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EVENTS 2005

7th Festival des Cinémas Différent de Paris (Dec.9-18) (here) presents

Krash 40 (French) (English)
dedicated to Super 8 Kodachrome 40.
60 super 8 films, 30 videos, plus 16mm & 35mm films,
super 8 installations, performances.

Sunday, December 18, 2-9pm, free

Cinéma La Clef, 21 rue de La Clef, 75005 Paris, France

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Monthly Open Screenings (since 1970s)
16mm, super 8, video, max 20 min./person,
first-come-first-served, finished works only,
or come as a viewer

Friday, December 16, 8-10:30pm, $donation

Millenium Film Workshop, 66 East 4th St., New York City, USA

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The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre's

Annual General Meeting

Thursday, December 15, 6pm

CFMDC, suite 220, 37 Hanna Ave., Toronto

The Atlantic Filmmakers Co-op (AFCOOP) presents its

5th Super Duper Super 8 Holiday Party
9 new super 8 films shot & edited-in-camera this month,
now shown first time, even to the filmmakers, on super 8!

Thursday, December 15, 9pm

Seahorse Tavern, 1665 Argyle Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia

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Original Plastic - Greatest Hits
new commissioned films by West Grey County artists
Myke Dyer, Ilse Gassinger, Philip Hoffman, Iriz Paabo

interpreting music by Gigi Minor (click on "films")

December 15 - POSTPONED!

Cinema 379, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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The Home Movie Project presents

Bring Your Own Home Movies Screening
or come as a viewer - super 8, 8mm, 16mm

Wednesday, December 14, 7pm, free attendance 6

Room 23, 519 Community Centre, 519 Church St., Toronto

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I Want To Go To Africa And Other Tales Of High Adventure (Dec.13-23)
and The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto present

Film Night (directors in attendance)
35mm film by John Price, videos by Andrea Dorfman,
Richard Fung, Charles Officer, Marney Isaac & Julius Hagan

Wednesday, December 14, 8pm, $5-$7

XPACE, 303 Augusta Ave., Toronto

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The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre presents its

photo/cine Film Print Maintenance Fund Fundraiser
sale of framed film-frame blow-ups selected by Michael Ondaatje

Monday, December 12, 6pm, $20 (for food & 2 drinks)

Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto

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Dancing Light Pictures presents

Toronto Homegrown Short Film Showcase
6 videos by Toronto artists. No film.
Munaf Husain, Tara Samuel, Daniel Kash,
Paul Stark, Ian Kennedy, David Evans.

Monday, December 12, 7 pm, free

Regent Theatre, 555 Mt. Pleasant Rd., Toronto

416-427-5050

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John Porter, Paularoid & CineCycle present

Monthly Open Screening #23
8mm by Dieter Engel (from his son Hans),
VHS by Kevin Creson (from his brother John), super 8 by John Porter,
DVDs by Tracy Jenkins, Paularoid, 35mm & 16mm from Martin Heath,
and 35mm cameraless animations by Kelly Egan, Madi Piller,
Sami Van Ingen, Lili Schneider, Paul Aquilina, Kathleen Mullen,
John Creson, Adam Rosen, Michele Stanley, Richard Reeves.

December 11, 7pm, $pwyw attendance 14

CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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New York Film-Makers' Co-op Holiday Benefit Screening & Party
Videos & 16mm films recently added to the Co-op's collection,
by Robert Breer, Tom Chomont, Peter Cramer, Martha Colburn,
Bradley Eros, Paul Gabel, Henry Hills, Taka Iimura, Carl Michael-George.
Acoustics by Bradley Eros. Food & wine.

Saturday, December 10, 8pm, $10

Millennium Film Workshop, 66 East 4th St., New York City, USA

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The Independent Filmmakers Co-op of Ottawa presents

IFCO's Holiday Party & Dogme Film Challenge
16mm films shot by members last month, in 24 hours, for $95,
edited in-camera, now shown first time, even to the filmmakers:
Deniz Berkin, Paul Crivellari, Dimitri Bouterakos, Hannah Mills,
Karen Wyatt, Lana Whiskeyjack, Roger Wilson, Ben Hoskyn,
Chris Landry, Luis Pena, Jeff Parenteau, Carmelo Zucco.

Friday, December 9, 7:30pm, free

Royal Oak Pub, 161 Laurier Ave. E., Ottawa, Canada

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Pleasure Dome presents

Reverence - The Films of Owen Land (USA)
A retrospective of 14 16mm films (1963-1979)

Friday, December 9, 8pm, $5 attendance 40

CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF) presents

The Atlantic Filmmakers Co-op 30th Anniversary Screening
Canada's longest-running film co-op, based in Halifax (here).
A documentary on its history by Chuck Lapp and Walter Forsythe,
plus new videos by members Andrea Dorfman, Thom Fitzgerald,
Sylvia Hamilton, Helen Hill, Lulu Keating, William MacGillivray,
James MacSwain, Shandi Mitchell, Doug Pope, Glenn Walton.

Producer Sonya Jampolsky will be in attendance

Friday, December 9, 7pm, $5

CSIF's Sofa Cinema, J2, 2711 Battleford Ave. SW (Currie Barracks)
Calgary, Alberta

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The Independent Filmmakers Co-op of Ottawa (IFCO) presents

The Atlantic Filmmakers Co-op 30th Anniversary Screening
as above (December 9, Calgary, Alberta)

Tuesday, December 6, 7pm, pwyc/$5

Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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CineCity: The Brighton Film Festival presents

Jeff Keen: Artwar – The Last Frontier
A rare expanded cinema performance
with videos and a triple-projection 8mm film

Saturday, December 3, 2:30pm, £3.50/£3

Phoenix Gallery, 10–14 Waterloo Place, Brighton, UK

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19th International Festival of Francophone Cinema in Acadia (Sept.16-23),
Galerie Sans Nom, and Faucet Media Arts Centre present

9th Acadie Underground
Super 8 films by Brenda Comeau, Linda Rae Dornan,
Bernard Cormier, Julie Haché, Christian Roy, Jesse Deveau,
Ricky Gaudet, Ingrid Deon, Mario Doucette, David Gregory,
Tracy Lavoie, Julie Robichaud, Julien Cadieux, Tracy Lavoie,
Laurence Chamberlain-Bérubé, Christian Roy, Nisk Imbeault.

Each 3 minute film was shot in 2 days, edited in-camera, and
shown on super 8, most of them at FICFA in Moncton, N.B.

Saturday, December 3, 8pm, admission by donation

Faucet at Struts Gallery, 7 Lorne St., Sackville, New Brunswick

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The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto
and Pleasure Dome present

Sweet 16: Coming of Age
Pleasure Dome's 16th Anniversary Commissioned Works
16mm films by Ken J. Lillico & Julie Saragosa, videos by Shelly Bahl,
Cake Collective, Istvan Kantor, Leslie Peters, Liss Platt, John Xie.

Saturday, December 3, 8pm, $5 attendance 130

Latvian House, 491 College St. (w. of Bathurst St.), Toronto

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The Toronto Animated Image Society and
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto present

Richard Reeves' Cameraless Animation Carte Blanche
in person w/ a retrospective of his & others' short cameraless animation
35mm films & videos from Calgary's Quickdraw Animation Society:
David Ratzlaff, Rena del Pieve Gobbi, Scott Clark,
Tanja Huber, Chris Melnychuck, Don Best

Friday, December 2, 7pm, $7 attendance 20

CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

AND

Richard Reeves' Cameraless Animation Workshop

Saturday, December 3, 10am-6pm, at L.I.F.T., $75

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The Independents presents

James Benning's "13 Lakes"
(16mm, USA, 2004, 135 minutes)

Tuesday, November 29, 6:30pm, free attendance 50
(preceded Nov.22 by a video of the making of "13 Lakes")

Cinematheque Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto

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Toronto International Camera Show
used photographic equipment sale, 100 tables

Sunday, November 27, 10am-3pm, $7

Thornhill Community Centre, 7755 Bayview Ave., Toronto

phsc.ca for map, discount coupon, details

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Reel Asian Film Festival (Nov 23-27), Images Festival, LIFT present

No Chemistry Sets Allowed
Recent experimental shorts, no super 8, directors in attendance.
2 16mm films by Daichi Saito, plus videos by Yuri A, Songyi Kim,
Takahiro Hirata, Isamu Hirabayashi, Keith Lock, Chi-Wing Hung
Heesoo Kim, Larissa Fan, Luo Li, Qing Huang, Khanhthuan Tran.

Sunday, November 27, 2:15pm, $9 attendance 60

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

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Flicker Halifax's First Screening (here)
15 works from Halifax & USA on video, super 8 &16mm

Sunday, November 27, 7pm, free attendance 30

One World Cafe, 2412 Agricola St., Halifax, Nova Scotia

Punk Movie Night
Miss 501 (A Portrait Of Luck) by Clint Karatechamp & Jules Montgomery,
plus video shorts by Jamie Ross

Sunday, November 27, 8pm, free (unclassified)

Adrift Skateshop, 299 Augusta Ave., Toronto

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16mm Films by Kerry Laitala
Torchlight Tango, Retrospectroscope, Test, Transfixed,
The Adventure Parade and a new untitled work-in-progress.

Saturday, November 26, 8:30pm

319 W. Hastings (above Spartacus Books), Vancouver, Canada

"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (here)
(Robert Wiene, Germany, 1920)
with Nash The Slash performing his original music score

Saturday, November 26, 9:30pm, $8 (unclassified)

The Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W., Toronto

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Yukon Film Night
2 recent documentary videos, 1 old, from Dawson City, Yukon Territory
The Elvis Project (45 min), Robert's Float (48 min), City of Gold (22 min)

Friday, November 25, 8pm, $ by donation

Struts Gallery, 7 Lorne St., Sackville, New Brunswick

The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto
and Pleasure Dome present

Sami van Ingen from Finland, in person
Recent 16mm & 35mm films & film performance.
Resident Artist at L.I.F.T., Sept-Dec 2005

Friday, November 25, 8pm, $5 attendance 50

CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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2nd Late Night Film Emporium
16mm, super 8 & video shorts
by Amanda Christie, Ben Donaghue, Kati Katchever, Yun Lam Li,
Julie Saragosa, Chris Brabant, Jason Halprin, plus late additions.
Most filmmakers in attendance.

Friday, November 25th, 10pm, $pwyc

Cineworks Studio, 1131 Howe St., Vancouver, British Columbia

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3rd annual One Minute Film & Video Festival here
64 new videos, no films. Theme: "Intersections"

Thursday, November 24, 7pm, $10 (unclassified)

The Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W., Toronto

Hart House Film Board Members' Videos
Giulio Michelino, Rick Palidwor, Natasha Pike, Yale Massey,
Michelle Gurevich, Andrei Tanasescu, Michelle Power

Thursday, November 24, 7pm, free attendance 15

Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto

Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta (FAVA) presents

Favourite 16mm Flicks (on video)
1st retrospective of Basic 16mm Filmmaking Course (since 1993)

Thursday, November 24, 7pm, free

Metro Cinema, 9828-101A Ave., Edmonton, Alberta

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"Super 8 & 16mm Films" by Derek Jarman (1942-1994)
15 videos, 1 16mm film, no super 8. (UK, 1971-1984)

2 different programs, (adults only, by law)
Wednesday, November 23, 9pm, $10 attendance 40
Friday, November 25, 6:30pm, $10

Cinematheque Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto

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Toronto Reel Asian Int'l Film Festival Nov 23-27, no super 8

SHTILLER the Series (4th Tuesday of every month) presents
silent Yiddish movies with live experimental klezmer by Reena Katz

Ost und West here
(Ivan Abramson, Austria, 1923, 61 min.)
preceded by Sightings (Tightly Way Productions).
Videos on a 54" monitor

Tuesday, November 22, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)

The Gladstone Hotel Art Bar, 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto

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The Independents presents

"James Benning - Circling the Image"
(Video, Reinhard Wulf, Germany, 2003, 84 minutes)

Tuesday, November 22, 6:30pm, free attendance: 20
The making of James Benning's "13 Lakes" (showing Nov.29)

Cinematheque Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto

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The Independent Filmmakers Co-operative of Ottawa presents

First Meeting of Ottawa Super 8 Club (here)
Kodak’s new Ektachrome 64T screened, 1 roll raffled off

Monday, November 21, 6:30pm

IFCO Lounge, 2 Daly Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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CineVic's 1st One Shot Wonders
A one-take short video competition, with prizes.
Shot in past month, max 6 minutes, no editing.
By Rob Sorensen, Michael Korican, David Mohr,
Garfield L. Miller, Jessica Lott, Derek van der Kamp.

Sunday, November 20, 7pm, $2

Soprano's, 1961 Douglas Street, Victoria, British Columbia

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Artist-Run Centres & Collectives of Ontario (ARCCO) presents its

Annual General Meeting and Members Forum (private)

November 18-20

at Ontario College of Art & Design and Toronto Arts Council, Toronto

Animation by Fleischer Studios (1929-'36)
Early musical cartoons on 16mm & 35mm.
Saturday movie matinee for all ages.

Saturday, November 19, 2pm, $10 attendance: 100

Cinematheque Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto

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Toronto 24 Hour Film Challenge here
24, 6.5 minute videos, made by crews
in 24 hours on Nov.12. Running time 3.5 hours

Friday, November 18, 7pm, $10

The Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W., Toronto

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the University of Toronto Visual Studies Program
and Pleasure Dome present

Tadasu Takamine from Japan, in person (here)
Video Screening and Artist Talk
by resident artist at SAW Video, Ottawa

Friday, November 18, 8pm, $5 attendance: 55

CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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Videos by Sadie Benning (USA)
German Song (1995), The Judy Spots (1995),
Flat is Beautiful (1998) total: 70 minutes

Thursday, November 17, 9:15pm, $8

Metro Cinema, 9828-101A Ave., Edmonton, Alberta

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Kino Screening
short videos from Kino cells in Hamburg, Germany and Toronto

Wednesday, November 16, 7pm, $5

Goethe-Institut, 163 King St. W., Toronto

The Independents presents Time Travel

6 shorts on 16mm, 35mm & video (1953-2005)
by Bill Morrison, Rudy Burckhardt, Marie Menken,
Ellie Epp, Vincent Grenier, Philip Hoffman.

Tuesday, November 15, 6:30pm, free attendance: 45

Cinematheque Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto

^^^

John Porter, Paularoid & CineCycle present

Monthly Open Screenings
(#22 - since February 2004)

Bring your films or videos, or just come to watch
35mm, 16mm, 9.5mm, 8mm, Super 8, VHS, DVD, MiniDV

Second Sunday at Seven
November 13, Dec 11, Jan 8, 7pm, $pwyw attendance: 11

CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival Nov 10-19 presents

Recent Canadian Experimental Shorts Programme by:
Henry ‘Banger’ Benvenuti, Anne Davidson, Robin Ashly Jones, Lavarius,
Elysa Martinez Crowther, Peter Smith, Louise Wiatrowski, Laurel Swenson,
RM Vaughan, Gunilla Josephson, Jason Britski, Daniel Cockburn, Alexi Manis,
Michael Stecky, Christina Zeidler, Steve Reinke, Amy Lockhart, Leif Harmsen.
followed by a panel discussion

Sunday, November 13, 1:30pm, $8/pwyc attendance: 85

Joseph Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen St. W., Toronto

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Shary Boyle & Daniel Barrow
performing with overhead projectors

Saturday, November 12, 7pm

Khyber Centre for the Arts, 1588 Barrington St., Halifax, Nova Scotia

Alphabet City Festival 2005: Suspect, presents

Keynote address by Mark Kingwell, with Patricia Rozema
and a screening of Rozema’s new short film “Suspect”

Friday, November 11, 8pm, $10

The Drake Hotel Underground, 1150 Queen St. W., Toronto

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Pleasure Dome & Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art present

Vito Acconci (here) from Brooklyn, NY, in person - 9pm
with a video of his early super 8 films (1969-1973)

preceded by "Interiors, Buildings, Parks" - 7pm
(Julia Loktev, 2004, video loop, 60 minutes)
document of the Acconci Studio, since 1988

Thursday, November 10, $5

MOCCA, 952 Queen St. W., Toronto

^^^

3rd annual Montreal Super 8 Film Festival
Dreaming in Kodachrome
24 new films shot & shown on Kodachrome (no video)
by Kyle Beal, Jean-Francois Caissey, Nancy Belzile, Jimmy Cayer,
Alexandra Grimanis, Zoe Brown & Shawnda Wilson, Karina Mariano,
Dale Einarson, Hosay, Claudie Lévesque, Jasmine Scarf, Elise Simard,
Eduardo Menz, Jean-Marc Abela, Adam Thompson & Mary Williamson,
Louisa Sage, Nancy Baric, Nicolas Renaud, Liana Schmidt & Erin Fraser,
Robert Riendeau, Alex Rogalski, Heather Harkins, Aimée VanDrimmelon.

Special Guest - John Porter

Thursday, November 10, 8pm, pwyc/$5 attendance: 160

La Sala Rossa, 4848 St-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec

see CINEZINE

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Regent Park Film Festival Nov 9-13, no super 8

The Independents presents

16mm Film Poems (Scotland, 1951-1998)
by Margaret Tait (1918-1999)

2 different programs - 75/85 minutes
Tuesday, November 8, 6:30pm, free attendance: 40
Wednesday, November 9, 6:30pm, free

Cinematheque Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto

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Toronto Alternative Art Fair International TAAFI, (Nov 3-7) presents

Splice This! Super 8 Film Festival - DVD Selections
Saturday, November 5, 12-8pm, $6

Lisa Pereira, Emerging Video Artist Retrospective
Sunday, November 6, 12-8pm, $6

Julian Calleros, Emerging Video Artist Retrospective
Monday, November 7, 12-5pm, $6

The Drake Hotel Yoga Den, 1150 Queen St. W., Toronto

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Non-Alignment Pact Selectors present

Kino 05 Anniversary Party
short videos by Kino Video Collective members

Saturday, November 5, 11pm, $5

The Queenshead, 659 Queen St. W., Toronto

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Toronto Japanese Short Film Festival Nov 4-6, no super 8

Fantasy Worldwide Int'l Film Festival Nov 4-6, no super 8

The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto presents

"Why Always Instead Of Just Sometimes"
new videos & 16mm film by Deirdre Logue

part of L.I.F.T.'s "New Directions in Cinema" series

Friday, November 4, 8pm, $7 attendance: 110

Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto

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Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film & Video
November 3 - 6, no super 8

CKLN-FM, CHRY-FM and Satan Macnuggit Popular Arts present

RECAP: Video images of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
(OCAP) DVD Release Party
videos by Roberto Ariganello, Jonathan Culp, Dan Roy, Kika Thorne,
and the Toronto Video Activist Collective

Thursday, November 3, 9pm, $5

The Cameron House, 408 Queen St. W., Toronto

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Norwood Cheek's Flicker LA and the American Cinematheque present

5th annual ATTACK of the 50 Foot Reels (here)
25 commissioned videos shot on super 8

by MD Mercury, Joe Nankin, Kent Hayward, Emma Craig, John Verive,
Russell Mills, Meredith Jenks, Zzalgern0n, Kimberly Grisco, Kathe Burns,<
Matthew Stevens, Gabriella Karolys, Josh Greenbaum, Michael Nankin,
William Hall, Brian Netto, Gavin Wynn, Tommy Bernard, Kenn Scott,
Randy Caspersen, Jared Anderson, Randy Kirk, Erik Deutschman,
Annie Fair, Josh Barash, Paul Gyuro, Martin Blasick, Daniel Hope.

Thursday, November 3, 7:30pm, $9

Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California

see CINEZINE

^^^

Cinematheque Ontario and Goethe-Institut Toronto present

Christoph Giradet from Germany, in person
with 8 shorts (1994-2003) by he and Matthias Müller
16mm, 35mm & video. No super 8

Tuesday, November 1, 6:30pm, free attendance: 65

Cinematheque Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto

^^^

"The Legend of Buck Kelly" by Peggy Anne Berton (PB)
premiere of a ghost story video shot on super 8 (70 min.)

plus live music & videos by Marc St Aubin

Monday, October 31, 8pm, $5 attendance: 70

The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto

^^^

35mm slides & super 8 film mix projections
by Rob Cruickshank
accompanying live music by Methuzela

Monday, October 31, 6:30pm, free

The Rex Hotel 194 Queen St. W., Toronto

AND

accompanying live music by Mike Hansen & Pau Torres

Sunday, October 30, 9pm, $pwyc

Oasis Restaurant Back Room, 294 College St., Toronto

^^^

HYSTERIA: a Festival of Women (Oct 27-Nov 5) presents

Stripped: Women Coming Undone
including videos by Cordelia Beresford, Annie MacDonell,
Hilda Hidalgo, Jenn Goodwin, Nerea Martinez de Lecea

Sunday, October 30, 7:30pm, $15

AND

Standard Deviation
including videos by Renata Mohamed and Spy Welch

Wednesday, November 2, 7pm, $15

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St., Toronto

^^^

broken pencil magazine presents its annual 'zine fair Hotel Canzine

including All Day Screenings of local videos - bring your own!

Sunday, October 30, 1-7pm, free

Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto

L.I.F.T. and the League of Canadian Poets present

Poetry Projections curated by RM Vaughan
11 videos, 2 16mm films, 1 super 8 film, with poems
commissioned from poets + filmmakers:
Patricia Wilson + Shannon Cochrane (s8) | Nathalie Stephens + Lise Beaudry
Daniel David Moses + Adam Garnet Jones (16mm) | Bill Bissett + Pete Dako
Kevin Connolly + Darya Farha (16mm) | Paul Vermeersch + Allyson Mitchell
Christian Bök + Jubal Brown | Soraya Mariam Peerbaye + Nurjahan Akhlaq
Darren Wershler-Henry + Mishann Lau | Janette Platana + Michael Caines
Seth Adrian Harris + Darryl Callender | Michael Holmes + Scott McEwan
Rachel Zolf + Sarah Parker | Pier Giorgio Di Cicco + Luo Li

Friday, October 28th, 7pm, $7 attendance: 120

The Drake Hotel Underground, 1150 Queen St. W., Toronto

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Centre for the Arts presents its monthly (last Fridays)

Independent Screening of emerging filmmakers
videos by Chris Roberts, Josh Rachlis, Stevie Baker,
Jamie M. Dagg, Adam MacDonald

Friday, October 28, 8 pm, $5, 263 Adelaide St. W., Toronto

^^^

resfest Digital Film Festival, October 27-30, no film

The Box Salon presents

readings, video, and music
by Jason Camlot, Linda Griffiths, Karen Hines, David Hyde,
Dave McGimpsey, Michael Turner, & Run with the Kittens

and a new 16mm film by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
fugitive l(i)ght (2005, 9 minutes) here

Wednesday, October 26, 8pm, pwyc/$5 attendance: 100

The Rivoli, 332 Queen St. W., Toronto

Host: Louise Bak 416-351-0416

^^^

York University's Department of Film presents

4th annual CineSIEGE
juried screening of recent student videos
by Tess Girard, Marc Betsworth, Chelsea McMullan,
Luo Li, Will Beauchamp, Raha Esfahani, Lara Mrkoci

Tuesday, October 25, 7pm, $5 attendance: 600

The Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W., Toronto

^^^

SHTILLER the Series (4th Tuesday of every month) presents
silent Yiddish movies with live experimental klezmer by Reena Katz

A Fool There Was here
(Frank Powell, USA, 1914, 67 min.) video on a 54" monitor
preceded by a video by Benny Nemerofsky-Ramsay & Laurie Young

Tuesday, October 25, 7:30pm, $8 attendance: 20

Gladstone Hotel Art Bar, 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto

^^^

Young Cuts Film Festival October 24-30, no film

35mm slides & super 8 film mix projections
by Rob Cruickshank
accompanying live music by Methuzelah

Monday, October 24, 6:30pm, free

The Rex Hotel 194 Queen St. W., Toronto

^^^

The National Film Board of Canada, the Monkey King Collective,
and the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter present

The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam
(Ann Marie Fleming, Canada, video, 2003, 88 min)
and a discussion of the roots and identities of Chinese Canadians

Sunday, October 23, 1pm, $5

NFB Cinema, 150 John St., Toronto | Long Tack Sam

^^^

Student Shorts Film Festival Oct 21-22, no super 8

Diaspora Film Festival October 20-30, no super 8

The WorldWide Short Film Festival presents

A World of Shorts: Fear Factor - Halloween Style
9 international narrative videos for an adult audience
96 minutes, no super 8

Thursday, October 20, 6:30 & 8:30pm, $6

NFB Cinema, 150 John St., Toronto

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imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival Oct 19-23
114 videos, 9 35mm films, no super 8 or 16mm

The Independents presents

The Cinematic Window
7 recent shorts on 16mm, 35mm & video, no super 8
by Kelly Egan, Chris Kennedy, Stan Brakhage (1972),
Luo Li, James Gillespie, Hannes Schupbach,
and a "film quilt" scupture by Kelly Egan on display.

Tuesday, October 18, 6:30pm, free, attendance 60

Cinematheque Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto

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35mm slides & super 8 film mix projections
by Rob Cruickshank
accompanying live music by Methuzelah

Monday, October 17, 6:30pm, free The Rex Hotel, Toronto

Toronto Int'l Latin Film Festival Oct 14-21, no super 8

Toronto Tibet Film Festival October 14-15, no super 8

Digital Narrative Arts Film Festival October 14-15, no film

^^^

The SOUNDplay Festival and Pleasure Dome present

tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE from Pittsburgh
in person with his new video "Story of Fructiferous Society"

and FAMEFAME's "Micro Omnibus"

Friday, October 14, 8pm, $15, attendance 50

AND

La Cellule d'Intervention METAMKINE (MTK), from France
film performance using seven 16mm projectors & retro audio!
plus media works by Iben Bentzen, Lyla Rye, Katarina Löfström

Saturday, October 15, 8 pm, $15, attendance 60

Latvian House, 491 College St., Toronto

^^^

22 recent videos, installation, performance
from the Ontario College of Art & Design
135 minutes plus 2 intermissions, attendance 100

Thursday, October 13, 7pm, free

XPACE, 303 Augusta Ave., Toronto

^^^

35mm slides & super 8 film mix projections
by Rob Cruickshank
accompanying live music by Methuzelah

Monday, October 10, 6:30pm, free The Rex Hotel, Toronto

John Porter, Paularoid & CineCycle present

Monthly Open Screenings
(#21 - since February 2004)
35mm, 16mm, 8mm, Super 8, VHS, DVD, MiniDV.
NEW! - 9.5mm

Sunday, October 9, 7pm, $pwyw

CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

^^^

The Images Festival, Pleasure Dome, YYZ Artists' Outlet
and The Toronto Animated Image Society present

Jim Trainor from Chicago, in person
with his recent, animated, 16mm films (1997-2004)

Friday, October 7, 8pm, $5, attendance: 80

Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

preceded by a related book launch - 6:30pm, YYZ Artists Outlet.

AND

"Currents in Animation: Music, Metamorphosis, Infernal Visions"
animated 16mm, 35mm & video shorts (1908-2005)
by Emile Cohl, Dave Fleischer, Len Lye, Caroline Leaf, Brothers Quay,
Wrik Mead, Janie Geiser, Jude Norris, Tsuji Naoyuki, Richard Reeves,
Stephen Andrews, Pierre Hebert.

Saturday, October 8, 8pm, $5

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

^^^

The original ONE TAKE SUPER 8 EVENT
First time in Montreal
30 new films from Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan
by Justine Litynski, Zach Finkelstein, Dave Johnson, Eric Gaucher,
Julie Cote/Khoa Le, Dianne Ouellette, Shawn Bauche, Daichi Saito,
Kim Simard, Astria Suparak/Brett Kashmere, Michael Rollo,
Farzin Farzaneh, Tyler Banadyga, Shawn Fulton, Aaron Ulledal,
Anne-Michele Fortin, Tom Fennario, Lindsay McIntyre,
Katherine Skelton, Isabella Geddes, Aimee Beauchamp, Terryll Loffler,
Solomon Nagler, Alex Rogalski, Eric Hanson, Amber Goodwyn, rdp.

Wednesday, October 5, 8pm, attendance: 150

Main Hall, 5390 St-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec

see CINEZINE

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CineCycle & Tom Taylor present

"Yellow Submarine"
(George Dunning, UK, 1968, 16mm, 85 min.)

"The Son of Tutti Frutti"
by Martin Heath & Deanne Taylor
(Canada, 1972, 16mm, 100 minutes)

Sunday, October 2, 7pm, free, attendance: 60

outdoors at the TTC's Wychwood Barns,
south of St.Clair Ave.W., east of Christie St., Toronto

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CineCycle presents

"The Son of Tutti Frutti"
by Martin Heath & Deanne Taylor
(1972, 16mm, sound, 100 minutes)

part of Toronto Arts Week at 401 Richmond St.W.

Saturday, October 1, 8pm, free, attendance: 40

outdoors in the courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto

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COMMFFEST Community Film Festival Sept 29-Oct 2, no film

Planet in Focus Environmental Film & Video Festival
Sept 28-Oct 2, no super 8

Trinity Square Video presents

Liberte Themed Commission Screening
new videos by Julian Calleros, Nas Khan,
Samuel Kiehoon Lee, Jane Kim, Chris McCarroll

part of Toronto Arts Week at 401 Richmond St.W.

Thursday, Sept. 29, 8pm, $6, attendance: 100

CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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1st Peterborough ArtsWeek (Sept.24-Oct.2) and
the Sound + Vision Collective.present

Sidewalk Movies
silent films and videos by local artists projected onto front window,
with local buskers "scoring" the films outside on the sidewalk.

September 24 - October 2

Cinema 379, 379 George St. N., Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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U of T Film & Video Festival 2006 Pre-Launch Party - 7pm
6 super 8 loops by Andrei Tenansescu, Karen May, Jacob Stein,
Brian Cram, Laura Montgomery, James Kang, Rick Palidwor, Chris Jodoin.

outdoors in the Hart House Quadrangle

Hart House Film Board Introductory Screening - 8pm
14 videos from the Hart House Film Board
and past U of T Film & Video Festivals

Thursday, Sept. 22, free attendance: 90

Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto

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The 25th Atlantic Film Festival (Sept.16-23) presents

Attack of the 50-Foot Reels with Norwood Cheek of Flicker
an annual event in Los Angeles since 2000

preceded by Norwood's Super 8 Filmmaking Workshop Sept.16, then
9 Atlantic artists each shot a super 8 film Sept.17-18, edited-in-camera,
then w/ their soundtracks, saw the video transfers 1st time at premiere

Thursday, September 22, 7:10 PM
Park Lane 4, Halifax, Nova Scotia

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19th International Festival of Francophone Cinema in Acadia (Sept.16-23)
(FICFA), and Galerie Sans Nom present

9th Acadie Underground
Super 8 films by Laurence Chamberlain-Bérubé, Brenda Comeau,
Bernard Cormier, Jean-Marc Goguen, Julie Haché, Christian Roy,
Jesse Deveau, Ricky Gaudet, Philippe Tremblay, Serge Tremblay,
Ingrid Deon, Jean-Charles Finnigan, Mario Doucette, Denis Goguen,
David Gregory, Gonzague Babineau, Tracy Lavoie, Julie Robichaud.

No video. Each 3 minute film produced in 48 hours, edited in-camera, and
shown with "wild" or live sound. Prizes for 3 best films voted by audience.

Saturday, September 17, 9pm

Aberdeen Cultural Centre, Moncton, New Brunswick | see CINEZINE

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the 3rd annual Queen West Art Crawl presents

2 super 8 films by Christina Zeidler (in person)
"House Call" (2005), "Queen Street by Numbers" (2004)
with live musical accompaniment

Friday, September 16, 9:30pm

Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto

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John Porter, Paularoid & CineCycle present

Monthly Open Screenings
(#20 - since February 2004)
35mm, 16mm, 8mm, Super 8, VHS, DVD, MiniDV.
NEW! - 9.5mm

September 11, 7pm, $pwyw

CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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The 13th annual Junction Arts Festival and L.I.F.T. present

16mm Films in the Park
Children's Program, 7:30-8:30pm

Canadian Experimental Films, 9-10pm
by Arthur Lipsett, Barbara Sternberg, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof,
Christina Battle, John Price, Sebastjan Henrickson, Mike Hoolboom.

Friday, September 9, free

Vine Ave. Park, north of Dundas St. W., west of Keele St., Toronto

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Toronto International Film Festival Sept 8-17, no super 8

The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto L.I.F.T. presents

12th annual "Salon des Refuses"
11 "films" from the Prairies & Toronto, no super 8

Tuesday, September 6, 8pm, $7

MOCCA, 952 Queen St. W., Toronto

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"wandering thru yesterday & distant tomorrows"
a film micro-lab exchange
9 hand-made 16mm films from film micro-labs
in Paris, San Francisco and Toronto (Niagara Custom Lab)

Saturday, August 27, 8pm, $4

Niagara Custom Lab, Unit K, 442 Dufferin St., Toronto

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4th annual Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film

Durham, & other towns in West Grey County, Ontario

August 25 - September 4, 2005

The Images Festival presents

"Best of the Fest 2005"
2005 Images Festival award winners (2 videos, 1 35mm film)
(super 8 films shown at the festival were not eligible for awards)

Friday, August 19, 8pm, $10

Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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annual Alley Jaunt Outdoor Video Screening
videos by Deirdre Logue, Melissa Levin, Pamela Gawn,
Allyson Mitchell, Lise Beaudry, Angela Joosse, Jamie Phelan,
Michael Toke, Kathleen Mullen, Sara Angelucci, Michael Stecky,
Thomas Mannell, Katharine Mulherin, Eugenio Salas & Roy Mitchell.

Sunday, August 14, 9pm, free

NE corner of Trinity Bellwoods Park,
in backyard of 977 Dundas St. W., Toronto

John Porter, Paularoid & CineCycle present

Monthly Open Screenings
(#19 - since February 2004)
35mm, 16mm, 8mm, Super 8, VHS, DVD, MiniDV.
NEW! - 9.5mm

August 14, 7pm, $pwyw

CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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Pleasure Dome presents its

annual Open Screening Under the Stars
16mm, 8mm, Super 8, VHS, DVD, MiniDV

Saturday, August 13, 9pm, free attendance 75

401 Richmond St. W. Courtyard, Toronto

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The National Film Board of Canada, The Film Reference Library,
& The Home Movies Project present

3rd annual International Home Movie Day
Screenings, Clinics, Panels

Saturday, August 13, 11am-5pm, free

NFB Cinema, 150 John St., Toronto

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The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto's (L.I.F.T.)

annual Ward's Island Picnic & Screening
16mm films by Shenaz Baksh, Alexi Manis, Scott Berry, James Gillespie
super 8 films by Juliana Saragosa, Martin Heath
8mm found film from Roberto Ariganello

Saturday, July 23, 4-10pm, $pwyc attendance: 60

Ward's Island Club House, Toronto

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Pleasure Dome presents

"Strain Andromeda The" - Anne McGuire's Video-in-Reverse

Friday, July 22, 9pm, $5 attendance: 35

outdoors in the 401 Richmond St. W. Courtyard, Toronto

John Porter, Paularoid & CineCycle present

Monthly Open Screenings
(#18 - since February 2004)
35mm, 16mm, 8mm, Super 8, VHS, DVD, MiniDV.
NEW! - 9.5mm

July 10, 7pm, $pwyw

CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (L.I.F.T.) presents

Videos and Films (1998-2005) by Robert Kennedy (in person)
7 videos (6 shot on super 8), 3 super 8 films, 2 16mm films
running time: 75 minutes plus intermission, attendance: 100

Saturday, July 9, 8pm, $7

Latvian House, 491 College St., Toronto

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Pleasure Dome presents

Six sound videos (1987-2004) by George Kuchar
running time: 109 minutes plus intermission, attendance: 60

Friday, July 8, 8pm, $5 CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

A video by Nadia Sistonen (in person)
"Anti-Sleekness was Always my Weakness"
(from a super 8 film, 1991, 7 minutes, sound)

art by Jaison Gibson, music by Kelly & the Kelly Girls, & Parkdale Hookers

Thursday, July 7, 10pm, $5

Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen St.W., Toronto

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SPLICE THIS!
Toronto's 8th Annual Super 8 Film Festival

July 1 - 3, 2005

XPACE, 303 Augusta Ave., in Kensington Market, Toronto

see CINEZINE / PHOTOS / Splice This!

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The original ONE TAKE SUPER 8 EVENT
20-30 new films a year, shot & shown on super 8!
Annual since 2000. Recent attendance:150.

Films by TTboy & B Kribbs, Krysta Mitchell, Shawn Bauche, Dianne Ouellette,
Brett Kashmere, Sean Flotre, Justine Litynski, Gerald Saul, Kim Simard,
Shawn Fulton, Tyler Banadyga, Michael Rollo, Katherine Skelton, Ken Wilson,
Amber Goodwyn, Alex Rogalski, Aaron Ulledal, Christine Ramsay,
shane christian eason, rdp.

Thursday, June 23, 2005

Shumiatcher Theatre, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan

see CINEZINE

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John Porter, Paularoid & CineCycle present

MONTHLY OPEN SCREENINGS
(#17 - since February 2004)
35mm, 16mm, 8mm, Super 8, VHS, DVD, MiniDV.

June 12, 7pm, $pwyw

CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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PAINTINGS and FILMS!

PAINTINGS BY RESIDENTS OF FELLOWSHIP TOWERS
Rita Dwyer, Betty Hammond, Alan Hartrick, Mary Kilgour, Marion Porter

In the Sunshine Room, June 9 - 13

AND

SUPER 8 FILMS BY JOHN PORTER (Marion's son, in person)

in the Auditorium, Thursday, June 9, 7:30pm attendance: 60

Fellowship Towers, 877 Yonge St., Toronto

see PHOTOS

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The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (L.I.F.T.) presents

"Abstracts and Almanacs" - 16mm & 35mm Films by John Price
premiere of 6 films - running time 110 minutes, plus intermission.

part of L.I.F.T.'s "New Directions in Cinema" series

Friday, June 3, 8pm, $7

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

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The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (L.I.F.T.) presents

Premiere of Steve Sanguedolce's "DEAD TIME"
part of L.I.F.T.'s "New Directions in Cinema" series

Wednesday, March 9, 7pm and 9pm, $5

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

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end of EVENTS 2005

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