Filmography
Before founding SG360 Studio, Sébastien Gauthier contributed to the giant-screen production Cosmic Rhythms, released in 2001—the first HD feature produced in Canada.
In 2009, for the International Year of Astronomy, he directed the planetarium show Telescope: Passport to the Stars for the City of Montréal.
Since then, he has created more than twenty productions, many of which you can discover here.
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Alpes Azur Mercantour
Located in the Alpes-Maritimes in the south of France, the International Dark Sky Reserve Alpes Azur Mercantour is a one-of-a-kind place.
Read MoreThe dark night is preserved not only to allow people to witness some of the most breathtaking skies in Europe but also to protect an exceptional nocturnal biodiversity. Bats, fireflies and other night owls share the spotlight with the spectacular starry nights of the reserve in this immersive short film by award-winning director and cinematographer Sébastien Gauthier.
Total
Through the immersive dome experience, TOTALE recreates the unique wonder of witnessing a total solar eclipse.
Read MoreTo watch the sky darken and suddenly stand beneath stars in broad daylight is a profoundly moving experience that leaves no one indifferent. It is one of nature’s most beautiful and overwhelming spectacles. Thanks to 360° imagery, the film takes us on a journey in pursuit of totality, where anticipation builds to its peak—culminating in the perfect alignment of the Sun, the Moon, and the viewer.
One Sky
Feature Version
One Sky is a collection of beautiful short films about constellations, astronomical instruments and scientific knowledge from various cultures around the world.
Read MoreEach chapter is presented in an original and engaging way with his own artistic style featuring the work of International Artists.
The One Sky Project recognizes our world’s many cultures and communities with strong connections to the stars. Traditional knowledge and practice continue to inform the active exploration of our universe today and we honor those societies and Indigenous explorers who came first. Our project seeks to build relationships within and between all people who share our One Sky.
The Forge of Artemis
One Sky
Thunderbird
One Sky
Jai Singh's Dream
One Sky
Celestial Canoe
One Sky
The Samurai and the Stars
One Sky
Hawaiian Wayfinders
One Sky
Epilogue
One Sky
Worlds of Ice
Whether sculpted by nature or by an artist’s hand, ice is a living masterpiece. It transmutes light into matter.
Read MoreWorlds of Ice will be the prism to explore its optical and refractory magic and the sounding board to experience its crystalline sounds and music. Inspired by ice and cold, Worlds of Ice will, in turn, celebrate the warmth of human creativity.
Emergence
Exo
Humankind has always sought to understand the mysteries of the Universe and speculated about the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
Read MoreToday we know of thousands of exoplanets — planets located outside our Solar System — that offer valuable information about our own planet, its origins and life on Earth.
We’re on the cusp of making some fascinating discoveries. But how will they change our lives?
Kyma Power of Waves
Kyma transports audiences into a 360-degree allegorical tale of how our universe—and everyone in it—is composed of waves.
Read MoreExploring everything from music to light, from the smallest particle to vast galaxies, Kyma is a voyage through the wavelength of life, a stunning and immersive show that combines the skills of artists, musicians and acrobats.
One day... On Mars
Take a “road trip” to the Red Planet and enjoy a fascinating, thrilling immersive experience set to the driving beat of an original soundtrack by DUMAS.
Read MoreYou’ll dive into the depths of seemingly bottomless canyons and brave the violent winds that sweep across the icy dunes. As you explore a world that humans may well visit within the next few decades, to your surprise you may well be surprised to find yourself hoping to discover traces of life there.
Aurōrae
In March 2015, director Sébastien Gauthier and his co-scriptwriter Loïc Quesnel, headed all the way up to Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories.
Read MoreThere they took no fewer than 179,000 images of the northern lights, in 360°. For many frigid nights, under clear skies far from any light pollution, the pair scanned the starry skies in search of these famous shimmering curtains of light. They bring you the northern lights in a way that makes you feel like you’re right there, in a captivating and exceptional immersive experience!
The planetarium team used new postproduction techniques to brighten up and sharpen the original images and make them even more realistic. From Montréal to Yellowknife, from outer space to the Earth’s core, you’ll see the northern lights like never before. Guided by an enthusiastic expert and accompanied by an electrifying score by DJ Champion, Aurōrae is a thrilling show.
PLUTO
Chronicles of an Ex-Planet
Until now, astronomers have only been able to hypothesize about what Pluto looks like.
Read MoreThey’ll see how accurate they were in mid-July, when the New Horizons probe, launched 9 years ago, comes to within 10,000 km of the dwarf planet. Pluto will reveal its secrets regarding its geological and morphological make-up, the geography of its surface and the composition of its atmosphere.
A team from the Planétarium Rio Tinto Alcan went to Arizona last spring to visit the legendary Lowell Observatory and film some 360° immersive images of the historic telescope that discovered Pluto in 1930, along with some of the most beautiful skies visible from Earth.
Pluto: Chronicles of an Ex-Planet is an immersive experience telling the story of this intriguing dwarf planet that continues to fascinate us even today.
Tempo
For millennia, humankind lived by the rhythm of the cycles of nature and the skies, but modernity has taken us far from that reality.
Read MoreTempo lets us to rediscover the cycles of the heavens, immersing us in a Universe evolving over time scales beyond imagining. After following the movement of the stars in the skies in real time, exploring the temporal cycles of the solar system and discovering atomic time, our perception of time on the scale of a human lifetime will never be quite the same!
“Tempo is the fruit of a fabulous convergence of cinema and astronomy. It is not fictional in any way – everything in it is both true and moving.” Philippe Baylaucq.
Vertiges
Since the dawn of time, humans have been trying to seize, accelerate or stop it. But what is time?
Read MoreDuring the show, the immersive environment of the Chaos Theatre in the Planétarium Rio Tinto Alcan becomes a fantastic playground where philosophical, scientific and artistic concepts are skilfully explored in a kind of temporal vertigo.
Through a fascinating narrative, documented and punctuated with stunning artistic contributions, time becomes a unique poetic, visual and musical experience. With this new show, Alexandre Burton and Jimmy Lakatos invite reflection, provoke discussion and raise interesting questions about our relationship to time.
“An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase filled with perfumes, with sounds, with projects, with climates.” Proust, 1920.
The hidden phases of the Moon
Telescope, Passeport to the Stars
Show produced to mark the International Year of Astronomy.
Read MoreThe design was tailor made for the hundreds of slide projectors, the multitude of special effect projectors and the 60’s Zeiss projector of the former Montreal planetarium and its 21m dome.
By telling the story of the human adventure since the invention of the first telescope to bigger and bigger observation tools, “Telescope, Passport to the Stars” brings us on a cosmic trip to the edge of the Universe.
