Wounds and Visions Of A Megalopolis : Montréal (Up And Coming Festival Hannover 2005)

The festival and the project

The Up And Coming Hannover festival is already at his 8th edition and is becoming more and more important over the years not only in Germany but also all over Europe. This fall, more than 50 young artists from all over the world will be presenting their video projects at the festival.

TIND (thisisnotdesign) has been invited to represent the vision of Montreal's young artists with a video compilation of 60 minutes that will be screened during a special presentation of the festival : "Wounds And Visions of A Megalopolis 2005".

The compilation

The Montreal's compilation of "Wounds And Visions of A Megalopolis 2005" is composed of about 30 videos created by young independant artists from Montreal under 30. The majority of these videos come from students (and former student) of UQAM (University of Quebec in Montreal) and from the Dérapage video festival held each year as part of the design art program of the university. We also present a small selection of the minute moments video nights, a "new movement" created by Thien Vu Dang, artist et VJ from Montreal and Moment Factory, one of the most important and influent goup of video creation and VJing in Montreal.

This compilation presents research and experimentation from Montreal as it is, created by young independant artists. The program is composed of 4 distinct sections :

Independant videoclip and music scene of Montreal
Dérapage : Montréal's universities video festival
Dreams and nightmares of young Montréal's artist
1 minute video nights : a new movement is born in Montréal

Diffusion

TIND's goal with this project is to let people know about the new talents and creativity that is emerging from Montreal these days in the field of video creation. Our goal is to distribute, diffuse in as many festivals we can, all over the world. If you are a member of an artist group, festival or broadcaster, don't hesitate to contact us !

TIND

thisisnotdesign is a Montreal art group formed by artists and art professionals. Active since 2001, TIND is a non-profit organisation whose goal is to promote new talents emerging from the cultural scene, more precisely in the field of arts and new technologies. TIND is composed of video artists, VJs, designers, programmers, archivists, art history specialist in the field of video installation and web art and of many collaborators that come from the young artistic scene of video artists and VJs of Quebec.