Mar
19
2013
Emmanuel Hessler

In my previous post, I highlighted a group of women active in the Montreal art and technology field. I enjoy sharing about people Bis Films has worked with and who are important to us. Writing that post, I realized how many more amazing women surround us but just didn’t fit into the narrow field of “art and technology.” That is why I want to take advantage of a recently released short video, Be Peace, featuring Jo Willers and Janie Pelletier, to share my experience in making the video.
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no comments | tags: Be Peace, Canada, Canon, canon 5D, Emmanuel Hessler, Janie Pelletier, Jo Willers, kessler, making of, Moksha, Moksha Yoga, Montréal, peace, pocket dolly, Québec, winter, Woman, Women, Yoga | posted in Community, Inspiration, Our Films
Aug
30
2011
Emmanuel Hessler
Bis Films was recently contracted by Rickard’s Blonde to create three short cooking spots featuring local chef Jean-François Plante, owner of l’Aromate here in Montreal. These three recipes use the new Rickard’s Blonde beer as one of the ingredients. This project was over before we knew it, but our palates were tantalized by some of the food preparations we witnessed and feasted upon during the shoot.
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no comments | tags: beer, Bis Films, Blond, Blonde, chef, chips, cooking, fish, fish 'n chips, fish and chips, jean-francois plante, l'aromate, molson, molson coors, Montréal, recipe, Rickard, Rickard's, Sambal oelek | posted in Our Films
Aug
12
2011
Emmanuel Hessler

It all started on a cold December night. A small group of friends gathered around a small kitchen table and attempted to wow each other with their favorite pasta recipe. Eight unique dishes were served, grades were allotted, a winner was proclaimed. Thus, The Foodie Collective was born.
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1 comment | tags: 7D, animation, Bis Films, Canada, Canon, Canon 7D, cooking, delicious, Emmanuel Hessler, food, food porn, foodie, foodporn, funny, Katherine Macnaughton, light, Montréal, pasta, Québec, sandwich, sandwich throwdown, stop motion, the foodie collective, throwdown, trailer, whistling | posted in Community, Our Films
Mar
9
2011
Emmanuel Hessler

In the spirit of uploading all of our past projects to Vimeo, Circle Haiku is a film that I directed back in 2009. For this film, I teamed up with Moe Clark, spoken-word poet extraordinaire and songstress. We brought our distinctive passions together – me for the moving image and Moe for the healing sounds of music – in an attempt to create a meditative look at… well everything.
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no comments | tags: 16mm, Bolex, Canada, Circle Haiku, circular, cyclical, day, Emmanuel Hessler, Film, haiku, Kat Baulu, life, Making Music, meditation, Melisa Forero, MM3, Moe Clark, Montréal, National Film Board, NFB, poetry, Québec, seasons, spoken-word, Vimeo | posted in Our Films
Mar
2
2011
Emmanuel Hessler

I sit, looking at the Bis Films Vimeo page and I think: “How is it that Kat and I both graduated from Concordia Communications Studies and have been pushing forward in the film/video production world since 2008, yet we have so few videos online?” I think it’s time to assert our digital presence on the pages of Vimeo.
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2 comments | tags: 16mm, 2007, Aude Leroux-Lévesque, Bideshi Films, Canada, communications, Concordia University, fiction, Film, Film III, Katherine Macnaughton, Montréal, Québec, short film | posted in Our Films
Jan
16
2011
Emmanuel Hessler

A 7 year old boy sits in the back seat of his parents car, driving along Sources Blvd in the West Island, looking out the window. Somewhere along the drive, an old abandoned stone house catches his eye, slightly out of place in this 1988 sprawling Montreal suburb. The boy’s eyes sparkle as dreams of adventures and abandoned treasures crowd his mind. What would he find behind those crumbling cobble walls were he to escape his parents gaze long enough to explore?
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8 comments | tags: 7D, Canon 7D, community center, documentary, Emmanuel Hessler, Empress Blue, Empress Cultural Center, Empress Theater, Empress Theatre, History, Katherine Macnaughton, Montréal, music video, NDG, Paul Cargnello, Renaissance Empress, Scott MacLeod, Seb Rist, Sherbrooke street, Stacy Le Gallee, Tim Schwab, West Island | posted in Our Films