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EVENTS Aug-Sept 2006

First Take International Student Film Festival (all on video)
Saturdays, Sept. 30, Oct. 14, 28, Nov. 11, $8 each (unclassified)
Club Hotel, 77 Peter St., Toronto

The City of Toronto's Live with Culture presents

The First Nuit Blanche
Free all-night contemporary art installations and programs in
100 museums, galleries, libraries, churches, swimming pools, car washes.
30 commissioned public art installations
including by film/video artists Christina Battle, Istvan Kantor,
Richard Fung, Shelley Niro, Michael Snow, Annette Mangaard,
John Greyson, Christina Zeidler, Dana Claxton, Sara Diamond.

Cinematheque Ontario presents Avant-Garde 16mm Films
by David Rimmer, Bruce Conner, Marie Menken, Richard Serra
(108 minutes) - 7pm, 11pm, 3am.
Fernand Léger, Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, Walter Ruttman, Man Ray
(102 minutes) - 9pm, 1am, 5 am. 317 Dundas St. W.

CineCycle presents All-Night Outdoor Film Screening
401 Richmond St. W. courtyard
16mm prints of movies (1954-1968) by George Cukor, Sataji Ray,
Jaques Baratier and Wojciech Has, and 35mm by Frederico Fellini.

September 30, 7pm - October 1, 7am (unclassified) Toronto

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Pleasure Dome presents

J'Adore: Videos and Performance by
Pascal Lièvre (Paris) and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (Toronto)

Friday, September 29, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)

Tallulah's Cabaret, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre,
12 Alexander St., Toronto

AND

Vtape presents Patriotic
(Benney Nemerofsky Ramsay & Pascal Lievre, DVD, 2005, 5 min.)
Sept. 23 - Nov. 4, Vtape, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto

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2nd COMMFFEST Community Film Festival Sept. 28 - Oct. 1

including 1st Youth Education Program - youths' videos
shot on super 8 at LIFT workshop taught by Rick Palidwor.
Sunday, October 1, 1:15pm, $7 (unclassified)

Rainbow Cinema, 80 Front St. E., Toronto

"SHOOT & SHOW" FILMS SHOT & SHOWN IN EARLY 2006

>>> The 14th Raindance Film Festival (Sept 27 - Oct 8) presents

>>> straight 8 2006 Showcase (since 1999)
New super 8 films, edited-in-camera, on one roll of film, by
Nicholas Rutter, Emory Ruegg, Laurence Vander Haeghen,
Josh Sanders, Peter Stenhouse, Alastair Mills, David Jenkins,
Ben Richardson, Frederik Hamm, Aleysa Young, Peter Murlis,
Sean Rooney, Rachel Freeman, Chris Durban + James Owen,
Deborah Burns Johnson, George Ancock & William Cummock,
Darren Walsh, Caswell Coggins, Giles B. Harding, Alex Dobbin,
Christopher Rodriguez, Demetri Jagger & David Palmer, Nick Scott.

Thursday, September 28, 7:45pm, £8.90 sold out

Shaftesbury Avenue Cinema, CineWorld, <<<
Trocadero Centre, 7-14 Coventry St., Piccadilly Circus, London, UK

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The Ontario College of Art and Design and Goethe-Institut Toronto present

Director's Cut
audio-visual performance by Rechenzentrum: <<<
Marc Weiser (music) and Lillevan (film/video).
Introduced by Prof. Vladimir Spicanovic, OCAD

Thursday, September 28, 7pm, $5 attendance: 20

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

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The Toronto Animated Image Society TAIS and
The National Film Board of Canada's Norman McLaren Week present

Masters of Innovation: Chris Landreth & Donald McWilliams
Chris Landreth discusses his creative process - 7pm
Donald McWilliams reveals "The Unknown Norman McLaren" - 8pm

Thursday, September 28, free attendance: 30

NFB Cinema, 150 John St., Toronto

>>> The Eclectic Screening Room 'zine's monthly screening

>>> Tributary (Russ Forster, USA, 2002, 70 minutes)
video documentary about rock and roll cover bands

Thursday, September 28, 7:30pm, $5/pwyw (unclassified)

>>> Centre for the Arts, #513, 263 Adelaide St. W., Toronto

^^^

THE "SHOOT & SHOW" SUPER 8 SEASON CONTINUES WITH

>>> Flicker Richmond presents

The Original Attack of the 50-Foot Reels VII
11 new super 8 films, each shot on one, black & white, 50-foot cartridge,
edited-in-camera, then processed at Pac Lab in NYC, put onto video,
and shown to the filmmakers for the first time at the public premiere.
Films are shown silent, or with "wild" pre-recorded or live sound.

Films by Will O'Donovan, Arnelle Hughes Simpson, Jere Kittle & Elli Morris,
Tanny Rourk, Stuart Squier, Eric Marth & Mark Thyrring & Preston Simms,
Sebastian Jackson, H. Jennings Sheffield & Renee DeChristopher,
Brent Raper, Bentley Chan, Rose Vincelli & Anthony Severo.

Thursday, September 28, 8pm, $3 attendance: 100

Plant Zero Art Center, 320 Hull St., Richmond, Virginia

(An annual event here since 1999, and in several other USA cities since.)

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The Independent Filmmakers Co-operative of Ottawa IFCO

35mm Film Challenge Screening
premieres of short videos shot on 35mm film in 48 hours and
made for the screening by Deniz Berkin, Warren Nightengale,
Marianne Corriveau, Bridget Farr, Ben Hoskyn, Steven Legge,
Carmelo Zucco, Paul Gordon, Jeff Parenteau, Dimitri Bouterakos.

Wednesday, September 27, 7pm, free

Club SAW, Arts Court, 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa, Ontario

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The Toronto Animated Image Society TAIS
and the Italian Cultural Institute present

The Animated Films of Bruno Bozzetto, in person <<<

Allegro Non Troppo (1977, 35mm feature, on video)

Tuesday, September 26,  7pm, pwyc attendance: 115

AND

Short Animations (1967-2004, on video)

Wednesday, September 27, 7pm, pwyc attendance: 65

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

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Goethe-Institut Toronto presents

Geheimnisse einer Seele / Secrets of a Soul <<<
(Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Germany, 1926, 81 minutes, silent)
with live piano accompaniment by Marilyn Lerner

Tuesday, September 26, 7pm, $5 (adults only)

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

Cineworks presents the 4th in its occasional series:

Latenight Film Emporium IV
Experimental 16mm Films from Canada & USA,
by Christoph Runne, Ben Donoghue, Kerry Laitala,
Jason Wade, Yun Lam Li, Kati Katchever, C. J. Brabant.

Tuesday, September 26, 9:30pm, free

Cineworks, 1131 Howe St. (enter by back lane), Vancouver, BC

^^^

The Best of Flicker NYC <<<
super 8 & 16mm films from past Flicker screenings

Sundays, September 24 - December 31, 5pm, $8

Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Ave., Brooklyn, New York

9th Antimatter Underground Film Festival
16mm, Super 8, Mini DV, DVD

September 22-30, Victoria, British Columbia

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THE "SHOOT & SHOW" SUPER 8 SEASON CONTINUES WITH

AFF The 26th Atlantic Film Festival, September 14-23,
and AFCOOP The Atlantic Filmmakers Co-op present

Crossing the Medium:
AFF's 2nd Attack of the 50 Foot Reels with Norwood Cheek, from LA
15 new super 8 films made days ago by invited artists of other disciplines,
after taking Norwood Cheek's Attack of the 50 Foot Reels workshop.
Shot in 48 hours, edited-in-camera, then processed at Exclusive Lab
in Toronto, and premiered on the original super 8 film by the AFF,
seen by the filmmakers for the first time:
Justina Dollard, Drew McQuinn, Mitchell Weibe, Jill Barber, Alex Chisolm,
Francesca Tallone, Erin Bosenburg, Carston Knox, Andrea Richards,
Veronique MaKenzie, Paul Caskey, Susan LeBlanc-Crawford,
Anneke Henderson, Rhys Bevan-John, Norwood Cheek.
(an annual open event in USA cities since 1999)

Friday, September 22, 7pm, free (limited space)

NS Community College Screening Room, 1574 Granville, Halifax, Nova Scotia

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U of T Film & Video Festival 2007 Pre-Launch Party - 7pm
outdoors in the Hart House Quadrangle

Hart House Film Board Introductory Screening - 8pm

Friday, September 22, free attendance: 50

Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto

>>> Flicker NYC's bi-monthly Open Screening

Flicker NYC #18
New super 8 & 16mm films by Thierry Bonnaud, Jeremiah Gurzi,
Craig Boyer, Rosario Garcia-Montero, Jeremy Carr, Keneu Luca,
Jeff Denis, Jeff & James Israel, Bo Mehrad, Greg King, and more!
Prizes, a super 8 grant, and more!

Friday, September 22, 8pm, $8

Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Ave., Brooklyn, New York

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Pleasure Dome and Goethe-Institut Toronto present

Welcome To Somewhere Else
Retrospective of Short Works by Oliver Husain, in person
videos 1999-2005, and a preview of a work-in-progress:
Back Alley Scroll, a live puppet show by Oliver Husain
with live music by "Mantler" (aka Chris Cummings).

Thursday, September 21, 7pm, $5 attendance: 65

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

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Cinematexas Sept. 20-24, Austin, Texas
"Special Programs" curated by Ed Halter:
16mm films, videos, performances, installations by
Stephanie Barber, Luther Price, William E. Jones, JODI,
Bruce McLure, Glen Fogel, Mary Ellen Bute, Eddo Stern,
Laura Parnes, Paul Slocum & Lauren Gray of Tree Wave.
All living artists will present their works in person.

The Independent Media Arts Alliance IMAA

Annual National Conference: Murder City. Media City.
Film & Video Screenings, Meetings, Tours and Exhibits by
Artists' Media Co-ops & Collectives from across Canada

September 20-23, Winnipeg, Manitoba

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The 20th Images Festival (Toronto, April 5-14, 2007)
and Anthology Film Archives (NYC) present

Landscape with Shipwreck:
The Films of Philip Hoffman, in person from Toronto
16mm films, 1979-2001, two different programs

Wednesday, September 20, 8pm, $8/5
Thursday, September 21, 9pm, $8/5

Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. (at 2nd St.), New York, NY

Beginning a six-month series of Canadian artists' film & video rarely seen in NYC,
including many New York City and US premieres, and a published monograph.
Solo shows by Barbara Sternberg, Richard Fung, John Porter, Leslie Peters.
Group shows including artists Colin Campbell, Zachary Longboy, Ho Tam,
Arthur Lipsett, Dana Claxton, Mike Hoolboom, John Price, David Rimmer,
Joyce Wieland, Richard Kerr, Gariné Torossian, Gilles Groulx.
Many artists will be present.

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Double Negative Collective presents

GUY SHERWIN, IN PERSON FROM UK SEPTEMBER 19-21

Artist Talk - with some 16mm films
Tuesday, September 19, 6:30pm, free
Room 1-615, EV Building, Concordia University,
1515, rue Ste-Catherine O., Montreal, Quebec

Live Film Projection Performances (1972-2006)
Multiple 16mm projectors (up to 6), vertical format projection,
super 8 film projection with hand-held screen.
With Lynn Loo and guest musicians.
Preceded by local musicians Jerusalem In My Heart,
accompanied by a 16mm triple-projection by Karl Lemieux.
Wednesday, September 20, 9pm, $8
La Sala Rossa, 4848 St-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec

Guy Sherwin in person with his 16mm Films
(1975-2003, 75 minutes)
Thursday, September 21, 4pm & 9pm, $7
Cinema Parallele/Ex-Centris, 3536, boul. St-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec

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Peggy Anne's Beat Super 8 Soliloquies presents

C.N.E. Scenes, Remembering The Ex
Super 8 to DVD, with live narration by Peggy Anne Berton
and live musical accompaniment by Marc St Aubin.
(May be her last performance for some time.)

Tuesday, September 19, 9pm, $pwyc

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

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THE "SHOOT & SHOW" SUPER 8 SEASON BEGINS WITH

20e Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FicfA)
15 - 21 septembre, en collaboration avec la Galerie Sans Nom, present

>>> 10e année Acadie Underground
16 new super 8 films (shown on super 8) made for the screening,
shot in 48 hours on one 3-minute roll of film, edited-in-camera,
then processed at Exclusive Lab in Toronto so filmmakers
see their film for the first time at the public premiere,
shown silent or with "wild" sound recording or live performance.

Filmmakers: Gonzague Babineau & Tracy Lavoie, Natalie Morin,
Mathieu Laprise, Gabriel LeBlanc & Luc Ogilvie, Loretta MacLean,
Laurence Chamberlain Bérubé, Philippe Tremblay, Mélanie Durepos,
Jocelyne Chaput, Brenda Comeau, Martin Cormier & Mathieu Saulnier,
Julien Cadieux, Joel Culligan, Mario Doucette, Janice Durant, Christian Roy.

Prizes will be awarded to the three best films, as voted by the audience.
Followed by some short 8mm found films, and videos shot on super 8.

Saturday, September 16, 9pm, $5 attendance: 300

Ciné-Bistrot, Centre culturel Aberdeen,
140 rue Botsford, Moncton, New Brunswick.

^^^

20e Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie
(FicfA) expositions, installations, performances, vidéos, films

15 - 21 septembre, Moncton, New Brunswick

26th Atlantic Film Festival AFF
video, 35mm, 16mm, super 8

September 14-23, $10/15 each

Park Lane Cinemas & Oxford Theatre, Halifax, Nova Scotia

>>> 10th MadCat Women’s International Film Festival <<<
independent & experimental videos, 16mm, 35mm films,
multiple film projections, performances, installations

September 12–27, $7-20 each

San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, California

^^^

>>> Flicker Chapel Hill's bi-monthly Open Screening (since 1994)
Submit super 8, 8mm, 16mm, 35mm films, max:15 minutes.

Monday, September 11, 8:30pm

Cat's Cradle, 300 East Main St., Carrboro, North Carolina

Toronto International Camera Show
used photographic equipment sale, 100 tables

Sunday, September 10, 10am-3pm, $7

Thornhill Community Centre, 7755 Bayview Ave. (at John St.),
Markham, Ontario, suewootten@hotmail.com, 705-857-2659

The 15th Cabbagetown Short Film & Video Festival

Friday, September 8, 7pm, $10, no film (unclassified)

Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester St., Toronto

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Canyon Cinema presents

Not at Ease and Not at Rest
16mm films by John Luther Schofill, Dorothy Wiley, Warren Haack,
Andrej Zdravic, Ed Emshwiller, James Irwin, George Kuchar,
plus another film or two, and excerpts from a work-in-limbo.
Curated by Eric S. Theise.

Friday, September 8, 7:30pm, $7

Ninth Street Independent Film Center, 145 9th St., San Francisco

^^^

31st Toronto International Film Festival
No super 8
September 7-16, $19 each, various venues (classified)

INCLUDING

>>> Wavelengths series: avant-garde 16mm, 35mm films, videos by
Chris Kennedy & Anna van der Meulen, Peter Tscherkassky,
Christina Battle, Chris Curreri, Takashi Ishida, Akram Zaatari,
Olivo Barbieri, Jim Jennings, Nathaniel Dorsky, Oliver Husain,
Yuiko Matsuyama, Kyle Canterbury, Mika Taanila, Rose Lowder,
Xavier Lukomski, Cynthia Madansky, Abbas Kiarostami, Nicolas Rey,
Kyle Canterbury, Christoph Brunner, Jay Rosenblatt, Lawrence Jordan,
Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Josef Dabernig, Rebecca Meyers.
Curated by Chris Gehman
September 8-11, Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina Ave.

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Rebelfest International Film Festival

September 6-10, $10 No super 8 (unclassified)

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto presents

The 13th Annual National Salon des Refusés
Canadian shorts rejected by the Toronto Int'l Film Festival,
made by John Jennissen, Solomon Nagler, Kathleen Olmstead,
Danishka Esterhazy, Polly Washburn, Alex Hatz, Mike Maryniuk,
Jaimz Asmundson & Kyle Lemke, Ian Mozdzen & Mia van Leeuwen,
Kent Bennett, Shana MacDonald, Brendon Foster-Algoo, Keith Cole.
Programmed by lottery draw. 12 videos, 1 16mm, no super 8.

Wednesday, September 6, 8pm, $7 attendance: 120

Silent Auction of donated film supplies & services - 6pm

Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St.W., Toronto

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cogcollective presents

Intimate Journeys
Films & videos (1993-2006) curated by Lynn Loo,
including super 8 films by Paul Martin and Ooni Peh,
a double-screen 16mm film by Anna Thew, and videos by
Lynn Loo, Jeroen Kooijmans, Guy Sherwin, Victric Thng,
Gad Hollander, Jean-Gabriel Pierot, and Ruth Novaczek.

Sunday, September 3, 4pm, £5/£3

Candid Arts Trust, 3 Torrens St., London, England

^^^

Frequent Small Meals, Film Love and the
Table of the Elements Festival #4 (Aug.31-Sept.4) present

Carnivals of Ecstasy: Tony Conrad and the New York Underground
Tony Conrad in person, introducing 16mm films & videos (1963-2006)
in which he appears or did soundtrack work for,
by Jack Smith, Ron Rice, Piero Heliczer, and Ira Cohen.

Friday, September 1, 8pm

AND

Robbie Land - 16mm Cine-Performance - 7pm
a visual and sonic environment using three 16mm
film projections with magnetic audio tracks, video projection,
contact microphones, reel-to-reel audio player, guitar amplifiers.

performance by Tony Conrad - 8pm
world premiere of Rhys Chatham's Essentialist - 9pm
opening of Leif Inge's 24-hour concert 9-Beet Stretch - 10pm

Sunday, September 3

Eyedrum, Suite 8, 290 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. SE, Atlanta, Georgia

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The Eclectic Screening Room 'zine's monthly screening

Back To School Special
campy, vintage educational videos

Thursday, August 31, 7:30pm, $5/pwyw (unclassified)

Centre for the Arts, #513, 263 Adelaide St. W., Toronto

Echo Park Film Center's August artist-in-residence

Heather Harkins from Halifax, Nova Scotia
presents films & videos which inspired her, and the
premiere of her new work created while in residence.

Thursday, August 31, 8pm, $5

Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St., Los Angeles

^^^

Grey Zone Collective and Durham Art Gallery present

The 5th Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film including

An Evening with John Porter
Super 8 films with live discussion

Tuesday, August 29, 8pm attendance: 25

Left Side Gallery, 6 Sydenham Rd., Flesherton, Ontario

Summer in the City: Films about New York City
16mm gems (1965-1985) from The Film-Makers' Cooperative,
by Bob Parent, Rudy Burckhardt, Jeff Scher, Fred Safran,
Zygmunt Frankel, Marjorie Heins, Matt Hoffman.
Curated by Stephen Kent Jusick

Monday, August 28, 7:30pm, $5/free

Collective: Unconscious, 279 Church St., New York City

^^^

Open Screening and Potluck Dinner
Come to show your work or just to watch.
video and 16mm

Sunday, August 27, 6pm, free

Chicago Filmmakers, 2nd Floor, 5243 N. Clark St., Chicago

Firefly Cinema and Jeanne Liotta present

Somewhere Not Here
16mm films by JJ Murphy, Serge Debecove,
Shirley Clarke, Gina Carducci, Tomas Casas,
Douglas Wilkinson, and Chris Van Allsburg.
Super 8 films by Kevin T. Allen, Jen Heusen, Jeanne Liotta.

Sunday, August 27, 8:30pm, free, rain or shine

Firefly Cinema outdoors in the 6th & B Garden,
6th St. & Avenue B, Loisaida, New York City

^^^

Western Reserve Camera Collectors Society presents

34th annual Cleveland Camera Show
used photographic equipment sale

Sunday, August 27, 10am-3pm, $5

Quality Inn, 4742 Brecksville Rd., Richfield, Ohio

kg_cam@att.net, 440-885-5467

Harbourfront Centre and The Images Festival present

A Little Planet
videos and 16mm films (1994-2006) by
Jeanne Liotta, Diane Bonder and Michael Robinson from USA,
Steve Reinke and Philip Hoffman from Canada,
Christopher Chong (Malaysia/Canada), Jun Miyazaki (Japan),
Semiconductor (UK), and Adel Abidin (Iraq/Finland).

Sunday, August 27, 1:30pm, free attendance: 30

Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto

^^^

Films of Karel Doing
16mm, super 8 and video shorts (1991-2006)
mixed with musical intermezzos.

Saturday, August 26, 8pm, $donation/free, rain or shine

Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E. Houston St., New York City

Jefferson Presents... monthly screenings

Experiments with Movies
16mm films (1967-2005) by
Tony Conrad, Timoleon Wilkins, Scott Bartlett,
Bruce Baillie, Nathaniel Dorsky, Rose Lowder.

Saturday, August 26, 9pm, $5 ($4 students, seniors)

Garfield Artworks, 4931 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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The Toronto Public Space Committee presents

Streets to Screens film series Fall Launch Party
outdoor screening of family-friendly videos (1947-99)
from the National Film Board of Canada by
Wendy Tilby & Amanda Forbis, John Weldon,
Carlos Marchiori, Robert Doucet, Grant Munro,
Norman McLaren, Jean Palardy & Arthur Burrows.

Thursday, August 24, 8pm, free attendance: 230

Bellevue Square Park, Kensington Market, Toronto

^^^

The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto presents

Community Memorial for Roberto Ariganello 1961-2006
Celebrate the life and work of Roberto Ariganello,
former Executive Director of LIFT.
Screening of Roberto's 16mm films

Wednesday, August 23, 7pm

CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave. (down the alley),
and adjacent to CineCycle at YYZ Artists' Outlet,
Suite 140, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto

for news of his death see August 13, 3:30pm

^^^

New York Experimental monthly, film and video series presents

Constructions and Constrictions
works by Thierry Bonnaud, Gokcen Ergene, Gregory King,
Tim Sweeney, Joon Sung, Mike Celona, Vuk Mitevski and others.

Wednesday, August 23, 10pm

The Tank, 279 Church St. (Franklin & White), New York City

Buffalo, NY Camera Show
used photographic equipment sale, 38 tables

Sunday, August 20, 10am-3:30pm, $5

Hearthstone Manor,  333 Dick Rd., Depew, New York

Doug Werks 905-994-0515

^^^

SAW Video: Centre for the Media Arts presents

The Great Arts Courtyard Sale
8 media organizations with tables. (2 still available, $25 each.)
Vintage video equipment, AVID 3D box, Graphics tablet,
super 8 cameras, projectors, 16mm Bolex w/ lenses,
16mm accessories, 35mm movie trailers,
audio gear, old computers, Viewmasters.

Saturday, August 19, 10am-4pm

SAW Courtyard & Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario

Chicago Filmmakers presents

Song 23: 23rd Psalm Branch, Parts 1 & 2
(Stan Brakhage, 1966/78, 16mm, 85 minutes)

Saturday, August 19, 8pm, $8 (students $7)

Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St., Chicago, Illinois

^^^

Funeral Mass for Roberto Ariganello 1961-2006
Filmmaker since 1995. Executive Director of
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) since 2003,
and Equipment & Workshop Coordinator of LIFT 1997-2003.
President/Chair of the Board of Directors of
the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) 2001-2003,
and Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group 2000-2004.

Friday, August 18, 10am attendance: 1,000

St. Joan of Arc Church, 1701 Bloor St. W. (east of Keele), Toronto

AND

Wake and Outdoor Screening
Three 16mm films by Roberto Ariganello 1961-2006

Friday, August 18, evening attendance: 200

Carlton Park, Edith Ave., Toronto

(see August 13, 3:30pm)

^^^

13th Chicago Underground Film Festival
16mm, 35mm, video

August 17-24 Music Box Theatre, Chicago, Illinois

Hungry Ghost presents

Animated Bike-in Movies
Experimental animation from Canada, USA & Germany,
on 16mm by Melissa Brabrant, and on video by Don Best, Rick Raxlen,
Sue Moffat, Michael Betancourt, Sean Arden, Collin Ward MacDonald,
Jason Halprin, Stephen Wichuk, Gerald Habarth, Tasha Brotherton,
Rickie Lea Owens, Devon McKeller, Anne Breymann, Sam Scott.
Local artists in attendance.

First of a series of DIY outdoor cinema interventions in vacant lots.

Thursday, August 17, 10pm, $ by donation, attendance: 120

vacant lot, 300s, W. Hastings, Vancouver, British Columbia

cameraobscura333@hotmail.com

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Pioneer Theatre and Marie Losier present

In My Pocket!
new videos by Mike and George Kuchar!
plus videos by Shannon Plumb, Helen Quinn,
Ross McLaren, Ianthe Jackson, Leon Prochnik.

Tuesday August 15, 7pm, $9
Followed by free beer & pizza reception

Pioneer Theater, 155 E. 3rd St. (east of Ave A), New York City

^^^

Resfest Canada and Runt Productions present

Toronto Premiere of Straight8 (from UK, since 2000)
New super 8 films (on video), edited-in-camera, on one roll,
then processed and screened by Straight8, unseen by the artists:
Steven Cook & Kathryn Mackinnon, Demetri Jagger & David Palmer,
Sean Rooney, George Ancock & William Cummock, Giles B. Harding,
Ben Richardson, Frederik Hamm, Emory Ruegg, Christopher Rodriguez,
plus Canadian artists: Deborah Burns Johnson, John Redpath, and
Toronto artists in person, seeing their films for the first time:
Graydon Sheppard, Hubert Davis and Aleysa Young.

First time seen in Toronto, Straight8 is organized in London, UK,
and shown internationally, including at the Cannes Film Festival.

Tuesday, August 15, 9pm, $10 attendance: 160

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

^^^

Roberto Ariganello 1961-2006
Filmmaker, and Executive Director of LIFT since 2003,
drowned in Purcell's Pond outside Halifax, Nova Scotia

Sunday, August 13, 3:30pm

LIFT will be closed August 14-23.
Submit thoughts, memories, tributes to communications@lift.on.ca

^^^

John Porter, Paularoid & CineCycle present

The Final Monthly Open Screening
#31 - 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
Sunday, August 13, 7pm, $pwyw attendance: 17

CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
(South of Queen St. W., and down the lane)

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4th annual International Home Movie Day - August 12
worldwide, free, public events
celebrating amateur films and filmmaking.
Show your home movies in an open screening.
Free inspections by film doctors at film clinics.

The National Film Board of Canada
and The Film Reference Library present

4th annual International Home Movie Day
Open Screenings, Free Film Inspections.
8mm, super 8, 16mm film

Saturday, August 12, Noon-5pm, free attendance: 30

NFB Cinema, 150 John St., Toronto

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Homemade Movies and the Hart House Film Board present

Home Movie Day Celebration
Open Screenings, Film Clinic.
8mm, super 8, 16mm film

Saturday August 12, 4-8pm, free attendance: 30

East Common Room, main floor, Hart House,
Hart House Circle, University of Toronto, Toronto

homemademovies@hotmail.com

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Pleasure Dome presents

Annual Open Screening Under the Stars
16mm, 8mm, super 8, VHS, DVD, mini-DV.
Maximum 10 minutes. First come, first shown.

Saturday, August 12, 9:30pm, free attendance: 50

outdoors in the courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
rain venue: CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave.

^^^

Night-Before-Home Movie Day Screening
Home movies made by New Orleans filmmakers
before and since Hurricane Katrina, and
curated by New Orleans filmmaker Helen Hill.

Friday, August 11, 7:30pm

Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center,
1724 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. (at Felicity St.), New Orleans

^^^

8th Photophobia Short Film & Video Screening
Videos outside in the Sculpture Garden

Thursday, August 10, 9pm, $5 (all ages, unclassified)

Art Gallery of Hamilton, 123 King St. W., Hamilton, Ontario

16mm Archives Night

Thursday, August 10, 8pm, $5

and welcome EPFC's August Artist-in-Residence,
Heather Harkins from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
6-8pm, free. Food & drinks.

(Her EPFC screening here is August 31.)

Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St., Los Angeles, California

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Homemade Movies presents

Liz Czach and John Porter
previewing International Home Movie Day (August 12)

Wednesday, August 9, 7:40am

on Breakfast Television, Citytv, Channel 57, Toronto

The Independent Filmmakers Co-operative of Ottawa (IFCO)
presents its 14th Annual Summer Gala

Film Nation Unite
Premieres of new 16mm & 35mm films by Kelly Egan,
Caleb Lauer/Jeff Parenteau, David Shea, Glen Amo,
Dan Sokolowski, Philippe Rostaing, Anthony Seck.

Thursday, August 3, 9:15pm, $10

ByTowne Cinema, 325 Rideau St., Ottawa, Ontario

After-party at Mercury Lounge, 56 ByWard. Food & DJs.
Gala tickets at IFCO, or Arts Court Desk, or ByTowne Box Office.

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Films by Robert Nelson
"Classics and rarities in glorious 16mm by local legend,
and not in distribution or available on video."
Curated by Marc Toscano of the Academy of Motion Pictures.

Thursday, August 3, 8pm, $5

Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St., Los Angeles, California

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