This past Sunday night we took part in Journées Des Bons Voisins in the Mile End, with a piece called Shadow Cube. We invited everyone to make shadow cutouts and structures that we collectively animated with moving light sources. Here are some images from a very fun night! We apologize to the parents of  some very enthusiastic puppet makers who missed their bed time!

A big shout-out to Ruepublique for putting together a lovely day and evening.

Shadow Cube

A participant actually made the “shadow puppets” puppet!

inside the cube

The “making” area and the wonderful Chris Carrière and Matthew Waddell creating live music.

This coming Sunday, September 18th,  we will be creating an interactive shadow installation at Journées Des Bons Voisins. Come by and make two and three dimensional shadow puppets, then animate them with a moving light source! 7.30 PM, we’ll be on St Viateur , between Jeanne-Mance and St Urbain.

ALSO :Chris Carrière and Matthew Waddell will be creating live music with spacey, airy sounds and awesome beats !

More details on all the activities that will take place during the day :

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I made a piece for the Bring Your Own Beamer event at the CCA that took place on Saturday September 10th. This awesome event that brings together a whole bunch of projection artists, is organized all over the world : here is more info about it.

Titled  fragile cage, I projected videos of cats and racoons inside of the paper cage/box you see below. Videos were originally made by Jenny for our live sets.

At out second event for Quartier en Mouvement we were on Pierce street on July 20th. We started out with a shadow puppet workshop, which was followed by a live animation set as participants moved and played with the shadows. We grooved till 11pm, with playful participants and a happy audience.

We’d like to send a special shout out to the volunteers at Éco-quartier Peter-Mcgill and Innovation Jeunes for their hard work and superstardom! Also a big thank you  to Culture Peter McGill for making this event happen! cheers.

Credits : Workshop by Maya Ersan and Jaimie Robson, Live Animation by Maya Ersan featuring animations by Jenny San Martin . Live music, sounds and beats by Chris Carrière and Matthew Waddell.

Here is a short video :

shadow play / July 20 2011 from mere phantoms on Vimeo.

As a part of Quartier  En Mouvement Mere Phantoms will be creating an interactive shadow wall followed by live projections on Wednesday July 20th. Everyone is welcome to come down and cut out puppets & silhouettes and add to the installation!

Come find us on Pierce Street (1 block west of Guy between St. Catherine and De Maisonneuve) Chris Carrière and Matthew Waddell will be joining us with a live set of sounds, beats and music! Here’s the schedule

7.30 – 9.30pm

Workshop for puppets and shadow cut-outs, all ages. Materials will be provided.

9.30 – 11.00pm

Shadow wall will be illuminated and activated by participants. Time to play! We’ll be projecting live visuals onto the shadow wall to interact with the shadow puppets accompanied by live sound and music.

For exact location click here