Patrick Boivin is a film-maker from Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 best known for stop motion

Stop motion

Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...

 short films. In addition to directing, he is often involved in the lighting, editing, animation, special effects and even music in his films.

His short film Ça pis tout l’reste (That, and everything else) was chosen by Quebec Gold as one of the top 10 short films from Quebec in 2008. Boivin was one of the group of nine "autodidact" writers who produced an experimental television series "Phylactere Cola" for Canadian television that aired in 2002-2003. All were cartoonists who had met years earlier and produced over 400 sketches. His films have been featured at numerous international film festivals around the world, including the Montreal World Film Festival

Montreal World Film Festival

The Montreal World Film Festival , founded in 1977, is one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF...

, the Commonwealth Film Festival (UK), and the Festival de Namur (Belgium).

Boivin started his creative career by drawing comic books, and, in his words, “quickly discovered that it was faster to tell a story with video." He cites Tom Waits

Tom Waits

Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...

, Roy Andersson

Roy Andersson

Roy Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his films A Swedish Love Story and Songs from the Second Floor. More than any other, Songs from the Second Floor succeeded in cementing his personal style — a style characterized by long takes, absurdist comedy, stiff caricaturing of...

, Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...

, and Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He has written and directed five feature films: Hard Eight , Boogie Nights , Magnolia , Punch-Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood...

 as influences on his style.

Many of his films have been viewed more than a million times on YouTube

YouTube

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. He created the stop motion videos for the "King Of The Dogs" song from Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...

 and "Play boy" from Indochine

Indochine (band)

Indochine is a French new wave/rock band, formed in 1981. The band was very successful in France in the 1980s, as well as other parts of continental Europe and Latin America, with songs like L'Aventurier and Canary Bay...

. He also created some very popular viral clips such as Iron Baby and Iron Man vs Bruce Lee.

In 2011, Patrick Boivin developed his first video game for iOS entitled Crottey Bunny's Scratch N' Dance under the name Monsieur Monsieur Boivin, a company he started with his brother.

Filmography

La Lettre

Radio

La Fin du Neoliberalisme

Cuts Kill Culture

Paranoland

The First Spaceshit on the Moon

Redite

Jazz With a General Problem

Bruce Lee vs Iron Man

Black Ox Skateboard

Mandalorian Dance

Bumblebee boy

Jackson vs Bean

Ninjas UnBoxing

Iron Baby

AT-AT Day Afternoon

Lego Cars 2 trailer

External links

• http://www.monsieurmonsieurboivin.com
• http://www.radio-canada.ca/arts-spectacles/cinema/2009/01/09/002-quebec%20gold-court.asp
• http://camanqueamaculture.telequebec.tv/cyberreportage.aspx?id=36
• http://www.jeunescreateurs.qc.ca/production/2005/radio/radio.htm
• http://www.netima.ca/fr/court_radio.htm