Martin Villeneuve is a Montreal-based screenwriter, director, producer and actor.
He studied film production at Concordia University and graphic design at Université du Québec à Montréal.
In the near future, as humanity prepares to set foot on Mars, Jacob Obus, an elderly musician, takes pride in slowing down time by playing instruments inspired by women's bodies, designed by his friend Arthur. A love triangle develops when Jacob and Arthur both fall in love with Avril, a young photographer. Enter Eugène Spaak, Arthur's father, an inventor and cosmologist who unveils a new theory about man's desire to reach Mars and helps Jacob find the true meaning of life and love.
Even death is in movement, since the soul is going someplace else. A short film inspired by Jacques Languirand's philosophic work.
Quebec-Montreal: 250 km (150 miles) of asphalt, nine thirtysomething travelers, four cars, one destination. The journey becomes an opportunity to share points of view about life and to discuss troubling questions about our existence.
Through an immigrant cab driver, our world collides with a nervous filmmaker, a lawyer whose new breasts her ex-boyfriend wants to see, a mystery man, a gay man who might or might not have AIDS, and a birthday girl who got stood up. It is a mixture of laughter and sadness, all floating on a sea of philosophy.
Two astronauts, Benny and Manny, are launched aboard Space Shuttle DK7-821 on a mission to the Kubrick Orbital Station, but they experience complications along the way. Martin Villeneuve's first student film.