Karl Lemieux

The Great Thaw (2024)

The Great Thaw is a project about permafrost thaw and how landscape is changed by it. We take a close look at ecosystems like the boreal forest, the tundra and the arctic coastline to document the impacts of the melting permafrost caused by climate change ...

Unearthed (2024)

All images and sounds of Unearthed were captured during a residency in the Arctic in Nikel, Zapolyarny and Prirechnyi in the Murmansk oblast in Russia, one of the most polluted areas in the world. True to his experimental cinema aesthetics, Karl Lemieux pu ...

Somehow Continue (2023)

Shot on 16mm film, this piece creatively portrays the making of Creation Destruction, a multidisciplinary outdoor performance by choreographer Dana Gingras set to music by the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor. A cinematic capsule that is an ode to instabil ...

Substrat (2023)

Videographe 50th Anniversary (2021)

A video vignette marking the 50th anniversary of the artist-run centre Le Vidéographe ...

Nitrate (2021)

When the fireworks inflame the memory of a war survival. ...

At State's End! (2021)

On March 27, 2021, Godspeed You! Black Emperor invited fans to a virtual album event, officially presenting its concert film projections for the first time in the band's 25-year history. GY!BE filmmakers/projectionists Karl Lemieux and Philippe Leonard set ...

G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! (2021)

Over the last 25 years, the Montreal post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor has released seven albums and presented visually extraordinary shows around the world. At State's End is their latest show, captured at the majestic Cinéma Impérial. It featu ...

Yujiapu - Étude (2020)

This version is a pre-cut or study of the original video material, which was used to make the 35mm CinémaScope vertical film of the same name. ...

The Seven Last Words (2019)

The Seven Last Words sounds out the experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on seven themes expressed in an oratorio: forgiveness, hope, relation, abandonment, distress, triumph, and life after the death. ...

Traces (2018)

Hand-painted film on 16mm by Karl Lemieux. Music by Visions. ...

Shambles (2017)

Caught stealing drugs from the wrong people, 27 year old Vincent is in trouble and on the run from the local mob. Fleeing to the backwoods, Vincent unexpectedly reconnects with his brother Michel with whom he'd cut ties many years ago. As he tries to maint ...

Yujiapu (2017)

During the winter of 2015 Karl Lemieux travelled to China with BJ Nilsen and a small camera crew to make a piece about the country's infamous ghost cities. The work presented is made with images shot in the city of Yujiapu, near Tianjin where ancestral fis ...

Quiet Zone (2015)

Otherworldly frequencies and textured, fluctuating images beautifully visualize the distress of people who suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity, and who must live in exile from cities in order to find solitude from the noise. ...

L'Entre deux (2014)

Experimental work detailing the movements of crowds in an urban context, where the movement is both charged and fluid. Result of a series of long exposure experiments carried out on 16mm film with the director of photography. ...

Halo Getters (2014)

During a stay in the Death Valley desert in California, Karl Lemieux encounters a demolished house wall, standing alone in a void and whose windows are only open gaps, washed out by light. Fascinated by the incongruity and poetry of the object, he films it ...

Miron: Un homme revenu d'en dehors du monde (2014)

Writer and poet Gaston Miron comes back to life through archival documents from a variety of sources. His prose features landscapes of human beings and snow, dances with no future, and endless mines. His impassioned speeches on Quebec culture and identity ...

El Camino (2011)

Optical print film that was constructed from 16mm images that filmmaker Richard Kerr entrusted to Karl Lemieux. ...

Silos (2011)

Shot in super 8mm in Silo # 5 of the old port of Montreal in 2002, this film was achieved in 2011. Music by BJ Nilsen. ...

Trains (2010)

Karl Lemieux deconstructs the narrative thread of found footage by slowing down its playback speed to the point of distortion. Music: Félix-Antoine Morin. ...

Mamori (2010)

Mamori transports us into a black-and-white universe of fluid shapes, dappled and striated with shadows and light, where the texture of the visuals and of the celluloid itself have been transformed through the filmmaker's artistry. The raw material of imag ...

Mémoires imprimées (2009)

Film super-8mm shot for the One Take super-8 in 2009. Music by Maussade. ...

Passage (2008)

Exquisitely filmed in black-and-white, this experimental narrative follows four friends on a road trip as they discover the complicated arena of unseen desire that arises when ecstasy and sexuality mix. ...

Trash and No Star! (2007)

Composed of paint and collage on 16mm film that had originally been tossed in the trash and later recovered to be reshot on an optical printer, Trash and no star! pays tribute to discarded objects. Tempted by extreme experiences and work on the internal se ...

Western Sunburn (2007)

A re-photography in video of material that was originally used in a performance during which Karl Lemieux, painted, scratched and burned film loops from an old western 16mm film. Traces of an impossible past and future collide in a trajectory where the pre ...

Motion of Light (2004)

Mouvement de lumière (Motion of light), 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. ...

Ki (2001)

An abstract representation of an erotic relationship. ...

The Bridge (1998)

Karl Lemieux's first project, a video interpretation of Lee Ranaldo's talking sound-piece "The Bridge" (1985), made while attending high school in the Nevada desert, foreshadows Lemieux's recent projector performances with live musicians. ...

G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! (2021)

Over the last 25 years, the Montreal post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor has released seven albums and presented visually extraordinary shows around the world. At State's End is their latest show, captured at the majestic Cinéma Impérial. It featu ...