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A dance activated film and traditional video for Arcade Fire.

The idea is to affect the pacing of the film with your movements. You are invited to dance in front of your webcam. There are no specific rules, no complicated “minority report” tricks. Just an invitation to move your arms or your butt on the music. The quicker you move, the faster the frames play. You slow down, the characters in the video slow down. You freeze and the video starts to loop on the beat, creating a new choreography in the choreography. It is also possible to interact with your mouse, in case you don’t have a camera or you want to switch from dancing to clicking. Vincent also did a traditional video out of the same shoot that you can watch on TV or youtube. For the interactive version, Damian Taylor did a great remix of Sprawl II.

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Director: Vincent Morisset Producer: Jean-Luc Della Montagna Art Director + Stylist: Renata Morales Choreographer: Dana Gingras Director of Photography: Christophe Collette Editor: Stéphane Lafleur Sprawl II Remix: Damian Taylor Technology Director: Édouard Lanctôt-Benoit Designer: Caroline Robert Cast: Régine Chassagne, Karine Denault, Gabrielle Desgagnés, Noémie Dufour-Campeau, Mark Eden-Towle, Alan Lake, Milan Panet-Raymond, Esther Rousseau-Morin, Michael Watts Interactive Production: AATOAA Film Production: 1976 Post-Production Post-Moderne Music: Arcade Fire

Neon Bible

be oNline B for Arcade Fire’s song ‘Neon Bible’, directed by Vincent Morisset, is considered as one of the first interactive music video ever done and Winner of a Gold Pencil and a FWA. It has been featured in many magazine including Wired and Creative Review and was noted as one of the top six milestone videos in the history of the twenty-five year-old medium. For his work the Shots magazine described Vincent Morisset “as the godfather of this burgeoning scene.”

The interactive music video was also presented in MoMA during the Best of the Digital Decade event.

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Music: Arcade Fire – Neon Bible Director & Actionscript Programmer: Vincent Morisset Effects & Post Production: Oliver Groulx, Vincent Morisset Director of Photography: Christophe Collette Stylist: Renata Morales Production: Nú Films, Quebec, Canada

INNI

INNI is a persuasive account of one of the most celebrated and influential rock bands of recent years.

The critically acclaimed documentary on Sigur Ros, was filmed during a 2008 performance at the Alexandra Palace in London using high-definition video, later transferred to 16-millimeter film, Interweaving archive material from the band’s first ten years with the sometimes gossamer light, sometimes punishingly intense, concert footage, it looks and feels like something recovered from the past.

INNI opened at the Venice Festival (Venice Days). It was the opening film at RIFF and has been screened at CPH:DOX, VIFF and the festivals of Helsinki, Rio, Istanbul, Taipei, Hawaii, Oslo and Dubai.

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Director: Vincent Morisset Director of Photography: Rob Hardy Editor: Nick Fenton, Stephane Lafleur Sound Design: Birgir Jon Animation: Raoul Paulet, Oliver Groulx Design: Caroline Robert Post Production: AATOAA, Post-Moderne Producer: John Best, Dean O’Connor Live shoot production: Warp Films

Sleeping Sickness

The interactive music video “Sleeping Sickness”, by Canadian group City and Colour, provides an intriguing perspective on the topic of space. By expounding on the still new interactive music video concept , director Vincent Morisset gives the viewer the freedom to re-shape spacial boundaries.  This forces new questions: Does seeing the “greater” narrative impact individual ones?  Shift the meaning?  What do we choose to see?  Choose to ignore?

While the visual narrative is both creative and vast, it does not, or should not, minimise the centrality of the song itself.  Coming from a seemingly isolated space, Dallas Green tells the story of a “breaking down” moment.

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Music: City and Colour feat. Gordon Downie – Sleeping Sickness Director: Vincent Morisset Producer: Richard Cureton Director of Photography Samy Inayeh Post Production: Olivier Groulx Programming:Mathieu Campagna

BLA BLA

An interactive tale, directed by Vincent Morisset. In this animated film meets picture book, you participate in the story. The project in itself explores the grammar of a new medium, using xerography, drawing on paper, ActionScript-generated animations, puppet stop-motion combined with real-time 3D mapping.

The six chapters in the story depict different aspects of human communication, such as learning a language, making small talk, expressing emotions. As part of the creative process for BLA BLA, Morisset extensively researched interactive narrative to define a new grammar of non-linear editing. BLA BLA thus offers a new vision of communication in the wider sense, of how our natural behaviours and interactions with others play out in the world.

BLA BLA won the Innovation prize at the New Film Festival of Montreal in fall 2011.

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Director: Vincent Morisset Design: Caroline Robert Sound Design: Philippe Lambert Developer: Édouard Lanctôt-Benoît Development: AATOAA Production: The National Film Board of Canada