Karl Lemieux is a Canadian

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best known for his collaborations with

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-based post rock band

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and his 2016 film '' Shambles''.

Biography

Karl Lemieux joined

in 2010 – when the band came back after a seven-year hiatus – providing film projections shown at live concerts. Those projections largely consist of

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tapes shot at empty roads in Canada. He has also designed video projections for the 2012–2013 El Camino Tour by

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. In 2015, together with his bandmate David Bryant, Lemieux co-directed the experimental documentary short '' Quiet Zone'' about people with

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living in the

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. The film premiered in January 2015 at the

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where it was a part of the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2015. At the

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the film was nominated for Best Short Documentary by the

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. A year later Lemieux directed '' Shambles'' (original French title: ''Maudite poutine''), his feature film debut. The film premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival before going into theatrical release in Canada in 2017. The film garnered four nominations at the 19th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2017. In 2019 he was one of seven directors, alongside Kaveh Nabatian, Juan Andrés Arango,

Sophie Deraspe Sophie Deraspe (born October 27, 1973) is a Canadian director, scenarist, director of photography and producer. Prominent in new Quebec cinema, she is known for a 2015 documentary '' The Amina Profile'', an exploration of the Amina Abdallah Arraf ...

, Sophie Goyette, Ariane Lorrain and Caroline Monnet, of the anthology film ''The Seven Last Words (Les sept dernières paroles)''.Justine Smith
"Anthology film The Seven Last Words is unified by music and human vulnerability"
''

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'', June 14, 2019.

Filmography

As director

* 2008: ''Passage'' (short) * 2015: '' Quiet Zone'' (''Ondes et Silence'') (documentary short) * 2016: '' Shambles'' (''Maudite poutine'')

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lemieux, Karl 1980 births Canadian screenwriters in French Film directors from Montreal French-language film directors Living people Writers from Montreal