Images Festival Newsletter >> January 14, 2010
1. IMAGES PRESENTS BJORK'S CONCERT FILM VOLTAIC >>> January 22
2. 2010 IMAGES FESTIVAL MEMBERSHIP >> Last chance for early bird offer!
3. CALL FOR NOMINATIONS >> 2010 TOM BERNER AWARD >> January 29
4. EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #11 >> James Benning + Nicky Hamlyn >> January 19
5. LIFT's WINTER 2010 FILM AND DIGITAL WORKSHOPS: Registration Starts January 19
6. PLEASURE DOME PRESENTS MIKE HOOLBOOM'S PUBLIC LIGHTING >> January 23
| 1. SCREENING ONE NIGHT ONLY! CANADIAN PREMIERE! Friday January 22, 7:30 PM The Acacia Centre (formerly Golden Classics Cinema) 186 Spadina Avenue, between Queen and Sullivan 10$ Advance, 12$ Door Voltaïc: The Volta Tour Live in Paris and Reykjavik is a remarkable, multi-media document of Björk's visually dazzling Volta tour. The film features performances of songs from Volta as well as earlier tracks including Hunter, Jóga, Army of Me, and Hyperballad. Björk's band on the Volta tour included Mark Bell (LFO) on computers and keyboards, Damian Taylor on keyboards/programming, drums and percussion by Chris Corsano, Jónas Sen played piano, harpsichord, and church organ and Björk's all female Icelandic 10-piece brass section (three trumpets, three French horns, three trombones, and a tuba) rounded out the group. A dynamic, grand live experience, the Volta tour has been acclaimed around the world. WATCH THE TRAILER HERE! www.vimeo.com/5204247 björk—voltaïc : the volta tour live in paris and reykjavik (2008, Iceland, 95 minutes, Video, in Icelandic and English) Directed by Russell Thomas. Produced by Andy Derbyshire. Musical and creative direction by Björk. Advance tickets available at the following locations: -Online at imagesfestival.com/store (VISA, Mastercard, AMEX or PayPal. NO service charges) -Soundscapes, 572 College Street, west of Manning (CASH ONLY) -Queen Video, 412 Queen Street West, west of Spadina (Cash, Credit, Debit) For further information: -------------------------------------------------------- 2. 2010 IMAGES FESTIVAL MEMBERSHIP >> Last chance for early bird offer! Sign up before January 15 and save with our earlybird offer! More benefits will be added throughout the following weeks, and the core benefits are still those you love and want. Transferable free vouchers for On Screen and Live Event tickets! A festival catalogue mailed to your home! Free entry at Pay What You Can events by showing your card! And of course, you'll be generously supporting the 23rd Images Festival. This year we are increasing our Preferred Box Office perks by reserving an even larger block of seats for members! Membership makes a great gift! For this limited time you'll be able to give the gift of Images to the art-lover in your life at the same discounted price. Purchase a membership online as usual, and include the recipient's mailing and email address during checkout. There's even an Images gift tag for you to print out and give! Become a member before January 15th and save! -------------------------------------------------------- 3. CALL FOR NOMINATIONS >> 2010 TOM BERNER AWARD Nominations must reach LIFT by Friday, January 29, 2010 at 5:00PM The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and the Images Festival are calling for nominees for the 2010 TOM BERNER AWARD for Extraordinary Support of Independent Filmmaking. The TOM BERNER AWARD was created in 2002 to honour Tom Berner, who was an extraordinary supporter of independent filmmaking in Toronto and throughout Canada. Tom retired from DELUXE Laboratories in 2001 after being actively involved with organizations like the National Screen Institute's Drama Prize Program, the OMDC's Calling Card Program, and the CFC's Worldwide Short Film Festival. Tom tirelessly assisted hundreds of independent filmmakers who approached him for advice and help. Tom Berner passed away in December 2004. Initiated in 2002 by filmmakers Sarah Abbott and Mark Wihak, THE TOM BERNER AWARD recognizes individuals who provide 'extraordinary support for independent filmmaking' in Toronto. Please note: 'Extraordinary' indicates activities above and beyond any obligations of employment or business, and should reflect contributions over a sustained period. 'Support' should be broadly interpreted, and could include individuals who provide Toronto's vibrant independent film community with: production and post-production assistance; creative mentorship; writing about independent film; programming, curating and promotion of independent film; providing facilities for the exhibition of independent film and/or creation of new initiatives that support independent film. Incomplete nominations will not be considered. The award will be decided by a jury of knowledgeable peers from the independent film community, and will be presented at the awards ceremony of the Images Festival in April 2010. For guidelines and submission information visit -------------------------------------------------------- 4. EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #11 >> James Benning + Nicky Hamlyn Tuesday January 19, 7:30PM Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto $5 A transitional film at the end of his first decade of filmmaking, James Benning's Grand Opera introduces a degree of storytelling to his previously more formalist devices. Benning calls the film his "first attempt at writing my own kind of history" and, in a sense, it also serves to write himself into history, acutely measuring his place as a Midwestern experimental filmmaker, then based in Oklahoma, in relationship to the avant-garde scene situated in New York. The film thus features homages to the prominent experimental cinema of the time, including a spoof of Wavelength, as well as cameos from Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton and Yvonne Rainer. Woven with these sequences are other characteristic Benning gambits – a compilation of every house he ever lived in, a preoccupation with the history of Pi, and the looming threat that a building will explode. Programme: Grand Opera: An Historical Romance, 16mm, 1979, USA, 84 mins, colour Film by James Benning, featuring Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, George Landow, Sadie Benning and Yvonne Rainer Screened with: Poles Apart, Nicky Hamlyn, Regular 8mm, 1990, UK, 4 minutes For more information: -------------------------------------------------------- 5. Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) WINTER 2010 FILM AND DIGITAL WORKSHOPS We have over 45 workshops this season on Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm and HD filmmaking. Winter 2010 special focus: 8mm and 35mm Registration starts Tuesday, January 19th at 10:00 AM at our new facility located at 1137 Dupont Street (at Gladstone Avenue), Toronto ON WINTER WORKSHOPS INCLUDE: Income Tax for Media Artists, Grant Writing for Arts Councils, Documentary Field Production, Black and White Still Photography and Darkroom Processing, Producing Documentary Films, Regular 8mm Film Festival, Camera Theory, The Bolex 16mm Camera, HD Production with the EX1 ... and many more! NEW WORKSHOPS INCLUDE: Make Interactive-Generative-Video-Audio-Installation Art, Music Composition with Bob Wiseman, Film and Video Installation Design, Aesthetics of Shooting ... and many more! Space is limited! View the complete workshop schedule online at -------------------------------------------------------- 6. PLEASURE DOME PRESENTS MIKE HOOLBOOM'S PUBLIC LIGHTING Newly re-cut for this screening! Mike Hoolboom in person! Saturday, January 23, 8pm + Re-launch of Projecting Questions? 7pm CineCycle 129 Spadina Ave, Toronto $8/5 members Mike Hoolboom, winner of the 2009 Bell Award in Video Art, returns with a captivating, richly layered experimental feature exploring the "cult of personality" and the role photographs play in creating memory. Public Lighting (video, 76 min., 2004) is structured in seven parts, ranging from a gay man recounting the locations of various breakups to an homage to composer Philip Glass and a confessional letter from an HIV-positive man to Madonna. Winner for Best Experimental, Santa Cruz Festival, 2004; Best Director, Pyongyang Festival, Korea, 2004; and Best Documentary, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, 2004. At 7pm please join us for the re-launch of Projecting Questions? (Mike Hoolboom's Invisible Man between the art gallery and the movie theatre) an Art Gallery of York University exhibition monograph, handsomely designed by Lisa Kiss. A series of essays and conversations between artists and curators on the complicated path from the white cube to the black box. Featuring contributions by Philip Monk, Chris Kennedy, Yann Beauvais and Mike Hoolboom Mike has produced 16 films and videos which have been screened around the world and honoured with 11 international retrospectives of his work, most recently in Poland and Argentina. He is a founding member of the Pleasure Dome screening collective and has worked as the artistic director of the Images Festival and as the experimental film co-ordinator at Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. Since 2004 he has been working on Fringe Online http://www.fringeonline.ca , a web project which provides access to the Canadian media artists' archives. He has written many non-fiction books including first novel The Steve Machine, published by Coach House Books in 2008. For more information: |
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