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Born in 1980 in Kingsey Falls, Quebec, Karl Lemieux has directed a number of experimental films, including Mouvement de lumière / Motion of Light (2004), Western Sunburn (2006), Mamori (2010), Quiet Zone (2015) and Yujiapu (2017). He has given many live cinema performances with avant-garde musicians, including the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, which he joined in 2010. Lemieux is also a co-founder of the Double Negative collective.
Total trailers found: 28
24 January 2019
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.
10 August 2017
Caught stealing drugs from the wrong people, 27 year old Vincent is in trouble and on the run from the local mob.
10 October 2024
The Great Thaw is a project about permafrost thaw and how landscape is changed by it. We take a close look at ecosystems like the boreal forest, the tundra and the arctic coastline to document the impacts of the melting permafrost caused by climate change and to present the beauty of permafrost itself.
13 January 2010
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.
23 November 2023
Shot on 16mm film, this piece creatively portrays the making of Creation Destruction, a multidisciplinary outdoor performance by choreographer Dana Gingras set to music by the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
16 November 2019
A reflection on the fate of humanity in the Anthropocene epoch, White Noise is a roller-coaster of a film, a whirlwind of sounds and images.
03 August 2014
Experimental work detailing the movements of crowds in an urban context, where the movement is both charged and fluid.
27 March 2021
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.
03 August 1998
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.
23 February 2017
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.
15 August 2010
Karl Lemieux deconstructs the narrative thread of found footage by slowing down its playback speed to the point of distortion.
31 December 2021
A video vignette marking the 50th anniversary of the artist-run centre Le Vidéographe
20 April 2014
During a stay in the Death Valley desert in California, Karl Lemieux encounters a demolished house wall, standing alone in a void and whose windows are only open gaps, washed out by light.
05 April 2011
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.
03 July 2011
Optical print film that was constructed from 16mm images that filmmaker Richard Kerr entrusted to Karl Lemieux.
01 January 2020
This version is a pre-cut or study of the original video material, which was used to make the 35mm CinémaScope vertical film of the same name.
20 February 2007
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.
27 April 2009
Film super-8mm shot for the One Take super-8 in 2009. Music by Maussade.
22 August 2004
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.
15 April 2007
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.
22 March 2024
All images and sounds of Unearthed were captured during a residency in the Arctic in Nikel, Zapolyarny and Prirechnyi in the Murmansk oblast in Russia, one of the most polluted areas in the world.
15 February 2008
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.
10 September 2015
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.
