Video

Antichambre, L'

1994, 26:00 minutes, colour, English

TAPECODE 9999.096

Portrait innovateur du compositeur et artiste multimédia Michel Lemieux, L'Antichambre nous "télé-transporte" dans l'étonnant monde imaginaire de ce maître de la performance. Le spectateur entre soudainement dans l'univers fantasmatique de ce créateur peu conventionnel qui devient sous ses yeux une sorte d'alchimiste omniscient. Tel un marionnettiste, l'alter ego de l'artiste nous entraîne au rythme d'une musique intrigante dans un microcosme architectural où il procède à des expériences de transmutation sur trois personnages dont l'univers basculera irrémédiablement. Revenu de cet étrange périple musical et ludique, on se voit forcé de s'interroger sur les interférences entre la réalité, le monde virtuel de la création et sa propre vie qui pourrait n'être qu'une illusion...

An innovative portrait of the multimedia artist and composer Michel Lemieux,
The Antechamber is a film with a surrealist twist which explores the process of creation. The audience is transported into the fantastical universe of this most unconventional creator who, before our eyes, becomes a sort of omniscient alchemist. To the rhythm of his own intriguing musical score, the artist's alter ego leads us into an architectural microcosm where he subjects three characters to transmutation. This strange musical and multimedia excursion provokes a reflection on the overlapping of reality and the virtual world of creation, and on the possibility that one's own life may itself be little more than an illusion...

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