Karl
Lemieux

Karl Lemieux is a filmmaker whose work is inspired by a dialogue between film, music, and sound art. His films, installations, and performances have been presented internationally in museums, galleries, music venues, and film festivals, including the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna and the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. In 2010, he began doing live 16mm film projections for Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a Montreal music collective. He is co-founder with Daïchi Saïto of Double Négatif, a Montreal-based collective dedicated to the production and dissemination of experimental films. His first feature, Maudite Poutine (2016), premiered in the Orizzonti competition of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival presented by the Venice Biennale.