September 26, 2012

Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt (CA)

Born in Montreal, filmmaker, active in experimental pedagogue organizations. Co-founder of the ICPCE (Institute for the Coordination and Propagation of Exploratory Cinemas). He works toward the dislocation of projection spaces and operations aiming to catalyse and short-circuit. His films and installation works exhale ballistic liturgy of burning horizons. Presentations in numerous places around the world, such as Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki in Kraków and many subterranean kinos, churches, abattoirs, casinos, bunkers and offline networks in the world.

ICPCE

The mandate of the Montreal based Institute for Exploratory Cinemas (ICPCE) is to promote and diffuse the various shapes of avant-garde cinema, video and digital arts. For this purpose, it organizes screening programmes of essential works for the comprehension in the development of exploratory cinemas and/or in the awakening of actual position of atypical cinematographic practices. Moreover, it organizes meetings around non-traditional and adventurous cinematographic experiments to reinforce the dazzling force and revelation of the cinematograph of the origins. It publishes also DVDs and books about the subterranean cinematographic art.