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Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen's Benjamin Smoke (#anchor9) [August 1, Brooklyn, New
York 11222]
Kerry Laitala: Conjured Pictures, Film, video, Performance Works (#anchor7)
[July 31, Brooklyn, New York]
NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
"The Sadness Will Not Last Forever" by Alexei Dmitriev
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This week's programs (summary):
* Post-Imperfect-Panoptic Trading On Stilts (#anchor1) [July 29, Los Angeles,
California 90026]
* Show &Amp; Tell: Natalie Bookchin: Program 1 (#anchor2) [July 29, New York,
NY]
* Black Maria Film Festival 36th Annual Festival Tour (#anchor3) [July 29,
Washington, DC]
* Some Poetic and Political Currents: Works By Jason Halprin, Jennifer
Hardacker, Brett Kashmere, Kevin Mccarthy, Jennifer Proctor, Wenhua Shi, and
Simon Tarr (#anchor4) [July 30, Los Angeles, California]
* Show &Amp; Tell: Natalie Bookchin: Program 1 (#anchor5) [July 30, New York,
NY]
* Show &Amp; Tell: Natalie Bookchin: Program 2 (#anchor6) [July 30, New York,
NY]
* Kerry Laitala: Conjured Pictures, Film, video, Performance Works (#anchor7)
[July 31, Brooklyn, New York]
* Light Spells - Films By Sandy Ding (#anchor8) [August 1, Brookline,
Massachusetts]
* Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen's Benjamin Smoke (#anchor9) [August 1, Brooklyn,
New York 11222]
* The Devil & themselves: Films By Jb Mabe (#anchor10) [August 2, Chicago,
Illinois]
* Screening: Merge To Infinity Curated By Lili White (#anchor11) [August 2, New
York, New York]
* Omniwave Refresher World Premiere (#anchor12) [August 3, Los Angeles,
California]
* Show &Amp; Tell: Peter Burr (#anchor13) [August 3, New York, NY]
* Christine &Amp; Elephant - Free Screening! (#anchor14) [August 4, New York,
NY]
* Penda'S Fen - Free Screening! (#anchor15) [August 5, New York, NY]
* A Salon With Mary Helena Clark (#anchor16) [August 5, San Francisco,
California 94124]
* Classic Films By Joyce Wieland (#anchor17) [August 6, Los Angeles, California]
SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2017
7/29
Los Angeles, California 90026: Echo Park Film Center
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8pm, 1200 N Alvarado St
POST-IMPERFECT-PANOPTIC TRADING ON STILTS
FILMS BY JASON HALPRIN AND MICHAEL WOODS The two filmmakers met while
volunteering for Chicago Filmmakers in the mid '00s, and quickly hit it off.
Jason was an old-school, super8, 16mm, hand-processing, optical-printing analog
filmmaker, and Michael was jumping head first into the whole aesthetic of
experimental film & video, and contemporary art. Fast forward ten years and
Michael has chewed up and glitched out the experimental film canon, fashioned
into a conspiracy theory of parasitic nothingness. Meanwhile, Jason has ceased
shouting at analog windmills and embraced the digital non-event. They share an
affinity for collage and the political in their work - freely mixing found and
original footage, gliding between allegory and agitprop, straddling the eras of
analog and digital, assaulting viewers' senses and serenity, dissecting and
constructing the media around them. Now based in the Bay Area (Halprin) and LA
(Woods), both filmmakers relocated to CA in 2015, and are happy
to make their debut at EPFC. Doors 7:30 pm. $5 admission. SCREENING: We Walk On
Stilts - Halprin (S8, 2 min, silent, 2010) Twin Propellers - Halprin (dual S8,
3 min, silent, 2010) Post-Panoptic Gazing - Woods (video, 10.5 min, sound,
2014) No More Silent Protest (video, 6.5 min, sound, 2017) Commodity Trading Pt
1 of 3: Election Day - Woods (mixed analog on video, 15 min, sound, 2017) Agnes
& Me (negative chemical bath version) - Halprin (16mm, 3 min, silent- maybe w/
sound, 2008) NEW hand painted reel - Woods (16mm, 5 min, 2017) Summer Home -
Halprin (16mm on video, 6 min, sound, 2001) Dailies from Dumpland part 3 -
Woods (16mm on video, 7 min, sound, 2017) Imperfect Video - Halprin (VHS - 20
min, sound, 2001/2013) *lineup will likely change and include brand new works
on 16mm TRT: 78 min
7/29
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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8:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
SHOW & TELL: NATALIE BOOKCHIN: PROGRAM 1
See July 28.
7/29
Washington, DC: Black Maria Film Festival
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1:00PM and 3:30PM, National Gallery of Art, East Building Auditorium, 4th
Street and Constitution Ave., NW
BLACK MARIA FILM FESTIVAL 36TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL TOUR
The Black Maria Film Festival returns this year with two programs on Saturday
afternoon, July 29th, starting at 1:00pm and again at 3:30pm, in the East
Building Auditorium, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, 4th Street
and Constitution Ave., NW. Doors open thirty minutes before showtime. Both
programs, hosted by Curator of Film, Margaret Parsons, will be presented
in-person by festival director Jane Steuerwald, and will showcase a collection
of stellar works touring this season. Featured international selections include
“Ja Passou,” by Sebastião Salgado and Pedro Patrocinio, Lisbon, Portugal;
“Radiance,” by Fernando Priego Ruiz, Buenos Aires, Argentina; “A,” by Joseph
Houlberg, Quito, Ecuador; and “Roxy,” by Fabien Colas, Luxembourg City,
Luxembourg, and Emile Schlesser, Düsseldorf, Germany; and an array of
animation, narrative, experimental, and documentary shorts chosen by the
Festival jury this season. Filmmakers Steven Vander Meer and Kay Hannahan will
be
present to discuss their work. The Black Maria Film Festival attracts and
nationally showcases the works of highly accomplished independent film and
video makers. The Festival is a project of the Thomas A. Edison Media Arts
Consortium, an independent non-profit organization in residence at New Jersey
City University’s Department of Media Arts. The Black Maria was founded in 1981
as a tribute to Thomas Edison’s development of the motion picture at his
laboratory, dubbed the “Black Maria” film studio, the first in the world, in
West Orange, NJ. The Black Maria Film Festival was awarded the New Jersey State
Council on the Arts Citation for Excellence for eight years. For further
information, contact festival director Jane Steuerwald,
[email protected], 201-200-2043; www.blackmaria.org, or visit
nga.gov/ lm, email [email protected], or call (202) 842-6799. The National
Gallery of Art is wheelchair accessible, and large print programs will be
available at both
Black Maria screenings. Accessibility Information: (202) 842-6690. www.nga.gov.
SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017
7/30
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
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7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd
SOME POETIC AND POLITICAL CURRENTS: WORKS BY JASON HALPRIN, JENNIFER HARDACKER,
BRETT KASHMERE, KEVIN MCCARTHY, JENNIFER PROCTOR, WENHUA SHI, AND SIMON TARR
Several fabulous filmmakers are coming to Los Angeles for the University Film &
Video Association’s 2017 Conference, from July 30-Aug 2. Filmforum is taking
advantage of the opportunity to host a screening of recent experimental works.
It’s quite an array of work, with political, poetic, personal, and essayistic
expressions from around the country. Jason Halprin’s July 8th, 2016 and Brett
Kashmere’s Cleaning the Glass explicitly address current political and social
issues. McCarthy’s Official Teaser #2 Reaction!!! returns to Filmforum with its
humorous and emotional responses to a Star Wars trailer. Jen Proctor’s Am I
Pretty? raises serious issues of self-image concerns of teenage girls. Jennifer
Hardacker’s films used varied techniques to express inner questions. Halprin’s
In Which There Appears Trains, a Carousel, and Rain and Wenhua Shi’s Walking
Cycle both find more poetic approaches to complicated movements. And Simon
Tarr’s live cinema performance Blood Lust of the Wolf
dissects the classic “ethnographic” film Nanook of the North, which Filmforum
screened a couple of years ago in our Polar series.
7/30
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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6:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
SHOW & TELL: NATALIE BOOKCHIN: PROGRAM 1
See July 28.
7/30
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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8:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
SHOW & TELL: NATALIE BOOKCHIN: PROGRAM 2
PROGRAM 2: ZORNS LEMMA2 (2007, 12.5 min, digital) An internet-age remake of
Hollis Frampton's seminal 1970 structuralist film, ZORNS LEMMA2 consists of
sets of signs photographed off online webcams and arranged alphabetically in
one-second intervals. In each subsequent set, one letter of the alphabet is
replaced by a video clip chosen as representative of the visual language of
surveillance cameras. LOCATION INSECURE (2006, 11 min, digital) Composed of
animated screengrabs of private security webcams found by means of a simple
search engine hack, LOCATION INSECURE depicts the asynchronous time and space
of the internet. PARKING LOT (2008, 13 min, digital) Appropriations from
virtual and physical commercial spaces create temporary public space - dismal,
endlessly reproduced, anonymous spaces where even creative appropriations can
sometimes appear mass-produced. TESTAMENT (3 CHAPTERS) (2009/16, 7.5 min,
digital) TESTAMENT presents a series of collective expressions of the
shared self. The series reflects on the peculiar blend of intimacy and
anonymity, of the simultaneous connectivity and isolation of contemporary
social relations. MASS ORNAMENT (2009, 7 min, digital) "With a keen eye for
detail, a terrific sense of timing and a killer instinct for editing,
[Bookchin] has clipped and combined hundred of vignettes from YouTube and set
them to the soundtracks from Busby Berkeley's GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935 and Leni
Riefenstahl's TRIUMPH OF THE WILL. […] To watch the split-screen extravaganza
is to feel as if you are at once enjoying a god's-eye view of a vast, everyday
parade of vulnerable human beings and also an intimate part of a democratic
drama that is deeply moving." -LOS ANGELES TIMES Total running time: ca. 60 min.
MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017
7/31
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
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7:30pm, 1329 Willoughby Ave2B
KERRY LAITALA: CONJURED PICTURES, FILM, VIDEO, PERFORMANCE WORKS
Artist in person. Microscope welcomes San Francisco-based artist Kerry Laitala
to the gallery for an evening of her 16mm films, the New York premieres of a
new video s as well as a 16mm film performance in three parts titled Astro
Trilogy. Engaged with the alchemical properties of film and pre-cinematic
approaches to making, activating and altering images, Laitala’s works in the
program – completed between 2000 and 2017 – often present uncanny abstract
compositions of fast-moving and mesmerizing colors combined with found or
original footage. With sound by Wobbly, Laitala’s latest multi-projector film
performance Astro Trilogy consists of three thematic sections: Velvet of Night
with imagery drawn from ancient astronomy, Chromatic Wheels inspired by the
history of early public lighting and the choreographed spotlight shows by
Walter D’Arcy Ryan, and The Kali of Technology in which intensely merge
“female-energy-infused” images.The artist, who has been working with moving
image since the 90s, today has a quite large and unique body of work comprised
of videos, installations, expanded cinema performances, and a series of hybrid
film/video investigations of Chromadepth 3D technology. Laitala will be in
attendance and available for Q&A after the screening. Admission $8.
Members/Students w/ ID $6. tel: 347.925.1433, [email protected],
Jefferson St. L (exit Starr St). Full program & additional info:
www.microscopegallery.com.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2017
8/1
Brookline, Massachusetts: Balagan Experimental Film/Video Series
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8:00PM, Coolidge Corner Theatre
LIGHT SPELLS - FILMS BY SANDY DING
Balagan and Crows & Sparrows welcome Beijing-based filmmaker Sandy Ding (a.k.a.
Ding Xin, 丁 昕) for a program of short and medium-length films rooted in a
fascination with dark mysticism and a desire to reach spiritual transcendence
through cinema. All works will be shown on 16mm with exception of Dream
Enclosure which was finished digitally. The screening will be followed by a Q&A
with the filmmaker. After graduating with an MFA from CalArts in 2007, Sandy
Ding returned to China where he began teaching at the Central Academy of Fine
Arts (CAFA) and continued to independently produce his own works on
photochemical film. Being one of the only filmmakers in China working in the
medium today (no doubt, in part, due to the lack of commercial film
laboratories), he has been forced to be resourceful. Most of his films are
hand-processed in developing tanks of his own design, offering a texturality to
the image that serves to accentuate its otherworldliness. He has stated that he
tries to use his camera as a sorcerer would their wand. The creation and
presentation of the films, to him, represent a sort of ritualism; a modern-day
magick. His works traverses experimental film, sound art, and installation.
Since 2005, he has focused on making artworks related to hypnosis and
mysticism. These works have been shown in festivals and underground venues
around the world, including the China Independent Film Festival (Nanjing), the
Edinburgh International Film Festival, EXiS (Korea), and the Museum of the
Moving Image (New York). Program: KOLIJEVKA (2016) 9 min | 16mm RIVER IN CASTLE
(2016) 3 min | 16mm WATER SPELL (2007) 42 min | 16mm MANCOON (2008) | 8 min |
16mm DREAM ENCLOSURE (2014) | 19 min | 16mm transferred to video
8/1
Brooklyn, New York 11222: Light Industry
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7:30, 155 Freeman St
JEM COHEN AND PETER SILLEN'S BENJAMIN SMOKE
Benjamin Smoke, Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen, 2000, 16mm, 72 mins
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2017
8/2
Chicago, Illinois: Comfort Film
6pm, 2579 N Milwaukee Ave.
THE DEVIL & THEMSELVES: FILMS BY JB MABE
Comfort Film presents a whole month of anologue works on Film in August. The
Devil & Themselves: films by JB Mabe. The screening is divided into two
sections. The first part consists of very short films ranging from 30 seconds
to 8 minutes, created from 2008-2014, and totaling 35 minutes. The second part
is my earliest completed and titled film from 2008, which I've picked away at
throughout the years. PART 1: TO ANOTHER; A tiny poem. 2010 ADDY CHOO; Flipcam,
cross processed Kodachrome, old animations. Too much distance from the subject.
2013 MEASURES KINDLING; A fire. A figure. A flash. 2012 PASTORAL; Altering
landscape.Cheeky. 2008 TO ITS BLOOM; A sculpture of scraps. 2010 TO QUIT, TO
QUIET & TO MARK THE SHAPE; Two Christmastime films. Two sides of the mountain.
2011 NOCTURNE: BLUE AND GOLD - PUNKIN' DOUGHNUTS; Simple elements used for a
nighttime portrait. Takes on a little wistfulness in the past couple years.
2010 TO FALL; The interior of Jim & Tammy Faye's PTL theme
park. 2010 SMART CHICKENS, RICKETY WORLD; Junkyard cows and animators hands.
Title lifted from Charles Simic. 2014 35m PART 2: THE DEVIL AND THEMSELVES The
fella who made this is pretty unrecognizable to me. 2008 37m "But to the end of
time certain places of the world remain defined for him as the place where
those sensations were; and his only possible answer to the question where
anything is will be to say 'there,' and to name some sensation or other like
those first ones, which shall identify the spot. Space means but the aggregate
of all our possible sensations". -William James
8/2
New York, New York: Another Experiment by Women Film Festival
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6 PM, 32 2nd AVE Anthology Film Archives
SCREENING: MERGE TO INFINITY CURATED BY LILI WHITE
VISITING FILMMAKER, Jesse Russel Brooks in the house! Films by: Jesse Russel
Brooks; Louise Harris; Lana Z Caplan; Ariane Loze; Kelly Gallagher; Rrose
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2017
8/3
Los Angeles, California: Coaxial Arts Center
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7:PM, 1815 S Main St
OMNIWAVE REFRESHER WORLD PREMIERE
GX Jupitter-Larsen's new film Omniwave Refresher is in three acts. The first is
done as a kind of documentary. The second act is a puppet show, and the third
act is a live action reenactment of the puppet show. Omniwave Refresher is
about a scientist who, after a failed experiment of some incomprehensible
nature, heads off on a journey to find her meaning of life.
8/3
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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8:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
SHOW & TELL: PETER BURR
Peter Burr (b. 1980) is an artist from Brooklyn specializing in animation and
installation. A master of computer animation, with a gift for creating images
and environments that hover on the boundary between abstraction and figuration,
Burr has in recent years devoted himself to exploring the concept of an
endlessly mutating labyrinth. Existing as stand-alone pieces, much of his work
is also in the process of expanding into a video game through the support of
Creative Capital and Sundance. Previously, he worked under the alias
Hooliganship, and in 2006 founded the video label Cartune Xprez, through which
he produced three DVD compilations, live multimedia exhibitions, and touring
programs showcasing a multi-generational group of artists at the forefront of
experimental animation. "A mix of intricate patterns that vibrate, flicker, and
hypnotize, viewing Peter's work feels like entering into a dark, digital cave."
-Alex Ginsberg, ELECTRIC OBJECTS "Burr's art conjures the
future - projection screens picturing high density structures that resemble
malls populated by people who move in slow motion; text by [media artist and
video game designer] Porpentine that describes opinionless cultures; undulating
black and white patterns designed to mesmerize the viewer. Unlike movies,
though, which tend to center around heroes and villains, there's no morality
attached to this environment. It's not good, or bad. It just is." -Paddy
Johnson, ART F CITY ALONE WITH THE MOON (2012, 13 min, digital) Burr creates a
slow, liminal illusion in black-and-white, switching perspectives and matrices
and crescendoing in time with Christopher Doulgeris's portentously pulsating
soundtrack. SPECIAL EFFECT (2014, 22 min, digital) Channeling Tarkovsky's
STALKER, this film's fractured and spiraling narrative is traversed through a
hypnotizing blend of live action and various digital animation styles. GREEN |
RED (2014, 10.5 min, digital) Burr conjures a shape-shifting world
where the sidewalks are endless, the radio is playing electric, and the night
sky is broken open by a cataclysm of shuddering stars. THE MESS (2016, 14 min,
digital) This film follows the perspective of a solitary woman who descends
into an abandoned subterranean 'arcology.' She is tasked with cleaning up the
mess that has spawned from this feral structure, becoming lost in the process.
Total running time: ca. 75 min.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 2017
8/4
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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7:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
CHRISTINE & ELEPHANT - FREE SCREENING!
CHRISTINE (1987, 52 min, 16mm-to-digital) & ELEPHANT (1989, 37 min,
16mm-to-digital) Two of Clarke's most extraordinary and stylistically singular
films, both CHRISTINE and ELEPHANT demonstrate his increasing interest, in his
late work, in stripping his material to its barest essentials, as well as his
embrace of prolonged Steadicam tracking shots to achieve a palpable quality of
immediacy and presence. CHRISTINE is a portrait of teenage heroin addicts in a
suburban housing tract, but far from sensationalizing the topic, Clarke is at
pains to capture the texture and daily rhythms of the kids' lives, and to
accentuate the numbing boredom of addiction. The film consists almost entirely
of Steadicam shots following Christine through the housing project, broken up
by occasional moments of dialogue. It was an approach Clarke would take to its
logical extreme in ELEPHANT, which consists very simply of 18 inexorable
Steadicam-shot sequences, each depicting street assassinations in
Northern Ireland. Dispensing entirely with dialogue, plot, or context aside
from its setting, ELEPHANT (whose title refers to the phrase, "The elephant in
the room") remains a deeply disturbing provocation, and one of the most radical
works ever made for television.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017
8/5
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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8:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
PENDA'S FEN - FREE SCREENING!
1974, 99 min, 16mm-to-digitalShare +Twitter. Written by David Rudkin. "PENDA'S
FEN is Clarke's first unqualified masterpiece, and a stirring argument for the
effective collaboration between writer and director that could occur in
television. The tale of the visionary maturation of a teenaged boy in the
Midlands of England, this Romantic work differs from the more realistically
grounded stories in [Clarke's] oeuvre, yet David Rudkin's script, heavy with
ideas, relies upon Clarke's straightforward direction and thoughtful but
unobtrusive editing to function coherently. The protean text portrays the boy,
Stephen, in a period when doubts spurred by visions impel him to interrogate
his identity. The episodic film shifts through multilayered themes - political,
spiritual, sexual, familial, cultural and historical, even linguistic - without
ever losing momentum. And yet, underlying all that…is fundamentally an
inquiry into English identity, a search that drives so many of Clarke's
films." -Nicolas Rapold, SENSES OF CINEMA
8/5
San Francisco, California 94124: Canyon Cinema Foundation
7:30pm, 1777 Yosemite Ave Ste 210
A SALON WITH MARY HELENA CLARK
DOORS 7:00 PM // SHOW BEGINS AT 7:30 "In the spirit of the Salon and with my
own allegiance to the fragmented film and negligible image, I'll be screening
an assembly of outtakes from my recent film rolls alongside my film from 2012
that was structured as fictional outtakes - the real thing next to its
approximation. Film critic Michael Sicinski brought this story to my attention
in his review of my film Palms: Michael Snow was asked what the relationship
was between two parts of his film and he answered "a splice." Relationships by
contiguity, resonances, and the connection that becomes the thing itself. Not
to suggest the films I've chosen fromCanyon's collection are provisional - they
sing! - but I believe the form is at its brightest when you can't quite pin
down what holds things together, even when you know its just a splice." -Mary
Helena Clark A Salon with Mary Helena Clark All works presented in 16mm.
Breathing, by Robert Breer (1963, 5 min, B&W) Standard Time, by
Michael Snow (1968, 8 min, color) Letters, by Dorothy Wiley (1972, 11 min,
color) Solidarity, by Joyce Wieland (1973, 11 min, color) Tziporah, by Abraham
Ravett (2008, 7 min, color) Orpheus (outtakes), by Mary Helena Clark (2012, 6
min, B&W) and outtakes from Mary Helena Clark's recent film rolls
SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017
8/6
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
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7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
CLASSIC FILMS BY JOYCE WIELAND
Long overdue is this retrospective screening of classic experimental films by
Joyce Wieland. Wieland is regarded as Canada’s foremost woman artist. She
produced an acclaimed body of work in a great variety of media, from drawing
and painting to quilts and film. Her work tended to be overshadowed in the
United States by that of her husband, Michael Snow, but her cinematic
explorations elude easy categorization. She gained a unique respect for
incorporating strong personal statements in her work about issues of feminism,
nationalism and ecology long before it had become fashionable to do so. Her
retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario was the first-ever afforded a
living Canadian woman artist. She passed away almost two decades ago, and
although a few of her films have appeared in scattered shows in LA since then,
this is a chance to see most of her finest works in one screening. We’re
delighted to have Lauren Howes, executive director of the Canadian Filmmakers
Distribution Centre, introduce the show. Including Water Sark; Handtinting;
1933; Cat Food; Rat Life and Diet in North America; Sailboat; Solidarity; and A
& B in Ontario.
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