Pat Tremblay

Born in 1972 in Montreal, Pat Tremblay grew mainly as a self-taught artist. After taking a 2-year course in cinema at Cegep Ahuntsic, his university application got rejected back in 1991. Something that didn’t discourage him in pursuing his own artistic projects. Since then, Pat has almost single-handedly produced, directed, edited, and did the visual/practical effects on his 3 feature films ("𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗿𝘂𝗹 𝗕𝗮𝗵𝗲𝘂 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻" (2006), "𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗚𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀" (2011) and "𝗔𝘁𝗺𝗼 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗫" (2016)). He also recorded experimental music and many other genres, producing, writing and often playing in his multi-musician and eclectic band named "𝗩𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀", which includes anyone from musically-illiterates to a few known artists. The group has put out 5 albums and one EP since 1995. Pat has drawn for the major part of his childhood and adolescence. After discovering Photoshop in the mid 90s, he got to work in graphic design, making among other things, album covers for heavy metal bands. He then more or less left drawing for a bit while he was pursuing his other artistic endeavors. While recently trying to find financing for his next feature films, he decided to keep his creative juices flowing by getting back to his artwork, since strongly needing to do something that was rawer and immediate, like having a real-time relation with his art as opposed to the more passive process of building a film from A to Z through years of spread-out work. That lead to an ongoing series of abstracts portraits that both uses the pen to paper and digital coloring. There are over 300 of those on his website and hundreds still waiting to be colored... But in order to branch out his creativity and satisfy his hunger for more intricate works, Pat started doing a series of Psychedelic Sculptures in 2018 entitled "𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗛𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘀". Pat has sold 24 pieces with his 3 exhibits & commissioned works so far. Then 2022 came around, and he discovered a new technology called AI imagery. Fascinated by this medium, Pat began experimenting with each new version of Midjourney as it was released, exploring its capabilities and generating over 35K images — the vast majority of which remain unreleased. The concept of "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀" began around the same time, as he explored whether this fantastic new tool that could bring to life his visual love for swamps, monsters, cryptic esoterica, wool costumes, experimental visuals and retro-styled aesthetics. Eventually, he ended up with hundreds of images from that world and began to wonder what they might become if translated into film. This led to the idea of transforming those images into another one of his passions: movie posters. That concept evolved into a conceptual book titled "𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗺𝘀: 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗱𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 & 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀". Friends from the horror movie business helped him gather a roster of talented people working in the genre to take part in the project. He invited 50 of them to choose from a curated lot of 100 posters he had created with Midjourney and reworked in Photoshop. Each collaborator was asked to write an imaginary review for their selected poster — as if the film had been released in the AI dimension, and they were the first to see it. The result was a unique 108-page book, launched in the summer of 2023 at the renowned Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal. 17 of the collaborators attended, and 10 read their fictional reviews aloud to an enthusiastic audience. In addition to the artwork, Pat’s personal contribution to the book was a review for "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀: 𝗔𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘅𝗮𝘀' 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘄𝘀", which also introduced the mythology behind this "massive" cultural phenomenon within the AI Dimension. And as AI video tools became increasingly better, he decided it was time to bring that world further more into our reality. The result is an early glimpse into their abstract, psychedelic, and horrific ordeals — in the form of a 10-minute short film entitled "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀: 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘅𝗮𝘀". 𝘄𝘄𝘄.𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗮𝘆.𝗰𝗼𝗺 • 𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗺𝘀.𝗰𝗼𝗺 • 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺.𝗰𝗼𝗺/𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗿𝘁 • 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸.𝗰𝗼𝗺/𝗽𝗮𝘁.𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗮𝘆.𝟱𝟴𝟳𝟲