism in particular