ANNIE JEAN | Image Editing

"Working many long and intense years as a film assistant, especially on fiction feature films, working on sound and then on image editing, incessantly splicing thousands of bits of film.... these have taught me the essentials of this craft. I've always considered editing to be an apprentice's craft, just like in the apprenticeships of the Middle Ages, in numerous workshops, of diverse artistic crafts.

In 1995, I began editing in the same moment that film editing was abandoned for digital editing. A nostalgia that would not last that long, despite everything... Because at that same moment, documentaries entered into my life. By chance, but also ultimately by passion, Gabrielle Roy by Léa Pool, Le Territoire du comédien by Jean-Claude Coulbois, Bacon, The film, by Hugo Latulippe, The Phantom of the Operator by Caroline Martel, Ce qu'il reste de nous, by Hugo Latulippe and François Prévost.

I often say that the films that I edit have to inscribe themselves in the routes that my life takes, to pass from moment to moment along the traces of my deepest interrogations. They are a bit like the encounters we have with the people we meet, they forge us while raising many questions for us. In this way, the films edited form the links in a long chain. They respond to one another and form, bit by bit, that which I am. We practice this craft to make a living, but ultimately to understand who we are..."

MATHIEU BOUCHARD-MALO | Additional Image Editing

Born in Montreal in 1970, Mathieu Bouchard-Malo completed his studies in Cinema at the Université de Montréal in 1994. Associated with the production house Virtua for many years, he has edited over 50 videoclips and has collaborated on several shorts films. Notably, he has participated in the video projects of the choreographer Marie Chouinard (Cantique No. 1) and is the editor and privileged collaborator of Rodrigue Jean on two feature films, Full Blast (1999) and Yellowknife (2002).

SYLVAIN BELLEMARE | Sound Editing

"I began working on sound design because I was sick of film music. Too romantic, too predictable; I wanted to provoke film images by modifying realist sounds. I believe I have succeeded at this a few times. In general, I try to do sound recording on the same film so that the provocation starts off on the right foot..."

Sylvain has collaborated with the directors: André Turpin, - Un crabe dans la tête (2001, 4X4); Zigrail (1995, Jeux d’Ombres); Cosmos (1996, MAX FILM - collective with 5 other filmmakers), Philippe Falardeau - La moitié gauche du frigo (2000, 4X4); Pâté chinois (1997, ONF), Hugo Latulipe - Bacon (2001, ONF); Voyage au Nord du monde (1998, ONF), Guylaine Dionne - Les Fantômes des Trois Madeleine (2000, FILMO FILM), Bertrand Bonello - TIRESIA (2003, Haut et Court), Le Pornographe (2001, In Extremis), Renée Blanchard - Vocation ménagère (1995, ONF); Temps X (1999, ONF) et Ziad Touma - Saved by the Belles (2002).

PASCALE MONTPETIT | Voice

From her beginnings, Pascale Montpetit has brilliantly acted on stage, in movies and on television. In theatres, she worked with Denis Marleau (Quelqu'un va venir, Roberto Zucco), Brigitte Haentjens (Marie Stuart), Lorraine Pintal (Les Oranges sont vertes, Ines Pérée, Inat Tendu) and André Brassard (La Mouette, Le Temps des lilas), among others. She was cast in more than 15 movies, in English as well as in French, including Savage Messiah (M. Azzopardi), L'Invention de l'amour (C. Demers), Jackpot (John Smith) and from Charles Binamé : La Beauté de Pandore, Le Coeur au poing and Eldorado. On television, her work includes Mon Meilleur Ennemi, Réseaux, Diva, Maman chérie, Sous un ciel variable and Blanche. She's been accumulating awards for her acting performances (Jutra, Gémeaux, Genie and Métrostar).

SUZANNE BINET-AUDET | Ondes Martenot

Originally from Montreal, Suzanne Binet-Audet first completed her studies on the organ at the Montreal Conservatory of Music. While on a trip to perfect her skills in France under Jean Langlais, she simultaneously began studying the ondes Martenot. In this discipline, she received a Licence de concert from the École normale de musique de Paris (class of Jeanne Loriod) and a First Prize Medal from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris (class of the inventor, Maurice Martenot). She gives concerts in Canada as well as in the States and in Europe, and participates in countless musical productions in addition to composing music for cinema : La Face cachée de la lune (Robert Lepage, 2003); The Phantom of the Operator (Caroline Martel, 2004). She will soon be working in collaboration with R. Murray Schaeffer, who has expressed a strong interest in composing for ondes. Since it was founded in 1976, Suzanne is a member of the Ensemble d'ondes de Montreal, one of the first of its kind. She has made it a personal goal to raise awareness and appreciate of the ondes Martenot throughout the world, and particularly in North America.

RENÉ LUSSIER | Musical Effects

Guitarist René Lussier is one of the pillars of innovative music in Quebec. A prolific and eclectic composer, he has been charting new music territories since the end of the '70s, teaming up with musicians from all fields. Co-founder of the label Ambiances Magnétiques, he has engineered and produced most of his albums. He has written music for over fifty films, either on his own or in collaboration. Passionate about improvisation, he holds meetings and workshops devoted to this activity in Quebec and Europe on a regular basis. His work has received numerous awards and distinctions: the "Avant Garde MIMI" (2002) awarded by the Montréal Independent Music Initiative; the Victor-Martyn-Lynch-Staunton Award (2001) from the Canada Council for the Arts to "salute exceptional achievements and excellence"; the Freddy Stone Award (1996) for "his artistic integrity, his innovative spirit, and his contribution to Canadian new music"; the Prix Paul Gilson (1989) awarded to his piece "Le Trésor de la langue" by the Communauté des radios publiques de langue française [the Community of French-speaking State Radios]; the First Prize of the Yorktown Short Film & Video Festival (1987) with Jean Derome for their music for Hélène Klodowsky's film Painted Landscapes of the Times: The Art of Sue Coe; the Brazowy Smok First Prize (1984, Krakow, Poland) with Robert Marcel Lepage for their music for Pierre Hébert's film Chants et danses du monde inanimé: le métro.

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TEAM PLAYERS

Caroline Martel + Julie de Lorimier (Narration Advice) in Toronto, Canada

Preparations for the World Première at the Art Gallery of Ontario

Mathieu Bouchard-Malo (Additional Image Editing) + Annie Jean (Image Editing)
Caroline Martel + Matthew Hodgins

Caroline Martel puts the final touches on the Phantom's narration

Lise Noël (Bell Historical Services and AQPI member) with actress Pascale Montpetit at the team screening (24-May-2005