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EVENTS May-June 2007

Squeaky Wheel's 4th Annual Outdoor Animation Festival
June 14, 17, 30 & July 21. Curated by Sullivan Sheehan.

The Anti-Capitalist, Pro-Eco-apocalypse
Experimental animations, including by
Rhode Island based Jo Dery.

Saturday, June 30, 9pm, free

Days Park, Buffalo, New York

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Project8, Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society,
The Purple Thistle Centre and Video In/Video Out present

2nd Annual Project8 Super 8 Film Festival
Premieres of all new works made for the festival!
Super 8 films by Rachel Johndrow, Liz Glowacki, Diane Thorne Jacobs,
Sara Young, Jen Kovach (with live sound by her band Big Whoop!),
and videos shot on super 8 by Michael V. Smith, Terri Sudeyko,
Sacha Fink, Tiina Liimu, Velveeta Krisp, Tyler Wheatcroft,
Amber Dawn, Christine Bachinsky, Jen Leigh Fisher,
Peter McDonald, Angela Gleeson, Kyle Hsueh,
including performances and expanded cinema.
Followed with live music by Better Friends Than Lovers and Big Whoop!

Friday, June 29, 8pm, $6

Video In/Video Out Studios, 1965 Main St., Vancouver, BC

project8info at gmail dot com | 604-779-2066 | promo blog

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Pleasure Dome presents

Widening Horizon: The Videos of Luke Fowler
Canadian premiere of Glasgow videos 2001-2006

Friday, June 29, 8pm, free! (unclassified)

CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

Le Collectif Double Négatif présente

Nicky Hamlyn in person with his 16mm films
(1990-2005, Royaume-Uni/UK, 76 minutes)
en présence du réalisateur

Jeudi, 28 Juin, 9:15pm, $7.50

Cinéma Parallèle / Ex-Centris, 3536, boul. St-Laurent, Montréal, Quebec

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The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) presents

TAIS Animation Showcase 2007
35mm films by Christina Battle, Madi Piller, Steven Woloshen,
and videos by Ryan van Steenburg, Miriam Johnson, Danny Molek,
Mike Constable, Sarah Lazarovic, Charuvi Agrawal, Jonathan Amitay,
Yam Lau, Craig Walsh, Jillian Cattonon, Ashley Baird, Emily Touesnard,
Alan Pakarnyk, Ruth Tait, Casper Konefal, Adam Rosen & John Creson,
Neil Lapointe, Raymond Xu, Craig Marshall, Evan Tapper, Jason Tsang,
Felix Heeb, Elizabeth Dent, George Ungar, Mike Weiss, Marc Beurteaux.

Wednesday, June 27, 7pm, $5 attendance: 75
Reception 6:30pm and after screening.

NFB Spotton Cinema, 150 John St., Toronto

>>> Student Films Across America <<<
Touring 50 cities with prize-winning videos by
Moon Molson, Dan Eckman and Kimberly Craig,
plus a different video in each city made by a local student.
In Toronto: Ryan Krickow <<<. Organized by college students.

Wednesday, June 27, 7pm, $10 (unclassified)

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

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Photorama USA presents

Detroit Camera Show & Sale
Used photographic equipment sale.
Antique & usable, film & digital, still & cine.

Sunday, June 24, 10am-3pm, $6/5

Holiday Inn - Southfield, 26555 Telegraph Rd. (US 24)
(at 11 mile Rd, 1/4 mile S of I-696), Southfield, Michigan

Niagara Indie Filmfest June 22 & 23 No film (unclassified)

A national artist-run showcase of recent Canadian short videos.

Niagara Artists' Centre, 354 St. Paul St. E., St. Catharines, Ontario

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Pleasure Dome presents

Camille Henrot’s King Kong Addition (2007, video, 1:41)
by Camille Henrot, Peter Jackson, John Guillermin,
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack.
North American premiere!

Friday, June 22, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)

CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" Trash Palace Theatre presents

Frankenstein's Daughter (Richard E. Cunha, USA, 1958)
on 16mm, plus 16mm shorts.

Friday, June 22, 9:30pm, doors CLOSE at 9:25! $5 (unclassified)

Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets at
Suspect Video, 619 Queen St. W., 416-504-7135
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)

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Mighty Brave Shorts
Videos by Donnie Mullins and John Bertram

Thursday, June 21, 7pm, 8pm & 9pm, $? (unclassified)

Camera Bar, 1028 Queen St. W., Toronto

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

The Second Annual Drive-In Festival
Thunder County (1974), The Violent Years (1956),
plus vintage trailers and drive-in ads, all on video.

Thursday, June 21, 7:30pm, $5 (unclassified)

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

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For Life, Against the War... Again!
A new DVD program of 3-minute movies
by 25 different artists from across the USA:
Kevin Barry, Bosko Blagojevic, Elle Burchill, Jim Costanzo,
Bradley Eros, Jeanne Finley, Martha Gorzycki, Alfred Guzzetti,
Jeffrey Skoller, Les Leveque, Cara Weiner, Lili White, Artemis Willis,
David Leitner, Mark Street, Cynthia Madansky, Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe,
Sheri Milner, John Muse, Martha Rosler, Lynne Sachs, MM Serra, Jeff Silva,
Barbara Hammer, Ken Jacobs, Douglas Katelus, Lynn Marie Kirby, Ernie Larsen.
Curated by Lynne Sachs for The New York Film-Makers' Cooperative.

Thursday, June 21, 8pm, free

New Nothing Cinema, 16 Sherman St.
(off Folsom, between 6th and 7th), San Francisco

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Squeaky Wheel's 4th Annual Outdoor Animation Festival
June 14, 17, 30 & July 21. Curated by Sullivan Sheehan.

Image & Self-Image
Animations by African-Americans including Ayoka Chenzira, Robert Bank.

Sunday, June 17, 6pm, $6 Martin Luther King Park, Buffalo, New York

The Canadian Film Centre's 13th Worldwide Short Film Festival <<<
(June 12-17, no super 8) presents

Film is Dead! Long Live Film!
17 shorts commissioned in 2006 by the
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto
(LIFT) to commemorate their 25th anniversary.

A 35mm film by Madi Piller, 16mm films by Eric Plummer,
Peter Stinson, Bunmi Adeoye, bill bissett & Pete Dako, and
videos by Amy Lockhart, Christina Ray, Elida Schogt, Benny Zenga,
Francisca Duran, Penny McCann, James Gillespie, Brenda Goldstein,
Mishann Lau, Roy Mitchell & Michael Stecky, John Price, Richard Reeves.

Sunday, June 17, 2pm, $10 attendance: 70

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

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The Parkdale Beauty Pageant Society presents
9th annual REHAB Parkdale Film & Video Showcase, June 15-17:

Installations in Homes, Make-Your-Own Animation Workshop, and

Shorts by Parkdale Artists
A 16mm film by Alexi Manis & Kathryn Mackay,
and videos by Su Rynard, Christina Ray, Danis Goulet, Moynan King,
Robert Pilichowski, Sandra Gregson, Michelle Clarke, Jeremy Singer,
Laurel Woodcock, Evan Tapper, Martin Helmut Reis, Paulette Phillips,
Christina Battle, Madi Piller, Ina Unt Ina, Marc St. Aubin, Benny Zenga.

Saturday, June 16, 8:30pm, $pwyc (unclassified)

Fuller Ave. Parkette (west of Lansdowne, north of Queen), Toronto

PLUS

BYO Home Movies Inspection/Repair Clinic & Screening, and

Shorts by Parkdale Artists
A super 8 film by Craig Orrett,
16mm films by John Price and Isabella Pruska-Oldenhof,
and videos by Stephen Andrews, Guillemerna Buzio & Jorge Lozano,
Mike Filippov, Carolynne Hew, Lukas Blakk, Chris Romeike, Oliver Husain,
Hilda Rasula, Liz Singer, Chris Ross, Sarah Kolasky & Adam Garnet Jones,
John Greyson, Evan Tapper, Nadia Kurd & Riaz Mehmood, Peggy Anne Berton.

Sunday, June 17, 6pm, $pwyc (unclassified)

The Rhino Bar & Grill (upstairs), 1249 Queen St. W., Toronto

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festival Suoni per il Popolo (Juin 1-26) présente

une Projection Film / Performance de Karl Lemieux
Performance avec quatre, 16mm projecteurs film,
et musique de Jerusalem in My Heart,
en ouverture du Nihilist Spasm Band.

Samedi, 16 Juin, 9:30pm, $10/12

La Sala Rossa, 4848 boul. St-Laurent, Montréal, Quebec

Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents its

Annual Garage Sale Used film (and related) equipment.

Saturday, June 16, 9am

L.I.F.T., Suite 301, 171 East Liberty St., Toronto

Le Collectif Double Négatif (doublenegatif@gmail.com) présente

Because we didn’t find what we were looking for,
what we found didn’t exist without us
Installations Film 16mm du Collectif Double Négatif:
Julien Idrac, Lindsay McIntyre, Christopher Beck,
Matt Law, Ithamar Silver, Michael Rollo, Amber Goodwin,
Steven Ladouceur, Christopher Payne & Lucia Fuzzioglio.
Karl Lemieux, Daichi Saito, Malena Zlam, Edouardo Menz.

Vendredi, Jeudi, 15 Juin, 8pm-12am, gratuit

Galerie Control Lab, 3634 boul. St-Laurent, Montréal, Quebec

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Squeaky Wheel's 4th Annual Outdoor Animation Festival
June 14, 17, 30 & July 21. Curated by Sullivan Sheehan.

Image & Self-Image
Animations by African-Americans including Ayoka Chenzira, Robert Bank.

Thursday, June 14, 9pm, $6 Museum of Science, Martin Luther King Park

Sunday, June 17, 6pm, $6 Martin Luther King Park, Buffalo, New York

Lickety Split smut zine, Double Negative Collective,
and The St-Ambroise Montréal Fringe Festival present

Daughters of Joy! Cinema Soiree
An evening of experimental films and videos about sex,
by Jackie Gallant & Dayna Macleod, Nicole Koschmann,
Peter Miller, Elin Gustafson, Anita Schoepp, Scott Stark,
La Mathilde, Terryl Loffler, Shana Macdonald, Kathleen K-R.
Curated by Amber Goodwyn.

Thursday, June 14, 7pm, free

The Green Room, 5390, boul. St-Laurent, Montréal, Quebec

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Cinéma Abattoir présente

Courts Métrages, L’Érotisme
Videos par Karl Lemieux, Pat Tremblay, Micki Pellerano et Nate Archer,
Usama Alshaibi, Hélène Cattet et Bruno Forzani, Monk Boucher,
Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt et Frédérick Maheux, Serge de Cotret,
Mike Dereniewski, Anne Hanavan, Jérôme Bertrand,
Programmation: Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt.

Jeudi, 14 Juin, Minuit, gratuit

Cinéma Abattoir salle de projection anonyme, 1571 Sanguinet, Montréal

Free Video Documentaries All Week At The Brunswick!
No Logo, The God Delusion, War on Science, Darwin's Nightmare,
Sharia in Canada, Reel Bad Arabs, Jesus Camp, New Nuclear Danger.

June 10-14, 7pm, and 8:30 or 9:30pm, free (classified)

Brunswick Theatre, 296 Brunswick Ave., Toronto

(Barbara Hammer Retrospective cancelled due to poor attendance.)

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University of Toronto art galleries present Projections (April 8 - June 17)

Projections Galleries Bus Tour
Guided tour of all 4 galleries with curator Barbara Fischer.
A major survey of projection-based works in Canada, 1964-2007.
David Askevold, Rebecca Belmore, Geneviève Cadieux, Mark Lewis,
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Ian Carr-Harris, Christine Davis,
Nestor Krüger, Kelly Mark, John Massey, Nathalie Melikian, Judy Radul,
Gar Smith, Michael Snow, Jana Sterbak, Robert Wiens, Krzysztof Wodiczko,
Stan Douglas, Murray Favro, Wyn Geleynse, Rodney Graham, David Hoffos.

Sunday, June 10, 11:30am-5pm, free (RSVP: 416-978-1838)

begins and ends at U. of T. Arts Centre, 15 King's College Circle, Toronto

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Celebrating Toronto Bike Week (May 28-June 10)

"Take the Tooker" Screenings
Shorts about sustainable transportation.

Saturday, June 9, 2pm & 4pm, free (unclassified)

Brunswick (Poor Alex) Theatre, 296 Brunswick Ave., Toronto

Pleasure Dome presents

Jean Genet in Chicago
A video by Frederic Moffet, in person from Montreal, plus
a rare 16mm print of Genet’s only film, Un chant d’amour (1950).

Friday, June 8, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)

CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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Trash Palace Theatre presents its

"Worst Film" - The Force on Thunder Mountain
(Peter B. Good, USA, 1977, on 16mm, 93 minutes)

Friday, June 8, 9:30pm, doors CLOSE at 9:25! (unclassified)
Free to enter! Pay to exit, max $5, less the longer you last!

Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets at
Suspect Video, 619 Queen St. W., 416-504-7135
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)

Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society presents its continuing series

The Late Night Film Emporium V
Experimental cinema from USA & Canada, with artists present.
Videos by Ken Wood, Scott Johnson and Levi Stair,
16mm films by John Kneller and Chris Brabant,
and a super 8 film by Jason Wade.

Friday, June 8, 9pm, free

Cineworks Studio, 1131 Howe St. (back lane entrance), Vancouver, BC

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2nd Anniversary of super8porter.ca

June 6, 2007

Celebrating Bike Week (May 28-June 10), CineCycle presents

Bike-in Breakfast - Wednesday, June 6, 8-11am, free
Janet Bike Girl stenciled napkins - free!

CineCycle Film Screening
>>> Jacques Tati on a bicycle! His first feature film -
>>> Jour de fête (France, 1949, 70 minutes, on 16mm),
plus a rare screening on super 8, with live music & narration by
>>> Martin Reis, of his bicycle story La Fuga di Olmo (Toronto, 2004, 8:00).

Wednesday, June 6, 8pm, free (unclassified)

CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

University of Toronto art galleries present Projections (April 8 - June 17)

Projections Artists' Talks
A walk through the downtown campus film & video exhibitions with
Ian Carr Harris, Michael Snow, John Massey, Jana Sterbak, Kelly Mark.

Tuesday, June 5, 5-7pm, free

University of Toronto Art Centre, 15 King's College Circle, Toronto

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The Toronto International Film Festival Group and
Luminato Toronto Festival of Arts & Creativity (June 1-10) present

Guy Maddin's Brand Upon the Brain!
(USA/Canada, 2006, 35mm, 95 minutes)
with live narrator, castrato, foley artists and orchestra.

Tuesday, June 5, 8pm, $20 (adults only) SOLD OUT!

Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge St., Toronto

Monday Night Movies and HRM Bike Week (June 2-10) present

Special Screening of Bicycle Shorts
Videos & 35mm by Benny Zenga, Andrea Dorfman, others.

Monday, June 4, 7pm, $9

Empire 8 Park Lane Cinemas,
5657 Spring Garden Rd., Halifax, Nova Scotia

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8th aluCine Toronto Latino Media Festival (June 1-9) presents

Loop 10th Anniversary Retrospective
New videos and 16mm films by present members
of the Loop experimental film collective in Toronto,
Dan Browne, Ajla Odobasic, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof,
Erika Loic, Ty Tekatch, Angela Joosse, Shana MacDonald.

Sunday, June 3, 7pm, $3 attendance: 50

and, co-presented by
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)

Experimental Canada
Shorts by Marcos Arriaga, Juana Awad, Michele Stanley, Tejpal S. Ajji,
Jade Rude, Adam Rosen & John Creson, Faisal Anwar, Evan Tapper,
Madi Piller, Andrea Bussmann, Christina Battle, Jose Garcia Lozano,
Michael Toke, Evan Tapper, Cheryl Rondeau, Jonathan Inksetter.

Sunday, June 3, 9pm, $3 attendance: 35

NFB Spotton Cinema, 150 John St., Toronto

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Celebrating Toronto Bike Week (May 28-June 10)

Yasi's Place Outdoor Movie Night
 Short bicycle videos. Free popcorn!

Saturday, June 2, 8-10:30pm, free attendance: 50

Yasi's Place Cafe, 299 Wallace Ave., Toronto 416-536-9888
(2 blocks north of Bloor St. W. and 2 west of Lansdowne)

Trash Palace Theatre presents

Schizo (Pete Walker, UK, 1976, on 16mm, 100 minutes)

Friday, June 1, 9:30pm, doors CLOSE at 9:25!, $5 (unclassified)

Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets at
Suspect Video, 619 Queen St. W., Toronto 416-504-7135
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)

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8th aluCine Toronto Latino Media Festival
North America's largest festival of recent Latino shorts.
Video, 35mm, 16mm, no super 8.

June 1-9, $3/$50 (unclassified & adults only)

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

Video Shorts
Action, comedy, drama, documentary and experimental
by James Rokos, Brian Random, Jeff Stephenson, and more.
Plus the latest print issue of ESR - "Discoveries" - for sale for $4.

Thursday, May 31, 7:30pm, $5 (unclassified)

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

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The Toronto Bicycle Film Festival (August 22-25) presents

No Cadence - A Film Festival Fundraiser
Bicycle films on glorious super 8 by
Martin Heath, John Porter, Martin Reis, Benny Zenga,
with live music soundscapes by
Matt Smith, Aaron Lumley, Thom Gill, Colin Fisher, Sean Corcoran.

Thursday, May 31, 8pm, $5 ($3 for bicyclists) attendance: 75

CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
free bicycle valet parking

The Photographic Historical Society of Canada (PHSC) presents

The Big One - 33rd Spring Photographica Fair
Canada's oldest, largest, used photographic equipment sale.
Antique & usable, film & digital, still & cine. 140 tables.

Sunday, May 27, 10am-3pm, $7

The Soccer Centre, 7601 Martin Grove Rd. (at Hwy 7), Woodbridge

info: marklsinger at gmail dot com 905-762-9031

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The 17th Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival (May 17-27), and
The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre CFMDC celebrating 40 years,
present

1967 - LEZ BE-IN
Hippies & Homos - 16mm films & videos, 1972-2005,
by Madi Piller, Veronika Soul, Lise Beaudry, Paula Kelly,
Barbara Hammer, Melissa Levin, Janis Cole & Holly Dale,
Jane Farrow, Kika Thorne, Liz Singer. Curated by Lauren Howes.

Saturday, May 26, 3pm, $7.50 attendance: 100

Royal Ontario Museum Theatre, 100 Queen's Park Ave., Toronto

Bike Week Movie Night
Feature videos: Roam; An Inconvenient Truth.
Plus cycling-themed short videos by local artists!

 Friday, May 25, events 6:30pm, movies 8:45-11pm, free

Yonge-Dundas Square, Yonge and Dundas Streets, Toronto

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The 3rd Festival of Architecture & Design (May 1 - June 6) presents

Toronto Society of Architects (TSA) Film Series
Documentaries from Expo 67, 40 years ago

Fridays, May 4, 11, 18, 25, 7:30pm, $5 (admission to ROM)

Glass Room, 4th floor, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto

The 17th Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival
May 17-27 Mostly video. No super 8. Adults only / all ages.

The Outsiders experimental film & video series
at ROM Theatre, Isabel Bader Theatre and

Fridays, May 18 & 25, 8 & 10pm, $7.50
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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Trash Palace Theatre presents

T.N.T. Jackson (Cirio Santiago, USA, 1975, on 16mm, 72 minutes)

Friday, May 25, 9:30pm, doors CLOSE at 9:25!, $5 (unclassified)

Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets at
Suspect Video, 619 Queen St. W., Toronto 416-504-7135

Goethe-Institut Toronto presents

Tagebuch einer Verlorenen / Diary of a Lost Girl <<<
(Georg W. Pabst, Germany, 1929, on 16mm, 100 minutes, silent)
with live musical accompaniment by Rich Brown (electric bass)
and Kathleen Kajoika (violin).

Thursday, May 24, 7pm, $5 (adults only)

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

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The Toronto International Film Festival Group presents its

4th Canadian Student Film Showcase
Colin Cooper & Mitch Warner, Shine Mi-Hyang Park,
Samantha Youssef, Peter Harvey, Raha Shirazi, Alex Heaslip,
Ellen Tang, Bartosz Nowakowski, Naoyuki Kadota, and others. No super 8.

Wednesday, May 23, 7pm, $5 (rated "14A")

Cumberland Cinema, 159 Cumberland Ave., Toronto

The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents

Master Speaking Series: Bruce McDonald
This Canadian director is renowned for his hits
Hard Core Logo, Highway 61, and Road Kill, and his
new film The Tracey Fragments won the Manfred Salzberger Prize
for broadening the boundaries of cinema today, at the 2007 Berlinale.

Sunday, May 20, 1pm, $12/10 ($10/8 advance)

Workman Arts Theatre, CAMH, 1001 Queen Street W., Toronto

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Infest Wisely (Jim Munroe, Toronto, 2007, video, 84 minutes)
Premiere of Jim's first feature-length movie. website w/ trailer!
A narrative in seven 12-minute episodes by different directors.
Article in Canada's national daily Globe & Mail - May 18!

Friday May 18, 7pm, $5 (unclassified)

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

The 3rd Festival of Architecture & Design (May 1 - June 6) presents

Toronto Society of Architects (TSA) Film Series
Documentaries from Expo 67, 40 years ago

Fridays, May 4, 11, 18 & 25, 7:30pm, $5 (admission to ROM)

including May 18
3 very rarely screened, multi-image, 16mm films
made by the National Film Board of Canada for the
Ontario Pavilion, Labyrinth, and Man and His World,
including A Place to Stand (Christopher Chapman, 1967),
Multiple Man (Claude Godbout & Georges Dufaux, 1969).

Glass Room, 4th floor, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto

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Squeaky Wheel presents the second of two screenings

16mm Experimental Films by Barbara Sternberg
World premier of Once. Curated by Penelope Stewart.

Friday, May 18, 8pm, $5/4

Squeaky Wheel, 712 Main St., Buffalo, New York

The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) presents

The Best of The Ottawa International Animation Festival 2006
Nathaniel Akin & Bruce Alcock, Ian Gouldstone, Joanna Quinn,
Joel Trussell, Stefan Mueller, Guilherme Marcondes, Chris Choy,
Andreas Hykade, Takeshi Nagata & Kazue Monno, Skip Battaglia,
Run Wrake, Michaela Pavlátová, Chris Shepherd & David Shrigley.

Thursday, May 17, 7pm, $10/8 (unclassified)

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

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The 2nd Annual Calgary Super 8 Filmmaking Challenge
Premieres of local videos shot on super 8 by
Leigh Dehaney, Mike Lohaus, Kyle Whitehead,
Spencer Estabrooks, Keely Bruce, Jeff Hanni, Tony MacDonald,
Sandi Sommers, Joe Kelly, Michael Peterson, James Reckseidler.
Theme: Communication Between Cultures.
Plus release of limited edition DVD, live music by local band Ghostkeeper.

Thursday, May 17, 8:30 pm (doors 7pm), $10

Dickens Pub, 1000 - 9th Ave. SW, Calgary, Alberta

Mike Peterson freshdog@gmail.com | 403-922-4855
James Reckseidler reckseidlerfilms@hotmail.com

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The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents

Independent Filmmaking Workshops - Spring/Summer 2007
including Handmade Filmmaking by Phil Hoffman & Steve Sanguedolce,
The Art of Black & White Reversal Filmmaking in 16mm by Ernie Kestler,
Camera-less Filmmaking in 16mm & 35mm by Madi Piller,
Guerilla Filmmaking in Super 8 for Absolute Beginners
by Rick Palidwor & Anna Belenkova,
How to Make a Film in 35mm by Michael LeBlanc.

Registration begins Tuesday, May 15, 10am (first come, first serve)

LIFT, Suite 301, 171 East Liberty St., Toronto
416-588-6444 | workshops@lift.on.ca

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Global Super 8 Day
Films and videos shot on super 8

Sunday, May 13, 8pm, $5/4

Squeaky Wheel, 712 Main St., Buffalo, New York

The Canadian Film Institute (CFI), SAW Video Co-op and SAW Gallery present

Cafe Ex: Mike Hoolboom
Fascination (Mike Hoolboom, Canada, video, 2006, 80 minutes)
Mike Hoolboom will attend to introduce and discuss his work.

Thursday, May 10, 7:30pm, $9 (unclassified)

Plus: Miss You (Mike Hoolboom, video, 2007, 5 minutes)
SAW entrance - May 10, eve and May 11, 10am-5pm, free

Documentary: Truth or Dare - a lecture by Mike Hoolboom
Friday, May 11, 2-4pm, free

Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario

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The Factory of Light
A 16mm film by Pixie Cram, 30 minutes,
with live score by The Spheres and Flotilla.

Friday, May 11, 8-11pm, $10 (unclassified)

Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario, 613-238-7648

3rd Indie Can Film Festival
International, independent, low budget videos.
All videos submitted, are shown, first-come-first-served.
(videos were not accepted once the festival was full.)

May 10-13, free (unclassified)

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

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4th Ryerson University Film Festival (RUFF)
Graduating students' thesis video projects.

May 10-12, $10/25 (unclassified)

The Royal Cinema, 608 College St., Toronto

Goethe-Institut Toronto presents a rare screening!

Madame DuBarry <<<
(Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, 1919, 16mm, 92 minutes, silent)
with live musical accompaniment by Susanna Hood (voice)
and Debashi Sinha (percussion).

Thursday, May 10, 7pm, $5 (adults only)

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

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

Monday, May 7, 8:30pm

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

Contact Toronto Photography Festival (May 1-31) presents

5 Short Videos by Nicholas and Sheila Pye
Recent work by these OCAD alumni, 55 minutes.

Saturdays, May 5, 12, 19, 26, 1pm, $pwyc (unclassified)

Camera Bar, 1028 Queen St. W., Toronto

Their Contact exhibition, including continuous screenings of 1 video,
at Angell Gallery, 890 Queen St. W., May 4 - June 2. review

AND

Films on Photography May 11-13, $9/7 (adults only, by law)

NFB Spotton Cinema, 150 John St., Toronto
Also at Cinematheque Ontario, Goethe-Institut, Inside Out Festival,
co-presented by the National Film Board of Canada.

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6th annual Over the Top Music Festival (May 3-6) presents

Vidiotic: A Festival of Viral Videos & Micro-Shorts
Roaming outdoor screenings of videos of 16mm films
by Larissa Fan, Patrick Jenkins, Amy Lockhart, Kara Blake and others.

Friday, May 4, 7:30-9pm, Music Gallery Courtyard, 197 John St.
Friday, May 4, 10-11pm, Sanko, 730 Queen St. W., Toronto
Saturday, May 5, 8-11pm, Sneaky Dee’s, 431 College St., Toronto

The Toronto Public Library presents its series

>>> Literary Language of Film - Toronto's Fabulous Filmmakers <<<
Ron Mann, Executive Producer, Director and Distributor
talks with Reel to Real TV host Geoff Pevere.

Friday, May 4, 6pm, Free

Beeton Auditorium, Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St., Toronto
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca | 416-393-7131

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Hamilton Media Arts Centre The Factory's First Friday Films,
Hamilton Artists Inc., and The Art Gallery of Hamilton present
(in conjunction with their exhibition FRAMED: The Art of the Portrait)

Portraits: Video and Film Programme
Videos by Johnnie Eisen, Alison Koyabashi,
Daniel Barlow, Tom Sherman and Greg Staats.
35mm films by Atom Egoyan and Samuel Kiehoon Lee.

Friday, May 4, 7:10pm (adults only, by law)
$5 (non-members), $4 (AGH/Factory/HAI members)

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

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The Found Footage Festival
Touring show of clips from found videos, first time in Toronto.
Curators & Hosts - Joe Pickett & Nick Prueher
will be on The Hour, CBC-TV, May 1, 2 or 3.
www.myspace.com/foundfootagefestival

Friday, May 4, 9:30pm, $10 (unclassified)

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

FilmCAN Issue 9.0 Launch and Screenings
Bruce McDonald’s rock n’ road trilogy in glorious 35mm,
with introductions by Bruce and guests!
Roadkill - 6pm, Highway 61 - 8pm, Hard Core Logo - 10:15pm.

Thursday, May 3, $6/1 film, $10/2, $12/3. (classified)

The Royal Cinema, 608 College St., Toronto

After Party with dj geoffm & friends - 9:30pm, free
Sutra Tiki Lounge, 612 College St., Toronto

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The Ontario College of Art & Design's (OCAD) Integrated Media Program presents

The First OCAD International Film Festival
11 Integrated Media Graduate Thesis Videos.
Experimental to animation, and everything in between.
Curated by Professors Janis Cole, Paulette Phillips, John Coull.
Organized by Fourth-year students Yotam Dor & Dragan Stojanovic.
Hosted by Professors bh Yael and Janis Cole.

Thursday, May 3, 7pm, $5 attendance: 200

The Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W., Toronto | ocadiff at gmail dot com

The Available Light Screening Collective presents, as part of NAC Quebec Scene

Short and Sweet: Media Art from Québec
11 short videos by Québec artists
Frank Wimart, Karina Mariano, Évelyne Guay, Hélène Dugas,
Nelson Henricks, Deborah VanSlet, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak,
Pablo Diconca, Kevin Kelly, Philippe Hamelin and Stéphane Thibault.
Programmed by Vidéographe from work at Vidéographe, Vidéo Femmes and GIV.

Thursday, May 3, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)

Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario (613) 238-7648

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