Christian Langlois

Christian Langlois (born 1963 in Quebec) is a Film director from Montreal, Canada. He has directed several short films, music videos and TV spot. He studied at Université du Québec à Montréal in Communications program: video art and new medias. He published several articles about the role of the technologies and the video in the development of visual and performing arts. [1].

After graduate studies, he began as a visual and electronic artist, mainly in video art, video installation, short films, and happenings. His works La Caverne d'Éricka, Stations, 14 Stations, Le Sale à Manger, Virtuel, La voix cet otage merveilleux are were present in contemporary art galleries, museums, films festivals and cultural events in Canada, France, Spain, Mexico, India, USA and in the United Kingdom. He has been a guest of Danae Art Foundation in France and also invited by Jack Lang, the French Cultural Minister and the City of Blois Mayor to present in France a video installation: Le sale à manger. A video quartet surrounded by 3 tons of potatoes dedicated to gastronomy art.

At the beginning of the 1990s, as Creative Director and Mix Media Film Director he found a department of Electronic Visual Creation at MusiquePlus a Québécois MTV, 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: Prix Gémeaux, Promax/BDA, a reference as regards motion design, computer art, computer animation and film experimentation mix media.

Since the middle of the 1990s, Christian Langlois focused an advertising career as a Commercial Film Director for brands such as Air Canada, Bombardier, Mastercard, Nestlé, At&t, Verizon, Bell, Yellow Pages, Vidéotron, Telus, Toyota, GM, Budweiser, Black Label, Molson, General Mils, RBK, CCM, Cirque du Soleil, Téléfilm Canada, ABC, CBS, FOX, CBC, SRC, TVA, Astral Média, TV5, MTV, Musiqueplus, and enRoute. He has collaborated with large production houses companies Propaganda Films (Los Angeles), Radke Films, Partners films, The Garden (Toronto), Milk & Honey (Praha), Cinelande, Jet Film and La Fabrique d'images (Montreal) and Satellite My Love (Paris).

Today he is an active Commercial Film Director and New media creative and visual expert. He works with the actual visual languages of advertising, viral video, web design, interactive, electronic art and motion design.

In October 2008, he began working on his first feature film, Merde in Japan. It was be shoot in 2010-11 in Japan, in USA and in Canada.

Videography

• La voix, 2008 (Short film)
• Jorane, Dit-elle, (Musical video)
• Rudy Caya, Mourrir de rire (Musical video)
• Jean-Pierre Ferland, 1987 (Musical video)
• Virtuel, 1993, (Video installation)
• Le sale à manger, 1991 (Video installation)
• La caverne d'Érika, 1987 (Short film)
• Station, 1987 (Documentary about contemporary art)
• 14 Stations, 1987 (Documentary about contemporary art)
• Si tu es sage on ira voir la guerre, 1985 (Short film)

Television

• Yoopa, TVA group, Sid Lee, (Animation for TV Ids and broadcast design)
• Zed, Artv, CBC, Tokyo Disney, Cirque du Soleil, (Manga animation, opening and broadcast design)
• Sophie, ABC-CBC, (Opening and broadcast design)
• Rumeurs, SRC, (Opening and broadcast design)
• Tupperware, Bowl of succes, CBC,(Opening and broadcast design)
• Les Francs Tireurs, Tele 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)
• Perfectomode, 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 Claudia Schiffer, CBS (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

• Jeu
• Grafika
• Infopresse
• Moment Factory
• Champ Libre
• Images
• Barrie Film Festival
• Oboro
• Promax/BDA
• Prix Gémeaux
• Cheekmagazine

External links

• Mémoire liquide
• La fabrique d'images
• The Garden
• Satellite My Love
• Behance Network
• Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
• Promax/BDA

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