From portfolio works, to personal projects, this is the closest thing NOMAD Nation has to a TV station so pop a brew, or smoke a j, because you have hours worth of NOMAD goodness to enjoy…

NOMAD Nation citizens, Noé Sardet and Sharif Mirshak, have been working together under the name Parafilms for years, but what we recognize them most for, besides being gear heads, is their incredible documentary series on plankton, using stellar shooting techniques that make you experience the life of plankton.
TED is using the Plankton Chronicles for their new TED ED program.

Rassemblement le 22 avril – Jour de la Terre
Sur Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/22avril2012
Le 22 avril 2012, Frédéric Back, L’Homme qui plantait des arbres, et jeune indigné de 88 ans, s’est penché sur la terre, au coeur de la ville de Montréal, pour y semer un chêne. Et dire tout son attachement à la terre généreuse et fragile qu’il habite.
Et aussi pour protester contre l’exploitation injuste et abusive des richesses naturelles en son pays. Le Canada est le seul pays au monde à s’être retiré du Protocole de Kyoto. Le Québec se lance maintenant dans l’un des plus importants projets d’exploitation des ressources de son histoire. Chaque jour, le partage de la richesse collective va dans le sens des inégalités, au profit d’une minorité et au détriment de la majorité. Cette manière de faire doit être changée.
Parce qu’ils refusent d’être dépossédés de l’avenir dont il est encore permis de rêver, avec Frédéric Back, plus de 100 000 citoyens, hommes, femmes et enfants de bonne volonté, sont descendus dans la rue pour faire jaillir le plus gigantesque arbre humain jamais créé sur cette terre. Une façon de dire à leurs gouvernements et au restant du monde toute l’importance qu’ils accordent à la lutte au réchauffement climatique et à une utilisation démocratique, juste, équitable, sensible et intelligente des ressources naturelles du pays qu’ils habitent et qui font partie du bien commun.
Pour la suite du monde et pour libérer l’avenir.

On April 22nd 2012, Frederic Bach, winner of the Oscar for his film: The Man Who Planted Trees, a young, indignant man of 88 years old, bowed upon the earth in the heart of Montreal, to plant an oak tree, telling of his attachment to his generous and fragile Earth. And also to protest against the abusive and unjust exploitation of the natural resources of our country. Canada is the only country to have pulled out of the Kyoto protocol. The Province of Quebec is now launching one of it’s most important exploitations of it’s resources in it’s history. Everyday, the sharing of our collective wealth goes further toward inequality, to the profit of a minority and to the detriment of the majority. This way must change.
Because they refuse to be dispossessed of the future they are allowed to dream, with Frederic Bach, more than a hundred thousand citizens, man, women, and children of good will, went into the streets to create the most gigantic human tree ever. A way to tell their governments and to the rest of the world, the importance the give to the struggle against climactic change, and a just, sustainable, sensible, intelligent, and democratic use of our natural resources of the country they inhabit, and that are part of the common good.
For the continuation of the world, and to liberate the future.

avec ARELKING, at NOMAD Nation 129 Van horne.


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Sindre, our dear friend and local Nomad, took what the word means to new horizons when he biked 3300 km from Montreal to New Orleans last summer. He returns with a short film expressing “the contrast I experiences between change and repetition while I pedalled day in, and day out for three weeks.” Thank you for taking us along.

Jeudi le 12 avril à compter de 20 heures Les Tontons organisent une soirée chez Nomads, où le groupe Mad’moizèele Giraf viendra donner un show suivi par des Djs ! Nous profiterons de l’occasion, Sarah (soeur de Fanny) et Fanny, pour célébrer leurs anniversaire avec nous ! Apportez votre poison…

Motion/visual artist, director, multi dimensional and media creative, Greg Barth’s Essay’s On Reality are “an ongoing series of short caricatures, influenced by the existentialist and surrealist movement, and inspired by social-political and economic events from around the world”.
A sublime subliminal series, and shot at NOMAD Nation’s studios, no less. We are grateful for it.

Sunrise and Good People are taking flight for British Colombia to continue their ROCK FOR TIBET benefit tour. Following last week’s show, we’ve continued the photo exhibit at NOMAD Nation, 129 Van Horne. Come visit for free, leave a donation, or purchase these evocative pictures and frames for only 120$. drop by or appointment: j@TheNOMADS.com
The photos were taken in Tibet by Martin Beaulieu.
Les dons vont au Comité Canada-Tibet / Canada Tibet Committee

Je me suis retrouvé dans la vague étudiante aujourd’hui, par erreur, mais comment ne pas être inspiré par ces demandes si justifié. Pourtant, aucune considération de la part de notre gouvernement. 308 000 étudiants en grêve aujourd’hui. Qu’est ce que ça va prendre pour être écouté?

As an action film on the piano Sudden Flashes of Light features Serhiy Salov’s virtuous performance. With a cinematic interpretation of Debussy’s Fêtes from Nocturnes, this performance film explores the mechanical relationship between Salov and the piano, evoking an emotional state in the performance and suggesting an atmosphere akin to the impressionist movement.

Sudden Flashes of Light was shot and recorded live over three days at the Salle Claude Champagne of University of Montréal. Carefully crafted, the montage favored both picture and sound without altering or overdubbing the performance.

This film is the first artistic collaboration between Serhiy Salov and Santiago RuizTorres.

Présentation de mon prochain court-métrage “MILA”. Tournage le 16,17,18 mars.
On fait une recolte des fonds sur Ulule…On a besoin de vous!!!!!
Ulule.com/mila

Merci!
xxx
Kristina

Mila a 10 ans et n’est plus enfant unique depuis que sa petite sœur, Lora, est entrée dans sa vie 8 mois plus tôt. Enfant dotée d’une grande ingéniosité et d’une maturité plus importante pour son âge, Mila est laissée momentanément de côté par ses parents, Victoria et Simon, dépassés par leur nouvelle dynamique familiale. Mila cherche malgré tout à rester près d’eux…à sa manière.

Ainsi, Mila enregistre tous les sons qui constituent son univers. Au rythme des engueulades, des cris et autres bruits quotidien de sa famille, elle cherche à traduire la réalité qui est la sienne en une symphonie de sons divers. Ses parents n’y voient d’abord qu’une obsession dont ils ne s’occupent guère, habitués au caractère fantaisiste et solitaire de Mila.

Alors que sa famille s’apprête à célébrer l’anniversaire de Luiggi, le grand-père de Mila, celle-ci entreprend un grand projet réunificateur pour l’occasion. Celui-ci prend un tournant inattendu tandis que les parents de Mila, un soir, se rendent compte que les enregistrements de leur fille aînée se mêlent un peu trop de leur vie privée et détruisent l’enregistreuse…

Mila doit trouver une solution pour mener à bien son projet avec le peu de temps qu’il lui reste et le peu de moyens mis à sa disposition.

DÉTAILS TECHNIQUES

Ce court métrage sera une fiction expérimentale, d’une dizaine de minutes réalisé par Kristina Wagenbauer. Nous le produisons de manière indépendante, et un tiers de notre structure de financement s’appuie sur ULULE & vous. Par ailleurs, nous venons d’obtenir pour le film une bourse de 15 000 $ en post production chez Technicolor !

click on the image to download a 20 page story in PDF:

The Long Way Back is a soft science fiction story about a 133 year old man who can’t grow old. After a life of travel and avoiding responsibility and attention, he returns to his birthplace. There, he falls in love and starts a family, seemingly triggering his aging process.
I wrote this story during my first motorcycle trip in September 2011. The characters borrow from the people I was traveling with, Sylvain Lavoie and Victorine Yok-Thot Sentilhes. My daughter was just a year old, and it was my first time away from my young family for more than a week. The story probably grew out of the restrained sense of freedom I was having throughout the trip, feeling younger than I had in a while from traveling again, and also missing the kind of good life only family can provide.
If anyone out there still reads, let me know what you think of it as it’s a first draft and I wasn’t thinking of doing much more with it unless I get some positive feedback. I won’t make it into a film, but I could do an audio book with some sound effects and music. What do you think?
.j.

Here are Nomads if there ever were. Another great documentary by Benedict Campbell about traveling motorcycle wall riders. A touching family portrait.

Fellow explorers, and dreamers,
On February 8th, 2012 I am boarding the Hanse Explorer for a 33 day journey from the end of the world, Cape Horn, to the beginning of humanity, Cape of Good Hope. NOMAD Industries has chartered the amazing vessel with the capacity to safely carry a few selected individuals across the sub-antarctic sea, to the most remote place on the planet, Bouvet Island.

My name is Jason Rodi, I am a 34 year old filmmaker based in Montreal and my wife is expecting our second child. This is the greatest opportunity I have toward making a difference of a global scale for my children. My mission is to inspire thought that has the potential of broadening our collective consciousness; an attainable and idealistic vision of the future.

The ice strengthened, 48 meter (158 foot) ship will traverse from Cape to Cape. Included in the route are stops in South Georgia, Saunders Island, Bouvet Island where some of us may attempt an ascent to its summit, an extinct volcano. Then Kerguelen Island, Crozet Archipelago, Marion Island and finally Cape Town.
Most of all, the trip is a 33 day creative process whereby the participants become map makers marking the topography of the future.

The EXPEDITION for the FUTURE is a trans-media project.

February 8th to March 12th 2012, The EXPEDITION for the FUTURE travels from Cape Horn to Cape of Good Hope in search of the most remote uninhabited island on Earth: Bouvet Island, an unexplored island, the furthest you can be from anyone else without leaving the planet. This is the canvas where three exceptional individuals will draw a map of the future.

The Film (docu-fiction):
Another Future is a documentary shot on the toughest seas on Earth, following the epic journey of three visionaries traveling from Cape to Cape to return with a map of the future. Attempting to follow this map home is a fictional archeologist from the future. Following 33 points on the map as 33 possible worlds, she seeks to remember her own.

The Book:
The Topography of the Future is a 33 page book that unfolds, like an accordion, to display 33 tales from the future reading like points on a map across the horizon.

The Exhibit:
Visions of the Future is an exhibit in three steps: 1) a history of futuristic concepts, 2) the future is now, 3) visions of tomorrow. An immersive experience that tells the story of mankind’s aspirations for museums and planetariums.

Like our ancestors before us, we are leaving as explorers seeking a viable future. We can’t expect to discover solutions to the World’s problems, but through appreciation of the experience we plan to return with a vision worth sharing.

Join The EXPEDITION for the FUTURE by sending your own vision of the future via NotreFutur.org.

Greatest Regards,

Jason Rodi
NOMAD Industries

Only NOMADS would decorate a tree on wheels. Have a great holiday season. Lots of love and joy!