Program Guide - WNDX Festival of Moving Image

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FESTIVAL
A N N U A L
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MOVING
IMAGE
----------------------------------------FESTIVAL INFORMATION:
About WNDX
Founded in 2005, WNDX places special
attention on the most innovative and
ground-breaking work by film and and
video artists from around the world,
with a special focus on the work of
Manitoba and prairie artists, as well as
artists throughout Canada. We celebrate
the impetus to create the moving image
as a means of artistic expression and
bring to the forefront works that may be
overlooked by the mainstream. We consider
all moving image art practices, including
film, video, performance, installation and
new media forms. WNDX is a film festival
that was created by filmmakers, in support
of filmmakers.
----------------------------------------DATES:
Wednesday, September 24 to
Sunday, September 28, 2014
----------------------------------------LOCATIONS:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------WELCOME TO WNDX’S 9th EDITION.
Winnipeg Cinematheque,
100 Arthur St. (at Bannatyne)
We again find ourselves in the happy position to be able to present a selection
of outstanding new prairie and Canadian experimental moving image work,as well as
sensational experimental film and video from around the world. Visiting artists this
year include Scott Benesiinaabandan (Montreal), Karl Lemieux (Montreal), two feature
screenings from one of Canada’s most internationally celebrated filmmakers (Alfred
Bauer Silver Bear award, Belinale 2013) Denis Côté (Montreal). Philip Hoffman
(Toronto) will be presenting an anniversary screening of works from the legendary
Mount Forest Ontario Independent Imaging Retreat, affectionately known as the Film
Farm. As always, we are thrilled to present new work by local artists working in
film and video, performance, and installation.
Gas Station Arts Centre,
445 River Ave. (at Osborne)
Asper Center for Theatre and Film
(U of W), 300 Colony St.
aceartinc & Urban Shaman,
2nd Floor, 290 McDermot Ave.
FRAME Arts Warehouse, 318 Ross Ave.
Alley beside Royal Winnipeg Ballet
380 Graham Avenue
More Information and Updates:
WWW.WNDX.ORG
----------------------------------------CREDITS:
----------------------------------------TICKETS:
programming committee:
Cecilia Araneda, Jaimz Asmundson,
Irene Bindi, Mike Maryniuk, Divya Mehra,
and Solomon Nagler
Festival Pass: $20
($15 Students and Seniors, Winnipeg Film
Group & Video Pool members)
one take super 8 event: Alex Rogalski
festival producer: Jaimz Asmundson
Single Admission: $8
($6 Students and Seniors)
One Take Super 8 Event Screening:
$10 all admissions
festival coordinators: Kayla Jeanson,
Ryan Simmons
events coordinator: Holly Kindzierski
technical coordinator: Alison Davis
This year’s programs revealed some intriguing upgrowth in the moving image
landscape. 2014 is the year the green crept in, and we saw a multitude of works
that peer into the trees and from behind the bushes and plummet into the
microscopic. Absurdities, rituals, and death emerge in works that uniquely explore
some of the machinations behind our seeing experience. And a surprising portion of
work engages in extended explorations of known film processes. As fewer film stocks
and laboratories are available, film artists have really dug in their heels to
joyfully blow out the orthodox.
To mark an upcoming change, the WNDX Curatorial Collective would like to extend a
heartfelt thank you to our longstanding president and co-founder of the Collective,
Cecilia Araneda, whose 9th year with the Festival will be her last. Cecilia has
contributed a wealth of time, knowledge, and expertise in all areas of the Festival.
There can be no doubt that her tireless work to make WNDX a viable festival, one
that is fruitful for filmmakers and audiences, and one that celebrates the best of
our nation’s film and video practice has been a success – Cecilia we thank you!
Please join us to judge that success for yourself. This September we will be
inspired by the works and artists that strive to open up the borders of what we
understand cinema to be.
— The WNDX Curatorial Collective
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------FUNDERS AND SPONSORS:
operating funders
festival partner
festival funder
project funder
hospitality & volunteer coordinator:
Karen Asmundson
festival publicist: Dave Barber
website: Cecilia Araneda
design: Guppy Graphic Design
----------------------------------------WNDX
406 – 100 Arthur St.
Winnipeg, Manitoba,
R3B 1H3 Canada
[email protected]
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Astral
Projections
---------------------------------- SHORTS PROGRAM ----------------------------------
---------------------------------------WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
7 PM | CINEMATHEQUE
---------------------------------------Borrowing here and reforming forms
there, a program that toys with the
possibilities of found image, of dropping
documentary into a chasm, and of sticking
the camera where you don’t often find
it. Films that get into a multitude of
ways of getting outside of one’s self.
----------------------------------------BLACK RECTANGLE
Rhayne Vermette | Manitoba
1:30 mins, HD, 2013
This film documents a tedious process
of dismantling and reassembling 16mm
found footage. The film collage imitates
functions of a curtain, while the
recorded optical track describes the
film’s subsequent destruction during its
first projection.
----------------------------------------NO MORE LONELY NIGHTS
Fabio Scacchioli & Vincenzo Core | Italy
20:45 mins, HD, 2013
ú canadian premiere
An excavation experience through the
forms of fictional cinema. One must lose
himself infinitely, indefinitely, in a
multitude of images, sounds, crystal
universes on the brink of exploding
in molecular landscapes and subatomic
labyrinths.
----------------------------------------RE:CYCLED
James Pomeroy | Manitoba
5 mins, HD, 2014
ú world premiere
A
short hand made cameraless abstract
film that is part structuralist essay
and part essay in visual music. A basic
visual vocabulary is established and
subjected to various permutations,
structured using repetition and
variation and symmetry.
----------------------------------------A KNIGHT’S WALK
(AND OTHER SPECULATIVE EVENTS)
Clint Enns | Ontario
11:48 mins, SD, 2014
A
knight traverses the chessboard,
as a bored radical (played by
Chance Taylor) traverses a Winnipeg
supermarket by chance. Consider Cameron
Frye (played by Alan Ruck) from
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off stuck in the
speculative space between point and
pixel. Video art in the expanded field.
The Klein Bottle, a 4D object rendered
in 3D reduced to 2D (4D->3D->2D). A
spatial analysis of a non-orientable
surface with no boundary, a space
potentially like our own.
----------------------------------------KINGDOM COME: RITUALS
Vika Kirchenbauer & Martin Sulzer |
Germany
6:49 mins, HD, 2014
ú regional premiere
A view of non-participation, an
inaccessible anomaly to any form
of definition. The artists look at
the physical space of what signifies
the German political centre in this
work initiated by their discovery of
pigeon photography, a method used
mainly during WWI in the field of
what would now be called ‘unmanned
reconnaissance’.
----------------------------------------EVEN LOWER ASTRAL ENTITY
Gwen Trutnau | Manitoba
7:05 mins, HD, 2013
A journey into space and violence,
using found footage, super 8 and
digital imagery.
----------------------------------------SNOW SHOES
Milos Mitrovic | Manitoba
31 secs, HD, 2014
ú world premiere
After walking miles in snow, it puts
you in a trance.
----------------------------------------ROB WHAT
Rhayne Vermette | Manitoba
20 mins, HD, 2014
ú world premiere
Rob Vilar, the most criminally unknown
actor who has walked the planet Earth.
Salvaged from a dumpster near the
National Screen Institute’s offices in
Winnipeg, this video is the seminal
preface to this man and his evolving
craft. A pandemonium of film clips and
reenactments celebrate the origins
of Vilar’s artistic ingenuity, while
a portrait of Winnipeg and its
underground enterprises are epitomized.
At last, we have a star!
------------ INSTALLATION ------------------
Fragmentation
-------------------------------------------Opening Reception:
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
8:30 PM | ACEART
-------------------------------------------Daily Viewings:
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 – 27
12 PM – 5 PM
-------------------------------------------Kelsey Braun | Manitoba
Looped installation, 2014
ú world premiere
F
ragmentation is a multi-channel
audio and video installation seeking
to conjure references to memory and
its fluctuating nature in relation to
itself, its documentation,
projection, and reception.
c
o-presented by aceartinc and
Video Pool Media Arts Centre
----------------------------------- INSTALLATION -----------------------------------
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------CURATED BY CECILIA ARANEDA
----------------------------------------URBAN SHAMAN: AND GALLERY
Looped installation
----------------------------------------Opening Reception:
8:30 PM | URBAN SHAMAN
----------------------------------------Daily Viewings:
THURSDAY – SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER 25 – 27 | 12 PM – 5 PM
----------------------------------------Artist Talk:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 | 5 PM
----------------------------------------TIME SCAN MOUNT ROYAL
3:00 mins, HD, 2014
An investigation of Montreal’s Mount
Royal (Hochelaga) achieved over time
using slit scan animation, seeking to
awaken quiescence.
----------------------------------------PSYCHIC HISTORY
(BLACK AND WHITE ROTATING)
2:34 mins, HD, 2013
Created through a new media residency
at OBx, this process-based work
examines the idea of the collective
unconscious, evocative of the use of
hypnosis as a mechanism to re-program
consciousness.
----------------------------------------A PSYCHIC HISTORY /
BLOOD MEMORY OF HOME
2:51 mins, HD, 2013
An examination of the inter-relativity
of collective consciousness, history
and the future, using scan technologies
to bridge the distance between
photography and video.
----------------------------------------INTRANSIT
7:29 mins, HD, 2013
A rainy summer prairie landscape, in
movement and in transit.
MEMETIC DRIVE:
THE VIDEO WORK
OF SCOTT
BENESIINAABANDAN
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term meme in his book The Selfish
Gene (1976), as a unit of human cultural transmission that holds similarities to
the gene in that both are functional replicators. Dawkins created the term from
the ancient Greek word mimeme, or that which replicates. With complex science and
philosophy streams connecting both in and out of Dawkins’ proposal, the core idea
behind the concept of meme is that it is something that can replicate and spread
itself without active consciousness involved.
Established science states that everything that makes humans distinct from other
animals, and everything that makes one culture unique from another, is the result
of the emergence of certain traits that provided a survival advantage within a
specific geographic context. The traits that enabled the survival of genes were then,
in turn, replicated by those genes through a process known as natural selection.
More recently in the 2000’s, however, memeticist Susan Blackmore has explained
that this does not provide the whole picture. While genes are one replicator
humanity uses, several million years ago our ancestors began imitating in a complex
manner, and this eventually became a second global replicator, paving the way for
language capacity and ultimately culture. Within this definition, culture is a meme,
given that it is comprised of elements that can be replicated with variations
over time, such as language, stories and design, among other evolving components.
Therefore, our capacity to imitate has affected our own human evolution in turn,
driving the evolution of larger brains within a context where the survival of our
genes should actually seek the smallest and most economical brains possible.
Blackmore refers to this process as memetic drive, where meme evolution drives
the evolution of genes that are ultimately better at copying memes. The inevitable
extension of the notion of memetic drive is that the culture of our ancestors has
had a biological effect on our evolution, imprinting a lasting memory within it.
This notion folds into itself further, as culture imprints on genes and genes, in
turn, imprint back onto their geography, making culture an intrinsic component of
our physical world.
Among the key concerns that Scott Benesiinaabandan (Anishinaabe) examines
through his art practice are subconscious ways of knowing. He uses technology
not only as a means of unearthing the latent memory of biology and geography,
but also increasingly to both interpret and re-interpret it. Working principally
in photography and media art, Benesiinaabandan’s investigation is rooted in the
potential of unearthing memory as a mechanism of decolonization.
The video work included in Memetic Drive has been achieved through various
computer programming techniques, including slit scanning, processing-based
programming, sensors and arduinos, among others. Through his work, Benesiinaabandan
frequently uses found landscapes as the source for uncovering the collective
unconscious.
----------------------------------------URBAN SHAMAN: EXTERIOR WALL,
ACROSS FROM 290 MCDERMOT AVE
Looped installation
----------------------------------------Opening Reception:
8:30 PM | URBAN SHAMAN
----------------------------------------Daily Viewings:
THURSDAY – SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER 25 – 27, DUSK
----------------------------------------BLOOD MEMORIES (WINNIPEG)
Outdoor Loop, HD, 2014
Benesiinaabandan’s Blood Memory works
are generative video studies of specific
geographies that seek to reveal the
collective unconscious of a space.
Blood Memory (Winnipeg) has been
created in advance on the screening
site, to project a conceptual memory
back onto itself over the course of
hours.
co-presented by Urban Shaman
A CINEMA OF
DISAPPEARANCE:
Two Films by Denis Côté
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------INTRODUCTION AND Q&A WITH DENIS CÔTÉ
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
7 PM | GAS STATION ARTS CENTRE
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------2014 marks the 9th year we have partnered with the Winnipeg Film Group in bringing
the One Take Super-8 Event to Winnipeg.
The film stock may be coming from Germany, but the films are purely Winnipeg, as
over 30 new Super 8 reels will expose themselves all over the city before they head
back east for processing.
And then the big event comes when WNDX does what it has accomplished so well 8
times before with the newest installment of the One Take Super 8 Event. Firsttime filmmakers and veterans alike will share the same anxiety, anticipation and
jubilation as each unedited reel is projected unaltered in this truly premiere
event. The One Take Super 8 Event has spread across North America since 2000 and is
nearing a thousand individual films in its various incarnations, but the WNDX event
remains one of a kind as a not to be missed cinematic experience.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------WNDX acknowledges the generous support of the Manitoba Arts Council as well as our
ongoing partnership with the Winnipeg Film Group in presenting this program.
An oeuvre that oscillates between radical narrative explorations and contemplative,
hybridized experimental portraits, Denis Côté’s cinema is liminal, strategically
empty in parts. A minimal mise-en-scène exposes the gestural common to all human
communication, while a kinematic inertia transforms seemingly inconsequential
interactions into contemplative meditations on time and light. Sculpted in such
a way that even the most transgressive plot elements seem perfectly placed, his
prolific body of work continues to surprise us in its elegance, and at times, its
brutality.
This two part screening will feature Bestiaire (2012) and Joy Of Man’s Desiring
(2014): mesmerizing explorations of the poetics of contemporary life. The first, a
contemplative, disturbing trip to the zoo, offers a provocative set of reflections on
the relationship between Human and Beast. The second, his most recent work, sketches
a remarkable picture of the human condition through a drifting hybrid-narrative in
factories and workshops.
----------------------------------------FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
7 PM | CINEMATHEQUE
----------------------------------------JOY OF MAN’S DESIRING
(QUE TA JOIE DEMEURE)
Denis Côté | Quebec
70 mins, HD, 2014
ú manitoba premiere
An open-ended exploration of the
energies and rituals of various
workplaces. From one worker to another
and one machine to the next; hands,
faces, breaks, toil: what kind of
absurdist, abstract dialogue can be
started between human beings and their
need to work? What is the value of the
time we spend multiplying and repeating
the same motions that ultimately lead
to a rest – a state of repose whose
quality defies definition?
----------------------------------------SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
5 PM | CINEMATHEQUE
----------------------------------------BESTIAIRE
Denis Côté | Quebec
72 mins, HD, 2012
Animals/People: Along the rhythm
of the changing seasons they watch
one another. Bestiaire unfolds like
a filmed picture book about mutual
observation, about peculiar perception.
A contemplation of a stable imbalance,
and of lose, tranquil and indefinable
elements.
--------------------------------- SHORTS PROGRAM -----------------------------------
STRANGELY
FAMILIAR ---------------------------------------FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
9 PM | CINEMATHEQUE
---------------------------------------A celebration of alternative processes
from established film artists and relative
newcomers. Colour-flushed experiments and
camera acrobatics, optical printing and
in-camera editing come together in this
program of dazzling work that celebrates
light, the lens, and the endless
possibilities of the frame.
----------------------------------------AXIS
John Kneller | Ontario
18:26 mins, 35mm, 2013
ú jury prize: best canadian work
I take to the streets with my
homemade Bolex robot, a time-lapse
motion control machine capable of
smoothly spinning through x-y-z axes
continuously or in a stop/go pattern.
The resulting footage is a transformed
view of the city. Mediated views of
everyday city scenery are elevated to a
frenzied cosmic rendering with orb-like
symmetries abounding.
----------------------------------------CLASS PICTURE
Tito & Tito | Philippines
4 mins, 16mm, 2012
Accumulated extended families from past
relationships come back to both haunt
and comfort us.
----------------------------------------BERNARD GASPE
Lindsay McIntyre | Alberta
5 mins, HD, 2013
Rendered in a dream-like pink hue,
bernard gaspé uses layered in-camera
juxtapositions to present a journey
through the neglected architecture of
the tracks in Montréal’s Mile End.
------------------------------------ PERFORMANCE -----------------------------------
UNZIP VIOLENCE
----------------------------------------RESISTFILM
Pablo Marín | Argentina
12:55 mins, 16mm, 2014
Super 8 film as Super film. In-camera
investigations of (filmic) nature.
Homages to early avant-garde landmarks
and wild landscapes of the 21st
Century.
----------------------------------------SOMETHING STRANGELY FAMILIAR
aAron munson | Alberta
3:20 mins, HD, 2012
An apocalypse in ink, soap and 35mm
film.
----------------------------------------THE PIECED QUILT
Scott Fitzpatrick | Manitoba
4 mins, HD, 2013, Silent
ú jury prize: best prairie work
Ink is lifted directly from the page in
a physical adaptation of the Bullfinch
Press book of the same title. Folk
traditions converge in this cameraless
animation on 16mm.
----------------------------------------PICTURE PARTICLES
Thorsten Fleisch | Germany
5:45 mins, HD, 2014
Individual elements from a carrier
of visual information have been
isolated to construct alternative
visual reagents. Repetition (in space
and in time [and in moderation]) is
administered as a binder to tame the
wild particles in motion, evoking a
golden ratio of the mind’s eye.
----------------------------------------FAR FROM
Barbara Sternberg | Ontario
17:11 mins, 16mm, 2014
ú world premiere
Constructed with repetitions and
variations in reference to the musical
form of a nocturne, Far From is an
accumulation of the layers, density and
noise of existence. The film evokes the
ghosts of lives lived and the traces of
lives being lived, rising.
---------------------------------------FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
11 PM | FRAME
---------------------------------------Karl Lemieux, Roger Tellier-Craig and
Alexandre St-Onge | Quebec
35 mins, Performance, 2014
Performance for 5 x 16mm film
projectors with live music by Roger
Tellier-Craig and Alexandre St-Onge.
---------------------------------------K
arl Lemieux is an electric presence on Montreal’s
experimental film scene, constantly evolving sonic
collaborations and new film works since 2004. His
films, installations, and performances have screened
internationally in museums, galleries, music venues
and renowned film festivals including: Montreal
Contemporary Arts Museum, MOMA Museum of
Modern Art in San Francisco, Austrian Film Museum,
The National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus,
---------------------------------------V
iews from the Avant Garde – New-York Film
Festival, Rotterdam Int. Film Festival and the Toronto
International Film Festival. He is becoming more
commonly known as the ninth member of Godspeed
You! Black Emperor, a Montreal music collective for
which he does live 16mm film projections. His works
include collaborations with sound artists such as
Philip Jeck, BJ Nilsen, Francisco Lopez, David Bryant,
Roger Tellier-Craig and Alexandre St-Onges. He is
co-founder with Daïchi Saïto of Double Negative,
a Montreal-based collective, dedicated to the
production and dissemination of experimental films.
co-presented by
send+receive: a festival of sound
20 YEARS IN THE BARN:
THE WINNIPEG 20TH
ANNIVERSARY FILM FARM SHOW
---------------------------------------SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
1 PM | CINEMATHEQUE | FREE ADMISSION
CURATED AND INTRODUCED BY PHILIP HOFFMAN
---------------------------------------For 20 years The Independent Imaging
Retreat or ‘Film Farm’ has been
developing a ‘hands-on’, artisanal
approach to filmmaking that is far
removed from the costly, hierarchical
and inaccessible industrial model. Each
summer it brings to Mount Forest,
Ontario a small group of interested
filmmakers – some novices and some highly
experienced – for an intensive week of
shooting, hand-processing, tinting/
toning, watching and editing, most of
the action taking place in around an old
barn on the Normanby Township property,
in rural Ontario.
--------------------------------------- The Winnipeg 20th Anniversary Film Farm
Show includes some fresh hand-processed
farm films from local filmmakers who have
contributed greatly to the Winnipeg film
scene (Caroline Monnet, Heidi Phillips,
Leslie Supnet and Clint Enns) and also
those from other regions of Canada
and abroad, (John Greyson/Toronto,
Jennifer Reeves/NY, Penny McCann/Ottawa,
and Eve Heller/Vienna). The program
also features two pivotal moments of
unofficial Film Farm history: A found
film from the 1923 Mount Forest Men’s
Synchronized Swim Team (Artist Unkown)
and an early document from the 1997 Film
Farm Kids Workshop where a rambunctious
group of home-schoolers from Waterloo
County demonstrate how to build a raft.
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---------------------------------- SHORTS PROGRAM ----------------------------------
All Luminous
----------------------------------------Rituals of one kind and another:
obsessive, reverent, hypnotizing,
contemplative, and furious. Among them
secret envelopes unfold a sinister series
of events; a fascinated group gather to
watch a burning home; an opulent fantasy
flies in the face of recent Indian Supreme
Court ruling on “unnatural” union.
----------------------------------------RED LUCK
Mike Olenick | USA
25:52 mins, HD, 2014
As one day ends and a new one begins,
a mysterious narrative about a
seemingly disparate group of characters
slowly emerges in this experimental
psychosexual thriller. Something bad
is blowing in the wind and it’s not a
good day to go out looking for love. ----------------------------------------BURN OUT THE DAY
Sasha Waters Freyer | USA
4 mins, 16mm, 2014
ú international premiere
The passing of a decrepit totality;
wounds and traces left by fire and
light as an abandoned home burns to
the ground. Mute observers and memory
fragments remain. The pleasures and
terrors of rural domestic comfort.
----------------------------------------SHAMANS, THE CUNNING
Peter Dudar | Ontario
13:30 mins, HD, 2013
Referencing mythology and gothic
fiction, this film is about surviving in
evil times. Here, human identity turns
fluid and the borderline between human
and animal evaporates. Shamans evokes
its themes via drama and choreographed
movement.
----------------------------------------E-RUQYAH
Arya Sukapura Putra | Indonesia
2:08 mins, HD, 2013
e-ruqyah is a process of electronical
therapy (healing). By performative
approach, electronical ruqyah
(e-ruqyah) shows an activity of rubbing
a cell phone that is playing the Holy
Qur’an verses to the body. ruqyah
is interpreted here as an exorcism
practice drawing negative energy away.
This process usually was done with
reading Holy Qur’an verses. A work that
strives to further the possibilities
of outsmarting the limitation of
technology.
----------------------------------------THE DUST SETTLES
Heidi Phillips | Manitoba
14 mins, HD, 2013
In this atmospheric film a young woman
journeys home, where her father has
become a radio preacher. Yet his
poetic, apocalyptic rants are seeping
across the flatlands from his abandoned
dwellings while the walls flicker with
projections of his deranged mind.
----------------------------------------STARK ELECTRIC JESUS
Hyash Tanmoy, Mrigankasekhar Ganguly|
India
12:07 mins, HD, 2014
After the historical verdict of
Indian Supreme Court on IPC 377, an
unnatural man finds himself in a cage of
hallucination. He runs though his night
and days with his “unnatural” dream
like an outmoded gun dreaming to have
its last fire from its own eye.
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---------------------------------- SHORTS PROGRAM ----------------------------------
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Gyros
and
Heroin
----------------------------------------From the pits of local history to the pit
of your stomach this program whisks us
through a wild ride of strange creatures,
mythic places, and unexplored corners of
the real and unreal. Tuck in your shirt
and hold on to your lunch!
----------------------------------------MYNARSKI DEATH PLUMMET
Matthew Rankin | Quebec
7.5 mins, HD, 2014
A completely hand-made historical
micro-epic based on the final minutes in the life of Winnipeg’s doomed Second
World War hero, Andrew Mynarski (19161944). When his bomber jet is raked
with enemy canon-fire over France,
Mynarski unsuccessfully attempts to
save the life of a trapped crew-mate
before falling into an incandescent
death-spiral towards earth.
----------------------------------------11 PARKING LOTS AND ONE GRADUAL SUNSET
Aaron Zeghers & Nigel Webber | Manitoba
8:28 mins, 16mm, 2014
Both beauty and destruction. Both
homage and critique. Sincere
insincerity amidst the concrete jungle.
Filmed in Winnipeg, MB in a single day.
----------------------------------------HOT DOG MACHINE
Sean Grounds | Ontario
3 mins, SD, 2014
H
ow hot dogs are made.
----------------------------------------PICNIC
Jason Cawood, Ian Campbell, Amber
Christensen, and Colby Richardson |
Saskatchewan
3:40 mins, HD, 2014
T
wo figures share a picnic of quiet
transcendence.
----------------------------------------POLAR EXPRESS
Karen Asmundson & Gwen Trutnau | Manitoba
5 mins, HD, 2014
T
he Carnival is back in town and Jim
is hellbent for leather to ride the
Polar Express and worship his ultimate
fantasy: the airbrushed mural of the
fur-clad polar goddess. A genderbending heavy metal mid-way ride of
ridiculous fun.
----------------------------------------TARGET GIRLS
Ariel Smith | Ontario
7:14 mins, HD, 2012
A familiar ritualistic sacrifice
of the female body in the form of
the magician’s – lovely assistant.
Target Girls recycles the aesthetics
of film noir, vaudeville and German
expressionism, recasting them as a
tragicomic rebellion against Hollywood
glamour and submission.
----------------------------------------RADISH
Diego Ramirez | Mexico
4:30 mins, HD, 2013
RADISH is a dislocated creature without name, gender or citizenship, a meaningless blob.
----------------------------------------ALLAN GARDENS
Leslie Supnet | Ontario
5:55 mins, HD, 2014
ú western canadian premiere
Light bends to reveal the caged garden.
Movement by intuition and memory with
seemingly endless time. ----------------------------------------QUÄLEN/TORTURING
Rebecca Blöcher | Germany
4 mins, HD, 2013
Based on the poem of the same name by
Etta Streicher. A film that is concerned
with not speaking out, keeping your
feet still or moving to achieve inner
freedom. About how individual mental
states influence the world.
----------------------------------------THE WAPITI
Anssi Kasitonni | Finland
2:49 mins, HD, 2014
ú north american premiere
This faux nature documentary presents
an educational reenactment about the
life of deviant wapitis.
----------------------------------------POLIS X
Erkka Nissinen | Finland
15 mins, HD, 2012
ú north american premiere
The word Polis comes from Greek,
meaning a city or an entity composed
of citizens. Polis X is a kaleidoscope
of human destinies that reference the
ancient Greek ideal of the city-state.
Instead of depicting a perfected state
of a utopian community, the viewer is
confronted by the obscene historical
traces of mankind’s inhumanity.
----------------------- PERFORMANCE/INSTALLATION/SCREENING -------------------------
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UNSPEAKABLE
ARCHITECTURES, MCLUHAN
EXTENSIONS AND HOMEMADE
PROJECTOR PERFORMANCES
9 PM – MIDNIGHT | FREE ADMISSION
GRAHAM AVENUE ALLEY BESIDE RWB
----------------------------------------©YMBÁLLEIN: THE MARSHALL MCLUHAN
ARCADE GAME
Richard Altman | Manitoba
Engineered and Electronics by:
Shaggy Fabbro, William Franzin
The name is a play on the word
symbállein, which comes from the
Ancient Greek and literally means “to
put together”. This term is the root
of symbolic, and designates the action
of uniting, joining together and
converging.
The machine contains various videos
about McLuhan’s perceptions on the
inner and outer aspects of innovation
and change back and forth across each
other as a figure/ground interface. When
one medium uses another, it is the user
that is the “content”. So it is when
print uses the manuscript, or when TV
uses the movie, or when movie uses the
theatre or when writing uses the voice.
Hybridising or piggy-backing creates
new chemical compounds like talking
pictures or horseless carriages or
ARPANET.
----------------------------------------9 PM PERFORMANCE
----------------------------------------XEROGRAPHIC —
ANDREW JOHN MILNE’S PHOTOCOPY
PROJECTOR
Andrew John Milne | Manitoba
A
Xerox copier has been modified to
function as an instant print camera.
Strapped into the passenger seat of a
travelling museum, this copier will
document the 36 hour drive at 30 second
intervals from Winnipeg to Vancouver.
The resulting 3000 Xerox copies will
be placed in a custom paper feeding
praxinoscope (Photocopy Projector) that
will project the images at 5fps.
----------------------------------------MOONFLOWER AND OTHER WITCHWEEDS
Doreen Girard | Manitoba
C
ompiled materials and images of
flora from nature walks, botanical
illustrations and time-lapse video are
manipulated and added to within a live
setting and knit together with multidirectional light sources. Reels of
screen-printed acetate are advanced by
hand through a home-made projector.
Score by Winnipeg experimental voice
artist, Rosa Reaper.
----------------------------------------10 PM SCREENING
WITH INTRODUCTION BY JOHN SZOT
----------------------------------------ARCHITECTURE AND THE UNSPEAKABLE:
SOHO, 渋谷区, DETROIT
John Szot | USA
12 mins, HD, 2011
Architecture and the Unspeakable is a
story of three buildings, each with
a pathological problem that connects
it to a broader cultural dialogue.
Through the mechanisms of vandalism,
idiosyncrasy, and dilapidation, the
buildings raise the possibility
that architecture might transcend
its practical obligations to become
our most potent form of cultural
expression.
Three years in the making, the video
featuring these proposals is a virtual
production that wields the scenographic
thinking and narrative nature of
filmmaking to explore a new organic
method of building design.
----------------------------------------EXTENSIONS — REFLECTIONS ON WORKS
OF MARSHALL MCLUHAN
Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong | Alberta
38 mins, HD 2014
ú world premiere
“
Rapidly we approach the final phase
of the EXTENSIONS of man - the
technological simulation of
consciousness.” -Marshall McLuhan,
Understanding Media, 1964. A ﬁlm/audio
media art piece in tribute to media
visionary Marshall McLuhan.
sponsored by
University of Winnipeg CISCO Innovation
Centre Urban Media Research Lab (UMRL)
and CentreVenture
UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG CISCO INNOVATION
CENTRE URBAN MEDIA RESEARCH LAB
---------------------------------- SHORTS PROGRAM ----------------------------------
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GREY
EMINENCE
----------------------------------------SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
3 PM | CINEMATHEQUE
----------------------------------------In transit, film elegies and effigies works that bear witness and offer up the
clarity of an encounter. Eye-opening
voyages reveal forces behind the scenes,
as explored through poetry.
----------------------------------------SLAUGHTERHOUSE
Philip Hoffman | Ontario
15:29 mins, HD, 2014
This multi-framed work weaves several
inter-connected threads of loss: of
land and agriculture, of property and
business. The archival materials in the
work have been gleaned from public and
personal sources such as the National
Archive of Canada, in the story of a
nineteenth century aboriginal woman and
land rights activist Nahnebahwequay
(1824-65) and more recently organic
farmer Michael Schmidt, from excerpts
of the Farmer’s Advocate and Family
Herald publications 1958-1968, also a
trip into the artist’s familial past,
and the rise and fall of his family’s
slaughterhouse and pork processing
plant, Hoffman Meats (1951-81), in
Kitchener, Ontario.
----------------------------------------GENTE PERRA
Anja Dornieden & Juan David González
Monroy | Germany
25 mins, 16mm, 2014
ú jury prize: best international work
A
film based on fragments of the story
“La Gente Perra” by the Colombian
writer Gomati D. Wahn (1923 -1993). The
story, which takes place 3000 years
in the future, tells of the character
of The Admiral as he searches for the
land of the Dog People and the riches
that it hides. However, as is typical
of Wahn’s style, the story is assembled
out of altered existing texts, in
this case, historic accounts of the
discovery and conquest of America or,
as it was known then, The New World.
----------------------------------------THE VISITOR
Miriam Sainnawap | Manitoba
5 mins, HD, 2012
T
he Visitor captures Miriam Sainnawap’s
personal experience of living in the
city as an Aboriginal person. She
portrays the unique challenges and
counteracts conventional stereotypes
through the use of a soft Super 8
camera lens.
----------------------------------------7½ STEPS
Travis Jule | Saskatchewan
6:31 mins, HD, 2013
In 1942, Kathryn MacLeod was born in a
small house in Regina, Saskatchewan.
She lived in that house for most of her
life and, in 2005, died in the room
next to the one in which she was born.
7½ Steps recounts Kathryn’s life as it
traverses the distance between those
two rooms and examines the bric-abrac and miscellany she left behind.
An exploration of the subjective and
multifaceted nature of memory, 7½
Steps combines a series of overlapping
recollections, both poignant and silly,
in an attempt to form a complete
representation of an important life.
----------------------------------------BURNING AN EFFIGY
Jaimie Isaac | Manitoba
5 mins, HD, 2014
Burning an Effigy considers
intergenerational effects of the
residential school legacy, the colonial
presence, and their persistent impacts
on community. The film is based in
Treaty 1 Territory, Sagkeeng First
Nation, Manitoba. It channels responses
from survivors through related
performance, historical footage,
archival images, and nostalgic audio/
music.
----------------------------------------SUN SONG
Joel Wanek | USA
14:35 mins, HD, 2013, Silent
A poetic journey from the darkness of
dawn into the brightness of the midday
sun in the American South. Filmed over
the course of six months on one bus
route in Durham, North Carolina, Sun
Song is a celebration of light and a
meditation on leaving.
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HYPER_
Urban Shaman main Gallery and marVin FranCiS media Gallery
MeMory Keepers: Methodologies
of MeMory, Mapping and gender
UrsUla Johnson
Tanya lUkin linklaTer
JUlie nagam
sepTember 5 — ocTober 11 2014
Guest Curated by erin Sutherland and Carla Taunton
Urban Shaman main Gallery
th
11 annual 50 to 500 exhibition + sale
members groUp exhibiTion
november 14 — December 13 2014
deadline to buy membership and submit artwork — november 8, 2014
We invite all of our members to submit up to four pieces of original artwork for the exhibition
and sale. Each work can be sold from as low as 50 ¢ to a maximum of 500 $ and the artist retains
100% of the profit! Artists must be members of Urban Shaman in good standing. If you are not
already a member, this is a great time to join! membership to Urban Shaman is $25/year.
203-290 mcdermot av.
urbanshaman.org
----------------------------------------SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
6 PM | ASPER CENTRE FOR THEATRE AND FILM
----------------------------------------Freya Björg Olafson | Manitoba
A
t the intersection of performance,
visual and digital arts, HYPER_
explores the limits of perception. By
shifting the dimensionality of the live
body in relationship to the immersive
screen HYPER_ moves between 2D and 3D
representations of corporeality. HYPER_
inherently becomes a site for expanded
choreography where virtual bodies,
cyber dancers and the contemporary
reinterpretation of everyday gestures
converge. The performer’s physique
is dissected and transformed,
disappearing and merging with the stage
and screen. Animated by a series of
transformations, layered and colorful,
the body becomes our dreamscape. HYPER_
deploys an intriguing combination of UV
light, body paint, 3D glasses for the
audience and large video projections
on a black scrim to create stunning
illusions. Featuring lighting design by
Hugh Conacher.
Suspended
Animation:
A Film and Live Soundtrack Installation Projection
Sunday, September 28 / 7:30 pm
Manitoba Hydro Place, Galleria, 360 Portage Avenue
Projection and films curated by Gordon Fitzell
featuring The eXperimental Improv Ensemble (XIE)
E-RUQYAH
Arya Sukapura Putra
[email protected]
EVEN LOWER ASTRAL ENTITY
Gwen Trutnau
See Video Pool
FAR FROM
Barbara Sternberg
See CFMDC
GENTE PERRA
Anja Dornieden
[email protected]
HOT DOG MACHINE
Sean Grounds
[email protected]
A KNIGHT’S WALK (AND
OTHER SPECULATIVE EVENTS)
Clint Enns
[email protected]
AV-ARKKI
+ 358 50 4356092
[email protected]
www.av-arkki.fi
RED LUCK
Mike Olenick
[email protected]
RESISTFILM
Pablo Marín
[email protected]
ROB WHAT
rhayne vermette
[email protected]
SHAMANS, THE CUNNING
Peter Dudar
See CMFDC
SLAUGHTERHOUSE
Phil Hoffman
See CMFDC
CFMDC
(416) 588-0725
[email protected]
www.cfmdc.org
Video Pool
(204) 949-9134, ext. 4
[email protected]
www.videopool.org
Vtape
(416) 351-1317
[email protected]
www.vtape.org
Winnipeg Film Group
(204) 925-3456
[email protected]
www.winnipegfilmgroup.com
3 PM
cinematheque:
Shorts Program:
GREY EMINENCE
Sunday
September 28
6 PM
uofw asper theatre:
Performance:
FREYA OLAFSON’S
HYPER_
9 PM
graham avenue alley
beside rwb:
Performance/Installation/
Screening:
UNSPEAKABLE
ARCHITECTURES,
MCLUHAN EXTENSIONS
AND HOMEMADE
PROJECTOR
PERFORMANCES
RE:CYCLED
James Pomeroy
[email protected]
7 PM
cinematheque:
Shorts Program:
GYROS AND HEROIN
-------------------------DISTRIBUTORS
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11 PM
frame:
Performance:
KARL LEMIEUX’S
UNZIP VIOLENCE
RADISH
Diego Ramirez
[email protected]
5 PM
cinematheque:
DENIS CÔTÉ’S
BESTIAIRE
THE WAPITI
Anssi Kasitonni
See Av-Arkki
9 PM
cinematheque:
Shorts Program:
STRANGELY FAMILIAR
QUÄLEN/TORTURING
Rebecca Blöcher
[email protected]
3 PM
cinematheque:
Shorts Program:
ALL LUMINOUS
THE VISITOR
Miriam Sainnawap
[email protected]
7 PM
cinematheque:
DENIS CÔTÉ’S
JOY OF MAN’S DESIRING
POLIS X
Erkka Nissinen
See Av-Arkki
1 PM
cinematheque:
20 YEARS IN THE BARN:
THE WINNIPEG 20TH
ANNIVERSARY
FILM FARM SHOW
THE PIECED QUILT
Scott Fitzpatrick
[email protected]
urban shaman:
SCOTT
BENESIINAABANDAN’S
MEMETIC DRIVE
(Installation Opening)
THE DUST SETTLES
Heidi Phillips
See Video Pool
POLAR EXPRESS
Karen Asmundson & Gwen Trutna
See Winnipeg Film Group
8:30 PM
ace art:
KELSEY BRAUN’S
FRAGMENTATION
(Installation Opening)
CLASS PICTURE
Tito & Tito
[email protected]
TARGET GIRLS
Ariel Smith
See Vtape
5 PM
urban shaman:
SCOTT
BENESIINAABANDAN
ARTIST TALK
BURNING AN EFFIGY
Jamie Isaac
See Video Pool
PICTURE PARTICLES
Thorsten Fleisch
[email protected]
7 PM
gas station
arts centre:
ONE TAKE SUPER 8 EVENT
BURN OUT THE DAY
Sasha Waters Freyer
[email protected]
SUN SONG
Joel Wanek
[email protected]
7 PM
cinematheque:
Shorts Program:
ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
BLACK RECTANGLE
Rhayne Vermette
[email protected]
STARK ELECTRIC JESUS
Hyash Tanmoy
[email protected]
Saturday
September 27
BERNARD GASPÉ
lindsay mcintyre
[email protected]
PICNIC
Jason Cawood, Ian Campbell,
Amber Christensen, and
Colby Richardson
[email protected]
Friday
September 26
AXIS
John Kneller
See CMFDC
NO MORE LONELY NIGHTS
Fabio Scacchioli
[email protected]
Thursday
September 25
ALLAN GARDENS
Leslie Supnet
[email protected]
SOMETHING
STRANGELY FAMILIAR
aAron munson
[email protected]
Wednesday
September 24
MYNARSKI DEATH CHUTE
Matthew Rankin
[email protected]
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11 PARKING LOTS AND
ONE GRADUAL SUNSET
Aaron Zeghers
[email protected]
SNOW SHOES
Milos Mitrovic
numberonegusvansantfan@
hotmail.com
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KINGDOM COME: RITUALS
Vika Kirchenbauer
[email protected]
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7½ STEPS
Travis Jule
[email protected]
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