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Since its inception, Amérimage-Spectra has produced more than 500 hours of programming. The following is an overview of our most recent productions. To examine our complete catalogue, visit Spectra International Distribution.
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Body Remix – Goldberg Variations (2007)
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In this new work by Marie Chouinard, the dancers execute variations on the exercise of freedom. Often, the dancers appear on points: on one, two, and even four at a time. In a spectroscopy of the gesture, we also see them using different devices - crutches, rope, prostheses, horizontal bars, and harnesses - which at times liberate their movements, at others fetter it, and at sill others create it. |
Symphonic Landscape – Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (2006)
With Kent Nagano and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
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Internationally acclaimed conductor Kent Nagano leads the 85 musicians of Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal in a gala performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Drawing upon the music, this program blends short features and visuals during the first three movements, and then presents the Ode to Joy in its entirety. |
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A Special Event with Pat Metheney. Concert recorded at the 26th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal. |
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This Cirque Éloize production combines song, dance and acrobatics. |
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1 x 48, 1 x 90, 1 x 120 |
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An artistic celebration saluting Cirque du Soleil's 20th anniversary and the 25th anniversary of the Montreal International Jazz Festival. |
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Nomination Arts & Specials - Rose d'Or |
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Édouard Lock offers a cinematographic version of Amelia, his most recent creation, in which camera and dancers of La La La Human Steps unite in precise choreography. |
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Rose d'Or, "Arts & Specials" category - Rose d'Or
Silver Hugo - Chicago TV Awards
Gemini Awards - Gemini Awards
Czech Crystal, Music or Dance Programs Adapted for Television - Golden Prague
Special Jury Award - Banff Television Festival
5 nominations - Gemini Award
Nomination Arts Programming - International Emmy Award
Nomination - IMZ Dance Screen
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Rockabilly 514 is a social rockumentary about the rockabilly sub-culture within Montreal and its people who share a lifestyle influenced by the 1950s. Elvis, Hot Rod, Tattoo. This documentary gives an outside-in look to a lifestyle that transcends time and space.
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The Cross and Bones (2005)
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Filmed in Alberta's Drumheller Valley, this documentary recounts how three groups of people with diametrically opposed convictions and interests - fundamentalist Christians, scientists and 3000 bikers - come together and reflect upon our collective destiny. Using metaphors for faith, hedonism and science, the work questions humanity's leading beliefs and value systems but never takes sides, leaving viewers to do their own reflecting.
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Opening film, Canadian category - Hot Docs
Nomination Best Canadian Documentary - Calgary International Film Festival
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Shakin' all over, the first in a series of three episodes on popular Canadian music, focuses on the emergence of the style up through the early 1970s. Through interviews with the artists who were
part of the phenomenon and archival material, we gain an understanding of the era and its impact
on the current state of pop music.
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Jean-Pierre Perreault: Giant Steps (2003)
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A penetrating and moving portrait of dancer and choreographer Jean-Pierre Perreault, who died in December 2002. |
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Best Direction Award - Moving Pictures
Nominations Documentary Programs with a Musical or Dance Theme - Golden Prague
Nomination Arts Documentary - Banff Television Festival
Nomination - Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Nomination - Atlantic Film Festival
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Against the wind, against the tide (2003)
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A personal reflection and quest by Zachary Richard, who guides us on a journey of discovery of the Cajun people. Tracing his people's history and painting a portrait of their contemporary reality, Against the wind, against the tide deals with the survival of persons and cultures, exploring in the process the great issue of cultural identity. |
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Winner - Prix Historia
Nomination - Best text: Documentary, Public Affairs, Reporting, Biography - Prix Gémeaux
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This series features interesting meetings through which viewers will get to know men who are passionate about music. Some are already well known while others may still not have stepped into the spotlight. But all are definitely worth being heard. Their brimming passion shows itself in their gestures, their expectations and the individual path each has followed. |
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Blending a bold touch and a well-developed sense of humour, this 13-part series looks at great classical music composers. Hosted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin of L'Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal. |
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Nomination Best Cultural Magazine - Prix Gémeaux
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