At the festival and indoors
The Animated Cinema Summits, which continue until Saturday, finally offer an opportunity to discover the winner of this edition’s René-Jodoin prize, the filmmaker Pierre Hébert, thanks to the magnificent documentary that Loïc Darses dedicated to him. Burn man. Stop on Pierre Hébert, on view from May 12, offers a fascinating retrospective of the work of this pillar of animation at the NFB, who made film engraving his great specialty. This chronology commented by Hébert himself, generous with anecdotes on his “abstract” animations that are still breathtaking for today’s eyes and on his collaborations with René Lussier and Norman McLaren, makes you want to see his short films, several of which are available on the ONF website.
Immersed in space
The Society of Technological Arts (SAT) is offering the immersive film until June 22 I want to leave this Earth behind, a traveling creation by Stefana Fratila and Diana Lynn VanderMeulen which takes us far from the earth’s atmosphere, into universes that are sometimes inhospitable, but of destabilizing splendor. We feel both transported and imprisoned in this journey, which hypnotizes as much by its soundtrack created in collaboration with NASA scientists as by its paintings of strange and interstellar natural environments which make us tiny and very powerless beings. An experience from which we emerge a little stunned, but completely disoriented.
At the concert (free)
The Grand Théâtre de Québec inaugurates its collaboration with the Opéra de Québec for its series of free Sunday concerts “Croissants-Musique” by presenting a concert by baritone Hugo Laporte. For this premiere, this “regular” of the local opera scene, who we could hear over the last year in Lucy of Lammermoor in Quebec and The Marriage of Figaro And there Ice Storm Symphony in Montreal, will be accompanied by pianist Jean-François Mailloux. At the foyer of the Louis-Fréchette room, May 12 at 11 a.m.
At the outdoor concert (free)
The second edition of the Great Homecoming of the University of Montreal offers until Sunday an anthology of activities and conferences for students and graduates of the establishment, but also others offered free of charge to the general public. On Saturday, families are invited to Place Léopold-Sédar-Senghor to take part in a host of activities, including workshops organized by the Faculty of Dentistry… In the evening, the action moves to the MIL campus, first with performances by student musicians at aperitif time, then, from 7 p.m., with a concert by Corneille, the first part of which will be provided by Sarahmée.