Jean-Marc Vallée: Mixtape at The Centre PHI | Rediscover the Director Through His Passion for Music
By Alain BrunetPresented at the Centre PHI until early May 2025, Jean-Marc Vallée: Mixtape is an exhibition suggesting a multimedia and (particularly) musical journey through the late director’s work. Music, especially the pop/rock/americana corpus, was the foundation of his cinematography, without which he would not have had this unique signature. His collaborators and close friends all testify […]
M/NM | ¡Némangerie mâchée!… What a Menagerie!
By Alain BrunetOn a historically stormy evening at the Society for Arts and Technology, M/NM nevertheless honored the biennial’s theme: the meeting of image and music. The program ¡Némangerie mâchée! attracted a highly motivated audience, and for good reason: this superb video-voice performance must be presented to the public again, given its real unifying potential. Together, vocal […]
God’s Mom, Who Art In Heaven
By Vanessa BarronTranscending time and space, the music of God’s Mom sounds simultaneously ancient yet futuristic. This darkwave electronic duo consists of Bria Salmena and Andrew Matthews joining forces to make haunting, high BPM tracks. Salmena, who has sung with Orville Peck and whose solo catalog leans more towards country, explores a different type of folk singing […]
Black History Month | An Afro-Indigenous Immersion
By Sandra GasanaFor its third edition, Immersion plunged us into a meeting between two African women artists, Dalie Dandala, from Congo-Brazzaville, and Lerie Sankofa, from Côte d’Ivoire, and an Atikamekw woman, Laura Niquay. Together, they shared with us the fruits of their 21-day artistic creation residency, during which they got to know each other, created together and […]