Voivod : The End of Dormancy music video
This is a great honor for me to be the director for the 2nd time of a music video for my favorite band ever: Voivod. Thanks to the wonderful team that worked with me on this epic project.
WE ARE CONNECTED !
Credits:
Music: Voïvod
Song: The End of Dormancy (Metal Section)
Label: Century Media Records
Country: Canada
Denis “Snake” Belanger – Vocals
Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain – Guitar
Dominic “Rocky” Laroche – Bass
Michel “Away” Langevin – Drums
Metal Section (horns)
Trumpet I: Dominic Léveillé
Trumpet II: Maxime St-Pierre
Tenor Sax: François D'Amours
Tenor Trombone: Renaud Gratton
Bass Trombone: Jean-Sébastien Vachon
Arrangement: Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain
Words and Music by Voïvod (SOCAN)
(Belanger/Langevin/Laroche/Mongrain)
Published by Piggy Was Here/Peer Music
Produced by Voïvod
Recorded and Mixed by Francis Perron
Mastering: Yannick St-Amand
Video credits
Producer: Igor Simonnet
Screenwriter: Snake (loosely inspired by the documentary movie The Creeping Garden)
Director, editor & VFX: Syl Disjonk
Production manager, assistant director & art director : Philippe Michon
Director of photography: Luc Desjardins
Chief lighting technician: Frank Appache
Special effects artist: Éric Thivierge
Praying mantis suit: Véronique Poirier
Special effects makeup: Éric Thivierge & Marie-Pier Thibault
Makeup: Marie-Pier Thibault
Cast
Commander-in-chief: Raynald Lapierre
Chief scientist: Igor Simonnet
Black guard: Yoann-Karl Whissell (special guest star)
Scientist woman: Patricia Girouard Nobl
Scientist man: Jean-François Gouger
Brain scan patients: Snake, Away, Chewy, Rocky
Man in black: Philippe Michon
Praying mantis & brain scan technician: Véronique Poirier
Extraterrestrial hybrid seeress woman: Rachael Eyes
Chaosmonger technician 1: Étienne Cantin-Bellemarre
Chaosmonger technician 2: Stéphane Aubé
Futuristic soldier: Éric Thivierge
Philadelphia experimenter: Syl Disjonk
Production-assistant: Marie-Christine Blanchard
Craft: Mélanie Prévost
Set photographer: Ronald MacGregor
Shot in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at DBcom Media & Jerome Bertrand Studio in November 2019.
Additional slime mould footage from The Creeping Garden www.creepinggarden.com
Acknowledgements:
Jerome Bertrand
Victor Lordachescu
Katherine Lauzon
Patrick Goyette
Leif Jensen
Francis Perron
Éric Bilodeau
Special thanks:
Patrick Hugue from Anomalist Books for the permission to use the book:
Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Eric Wargo
Lawrence Wong from Penguin Random House for the permissions to use the books:
Strange Frequencies by Peter Bebergal
Missing Time by Budd Hopkins
Jasper Sharp & Tim Grabham (The Creeping Garden movie and book)
Nicolas Boucher
Related internal links :
VOIVOD - Synchro Anarchy - Official music video
VOIVOD - Kluskap O'Kom - Official music video
VOIVOD - Tribute video - WE ARE CONNECTED
Negatron tribute art to the art of Away (Voivod)
Design for Paranoland (with Snake from Voivod)
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