CinemaSpace is proud to launch its winter/spring 2012 programming with The Travelling Tour of the 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival, the longest-running experimental film festival in North America.
Here is all the info:
PROGRAM I: Thursday, January 19 at 7:30pm Films and videos by Jessica Sarah Rinland, Braden King, Atsushi Wada, Eva Marie Rødbro, Soon-Mi Yoo, Laure Prouvost, Natasha Mendonca and Richard Wiebe
PROGRAM 2: Sunday, January 22 at 6:00pm 16mm films by Alexis Bravos, Malena Szlam, Laida Lertxundi, Robert Todd, Shiloh Cinquemani, Deborah Stratman, James Sansing, Jonathan Schwartz, Helen Hill and Paul Gailiunas.
Featuring
Home Movie (Best Narrative Film Award) by Braden King, director of the award-winning feature HERE (Berlinale 2011, Sundance 2011)
The Florestine Collection (Jury Award) by the late animator Helen Hill, who was murdered in a home invasion in New Orleans in 2007. Her husband Paul Gailiunas survived the incident and completed the film in 2010.
CinemaSpace unveils a brand-new series on the environment, a long-awaited retrospective of
Phil Solomon’s exquisite work, plus a four-part series on the great master Stan Brakhage, feminist/queer cinema pioneer Barbara Hammer, and much more!
CinemaSpace @ the Segal Centre for Performing Arts
5170, ch. de la Côte-Ste- Catherine
Metro Snowdon or Côte-Ste-Catherine | Bus 129 / 17 / 51
Box Office: 514.739.7944
segalcentre.org
Regular: $10.00
Student (full-time w/ ID) / Senior (65+): $8.00
Package: $15.00 for two programs
SCHEDULE
Thursday, January 19 at 7:30pm
PROGRAM 1 (80 minutes, DV)
Nulepsy
Jessica Sarah Rinland
England | 2010 | 9 min. | 35mm on DV
A chronicle of a pathological need to be nude. An old man tells
the story of growing up with a disease called Nulepsy, which
causes him to spontaneously remove his clothes. –JSR
Home Movie
[Best Narrative Film Award]
Braden King
USA | 2009 | 14 min. | DV
Blurring the traditional boundaries between documentary and
dramatic fiction, HOME MOVIE reveals an intimate and somber
portrait of a woman at home with her two small children as they cope with the unexplained
absence of their father.
The Mechanism of Spring
[Prix DeVarti Funniest Film Award]
Atsushi Wada
Japan | 2010 | 4 min. | DV
An expression of the itchy feelings everyone experiences when
Spring comes. –AW
I Touched Her Legs
[Emerging Experimental Video Artist Award]
Eva Marie Rødbro
Denmark / USA | 2010 | 15 min. | DV
An extraordinary portrait of a group of Southern teens hanging out
in cars, rooms, and neighborhood yards in humid pool-party
weather.
Pink
[Jury Award]
Soon-Mi Yoo
South Korea / USA | 2011 | 6 min. | DV
PINK is a glimpse into a world of Itaewon in Seoul, South Korea.
Itaewon was an R&R area for the US soldiers from the Yongsan
military base. Although it is still patrolled by US military
personnel, foreign workers from Southeast Asia and Africa also frequent the district. In a small
concentrated area called Hooker Hill, women sit inside bars and “screen” potential customers. –
SMY
It, Heat, Hit
Laure Prouvost
England | 2010 | 7 min. | DV
IT, HEAT, HIT constructs and propels an inferred story through a
fast-moving sequence of written commentary and excerpts of
everyday incidents and pictures that have been filmed by the
artist.
Jan Villa
[Best of the Festival Award]
Natasha Mendonca
India / USA | 2010 | 20 min. | 16mm on DV
After the monsoon floods of 2005 that submerged Bombay, the
filmmaker returns to her city to examine the personal impact of
the devastating event. The result is JAN VILLA, a tapestry of
images that studies the space of a post-colonial metropolis.
Aliki
[Most Promising Filmmaker Award]
Richard Wiebe
USA | 2009 | 5 min. | DV
Lake Aliki, Cyprus. For centuries, flamingos have wintered here
from Iran. It is said that Lazarus spent his days on the shores of
this lake after his resurrection—staring into the sun to shake off
the darkness of the grave.
Sunday, January 22 at 6:00pm
PROGRAM 2 (85 minutes, 16mm)
Hepworth
[Eileen Maitland Award]
Alexis Bravos
USA | 2011 | 11 min. | 16mm
A portrait of the landscape in Cornwall where the British sculptor
Barbara Hepworth lived and worked. “Landscape is strong – it has
bones and flesh and skin and hair. It has age and history and a
principle behind its evolution.” –Barbara Hepworth, 1966
Beneath Your Skin of Deep Hollow
Malena Szlam
Chile / Canada | 2010 | 3 min. | 16mm
Originally shot in super-8 and edited in-camera, BENEATH YOUR
SKIN OF DEEP HOLLOW translates nights into arrhythmic
movements of light and a fugue of color. Shimmering impressions
emerge into the surface of agitated stillness while darkness
illuminates reflections and sight. –MS
Cry When it Happens
Laida Lertxundi
USA | 2010 | 14 min. | 16mm
Los Angeles City Hall is reflected onto the window of the Paradise
Motel. It serves as an anchor for this traversal through the natural
expanse of California. Here, we discover a restrained psychodrama
of play, loss, and the transformation of everyday habitats. Music
appears across the interiors and exteriors and speaks of
limitlessness and longing. –LL
Rayning
Robert Todd
USA | 2010 | 6 min. | 16mm
Light rayns-rains-reigns across a dream of tranquility that
thickens, darkens and evaporates. –RT
Berlin Tracks 18h00-20h00
Shiloh Cinquemani
Germany / USA | 2011 | 3 min. | 16mm
Berlin Tracks 18h00-20h00 is a mesmerizing and rhythmic view
of the railway tracks stretching out from under the
Modersohnbrücke (Modersohn Bridge) towards Warshauer Str. S-
Bahn Station in Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany.
Ray’s Birds
[Jury Award]
Deborah Stratman
USA | 2010 | 7 min. | 16mm
Ray Lowden keeps seventy-two large birds of prey, five deer and
some wallabies at his place in Northumberland, England. He’s
had ten days off in twelve years and loves what he does. The
film is a little homage to his variously coy, imperious, curious,
stubborn and comic raptor menagerie. –DS
Forsaken
James Sansing
USA | 2010 | 7 min. | 16mm
Forsaken explores an abandoned juvenile detention center. The
neglect of the building is a metaphor for the children who had
once lived there. –JS
New Year Sun
[Jury Award]
Jonathan Schwartz
USA | 2010 | 3 min. | 16mm
For listening to the sound of ice thinning with its brightness that
comes. –JS
The Florestine Collection
[Jury Award]
Helen Hill & Paul Gailiunas
USA | 2010 | 31 min. | 16mm
Experimental animator Helen Hill found more than 100
handmade dresses in a trash pile on one Mardi Gras Day in New
Orleans. She set out to make a film about the dressmaker, an
African-American seamstress who had recently passed away. The
dresses and much of the film footage were later flood-damaged
by Hurricane Katrina while Helen was still working on the film. Helen was murdered in a home
invasion in New Orleans in 2007. Her husband Paul Gailiunas has completed the film, which
includes Helen’s original silhouette, cut-out, and puppet animation, as well as flood-damaged and
restored home movies.
Box Office: 514.739.7944
segalcentre.org
Regular: $10.00
Student (full-time w/ ID) / Senior (65+): $8.00
Package: $15.00 for two programs