Christian Langlois is a Canadian film director based in

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. He has directed several short films, video content, series, commercials,

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and media installation. He studied at

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in communications programs photography, cinema, art video and new digital media. He published several articles about the role of digital technologies and video in the development of visual and performing arts. After graduate studies in new media and digital art, he began as a visual and electronic artist, mainly in

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video installation Video installation is a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art, making use of all aspects of the surrounding environment to affect the audience. Tracing its origins to the birth of video art in the 1970s, it has ...

, short films, and happenings. His works are shown in contemporary art galleries, museums, film festivals and cultural events network, in Europe, Asia, USA. He has been a guest of Danae Art Foundation in France and a guest of French Cultural Minister and the Mayor of the City of

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: Mr. Jack Lang. He presents in Blois, France a video installation: ''Le sale à manger''. A video quartet dedicated to gastronomy art. Early in his career as a motion designer, experimental video director and Creative director he collaborates to foundation of a visual department at

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, a Québécois MTV (French-Canadian musical television channel), devoted to the diffusion of musical videos and edgy pop culture programs. The program was a kind of research laboratory of televisual and videographic experimentation, which changed the Canadian televisual framework and which receives the recognition of its pars and the public:

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, Promax/BDA, a reference as regards motion design,

computer art Computer art is any art in which computers play a role in production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, video game, website, algorithm, performance or gallery installation. Many tradit ...

, computer animation and film experimentation mix media. In the late 1990s
Christian Langlois
focused an advertising career as an advertising film director for majors and prestigious brands in fashion, telecom, teen culture, extreme sports... such a clients as 3M,

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, Côte d'Or, Danone,

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Bell Communications The Bell Telephone Company, a common law joint stock company, was organized in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 9, 1877, by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who also helped organize a sister company – the New Engl ...

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, Vidéotron, Telus, Mastercard,

Air Canada Air Canada is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Canada by the size and passengers carried. Air Canada maintains its headquarters in the borough of Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec. The airline, founded in 1937, provides scheduled and ...

, Bombardier,

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, Black Label,

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, General Mils, Zip,

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, RBK, CCM,

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Telefilm Canada Telefilm Canada is a Crown corporation reporting to Canada's federal government through the Minister of Canadian Heritage. Headquartered in Montreal, Telefilm provides services to the Canadian audiovisual industry with four regional offices in V ...

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, CBC, SRC, TVA,

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, TV5,

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and enRoute. He has collaborated worldwide with many production houses companies

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(in

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), Cinelande, Jet Film, Objectif, La Fabrique d'images, Radke Films, Partners films, The Garden (Toronto), Velocity (Cap Town) Milk & Honey (Praha), AOI Japan), Satellite My Love (Paris), Les Enfants, Industry Films, FH studio. In 2013 he directed a clever interactive viral branded content for O
A Personal Apology
This viral was a huge success, more over 47 million views and won 22 Worldwide awards.
Christian Langlois
has been recognized at numerous major events and a multi-award winner: ''Cannes Lion, Clio, London International Awards, SXSW Awards, TED, Bessies, Webby Awards, Canadian Marketing Awards, Canadian Innovation Awards, Promax BDA Awards, David Ogilvy Awards, Applied Arts Awards, Summit International Awards, Rx Club Awards, Gemeaux, Vision Liberté, Pixel, Coq of Publicity Club of Montreal'' Today he is an active Commercial Film Director for several production houses and also a Creative Direction consultant specializing in visual identity, branding for entertainment and television industry fo
Mémoire Liquide
rep by The Format Peoplein Los Angeles. He collaborates with many broadcasters in Asia, Middle East, Europe and America, to do the complete rebranding of TV channels to opening credits sequence for a specific series and movies
Versailles
the series (Canal +, BBC2, Ovation, Netflix) Acceptable Risk, (RTI, Sundance Channel)... He creates with success on multi-visual languages of advertising, viral

video Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) syste ...

, design, motion design, immersive,

interactive Across the many fields concerned with interactivity, including information science, computer science, human-computer interaction, communication, and industrial design, there is little agreement over the meaning of the term "interactivity", but mo ...

electronic art Electronic art is a form of art that makes use of electronic media. More broadly, it refers to technology and/or electronic media. It is related to information art, new media art, video art, digital art, interactive art, internet art, and electr ...

. Now he develops some feature films, TV series projects and special interactive and immersive content projects.

Videography

* Sur la Corde Raide, National Film Board of Canada, (''Opening and broadcast design)'' *''Voyce, Summer Lust, (Musical video)'' *Rosenfeld, On the Front Lines, National Film Board of Canada, (''Opening and broadcast design)''
OB - A Personal Apology
OB - Tampons, (Interactive Musical video) 47 million views, 22 awards *''Michael Mooney, Open your eyes, (Interactive Musical video)'' *''La Voix'', cet otage merveilleux (25 shorts film) *

Jorane Jorane Pelletier (born October 12, 1975), known professionally as Jorane, is a French-Canadian singer/cellist, who performs pop and alternative music style on the cello, a typically classical instrument, while singing at the same time. She has r ...

, Dit-elle, (Musical video) *''Rudy Caya'', Mourrir de rire (Musical video) *

Jean-Pierre Ferland Jean-Pierre Ferland, (born June 24, 1934, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Life and career Ferland began work with Radio-Canada in 1956 as an accountant, but his career there was short lived. Shortly after, he began ...

, (Musical video) *''Virtuel'' (Video installation) *''Le sale à manger'' (Video installation 20 short films) *''La caverne d'Érika'' (Short film) *''Station'' (Documentary about contemporary art) *''14 Stations'' (Documentary about contemporary art) *''Si tu es sage on ira voir la guerre'' (Short film)

Television

*''NBC - NFL Sunday Night Football, 2019 TV opening sequence, NBC Networks and NFL,

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'' *''Hot Wire, 2019 documentary Opening sequence and Creative direction, NFB, National Film Board of Canada'' *''TVA 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 TV Launching promos'', Group TVA, Quebecor Media *''Freelancer on the Front Lines 2016 documentary Opening sequence and Creative direction, NFB, National Film Board of Canada'' *''Acceptable Risk'', ''TV series, RTI Ireland, Sundance Channel, Los Angeles (Opening and broadcast design)'' *''Versailles'', TV series, Canal+. Capa Drama, Incendo, Paris, (Opening and broadcast design) *''Nouvelle Adresse, TV series'', Ici Radio Canada télé, (Opening and broadcast design) *''TVA 2013, 2014 and 2015 TV Branding and visual identity'', Idents and promo graphic kit, Group TVA, Quebecor Media *''MongolTV, TV Branding and visual identity'', 20 idents, Group Gatsurt, Oulanbator, Mongolia *''Moi&Cie TV Branding and visual identity'', 10 idents Group TVA, Quebecor Media *''Mlle, TV Branding and visual identity'', 10 idents, Group TVA, Quebecor Media *''Mauvais Karma'', TV series, Ici Radio Canada télé, (Opening and broadcast design) *''Yoopa'', TVA group,

Sid Lee Sid Lee is an international creative services firm founded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It operates offices in Toronto, New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle and Paris. The agency offers services in the fields of branding, digital and social marke ...

, (Animation for TV Ids and broadcast design) *''Zed'', Artv, CBC,

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, (Manga animation, opening and broadcast design) *'' Sophie'', ABC-CBC, (Opening and broadcast design) *''Rumeurs'', SRC, (Opening and broadcast design) *''Tupperware, Bowl of success'', CBC,(Opening and broadcast design) *''Les Francs Tireurs'', Télé Quebec (Opening and broadcast design) *''Musicographie'', TVA -Musimax (Opening and broadcast design) *''Buzzé'', MusiquePlus (Opening and broadcast design) *''Mamuz'', MusiquePlus (Opening and broadcast design) *''Electrochoc'', MusiquePlus (Opening and broadcast design) *''Perfecto Mode'', SRC (Opening and broadcast design) *''Mamuz'', MusiquePlus (Opening and broadcast design) *''Chic Planète'', Musimax (Opening and broadcast design) *''D.'', TV5 (Opening and broadcast design) *''Perfectly Fit'' with

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(Opening and broadcast design) *''Dadabiz'', MusiquePlus (Direction of 2 seasons x 52 episodes cultural TV show) *''Gala'', MusiquePlus (Direction of Musical Video Award TV show) *''Perfecto'', MusiquePlus (Opening and broadcast design) *''Fax'', MusiquePlus (Opening and broadcast design) *''Top 500 -Profil de la décennie'', MusiquePlus,(Direction of documentary program) *''BlackOut'', (Opening and broadcast design, program structure ) *''BuzzClip'', (Opening and broadcast design, program structure ) *

References

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Grafika

Infopresse

Moment Factory

Images

Barrie Film Festival

Oboro

Promax/BDA

Prix Gémeaux

Cheekmagazine

given by Christian Langlois of

Pierre Schoendoerffer Pierre Schoendoerffer (french: Pierre Schœndœrffer; 5 May 1928 – 14 March 2012) was a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician. He was ...

External links

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