Raymond St-Jean
Image Content Designer
Director, video designer, writer and editor Raymond Saint-Jean studied communications at the Université du Québec à Montréal before embarking on a career directing music videos and short films.
Since then, Raymond has written and directed features, including Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (1998), inspired by the writings of the master of fantastic literature and documentaries such as L’oiseau de nuit (2006) and Ville fantôme (2005), as well as films about live shows, including Cabaret neiges noires (1997) written by the stage director Dominic Champagne. He has also designed multimedia content for many artists and entertainment companies throughout North America.
In 2003, Raymond Saint-Jean won the Rockie Award at the Banff Word Television Festival for his documentary Le Mozart noir. In 2006, his documentary Ville fantôme picked up three awards at the Yorkton Film Festival, including the prestigious Golden Sheaf Award of Excellence. His film Peepshow won the Tremplin pour le monde award given by ArTV at the 2009 edition of the Montreal International Festival of Films on Art.
Zarkana is Raymond’s second engagement in the creation of a Cirque du Soleil production, following ZAIA, which is presented in Macau. The video content of the show is highly complex and plays an integral role in the storytelling process. "Projections have scenic value," he explains. “A number of the images projected onto the arches above the stage are interactive and react to what is happening on stage. My goal was to bring maximum credibility to this strange parallel world awakened by the wizard Zark."
Raymond Saint-Jean was born in Shawinigan.