Discussion Exploration #3: Audiovisual performances

Discussion Exploration #3: Audiovisual performances

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Discussion Exploration #3: Audiovisual performances

Meetup - Experimental Cycle - Spring 2025

Monday June 16, 2025
6 pm - 9 pm

Main Film Atelier
2025 Rue Parthenais #304-A, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2

Guests | Erin Weisgerber, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, Sabrina Ratté, Roger Tellier-Craig, and Michaela Grill
Free upon registration


As part of our experimental cycle, Main Film presents Discussion Exploration: a series of gatherings taking place on the first three Mondays of June! These panels will focus on sound explorations in experimental film practices.

On this last Exploration Monday, the panel brings together visual and sound artists who create live performances where image and sound emerge simultaneously on stage. Taking collaboration to the next level, these practices rely on improvisation, synchronicity, and the unpredictability of real-time creation. The discussion will highlight both collaborative performances involving multiple artists and hybrid approaches where a single performer controls both sound and visuals. A deep dive into the challenges, chemistry, and spontaneity that define this vibrant form of artistic expression.

For more information, please contact us at: services@mainfilm.qc.ca


Erin Weisgerber

Erin Weisgerber is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based artist who works with photochemical film to produce installations, performances and short films. She manipulates the photographic, chemical and material properties of film to transform the world framed by her camera, bringing about moving images that exist between figuration and abstraction, exterior vision and interior landscape. Weisgerber is a member of Collectif Double Négatif, a group of moving image artists dedicated to the creation and exhibition of experimental and avant-garde cinema and who maintain a self-managed artisanal film laboratory. Since 2019, she has been a member of Jerusalem in My Heart, an audiovisual performance project, with Lebanese producer and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh.

 

Radwan Ghazi Moumneh

Radwan Ghazi Moumneh is a Lebanese-Canadian sound engineer, producer and musician who has been an integral part of Montreal’s independent music scene for several decades. He started out playing in various punk bands in the 90s, such as The Black Hand and IRE. In 2004, he co-founded the Hotel2Tango recording studio with Howard Bilerman, Efrim Menuck and Thierry Amar, all members of the bands Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra. Moumneh’s work as a recording engineer and producer includes collaborations with artists such as Suuns, Mashrou’ Leila, Matana Roberts and Ought.

 


Sabrina Ratté

Sabrina Ratté is a Canadian artist based in Montreal. Her practice spans 3D animation, photogrammetry, analog video synthesis, digital printing, sculpture, and interactive installations, forming interconnected ecosystems across multiple platforms. Exploring the convergence of technology and biology, and the speculative evolution of our environment, her work is deeply informed by science fiction, philosophy, ecological thought, and occult traditions.

 

 

Roger Tellier-Craig

Roger Tellier-Craig est un compositeur qui s’intéresse aux interstices entre le « réel » et ses simulations. Il est membre fondateur de Fly Pan Am, Et Sans (avec Alexandre St-Onge), Set Fire To Flames et Le Révélateur (avec Sabrina Ratté). Il a publié des disques chez Constellation, Locust, Alien 8, Fat Cat, Root Strata, Gneiss Things, NNA Tapes, Where To Now, Dekorder et Second Editions.

Il a composé de la musique pour des films et divers projets artistiques, travaillant avec Denis Côté, United Visual Artists, Albéric Aurtenèche, Brigitte Haentjens, Karl Lemieux, Projet EVA, Zaynê Akyol, Lynda Gaudreau, et fournissant la partition de la plupart des œuvres vidéo de Sabrina Ratté. Il a également travaillé en étroite collaboration avec la chorégraphe Dana Gingras, de la compagnie Animals of Distinction, au cours des 20 dernières années. Il détient un certificat en composition électroacoustique du Conservatoire de musique de Montréal. Ses compositions « Duelle » et « Nulle part à trouver » ont reçu les 3e et 2e prix du concours Jeu de Temps/Times Play de la Communauté électroacoustique canadienne.


Michaela Grill

Michaela Grill a étudié à Vienne, Glasgow et Londres (Goldsmith College). Depuis 1999, elle a réalisé de nombreux films, œuvres vidéo, installations et performances vidéo en direct. Son travail a été diffusé sur la scène internationale, notamment au MoMA à New York, à la National Gallery of Art à Washington, au Centre Pompidou à Paris, au Museo Reina Sofia à Madrid, à La Casa Encendida à Barcelone, à l’ICA à Londres, ainsi que dans plusieurs cinémathèques. Ses œuvres vidéos ont été présentées dans plus de 150 festivals internationaux. Elle est lauréate du « Outstanding Artist Award » décerné par le Ministère des arts et de la culture autrichien (2010).

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