MONTREAL EXPERIMENTAL - ANALOG VISIONS
Emma Roufs in person
Opening act by Shinkan Tamaki

17th May 2025
Open 14:30
Start 15:00

Advance 2000JPY
At the Door 2500JPY
with 1 drink

MONTREAL EXPERIMENTAL - ANALOG VISIONS

Proposed by Emma Roufs, experimental filmmaker, independent curator, and co-director of the micro-cinema la lumière collective (Montreal, Canada), The Montreal Experimental – Analog Visions program is a showcase for experimental filmmaking in Montreal, highlighting the work of contemporary filmmakers interested in analog creation in all its diversity. It includes in-camera editing practices, works that explore the performative aspects of celluloid and handmade filmmaking, formal experiments where reality and abstraction converge, documentary experimental approaches, and introspective, experimental diary films.
※All digital projection

Four seasons bouquet | Emma Roufs
2022 | Super 8 > HD | sound | 3 mins 25
Nature and body at work over the course of a still yet disorderly year on a foreign land. "In that place, memory means something more than just something one looks back on, or something one feels from the past, it means something real for now that has made you." - RT

La noirceur souterraine des racines | Charles-André Coderre
2023 | triptyque 16mm > HD | sound | 10 mins
Shot in Quebec (Canada), The subterranean blackness of roots is a 16 mm film triptych which uses several processes specific to analog cinema (hand processing, optical printing, photochemical alteration). The film seeks to show the sensory experience of the invisible life of stones, plants, and the nature that surrounds us.

Mouvement de lumière | Karl Lemieux
2004 | 16 mm > HD | sound | 8 mins
Mouvement de Lumière, 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.

Dans les cieux et sur la terre | Erin Weisgerber
2022 | 16 mm > HD | sound | 11 mins 38
Vertiginous masses of carved limestone give way to an ecstasy of light and living colour through an alchemical spell of elemental transformation. Hierarchies dissolve as the transient quotidian inspires the monumental. Shot and hand-processed entirely on 16mm reversal films, with all of the composite images created in-camera, a foundational Montreal monument meets fleeting traces of urban flora.

Super 8 footage: George W. Reed Factory | Yen-Chao Lin
2007 | Super 8 > HD | silent | 3 mins 35
Super 8 film shot at the now demolished George W. Reed Factory in St Henri. This building was opened in 1895, also known as the Babcock & Wilcox factory. It was abandoned around 1982 and demolished in 2014.

Let The Red Moon Burn | Ralitsa Doncheva
2023 | 16mm > HD | sound | 6 mins 38
Let The Red Moon Burn is an impressionistic portrait of the ancient ritual of fire dancing in Bulgaria. Weaving 16mm hand-processed images, the film blurs past and present to evoke ghosts in the landscape, the spirits of ancestors unearthed by the throbbing pulsations of live music. All images and sounds are recorded during Zheravna Festival of Costume in Bulgaria, where thousands of people gather each summer to perform traditional dances under a full moon.

Roundtrip | Philippe Léonard
2014 | 16mm > HD | silent | 3 mins
A diptych filmed on a journey between Montreal and New York City. My last roll of Ektachrome to commemorate an important day when two became unified in the act of giving.

renaissance printanière à la source du Pêcher (spring rebirth at Source du Pêcher) | Emma Roufs
2024 | Super 8 > 16mm or HD | sound | 1 min 40
Window on the fleeing memory.

Lucina Annulata | Charlotte Clermont
2021 | Super 8 > HD | 4 mins 12
Sunny. Semantic sequences guide the gaze, a gaze that is sometimes raised, propelled downwards, then too high or motionless in front of an unrecognizable and yet so familiar vision. The images, linked by echoes of chromatic palettes and linear layers, scroll to the rhythm of a voice reminiscent of an incantation. Sacred.

Brouillard - Passage #14 | Alexandre Larose
2013 | 35mm > HD | silent | 10 mins
A path that extends from my family's backyard into Lac-Saint-Charles (Québec City), condensed in multiple layers.

Summer song | Clint Enns
2015 | Super 8 > HD | sound | 5 mins 24
Coney Island, Leslie, ice cream, Mermaid Parade, Niagara Falls, home, Mia’s last breaths.

BIOGRAPHIES
CHARLOTTE CLERMONT
Charlotte Clermont creates a dialogue between video and audio explorations to examine our perceptions of the real. The performative aspect of her practice, moved by a desire to transpose the illusiveness of lived moments, is embodied in her singular way of working with analogue recording devices. Using materials from her immediate environment, she works upon the chemical sensitivity of film through various alterations, while leaving a large place to chance. She holds a bachelor’s in Studio Arts from Concordia University and lives and works in Montreal. Her work has been presented in Canada and internationally in the framework of festivals and exhibitions, including the International Festival of Films on Art (Canada), Fracto (Germany), the Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris (France), IFF Rotterdam (Netherlands), Künstlerhaus Bethanian (Germany), CROSSROADS (United States), Arctic Moving Image and Film Festival (Norway), and the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Scotland). She was artist in residence at Studio Kura (Japan), Signal Culture (United States), Fusion Gallery (Italy) and Shiro Oni (Japan).

text by Myriam Le Ber Assiani

CHARLES-ANDRÉ CODERRE
Charles-André Coderre lives and works in Montreal. He makes films and works on 16mm live projections for several film and music performances. His films are distributed by Light Cone (Paris), CFMDC (Toronto) and Vidéographe (Montréal). Since 2017, he co-organizes the OK LÀ! music & expanded cinema series in Verdun (Canada).

RALITSA DONCHEVA
Ralitsa Doncheva is a Bulgarian artist filmmaker based in Tio’tia:ke/ Montréal. Drawing on experimental analogue film traditions, her Balkan heritage and mythology, her films evoke shimmering worlds on the verge of disappearance. Between 2013-2018, Ralitsa created a series of short films and writings using archives and images from Eastern Europe. The final project (almost) impossible worlds was exhibited at the Dazibao gallery and later presented as a performative lecture during the 2022 Experimental Cinema Symposium at the Cinémathèque québécoise. Her films and video installations have screened internationally in festivals, galleries and micro-cinemas. In 2016 she received The Eileen Maitland Award at the 54th Ann Arbor Film Festival for her film, Baba Dana Talks To The Wolves. Her recent project Desert Islands, shot with her father, screened at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and at the Images Film Festival in Toronto among other festivals.

CLINT ENNS
Clint Enns is a writer and visual artist living in Montréal. He has a PhD from the department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University and is currently researching digital vernacular photography at the University of Winnipeg through a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. The research that he has been conducting is a logical progression of his scholarly writing which primarily concerns experimental film and media (ExFM) and is deeply intertwined with his own artistic practice. Moreover, he has published a relatively large number of interviews with ExFM practitioners. Recently, he has started experimenting with AI to produce otherworldly and unsettling images.

ALEXANDRE LAROSE
An artist of the moving image, Alexandre Larose is interested in the representation of space and the figure, and the way in which the specific nature of the cinematographic medium sets them in motion.

KARL LEMIEUX
Karl Lemieux studied cinema at Concordia University, Montreal. His short films include The Bridge (1998), KI (2001), Mouvement de Lumière (2004), Western Sunburn (2007), Trash and no Star! (2008) and Passage (2008). Co-founder of the Collectif Double Négatif, dedicated to the production and dissemination of experimental cinema, he also works on live projections for several performances and music shows. He has worked with David Bryant, Roger Tellier-Craig, Efrim Menuck and Thierry Amar of Godspeed you black emperor, Jerusalem in my heart, Shalabi Effect, Elizabeth Anka Vajagic, Jonathan Parant, Alexandre St-Onge, Christof Migone, Thomas Ankersmit and Kevin Doria of Growing. He is currently working with composer Francisco Lopez on an abstract animated film produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

PHILIPPE LÉONARD
Director, cinematographer and designer of stage projections (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Cigarettes After Sex, Thisquietarmy). He shapes his images by combining film, analog video and cutting-edge technologies to create unique visual matter. His artistic approach lies at the crossroads of expanded cinema and experimental documentary practices.

YEN-CHAO LIN
Yen-Chao Lin is a Taipei-born Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist. A self-described postmodern archivist and natural history enthusiast, her work explores divination arts, occult sciences, oral history, religion, dowsing, power and social permaculture through means of intuitive play, craft techniques, collaboration, scavenging and collecting. Her current research is focused on dowsing, resource extraction and crystal healing within the wellness industry.

EMMA ROUFS
Based in Montreal, Emma Roufs is a filmmaker who explores themes related to memory, love and wonder through diary film and essay-film practices. Her films have been shown in various festivals and exhibition spaces around the world. Emma is a curator and co-founder of la lumière collective; a curating collective, artist studio and micro-cinema in Montreal which is dedicated to screening and shining a light onto exploratory film practices and their makers. ​

ERIN WEISGERBER
Erin Weisgerber is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based artist working with photo-chemical film to produce installations, performances, and short films. She manipulates the photographic, chemical, and material properties of film to transform the world framed through her camera, rendering moving images that exist between figuration and abstraction, external vision and internal landscape. Weisgerber is a member of the Double Negative Collective and the audiovisual performance duo Jerusalem in My Heart.

–
The opening act is Optical live performance by Shinkan Tamaki. He approaches the root of a moving image with a projector and optical lenses.

Shinkan Tamaki
Artist in search of never-before-seen images and new perceptual experience. He makes mainly moving image and works related to it. There are works which cross between abstract and concrete, sound and image. In some film works, he focused on the materiality of film and applied it as sculpted objects. Recently, He makes video works which we observe optical phenomena in our daily life. And he also shows live performance that he manipulate lights with glass and prism. Co-founder of Center (Alternative Space and Hostel), which opened in 2022 in Kanuma, Japan.
shinkantamaki.net