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Guillaume VALLÉE

(1984- )
Nationality: Canadian

Experimental filmmaker and video artist, Guillaume Vallée graduated from Concordia University with a Major in Film Animation and MFA in Studio Arts - Film Production option. He works mainly on film (Super8, 16mm, 35mm), on analog video (VHS, Hi8) and on video stereoscopic video (anaglyph red/cyan)

His audiovisual performances have been presented in a multitude of festivals across Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and Austria. His experimental films and videos, distributed by Vidéographe, Light Cone and Winnipeg Film Group, have been screened internationally in many festivals, including ExIS (South Korea), Festival Int. du Film sur Art (Canada), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Canada), Int. Kurzfilmwoce Regensburg (Germany), Regards (Canada), Crossroads (United States), Oodaaq (France), Animatou (Switzerland).

His work was awarded in 2013, for The Yellow Ghost (Grand Prix Dérapage), in 2016 at the WNDX festival (Festival of Moving Image) for his short film, Le bulbe tragique ('' Best Canadian Work '') and il fait gris dans ta tête, tout à coup, a videopoem codirected with Sarah Seené, as part of Festival de Poésie de Montréal (Grand Prix Video-Poésie 2018).

Vallée is an instructor and gives workshops on experimental cinema and video art in various artist-run centres. His workshops include hand-processing film, contact printing, painting and scratch on film and analog glitch. He has given several artist talks internationally, at La Maison du Québec in Saint-Malo (France), at the Space Cell Lab (South Korea), at filmkoop wien (Austria), just to name a few and also locally, including at the University of Montreal, at Concordia University and as part of the Journées de la Culture.

Guillaume Vallée has been artist-in-residence in several structures, including La Bande Vidéo (Canada), Le Fresnoy - studio national des arts contemporains (France), Signal Culture (United States), Studio 303 (Montreal, CA), Visual Alchemy with Al Razutis (British Columbia, CA), Main Film (Montreal, CA), PANACHE Art Actuel (Sept-Îles, CA) and Light Cone, Atelier 105 (Paris, FR).

8 MOVIES IN DISTRIBUTION

ULTRADREAM
2022 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 2' 05 / 19 €
distribution: Digital file on server
ELLES S'ÉLÈVENT, CES FORTERESSES ÉPONGES
2021-2022 / 35mm / color / sound / single screen / 7' 14 / 41 €
distribution: DCP on server or Digital file on server
ARE YOU HAUNTED, DADDY? (ABOUT ANXIETY)
2020 / Super 8mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 2' 07 / 19 €
distribution: Digital file on server
MONSIEUR JEAN-CLAUDE
2019-2020 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 7' 51 / 40 €
distribution: Digital file on server
GRAND-MAMAN PIANO
2019 / Super 8mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 5' 00 / 37 €
distribution: Digital file on server
KINSKI WANTED HERZOG TO DIRECT BUT HE TURNED IT DOWN
2017 / 16mm & Super 8mm / color / sound / single screen / 6' 00 / 42 €
distribution: Digital file on server
LE BULBE TRAGIQUE
2013-2016 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 6' 05 / 42 €
distribution: Digital file on server
THE YELLOW GHOST
2012 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 3' 35 / 29 €
distribution: Digital file on server