Karl Lemieux
An electric presence on Montréal’s experimental film scene, Karl Lemieux has been composing artistically adventurous time-based media since the late-90s. In 2006, Lemieux began an ongoing series of performances with the musician Radwan Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart) that brought Lemieux’s cameraless filmmaking techniques into the live arena. Orchestrating an assortment of hand-processed 16mm film loops through a suite of aged Eikis, Lemieux bleaches and paints filmstrips seconds before they hit the gate. He is co-founder with Daïchi Saïto of Double Negative. In 2016 he presented his first feature film ”Maudite Poutine”.
Western Sunburn – Canada 2007
14 min – BetaSP – no dialogue
V: Light Cone
A re-photography in video of material that was originally used in a performance during which Karl Lemieux painted, scratched and burned film loops from an old western 16mm film. Traces of an impossible past and future collide in a trajectory where the present unravels.
Quiet Zone – Canada 2014
4 min – 16mm – English
Co-Regie: David Bryant – S: Mathieu
Bouchard-Malo – SD:
Olivier Calvert, David Bryant – P: National Film Board Canada
– V: Light Cone
From the world of those who suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity, settled in West Virginia around the Green Bank observatory, known as the National Radio Quiet Zone. Weaving together an unusual story in which sound and image distort reality to make the distress and suffering of these people palpable.
Halo Getters – Canada 2014
6 min – 16mm on HD – no dialogue
M: Hiss Tracts (David Bryant, Godspeed You!, Kevin Doria, Growing,
Total Life
V: Double Negative Collective
The Canadian experimental musical duo Hiss Tracts created in “Halo Getters” a creepy soundscape that would fit well in a horror movie. Lemieux puts together a video that centers on what appears to be an abandoned house, with film effects creating an unsettling vibe reminiscent of Gore Verbinski‘s ”The Ring” (2002).