Counting film noir, B-movies, David Lynch, Dario Argento and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup as influences on his work, the local multidisciplinary, cinematically inclined artist Claude Ferland is a multi-faceted type of guy. "I work in all kinds of arts--with photo, video, short films, and [local designer] Yso works in fashion," Ferland recounts. "We wanted to combine all these things and create something very ambiguous." So the two teamed up for Les Promeneuses (The Walkers), an experimental jaunt through performance art/film-noir/fashion-show territory, where everyone's a participant and, like in Blowup, cutting-edge fashion is juxtaposed with a sense of desperate melancholy and good-looking existentialism. "We want to make people reflect on things like death, fragility, existential malaise," Ferland says. As Yso's fall-winter 2001-2002 collection is paraded by sleepy girls, video work by Ferland will be projected on giant screens and musicians Olivier Laberge and Antoine Bédard will play their dark, brooding, electronic soundtrack for the event. At the SAT (307 Ste-Catherine W.), Tuesday, April 10, 8 p.m. Call 985-0622 for reservations, space is limited.
Counting film noir, B-movies, David Lynch, Dario Argento and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup as influences on his work, the local multidisciplinary, cinematically inclined artist Claude Ferland is a multi-faceted type of guy. "I work in all kinds of arts--with photo, video, short films, and [local designer] Yso works in fashion," Ferland recounts. "We wanted to combine all these things and create something very ambiguous." So the two teamed up for Les Promeneuses (The Walkers), an experimental jaunt through performance art/film-noir/fashion-show territory, where everyone's a participant and, like in Blowup, cutting-edge fashion is juxtaposed with a sense of desperate melancholy and good-looking existentialism. "We want to make people reflect on things like death, fragility, existential malaise," Ferland says. As Yso's fall-winter 2001-2002 collection is paraded by sleepy girls, video work by Ferland will be projected on giant screens and musicians Olivier Laberge and Antoine Bédard will play their dark, brooding, electronic soundtrack for the event. At the SAT (307 Ste-Catherine W.), Tuesday, April 10, 8 p.m. Call 985-0622 for reservations, space is limited.