16 Jun Discussion Exploration #2: Audiovisual performances
16
Jun
Discussion Exploration #2: 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
Moderated by André Habib
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
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 is a composer interested in the interstices between the “real” and its simulations. He is a founding member of Fly Pan Am, Et Sans (with Alexandre St-Onge), Set Fire To Flames and Le Révélateur (with Sabrina Ratté). He has released records with Constellation, Locust, Alien 8, Fat Cat, Root Strata, Gneiss Things, NNA Tapes, Where To Now?, Dekorder and Second Editions.
He has composed music for film and various art projects, working with Denis Côté, United Visual Artists, Albéric Aurtenèche, Brigitte Haentjens, Karl Lemieux, Projet EVA, Zaynê Akyol, Lynda Gaudreau, as well as providing the score to most of Sabrina Ratté’s video works. He has also worked closely with the choreographer Dana Gingras, of Animals of Distinction, over the past 20 years. He holds a certificate in electroacoustic composition from the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal. His compositions “Duelle” and “Nulle part à trouver” were awarded 3rd and 2nd prize in the Jeu de Temps/Times Play competition held by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community.
Michaela Grill studied in Vienna, Glasgow and London (Goldsmith College). Since 1999, she has produced numerous films, video works, installations and live video performances. Her work has been shown internationally, including at MoMA in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, La Casa Encendida in Barcelona, the ICA in London, and several film libraries. Her video works have been shown at over 150 international festivals. She received the Outstanding Artist Award from the Austrian Ministry of Arts and Culture (2010).
[Source VOX : 2020]
Modération : André Habib
André Habib is a professor in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal. He was editorial secretary of the journal Intermédialités from 2002 to 2008, and has been a member of the CRIalt scientific committee since 2011. He is the author of La main gauche de Jean-Pierre Léaud (Boréal, 2015) and L’attrait de la ruine (Yellow Now, 2011). He co-edited the collective works L’avenir de la mémoire: patrimoine, restauration, réemploi cinématographique (with Michel Marie, Septentrion, 2012), and Chris Marker et l’imprimerie du regard (with Viva Paci, L’Harmattan, 2008). He is preparing two books (in French and English) co-edited with Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan and Louis Pelletier on film history, collections and collectors. Since 2002, he has been co-editor of the electronic magazine Hors Champ, which he has been directing since 2015, and is the initiator of the audiovisual creation and reflection platform Zoom Out. His research interests include the aesthetics of ruins, cinephilia, archives and experimental cinema, and more recently nostalgia, retro and the history of techniques. As a member of the TECHNÈS international partnership project, he was responsible for two seasons (2016-2017) of the Connaissance du cinéma educational series.