John "JP" Poliquin (born August 24, 1986) is a Canadian music video, commercial and feature film director.
[7] Stated Poliquin, "I worked in tons of different departments (assistant directing, camera, grip, props, locations, etc.)
Among the bands he has worked with are Hey Ocean!, Tim Chaisson, Hedley, Finger Eleven, My Darkest Days, Mother Mother, Arkells, Theory of a Deadman, The Trews, Small Sins, The New Cities, Paper Lions, illScarlett, The Latency, Brock Zanrosso, Victoria Duffield, State of Shock, and Gary Beals.
In 2010, Tim Chaisson's band filmed their first music video for "Broken Hearted Beat" in Toronto with Poliquin.
Also in 2010, the band Paper Lions had the Poliquin-directed video for their single "Lost the War" nominated for a 2010 CBC Radio 3 Bucky Award.
[9] John JP Poliquin has appeared on-air several times on MuchMusic's television program New.Music.Live,[4] sitting on an expert panel to discuss industry music videos and adding entries to their official blog.
[5] In January 2012, his music video for Light Organ Records artist Adaline "The Noise" premiered exclusively with Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine.
Poliquin's direction is beyond spot on, and he and the Vicious Brothers collectively managed to deliver an almost perfect sequel to Grave Encounters.
[6][13] About his influences, Poliquin has stated his favorite directors include David Fincher, Michel Gondry, Jonas Akerlund, and Dougal Wilson, and that "For horror films, Hitchcock and Kubrick are my idols.