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Credits
- Original concept and design
Robert Lepage - Co-creator and image design
Steve Blanchet - Composer and sound design
René Lussier - Lighting design
Martin Gagnon - Co-creator and co-writer
Philippe Meunier - Museologist and co-writer
Philippe Dubé - Projection technical design
Paul Souverbie - Image production coordinator and creative assistant
Marie Belzil - Coordinator and creative assistant
Félix Dagenais - Image design assistant
Jacques Collin - Production manager
Mario Brien - Technical director
Michel Loiselle - Assistant to the production manager
Caroline Pineau - Production assistants
Marie-Christine Martel
Sandra Matte - Image production consultant
Pierre-Yves Toulot (Cosmo AV) - Image programmer, modelling
Jean-Philippe Turmel - Image programmer and operator
Sébastien Grenier-Cartier - ETC video system design
Jean-Marc Constantien
Nicolas Manichon
Patrice Bouqueniaux - Head computer graphics design
Maxim Boisseau - Image production assistant and researcher
Valériane Cossette - Researchers
Karine Charbonneau
Joëlle Cloutier
Anne-Marie Desmeules - Archivist
Mélanie Girard - Computer graphics design, camera operator, and video editor
Luc Saint-Laurent - Computer graphics design
François Mercier
Dominique Grenier
Olivier Breton
Sylvain Gignac
Ludovic Gauthier
Anne-Marie Lévesque
Nicoletta Kalatha
Sandrine Muratet
Anne-Marie Demers
Kim Maurice
Maxine Jutras
Véronique Dumont - Camera operators
Boris Firquet
Maxim Boisseau
Patrick Faucher - Head of sound broadcasting
Jacques Boucher - Sound engineer and mixer
Martin Messier - Studio musicians
Liette Remon
Jean René
Martin Tétreault
Némo Venba
Pierre Langevin
Jacques Drouin - Sound director
Marc Doucet - Head of sound
Josué Beaucage - Sound engineer
Pierre Bouchard - Project manager, electricity, and wiring
Patrick Durnin - Lighting assistants
Mathieu Rousseau
Donald Leblanc - Lighting director
Dominic Minguy-Jean - Key grip
Jacques Rouleau - Grips/Technicians
Jonathan Allaire
Éric Aubin
Valérie Bossinotte-Gosselin
Nicolas Boudreau
Véronique Dumais
Émilie Durette-Yockell
Jean-François Faber
Frédérick Fortier
Yves Gagnon
David Hugues
Danny Jenkins
Keena Lamarre-Meetaroo
Carolanne Laroche Loiselle
Daniel Mainguy
Olivier Marcil
Yves Marois
Simon Pedneault
Marc-Olivier Pelletier
Jérôme Vallée
Marc Vinceslas - Commissionnaire
Serge Loiselle - Carpenter
François Turgeon - Computer design
Richard Côté
PERFORMANCE TEAM
- Site manager
Mario Brien - Assistant to the site manager
Caroline Pineau - Video director
Sébastien Grenier-Cartier - Sound director
Marc Doucet - Head of sound
François Côté - Lighting manager
Dominic Minguy-Jean - Head electrician
François Tremblay - Electrician
Guillaume Généreux - Head of video
Patrick Lefebre - Grip
Marie-Christine Martel - Video technicians (ETC)
Patrick Matuszek
François Rocchetti
Benoît Thomas
Mathieu Coutu
Nicolas Paquet
EX MACHINA
- Producer
Michel Bernatchez - Vice-president, finance
Jean-Pierre Vézina - Administrative and human resources director
Guy Lanteigne - Director of communications and public relations
Martine Rochon - Assistant to the producer
Valérie Lambert - Technical consultants
Tobie Horswill
Catherine Guay - Network administrator
Marc-Antoine Fleury - Administrative assistants
Sylvie Racine
Carmen Hattote - Travel agent and receptionist
Francine Dupuis - Assistant to the vice-president, finance
Francine Poitras - Administrative clerk
Virginie Leclerc - Workshop technician
Sylvain Durocher - Archives clerk
Véronique St-Jacques - Maintenance
Daniel Bernatchez
ROBERT LEPAGE INC.
- Agent and assistant to Robert Lepage
Lynda Beaulieu - Assistant to Lynda Beaulieu
Johanne Tremblay - Personal assistants to Robert Lepage
Patrick Caux
Francis Beaulieu
The Image Mill
Since June 20, the evening of the summer solstice, this forty-minute visual and audio production has been projected against the grain silos in the Port of Québec. This huge concrete structure became a narrator that tells the tale of Québec City’s 400 years of history.
“Its geographic location, urban culture and history make Québec one of the world’s most beautiful and highly photogenic cities. Québec City has been mapped, drawn, engraved, painted, photographed and filmed, and we have invented a mill that transforms, animates, dramatizes and pays tribute to these 400 years of images. The images are almost all drawn from archives dating back to the time when Samuel de Champlain drew Québec.” Robert Lepage
The Image Mill is a sort of animated mosaic that, moving from engravings to paintings and from photos to videos, creates an impressionistic portrait of the city over time. The work consist of four movements corresponding to the city’s four centuries of history: waterways, the age of exploration and discovery; road building, clearing and developing the land; the railroad and industrial expansion; and finally, the age of air travel and the development of communications
The production draw on all the technological expertise and experience that Ex Machina brings to the integration of images to the narrative.
These 81 silos measure 600 metres long by 30 metres high. Twenty-seven video projectors, 20,000 lumens each, project millions of pixels onto Bunge’s south and west façades. With 238 spotlights, 203 of which are DEL, and 329 speakers in place, the audience can see the show from several viewpoints: from the Château Frontenac to the Marie-Guyard building, from the ramparts to the Louise Basin piers, Espace 400e and the south shore of the St. Lawrence River.
The soundtrack for this unique sensorial experience was composed by René Lussier and can be heard in different ways depending on the location of the audience. The entire south shore of the Louise Basin is wired for sound. The public can listen to the original composition in the section adjacent to Rue du Quai St-André from the Pointe-à-Carcy to the west end of the basin. Outside this zone, the public can tune into 88.3 (CKIA-FM) on the radio for a simulcast of the soundtrack.
The Image Mill is presented until September 7, 2008 in the Port of Québec, and admission is free. Please note that starting August 25, the show will begin at 21h30 instead of 22h.
