PHI Centre
Galeries 2 & 3
315 Saint-Paul St West
Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2A3
Monday and Tuesday:
Closed
Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday:
11 AM to 5:15 PM
Friday and Saturday:
11 AM to 7:15 PM
Duration: Approximately 2 hours
13 years old +
Weekdays: $21.50-$30
Weekends: $23.50-$32.50
Taxes not included
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An exhibition comprising a British immersive installation and four award-winning Taiwanese virtual reality works that take us through personal, empirical and historical experiences.
Chaos & Memories is an exhibition in two parts. While the works hail from different geographical locations, the artworks presented feel somehow interconnected, revealing the subtle erosion of time and memory.
As we stand on the precipice of uncertainty, art can give us new perspectives and hope for new futures. It has the power to decenter our point-of-view and evoke deep-seated emotions and associations, drawing fragments of the past into our present.
Produced by ScanLAB, FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth bears witness to landscapes in flux. The work reveals alterations caused by human-centred industry and the immense forces of nature; destruction, extraction, habitation, construction, harvests, growth, and erosion.
Created from thousands of daily 3D time-lapse scans of British landscapes, the work observes change on a scale impossible to see with the lens of traditional cameras.
This is not just an artwork. The data collected and presented by FRAMERATE is ground-breaking scientific research containing empirical, measurable facts.
We glimpse a future perpetually documented by the eyes of a billion autonomous vehicles and personal devices, creating high-fidelity spatial records of the earth.
FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth invites you to observe in another way. To think and feel in another time scale: geological time, seasonal time, tidal time. To contemplate change, and the pace of change. This is a space where your perspective might shift.
Canadian Premiere
ScanLAB Projects is a pioneering creative practice.
They digitize the world, transforming temporary moments and spaces into compelling experiences, images and film.
Their primary medium is 3D scanning, a form of machine vision that the studio argues is the future of photography and much more beyond. As the electronic eyes for billions of mobile phones and driverless vehicles, 3D scanners are the cartographers of the future. By critically observing places and events through the eyes of these machines their work hopes to glance at the future we will all inhabit.
ScanLAB’s award-winning work has been featured on the BBC, Arte, The Guardian and The New York Times. It has been exhibited internationally including at LACMA (Los Angeles), The Louisianna (Copenhagen), The New Museum NYC, SXSW (Austin, Texas), CPH:DOX (Copenhagen), STRP (Netherlands), the Royal Academy (UK), The Barbican (UK) and La Biennale di Venezia.
FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth by ScanLAB Projects
Matt Shaw - Director, Executive Producer
William Trossell - Director, Executive Producer
meriko borogove - Executive Producer
Anetta Jones - Producer
Pascal Wyse - Music & Sound Design
Tom Brooks - Lead 3D Capture & Pointcloud Artist
Kunal Lodhia - 3D Capture & Pointcloud Artist
Brad Damms - 3D Capture Specialist
Paul Macro - 3D Capture Specialist
Demelza Kingston - 3D Capture Specialist
Jacques Pillet - Technical Developer
Grey Grierson - 3D Capture & Pointcloud Artist
Nicky Ovidiu Baiculescu - Pointcloud Artist
Soma Sato - Pointcloud Artist
Emilia Clark - Production Manager
Manuela Mesrie - Production Manager
Max Čelar - Pointcloud Artist & Realtime Developer
Theo Tan - 3D Capture Specialist
Dorka Makai - 3D Capture Specialist
James White - Design & Fabrication
All That Remains
We are comforted by “facts.” The sun rises in the east. There are twenty-four hours in a day. I exist. These truisms enable us to get through the process of living. All That Remains is a meditation on the fluid boundary between dream and reality.
By Craig Quintero
Country: Taiwan
12 minutes | English
2022
Red Tail
At a train station floating in the cloud, a mysterious red tail catches the boy’s attention. Chasing the red tail, the boy travels through countless magical places, runs into bizarre creatures, and finally meets the gentleman, who seems to know his secrets more than he does. When the red tail reminds the boy of his own memory and sadness, what secrets are hidden behind, and where will they lead him next? Inspired by Wang’s same-named comic story, the mysterious red tail leads viewers on a magical journey, creating a poetic metaphor of people’s childhood memories.
By Vang Fish
Country: Taiwan
20 minutes | English, Mandarin
2021
The Man Who Couldn’t Leave
Within the walls of the former Green Island prison, political detainee A-Kuen, tells the stories of imprisonment and persecution that happened in the 1950s in Taiwan. Among fellow inmates, frozen in time, he recounts his own experiences and those of his friend, A-Ching, who never made it out. Experience the time, place, and the waiting, hoping for a chance to keep the stories alive. The Man Who Couldn’t Leave integrates the stories of numerous political victims of the White Terror and is told through the form of an undelivered family letter. An immersive VR experience of hope, fear and camaraderie.
By Chen Singing
Country: Taiwan
35 minutes | English, Mandarin, Taiwanese
2022
MISSING PICTURES Episode 2: Tsai Ming-Liang, The Seven-Story Building
Tsai Ming-Liang, the Taiwanese maestro of slow cinema, doesn’t have a real “missing picture,” but what he does have are childhood memories, memories so vivid they've been impossible to translate into film. In this episode, he shows us why this is the case in a moving tribute to his grandparents, who took him to see two movies every night during the sixties in Malaysia.
By Clément Deneux
Country: France, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Luxembourg, South Korea
11 minutes | English, French, German, Mandarin, Korean
2022
All That Remains
Canadian Premiere
Official Selection, Venice International Film Festival, 2022
Official Selection, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, 2022
Red Tail
Canadian Premiere
Official Selection, Cannes XR Film Market, 2022
Official Selection, Venice International Film Festival, 2022
The Man Who Couldn't Leave
Canadian Premiere
Asian Première, VR Competition, Kaohsiung Film Festival, 2022
Best Experience - Category Immersive, Venice International Film Festival, 2022
Missing Pictures Episode 2:
Tsai Ming-Liang, The Seven-Story Building
Canadian Premiere
World Premiere, Tribeca Film Festival, 2022
Asia premiere, BIFAN, 2022
All That Remains
Director: Craig Quintero
Producer: Lynn Yeh
Actors: Yu-Hsin Yu, Ollie Huang, Hsu-Fang Tung, Chih-Hen Hsu, Carl Johnson
Red Tail
Director: Vang Fish
Production: Zero One Film (Yi-Ching Chen) Funique VR Studio (Blank Hsieh) PTS Taiwan (Yi-Hua Wang) Kaohsiung Film Archive (Chiao-Lin Hsieh)
Actors: Bob Liu, Hsuan Huang, Bamboo Chen, Hsuan Huang, Yi-Han Wu, Pi-Wen LEI
Screenplay: Fish Wang
Music: Summer Lei, Stephan Hwang
Sound: Chin Lun Kao, Yi-Mei Huang, WJ Wu
Lead developer: Ming-Yuan Chuan
Developers: Jamie Hsieh, Guan-Yu Lu
Designers: Tina Wang, Fish Wang
Artists: Ming-Yuan Chuan, Kang LI, Ming-Yang Yeh, Didi Chen, Sven Huang, Ching-Wei Hung
Project Manager: Tzu-Chia, Tan Linn Chiou
The Man Who Couldn't Leave
Director: Chen Singing
Production: The Walkers Films, Outland Film Production
Screenplay: Lin Hsin-l, Singing Chen, Lou Yi-An
Cinematographer: Liao Ching-Yao, William Cho
Editor: Yen Ping-Ying, Liu Wei-Yi
Music: Yujun Wang
Sound: Chou Cheng
Art Directors: Huang Mei-Ching, Tu Shuo-Feng
Lead Developer: Chuan Ming-Yuan
Developers: Yeh Ming-Yang, Chen Yi-Xuan, Didi Chen, Sven Hung
Designers: Yang Ching-Ya, Wang Shu-Feng, Vovi Huang, Huang Ke Xin
Artists: Li Kang, Lin Hang-Ping, Hsieh Yi-Fang
MISSING PICTURES Episode 2:
Tsai Ming-Liang, The Seven-Story Building
Director: Clément Deneux
Co-Director: Kuan-Yuanlai
Starring: Tsai Ming-Liang
Original Idea: Joseph Beauregard
Music: Thomas Foguenne
Produced by Atlas V, ARTE France, BBC, PTS, Serendipity Films, Wild Fang Films, Giioii
With the support from CNC, Pictanovo, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Procirep-Angoa, TAICCA, Film Fund Luxembourg, RAPA and Ministry of Science and ICT (Republic of Korea)
What works are included in the Chaos & Memories exhibition?
Chaos & Memories is an exhibition composed of the British immersive installation FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth and four award-winning Taiwanese virtual reality works that take us through personal, empirical and historical experiences. The virtual reality works included are: Red Tail, The Man Who Couldn't Leave, All that Remains, and Missing Pictures Ep. 2.
How long does the experience last?
Chaos & Memories is an exhibition made up of four virtual reality works and the interactive installation FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth.The duration of the exhibition is approximately two hours in total.
In what languages are the works presented?
The works of Chaos & Memories are presented in the following languages:
- Red Tail: English, Mandarin
- The Man Who Couldn't Leave: Taiwanese, Mandarin
- All that Remains: English
- Missing Pictures Ep. 2.: French, English, German, Korean, Mandarin
- FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth: English
Is there mediation available for the Chaos & Memories exhibition?
The PHI Centre offers meditation at all exhibits. We encourage you to engage with our staff!
Is it possible to wear glasses?
Yes, but it is favourable to wear contact lenses over eye glasses when using a virtual reality headset if possible. The maximum size of glasses that can be worn with a virtual reality headset is 142mm in length and 50mm in height.
Is the experience accessible to people with limited mobility?
Yes the experience is accessible to people with limited mobility. Please contact us before purchasing your tickets so that we can accommodate you. (Call 514 225-0525 or email [email protected]).
Companions of people with reduced mobility (PRM) are strongly encouraged to take part in the virtual reality experience as well, in order to provide better direction and guidance. Companions are entitled to free admission.
Is the experience accessible to children?
The experience is reserved for an audience of 13 years and older.
Can you refund or reschedule my tickets?
No, we unfortunately do not offer any refund or rescheduling services. If you have any further questions, please contact: [email protected].
What happens if I am late for my time slot?
If you miss your reserved time slot for your visit, please contact us: [email protected] or call us at 514 225-0525.
I would like to do a group visit; how does it work?
For school visits, please write to [email protected].
For corporate tours or group tours of 10 people or more, please call the box office at 514 225-0525 or email us at [email protected].
Do all members of my group have to be together to check in?
Yes, if you would like to do the experience together. If you are planning a tour and think your group may arrive at different times, we suggest you order your tickets separately.
Is there on site parking at the PHI Centre?
The PHI Centre does not have a parking lot. City of Montreal parking spaces are available in the vicinity of the PHI Centre.
Are there restrooms available on the premises?
Yes, we have restrooms at your disposal.
Is there a coat check on site?
We have a self service coat check area. However, we suggest that you do not bring any bags with you.
Hygiene and cleaning
Our team follows a meticulous protocol of hygiene measures: all equipment, including helmets, are carefully disinfected with an ultraviolet machine for effective sterilisation between each visitor.
Are there flashing images in the experience?
Your experience may include flashing images. Please contact us before purchasing tickets if you have any questions.
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