Trailer for the film RUINS RIDER Directed by PIERRE-LUC VAILLANCOURT Original music by MARC HURTADO RUINS RIDER 2017 / 49 minutes Filmed in the lost territories of the Balkans, RUINS RIDER portrays the secret ruins that triggered trances over the past centuries. Using an array of hypnotic pulsating flickers, filmmaker Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt conceived an explosive kinetic experience. Accompanied by a powerful soundtrack by Marc Hurtado of the cult project Étant Donnés, RUINS RIDER is a visceral experience of hypnagogic archeology and raw energy. Remarkable, invigorating and immersive work. A deeply committed and brilliantly hypnotic film. Powerful. ALCHEMY FILM & MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL Ruins Rider is marked as the most powerful of the films that I have seen. It’s a real subject explored with great energy using the new art of the computer to great effect and viscerally stimulating. There is history and ideas and technological wizardry. FILMMAKER, WRITER & PHOTOGRAPHER TIMOTHY NEAT For Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt this is an attempt to inject a convulsive barbarization, or a self-barbarization as Alain Brossat calls it, into the anesthetized social body in order to jolt it with a reviving electroshock. ESSE ARTS + OPINIONS Mover-and-shaker Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt treated us to a night of his curated film showings at San Francisco Cinematheque. His goal is to “push the envelope” and we think he succeeded! RE/SEARCH PUBLICATIONS. V. VALE Ruins Rider is an atlas of power-zones. A magical current is charged through the act of filming, flowing through my whole body and mind, piercing through the image. This life force guided my shooting, deeply fusing the mythical portals and the volcanoes of my consciousness. This approach is sustained by a meticulous and deep dedication to the transmutation process of the hypnotic ruins, the image's revelatory nature and within my own cognitive's elemental structure. The pulsating and magnetic ruins embody the numinous fire and limitless light. High voltage telluric blast. PIERRE-LUC VAILLANCOURT

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Harstad Kino
Kr 110,- 

I denne Open Call Spesial visningen, Ruins Rider av Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt, trer du inn i et hypnotisk, pulserende univers og er garantert en eksplosiv, energisk og kraftfull opplevelse!

Filmet i Balkans ødeland utforsker Ruins Rider mystiske ruiner som gjennom århundrene har vært kjent for å utløse transer. Filmen er del av et arkeologisk prosjekt som utforsker fortapte sivilisasjoner. Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt er beskrevet som en kulturell gerilja, og arbeidene er vist på mange store internasjonale festivaler, museer og cinemateker.

Regi og produsent: Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt År: Montenegro/Canada 2017 Spilletid: 49 min

RUINS RIDER

Information in english

Harstad Kino
Kr 110,- 

Filmed in the lost territories of the Balkans, Ruins Rider portrays the secret ruins that triggered trances over the past centuries. Using an array of hypnotic pulsating flickers, filmmaker Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt conceived an explosive kinetic experience. Accompanied by a powerful soundtrack by Marc Hurtado of the cult project Étant Donnés, Ruins Rider is a visceral experience of hypnagogic archeology and raw energy. 

Working within the ontological fabric of reality, filmmaker Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt explores the wild territories of trance, technological liminality and experimental archeology. His work has been described as cultural guerrilla of striking force and aims to produce visceral and hypnotic experiences marked by a powerful energy charge. Vaillancourt’s films and videos have been presented at the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art, Russia National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Kiev Foundation for Contemporary Art, Festival du nouveau cinema de Montreal, Fylkingen, Raw Territories Gatherings, Bunkier Sztuki, Wro Art Center and in many international festivals, museums and cinematheques.

RUINS RIDER

«Ruins Rider is marked as the most powerful of the films that I have seen. It’s a real subject explored with great energy using the new art of the computer to great effect and viscerally stimulating. There is history and ideas and technological wizardry.»

— FILMMAKER, WRITER & PHOTOGRAPHER TIMOTHY NEAT

«Remarkable, invigorating and immersive work. A deeply committed and brilliantly hypnotic film. Powerful.

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— ALCHEMY FILM & MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL

«Ruins Rider is an atlas of power-zones. A magical current is charged through the act of filming, flowing through my whole body and mind, piercing through the image. This life force guided my shooting, deeply fusing the mythical portals and the volcanoes of my consciousness. This approach is sustained by a meticulous and deep dedication to the transmutation process of the hypnotic ruins, the image’s revelatory nature and within my own cognitive’s elemental structure. The pulsating and magnetic ruins embody the numinous fire and limitless light. High voltage telluric blast.
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— PIERRE-LUC VAILLANCOURT