Somewhere in Old Hull, time ticks away to the beat of barking dogs and a rumbling fridge. What happens when it stops? What’s left in the remaining silence?
Julien Morissette is a filmmaker, sound designer and musician from Gatineau, where he lives and works. Since 2016, his digital art practice has focused on radio creation and storytelling. In addition to doing sound and radio design for the stage, Julien has created and designed audio installations presented in various artist centres. In 2017, he co-founded the Festival de la radio numérique and Transistor Média, a company specializing in documentary podcasting and digital audio fiction. He has designed and produced audio series such as L’heure de radio McGarrigle, La Scène nationale du son and Signal nocturne (Télé-Québec), Synthèses (QUB Radio) and En direct de (Radio-Canada). With his partner Karina Pawlikowski, he is currently working on the audio fiction series Les amours extraordinaires (Radio-Canada) and the stage project Quelque chose de la lenteur.
Artistic Director, French Theatre
Mani Soleymanlou
A 2008 graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Mani Soleymanlou has lived in Tehran, Paris, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, and has worked with such acclaimed directors as Alice Ronfard (Les pieds des anges), Brigitte Haentjens (L’opéra de quat’sous), Claude Poissant (Rouge gueule, The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi), Serge Denoncourt (Projet Andromaque, Les trois mousquetaires), Olivier Kemeid (Furieux et désespérés), Denis Bernard (Ce moment-là) and Eric Jean (Variations sur un temps).
He is best known as the founding artistic director (2011) of the Montreal-based theatre company Orange Noyée. His distinctive artistic practice investigates notions of community identity (Un/One, Deux/Two, Trois/Three) and social relationships (Ils étaient quatre, Cinq à sept, 8). He pursued this approach more recently in Neuf [working title] and Zéro presented in fall 2019 in Montreal and Ottawa, and also in various artistic collaborations over the years: Lapin blanc, Lapin rouge, Les Lettres arabes II, and À te regarder, ils s’habitueront. Mani Soleymanlou was part of the impressive team behind Gabriel Dumont’s Wild West Show (premiered at the NAC in October 2017), as director and co-artistic director.
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