Spring is slowly setting down in Montreal, bringing with it enough creative energy and cultural festivities, stored throughout the winter, to delight Montrealers for the next few months. Annually showcasing a wide range of experimental short films over the past 16 years, the UQAM design program initiative, the Derapage festival, investigates nonlinear and abstract narratives, filling each edition with one-of-a-kind audiovisual artworks from both local & international artists. It’s free, open to anyone and provides participants with a total freedom regarding content, medium, and aesthetic. The only quasi-rule is to have fun.
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First created as an official UQAM design school class by animation teacher Jean-Philippe Fauteux, Derapage turned into a festival in 1998, after he decided to bring a bunch of design art students together for an event that aimed to break classic design codes and aesthetics.With 15 editions under its belt, the one-night-only event unveils just as many killer glitch and 8-bit-esque experiments as it allows the best in young, local talent to dig deeper into their practices and share their creativity. “Derapage is totally unique,” Montreal-based audiovisual artist and organizer Françis “Tind” Théberge tells the Creators Project. “Our main goal is to motivate and help design students to explore non-narrative creation and to step away from their comfort zone. Design can be so much narrative sometimes, so this is a good excuse to experiment something different that what is usually thought at UQAM's design art school." Check out the trailer for this year's Derapage below:
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