Projections Series: Film and Video Program

Recent film and video output is rich and diverse. Many artists from a wide variety of backgrounds—video makers, visual artists, photographers, playwrights, choreographers and composers—are drawn to the poetic power of the image projected on the big screen. Projections also refers to the energy of a thrust forward, toward the future of the moving image.

Music Video
July 9 to September 28, 2008
In the Beverley Webster Rolph Hall

This coming summer, the Music Video program will be made up entirely of productions emanating from the local scene. While the museum gives over all of its spaces to a Québec Triennial, this third edition of Music Video makes room for young Montréal talent.

Two years ago, as part of the Projections series, we decided to focus on the remarkable role played by video clip directors in the changing film language. From Bohemian Rhapsody, made by Bruce Gowers in 1975, to the formation of the Directors Label by Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham in 2003, our inaugural program traced the evolution of this “new” visual language. Working between music and film, television and advertising, many young artists find the world of the music video to be a conducive environment for experimentation and a springboard to directing and a filmmaking career. One such director is Louis-Philippe Eno, whose Malajube Montréal -40 °C we presented in 2006. In the last four years, the award-winning Eno has made nearly eighty music videos; in 2007, he directed Souffle, his first short film.

While Eno’s work continues to hold our attention, fresh faces are emerging on the exciting Montréal music scene. Who are our hot new creative artists? Names we could mention include Jérémie Saindon, Dave Pawsey, Fluorescent Hill, Gabriel Coutu-Dumont, Ian Cameron, Pascale Bussières and David Clermont-Béïque, Patricia Boushel, and Kaveh Nabatian, whose work for Bell Orchestre won the Special Jury Award for Best Experimental Short at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival.