We have already blogged about this video a few times: there’s a fair chance we will again. Chosen from among a good many artists in the Behance creative network, Jérémie’s work, especially his latest We Are Wolves’ Fight & Kiss video, got him the nod. He is spotlighted by Behance Magazine for having helmed what they call “best-loved projects.” And how! The video will be part of the Music Video program in the Projections series of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, July 9th to September, 28th 2008.

Based on the old Shakespearian tale of forbidden love, David and Fatima, both written and directed by Alain, is his first outing since moving to LA and leaving behind the Canadian movie making bureaucracy a bit more than a year ago. Though we have not seen the film, judging from the strong trailer and accompanying site with all manner of great stills, this tale is rather close to Alain personally.

Here’s the short synopsis: “Jerusalem: A city of contrasts and conflicts where Arabs, Jews, Christians and Muslims all mix but never mingle. This is where David, a young Israeli Jew and Fatima, a beautiful Palestinian girl, meet and fall in love. But in a volatile land that is steeped in tradition and soaked in blood, their love is forbidden.”

Rising stars Cameron Van Hoy and Danielle Pollack play the title roles and give outstanding performances. Also in the cast is Academy Award winner Martin Landau, with a special appearance by Hollywood legend Tony Curtis.

For those of you who will be in LA this week or in the near future, the film opens this Friday at the Laemmle’s 4-Plex in Santa Monica, and will run from June 27 – July 25, 2008. Click on this link for more info and showtimes: http://www.releasedavidandfatima.com/showing/

Hearty congrats, Alain!

This is a direct quote from the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures: “Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century, edited by Todd Swift and Jason Camlot, is a thorough and provocative collection of critical essays on English-language poetry in Quebec since 1976, when the political and cultural repositioning of the anglophone community engendered new creative and aesthetic directions in its literature.” Language Acts is published by Véhicule Press.

If you love surfing, but it still hasn’t occurred to you that the stuff you see online can broach art, think again. Let me bring your attention to exo7.ca and surf away from bland, run-of-the-mill sites with the usual ergonomic buttons on top and so-called positive corporate colors everywhere else. Exo7 takes design out of the classical mold and makes it a part of the conversation. That’s sounds like bs, you say? But when you look at exo7′s work, especially their websites, it makes you feel good about what can be done with Web 2.0 technology, not only because of its almost limitless possibilities, but mostly how it can look. And things that look nice make you feel good. So I guess you can say exo7 makes you feel good about technology. And if that makes you feel good, then you got to feel good about the future.

Check out the interview in Behance Magazine; Jérémie talks about the creative process and how collaboration is key in making things happen while articulating his own aesthetic and conceptual views and staying on a creative track. Just now back from Cannes, Jérémie is bracing for the summer productions of a short film on the theme of desire with Remstar as well as music videos for some of Montreal’s hottest bands. In fact, his latest music video, “Fight & Kiss” of We Are Wolves, will be featured, along with other emerging Montreal directors, at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal’s Vidéomusique series, July 9th through September 28th 2008.