May 3 2011

“Imagining NDG” and “Bird Messengers”

Emmanuel Hessler

The summer is arriving quickly and with it, events, unveilings, and local artists’ work will be inundating good old Montreal.

Something I am definitely looking forward to this week is the opening of a new performance piece at the M.A.I. Bird Messengers is the new performance piece from aboriginal artists Moe Clark (whom I worked with on the film Circle Haiku) and Emilie Monnet. The performance combines storytelling and song that celebrate ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking, and healing from Indigenous peoples across the Americas. Check out their Facebook page.
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Jan 20 2011

Empress Blue in the Montreal Mirror

Bis Films

Well this is exciting.
Only a few days after the Empress Blue music video was put up online, the Montreal Mirror ran a little piece on it.

Check out the article here.

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Jan 16 2011

Empress Blue – music video

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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