Jonathan Lemieux

It was August of 1989 when my grandfather’s body was found in the Yamaska River. Twenty-one years later my mother, my sister and myself revisited that place in an attempt to keep our memories of him alive.​

I have not spoken to my father in over fifteen years. Still, the memories of him seem to survive in me, like a badly healed tumor. I have to eliminate that cancer, my father.

It was August of 1989 when my grandfather’s body was found in the Yamaska River. Twenty-one years later my mother, my sister and myself revisited that place in an attempt to keep our memories of him alive.​

I have not spoken to my father in over fifteen years. Still, the memories of him seem to survive in me, like a badly healed tumor. I have to eliminate that cancer, my father.

Oscillating between reality and mise-en-scène, documentary and fiction, Eric & Me explores the interrogations of a young married gay man about paternity and, by extension, on what the concept of family really means.

A person’s birthplace directly influences the development of their identity. Running away from it is counterproductive as we always end up coming back.

Inner Cabin is a short experimental documentary about a homosexual man that seems to be unable to love. Or rather that hides in his thoughts as to not have to face love. It's as if sometimes he flees into a closet in his mind, even if he's been out of the closet for a decade.

I manipulate my past. I analyze my present. I prepare myself for my future. I have long followed these steps in my art. I naively tought I would understand everything. Miraculously. I thought that after a few videos, all would be clear. Crystal clear. Clear like fresh water. I realized that I was wasting my time. I have to abdicate. And move on.

The Ball explores a gay man's search for identity through the others' negative gaze.

The Ball explores a gay man's search for identity through the others' negative gaze.

This video attempts to resolve an ethical dilemma that has been persisting in my life for a long time: see my father after twenty years of absence or be done once and for all with this story.

My work explores my relationship to my own sexuality. In this particular piece, I try to come to terms with my body issues stemming from my avid pornography consumption, that started in my teenage years, and which have shaped my distorted vision of beauty and masculinity.