Founded in 2001 by the interdisciplinary artist D. Kimm, Les Filles électriques (LFE) is a production/creative company offering performances, live shows, short films, and the Phenomena Festival.
A two time finalist of the Grand Prix du Conseil des arts de Montréal, the company has made its mark through its avant-gardist and playful approach, its risk-taking and its artisanal appropriation of new technologies.
Primarily focused on spoken word and performance art, the company has evolved over the years towards interdisciplinary arts. It has overseen various projects including the dual music and performance Mankind, the poetry and music group, Erlenmeyer, the projects La Salle des pas perdus, Brahmine, The Constant Bride, Les Phénomènes inexpliqués, as well as short films.
Created in 2012, Phénomena is an interdisciplinary festival that offers shows, performances, installations, and ludicrous and unconventional events. The objective is to create improbable encounters and to support interdisciplinary, and unconventional artistic practices. The Festival Phénomena took over the Festival Voix d’Amériques, dedicated to poetry and spoken word, which had great success from 2002 to 2011.
The company is part of the interdisciplinary underground cultural movement, featuring a mix of Montreal based French and English artists in a festival context.
The DVD Écrits et chuchotements / Page vs Stage presents the work of fifteen spoken word artists from Montreal.
The company also presented two editions of the Festival Phenomena and 10 editions of the Festival Voix d’Americas which has produced more than 160 shows and which has hosted over 600 artists.
In addition to its artistic productions, the company has leveraged its expertise and its networks to make room for unconventional, or traditionally excluded, voices. From 2006 to 2011, LFE has pursued a social mission to aid women who are in need, homeless or judiciarized. Four books have been published in collaboration with Shelter La Rue des Femmes, Passages et l’Arrêt-Source: Écrire et sans pitié (Éditions du Passage, 2006) ABCd’art de La rue des Femmes (Remue-ménage, 2007), Passagères — Voix de changement (Planet rebel, 2010), and Time to act (Planet Rebel, 2011) in collaboration with the Elizabeth Fry Society of Quebec and Transmission Black / LEVIER.