Karl Lemieux
Karl LEMIEUX (1980, Canada) has directed and produced cutting-edge time-based media art since the early 2000s. His films, installations and performances have screened internationally in museums, galleries, music venues and film festivals, including the Montreal Contemporary Arts Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and the Venice International Film Festival. His collaboration with sound artists and musicians such as BJ Nilsen, Philip Jeck and Godspeed You! Black Emperor has made him an essential voice in avant-garde cinema and art. Maudite Poutine/Shambles (2016) was his first feature-length narrative film, premiered in the Orizzonti competition in Venice and screened at IFFR in 2017.
Filmography
(selection) Mouvement de lumière (2004, short), Western Sunburn (2007, short), Passage (2008, short), Mamori (2010, short), El Camino (2011, short), L’Entre deux (2014, short), Quiet Zone (2015, short), Maudite Poutine (2016), Sewer Blues (2017, short), Yujiapu (2017, short), The Seven Last Words (co-dir. 2018), At State’s End – Godspeed You! Black Emperor (2021), 50 ans Vidéographe (2021, short), Les Occidentales (2022), Somehow Continue (2023, short), Substrat (2023, short), The great Thaw (2024, short), Unearthed (2024, short)
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Karl Lemieux op IFFR
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Unearthed
Karl Lemieux | 9' | Canada | International premiere
16mm film embodies the contaminating forces of industry in one of Earth’s most polluted places. -
The Seven Last Words
Kaveh Nabatian, Ariane Lorrain, Sophie Goyette, Juan Andrés Arango, Sophie Deraspe, Karl Lemieux, Caroline Monnet | 74' | Canada | World premiere
Challenging and varied omnibus film by seven Canadian filmmakers, inspired by Joseph Haydn’s composition around the last words of Jesus. -
Maudite Poutine
Karl Lemieux | 91' | Canada | None
Young musician Vincent is targeted by the mob and flees to his small hometown. There, he unexpectedly reconnects with his older brother, a tortured so -
Quiet Zone
Karl Lemieux, David Bryant | 15' | Canada | World premiere
Fear of Wi-Fi and mobile phones can take over your life if you are electromagnetically sensitive. Exceptionally depicted search for a radiation-free p -
Mamori
Karl Lemieux | 8' | Canada | International premiere
Strong presence of the Amazon rainforest in sound and vision, made with field recordings by Francisco Lopez and ‘direct film’ by Karl Lemieux.