The fourth Vision Éternel EP had come out on March 14th 2012, and I already had planned a few weeks before to film an introductory video to promote the album. I asked Jeremy Roux but it took a bit to set up a date to do it. At first we were going to film it at CEGEP St. Laurent since it was a block away from where I lived at the time, then I wanted to film it at Windsor Station, my favorite building in Montreal. Finally we decided to go back to the Jacques Cartier bridge building where we had done a photoshoot almost a year before and filmed the first Soufferance interview in September 2011.
The whole day had been really foggy and there was some left by the time the sun set. I had been out all day, first working for my uncle Stephane Fania archiving documents, then at a family dinner in Longueuil, Quebec for my great-aunt Gabrielle’s birthday. Jeremy came to pick me up in the south shore, and as he was coming from Brossard, it wasn’t a big deal for him. We drove to Saint Helen’s Island and to the former casino building. Behind the building is a rock climbing location we had discovered a year prior, and we climbed it back this time. It was very icy and with a slip one could have died. I made it a joke that perhaps my last words were to be on camera; a dream of mine…
Before setting up the camera, Jeremy took an instagram picture of me with his iPhone
We set up the camera and started rolling. I was having some issues with my computer and I couldn’t edit HD footage because it was too demanding on my PC. So I had the idea to do it in one take and just find a way to change the colors later and get fades. It took about five tries before finally getting it right on the head (except for saying “Thank you” at end, as Jeremy insisted, but thank them for what?).
After we took some pictures.
After transferring the media on my computer I set to uploading it on YouTube. I used two of the YouTube editors to get the feel I wanted for the video. My main inspiration was the Jean-Pierre Melville movie L’armée des ombres, which is in the most gorgeous desaturation I have ever seen. I got this sort of blueish sadness to the video, which also relates to the album artwork of the album. I think all in all this came out pretty good.