To celebrate our fifth year anniversary weve given ourselves the challenge of programming and projecting an evening of double projections!

Vanessa ONeills sublime Suspension uses rephotography, tinting and superimposition to turn a westward view of the Pacific Ocean into a sublime interplay of waves, light and grain. Malcolm Le Grices classic Berlin Horse is an early film that explores the possibilities of the loop, taking a short fragment of a silent film and subjecting it to a series of colour processes amplified by the phased music of Brian Eno. Daichi Saitos Never a Foot Too Far, Even is a contemporary expansion, superimposing a section of a Kung-Fu action film into a perceptual play, accompanied by a violin composition by Malcolm Goldstein. Tonights screening of Visions in Mediation #2: Mesa Verde, Stan Brakhages vision quest to the ruins of the Ancient Peublo cliff dwellings in Southwestern Colorado is amplified by a second print given to Kate MacKay from the filmmaker as a gift. And finally, a third projector will be sparked to present For My Crushed Right Eye, Toshio Matsumotos ode to the social unrest and expansion of the late sixties, all of which threatened to burst out of the frame.

Programme:

Suspension, Vanessa ONeill, 2008, USA, 2 x 16mm, 10 min.

Berlin Horse, Malcolm LeGrice, 1970, UK, 2 x 16mm, 9 min.

Never a Foot Too Far, Even, Daichi Saito, 2012, Canada, 2

x 16mm, 14 min.

Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde, Stan Brakhage, 1989, USA, 16mm 1, 18 min.

For My Crushed Right Eye , Toshio Matsumoto, 1969, Japan, 3 x 16mm, 13 min.

@ Gladstone Hotel, Ballroom

1214 Queen St West

Monday March 17, 2014

8:00 PM screening

$5-10 suggested donation

SPECIAL THANKS: to our hosts for 5 years the Gladstone Hotel!

Thanks also to steadfast supporters Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre CFMDC and the other helpers for this program: Image Forum Tokyo, LUX London, Tomonari Nishikawa, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto LIFT and the artists!

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