Karl Lemieux

Ondes et silence

David Bryant, David Bryant

Nicols Fox, Katherine Peacock

Otherworldly frequencies and textured, fluctuating images beautifully visualize the distress of people who suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity, and who must live in exile from cities in order to find solitude from the noise.

Passage

Karl Lemieux

Brigitte Pogonat, Francis Ducharme

Exquisitely filmed in black-and-white, this experimental narrative follows four friends on a road trip as they discover the complicated arena of unseen desire that arises when ecstasy and sexuality mix.

Maudite Poutine

Karl Lemieux

Jean-Simon Leduc, Martin Dubreuil

Caught stealing drugs from the wrong people, 27 year old Vincent is in trouble and on the run from the local mob. Fleeing to the backwoods, Vincent unexpectedly reconnects with his brother Michel with whom he’d cut ties many years ago. As he tries to maintain the semblance of a normal life hanging out with friends and playing in his band, Vincent witnesses his brother's own turbulent downward spiral.

Les sept dernières paroles

Ariane Lorrain, Caroline Monnet

Luc Beauchemin, Frédéric Bednarz

The Seven Last Words sounds out the experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on seven themes expressed in an oratorio: forgiveness, hope, relation, abandonment, distress, triumph, and life after the death.

Mamori

Karl Lemieux

Mamori transports us into a black-and-white universe of fluid shapes, dappled and striated with shadows and light, where the texture of the visuals and of the celluloid itself have been transformed through the filmmaker’s artistry. The raw material of images and sounds was captured in the Amazon rainforest by filmmaker Karl Lemieux and avant-garde composer Francisco López, a specialist in field recordings. Re-filming the photographs on 16 mm stock, then developing the film stock itself and digitally editing the whole, Lemieux transmutes the raw images and accompanying sounds into an intense sensory experience at the outer limits of representation and abstraction. Fragmented musical phrases filter through the soundtrack, evoking in our imagination the clamour of the tropical rainforest in this remote Amazonian location called Mamori.

Mouvement de Lumière

Karl Lemieux

Mouvement de lumière (Motion of light), which is comprised of noise music and lines hand-painted directly onto the film, attempts to break free of a visual and sound-based order through abstraction, thereby initiating a process centred on inner sensation. A radical proposition of power inherent in film. Music by Olivier Borzeix.

The Bridge

Karl Lemieux

Karl Lemieux's first project, a video interpretation of Lee Ranaldo’s talking sound-piece “The Bridge” (1985), made while attending high school in the Nevada desert, foreshadows Lemieux’s recent projector performances with live musicians.

Weekend in The Pines

Karl Lemieux, Hyena Hive

Trash and No Star!

Karl Lemieux, Claire Blanchet

Composed of paint and collage on 16mm film that had originally been tossed in the trash and later recovered to be reshot on an optical printer, Trash and no star! pays tribute to discarded objects. Tempted by extreme experiences and work on the internal sensations, the film was edited to the music of Dreamcatcher.

Silos

Karl Lemieux

Shot in super 8mm in Silo # 5 of the old port of Montreal in 2002, this film was achieved in 2011. Music by BJ Nilsen.

L'Entre deux

Karl Lemieux

Experimental work detailing the movements of crowds in an urban context, where the movement is both charged and fluid. Result of a series of long exposure experiments carried out on 16mm film with the director of photography.

Traces

Karl Lemieux

Hand-painted film on 16mm by Karl Lemieux. Music by Visions.

Western Sunburn

Karl Lemieux

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.

El Camino

Karl Lemieux

Optical print film that was constructed from 16mm images that filmmaker Richard Kerr entrusted to Karl Lemieux.

Yujiapu

Karl Lemieux

During the winter of 2015 Karl Lemieux travelled to China with BJ Nilsen and a small camera crew to make a piece about the country's infamous ghost cities. The work presented is made with images shot in the city of Yujiapu, near Tianjin where ancestral fishing villages have been destroyed to make way for a multibillion-dollar real estate project that was to become the new financial district of the area. The entire city was developed but never finished and has been left uninhabited for over six years. The film uses the lines and frames of the buildings of Yujiapu and the lines and the frames of the film strip to create abstract elements that slowly reveal an incredible desolate urban landscape.

G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! - Full Album Broadcast

Philippe Léonard, Karl Lemieux

Karl Lemieux, Philippe Léonard

Over the last 25 years, the Montreal post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor has released seven albums and presented visually extraordinary shows around the world. At State’s End is their latest show, captured at the majestic Cinéma Impérial. It features six 16 mm projectors playing images in a loop to accompany the music from the band’s latest album. Part documentary, part experimental film, At State’s End! is a unique auditory and visual experience.