Paul Laberge : Lancement de Zik & BD

Paul Laberge en pleine dédicace au Café de l’Usine C hier lors du lancement de Zik & BD.

Zik & BD c’est “quand la bande dessinée rencontre la chanson québécoise…”

Pierre Bourdon, vice-président du Groupe Homme, dit que ce genre de métissage BD et chanson avait déjà été fait en France, notamment avec des textes de Serge Gainsbourg et George Brassens.

Mais qu’au Québec, il s’agit bien d’une première.

De cette compilation de bandes dessinées, voici parmi nos préférées : Jimmy Beaulieu sur des paroles de Malajube, Zviane sur des paroles des Trois Accords, Pascal Blanchet sur des paroles de Pierre Lapointe et Denis Rodier sur des paroles de Coeur de Pirate… pour n’en nommer que quelques unes.

Un beau livre.

Cool et bien fait.

Patrick Boivin’s New Stop-Motion: Optimus 7

Check out this new viral video.

Three men in black want to take on the new LG Optimus 7 phone. But can they? Will they?

Once again, Patrick comes up with awesome animation with his signature style.

Paul Laberge : Lancement de Zik & BD

Le 16 novembre, les Éditions de l’homme lance une BD de bédéistes québécois.

Mais ça ne s’arrête pas là.

En fait, le projet est assez unique. Il s’agit de “dix chansons d’artistes de la génération musicale montante du Québec, revues et imaginées par 10 bédéistes talentueux”, dont Paul Laberge e, Jimmy Beaulieu, Pascal Blanchet et Denis Rodier.

Pas banal du tout.

Les bédéistes se sont basés sur les textes de chanson d’artistes comme Arianne Moffat, Coeur de Pirate, Les Trois Accords, Malajube et Pierre Lapointe.

Paul et quelques comparses de Zik & BD seront de passage au Salon du livre de Montréal édition 2010 (17 au 22 nov.).

Un très gros bravo à Olivier Benoît, gérant des Trois Accords, d’avoir initié un tel projet.

Espérons que ce n’est qu’un début. Et qu’il y aura encore beaucoup d’autres collaborations de ce genre!

More Good News From Woolf + Lapin: FNC & SPASM

Tonight Festival Spasm 2010 pays special homage to Patrick Boivin and his old time collaborators from Phylactère Cola. They are launching a special DVD jam packed with two seasons’ worth of their very own brand of absurd, over the top humor. Studio Juste Pour Rire, 9 p.m.

Special congrats go out to Horse Latitudes writer Duncan McDowall who just won the 2010 COURS ÉCRIRE TON COURT competition. This best script prize allows him to take part in the Festival International du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand. The win also means a cash prize from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

Kaveh Nabatian’s short Steam (Kinesis) is on at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma tonight.

Speaking of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, we’d like to take time to talk about Gaspard Noé’s film Enter the Void which was in the the festival’s line-up this past week. It is a film to behold. Calling it a masterpiece wouldn’t do it justice. Not to mention debase it somehow. It’s a new milestone in film. His trademark scene shots will take you in, chew you up, spit you out and leave you wanting more. It is an excess of sensuality. It is total. Operatic. And at the same time so very loose. Like a floating spirit. It is simply unlike anything before it. Especially the DMT induced segments of the film. Bravo, Monsieur Noé!

Jo pour Jonathan, starring Vanessa Pilon, was also featured at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. This new film by Maxime Giroux is getting a lot of buzz.

Also of note, Vanessa Pilon is now hosting a web series called Glam on V.tv’s website. It’s everything you need to know about style and more if you count Vanessa who is awesome as usual. See for yourself.

Artistic Director Camille Parent just finished working on Mary Harron’s The Moth Diaries (American Psycho, I Shot Andy Warhol).

Christian Lalumière’s Training Session

“Through evocative gestures and movements, we discover five different athletes in training. What at first appears to be a simple training routine evolves into a ballet, where the athletes play the role of notes on a musical score. Together, they create a symphonic movement in which the notes interact — integrating rhythm, singular movements, and harmony in an intricate choreography.

Produced by Emilie Heckmann and created in collaboration with choreographer Helene Blackburn & composer Nicolas Bernier, this project, written and directed by Christian Lalumière, transfigures the daily rituals of athletes, and moves into a world where symbolic movement — physical and musical, individual and collective — is explored.

The film premieres at Café-Bar de la Cinémathèque Québécoise, 8 p.m. Oct. 8.