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100 EVENTS Sept-Oct 2008
Latest in October in Toronto
- Ottawa - Cairo
- Detroit
- Dublin - London,
UK
Ottawa - Paonia
- Cambridge, ON -
Strasbourg - Cleveland
- Calgary - Edmonton
Lausanne -
NYC - Brooklyn
- Cork - Dundee
- Lucca - Winnipeg
- Montreal
Latest in September in Ely, UK
- Dublin - Toronto
- Hamilton, Ontario
Ottawa - Moncton
- Rome - New
York City - Buffalo
- Detroit - Victoria,
BC
San
Francisco
- Chicago
- Halifax
- Szeged
-
Cleveland -
Richmond, VA -
Seoul
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash
Palace Theatre.
Features and shorts projected on 16mm, 8mm or super 8.
Prom Night (Paul Lynch, Canada, 1980)
Friday, October 31, 9:30pm, $5 (classified)
Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets
at
Tequila Bookworm,
512 Queen St. W., 416-603-7335
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)
The U. of T. Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) presents
Free Friday Films
Repertory movies, projected on 35mm film! Tonight:
Hallowe'en Screening - The
Frighteners
(Peter Jackson, New Zealand/USA, 1996, 110 min.)
Friday, October 31, 7pm, free (classified)
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto
The Loop
Collective and The School of Image Arts present
their weekly Lighthouse Series devoted to experimental cinema
Films by Larry Jordan
16mm films and videos from USA.
Thursday, October 30, 7pm, free (unclassified)
Room 304, 122 Bond St., (1 block NW of Dundas & Church)
The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto
Pleasure
Dome, The Goethe-Institut
Toronto,
and Camera Bar/ Stephen Bulger Gallery present
Revisiting the Films of Alexander Kluge
All on video.
Tuesdays & Wednesdays, Oct 28 -
Nov 12
$10
your first / $5 others (adults only, by law)
Camera Bar, 1028 Queen St. W., Toronto
The Canadian Film Institute (CFI)'s
Café
eX series (since 1999),
and SAW
Video Co-op present
The Progress of the Storm:
The Films of Christina Battle
In person from Toronto with her recent 16mm, 35mm & video.
Tuesday, October 28, 7:30pm, $10/6 (adults only, by law)
Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario
OCTOBER 26 & 27 IN CAIRO, EGYPT
ZAC Association and the Link Campus University of Malta present
2nd
Annual Abstracta 2008 Cairo
International Exhibition of Abstract Cinema
Only festival of Its kind in the world today.
October 26 & 27
Abstracta 2008 Roma - September
23-28, Rome, Italy
Abstracta 2008 New York - October 12 & 13, New
York City
OCTOBER 26 & 27 IN TORONTO
The Free Screen presents
Cinema and Disjunction
Filmmakers Adrian Blackwell, Daniel Young and Christian Giroux,
in person with premieres of their 35mm films commissioned by
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT).
Plus a panel discussion with artist Michael Snow.
Monday, October 27, 7pm, free (adults only, by law)
Cinematheque Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto
broken pencil magazine presents it's annual 'zine fair
Hotel
Canzine All
Day Screenings
Bring your own video! Maximum 10 minutes.
canzinevideo@brokenpencil.com
Sunday, October 26, 1-7pm, $5 (unclassified)
Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto
The Michigan Photographic Historical Society (MiPHS) presents its
37th annual Photographica Show &
Sale
Used photographic equipment sale.
Antique & usable, film & digital, still & cine.
Sunday, October 26, 10am-4pm, $5
Novi Community Center, 45175 West Ten Mile Rd.
(1/2 mile west of Novi Rd.), Novi, Michigan
OCTOBER 26th IN DUBLIN, IRELAND
Experimental Film Club presents its monthly screening
Dance Play Ritual
with guest filmmakers John Porter and James Hosty,
plus videos by Maya Deren, Yvonne Rainer, Morleigh Steinberg.
Sunday, October 26, 4pm, 5€
upstairs in the Ha'penny
Bridge Inn,
42 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland
The BFI 52nd London Film Festival (October 14-30) presents
Experimenta - Artists' Film
& Video
8 screenings October 25 & 26, £8.50 each
Guy Debord, Thomas Köner. Nicky Hamlyn, Robert Todd,
Francisca Duran, David Gatten, Neil Beloufa, Charlotte Pryce,
Nathaniel Dorsky, Alina Rudnitskaya, Ben Rivers, Michel Auder,
Jayne Parker, Lawrence Jordan, Alexandra Cuesta, Luther Price,
Neil Beloufa, Brigid McCaffrey, Ben Russell, Sylvia Schedelbauer,
Phil Solomon, Rebecca Baron & Douglas Goodwin, Julia Hechtman,
Sami van Ingen, Bart Vegter, Pat O’Neill, Bruce Conner, Andrew Neel.
Several makers will be present. Curated by Mark Webber. info
Two continuous installations in the BFI Southbank Studio.
NFT3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1
Drunken Master Revue (Wed's 5-6pm, CKCU-FM 93.1) presents
Saturday Night Sinema
Rare Canadian, exploitation and grindhouse classics
on 35mm or 16mm film! Monthly, on the last Saturday.
Deadly
Eyes (Robert Clouse, Canada, 1982, 16mm)
Presented by Stacey Case and Jonathan Culp
in person, from Toronto's Trash
Palace Theatre.
Saturday, October 25, 11pm, $5 (classified)
Club SAW, Arts Court, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario
OCTOBER 24 & 25 IN TORONTO
Pleasure Dome presents
Sad Nuggets
Videos by Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn
Saturday, October 25, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash
Palace Theatre.
Features and shorts projected on 16mm, 8mm or super 8.
Flat Foot (Bud Spencer, Italy, 1973)
Friday, October 24, 9:30pm, $5 (classified)
Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets
at
Tequila Bookworm,
512 Queen St. W., 416-603-7335
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)
TIE
- The International
Experimental Cinema Exposition
35mm, 16mm, 8mm, super 8. No video.
The Blue Sage, and The Paradise Theatre, Paonia, Colorado
OCTOBER 22-26 IN TORONTO
The Loop
Collective and The School of Image Arts present
their weekly Lighthouse Series devoted to experimental cinema
New Works by The Loop Collective
from Toronto with 16mm films and videos.
Thursday, October 23, 7pm, free (unclassified)
Room 304, 122 Bond St., (1 block NW of Dundas & Church)
The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto
The Revue Film Society presents
5th Drop
Your Shorts: Short Film Festival
Video, 16mm, 35mm.
Submit your shorts on Saturday, October 18, Noon-1:30pm
Thursday, October 23, 7pm, $2 (adults only, by law)
The Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto
9th Annual Planet
in Focus
International Environmental Film & Video Festival
October 22-26, Toronto (adults only, by law)
OCTOBER 22-26 IN CAMBRIDGE, ONT
The 2nd annual Grand
River Film Festival
October 22-26 No super 8
University of Waterloo School of Architecture,
7 Melville St. South, Cambridge, Ontario
including, co-presented by Ed
Video Media Arts Centre,
The First "Indie Lounge" - October
25 & 26
A film, video and new media symposium.
Workshops, panels, demonstrations.
Futures Inn (by the 401), Cambridge, Ontario
OCTOBER 22nd IN OTTAWA
Wednesdays, in Ottawa or online, on CKCU-FM 93.1, listen to
Drunken
Master Revue 5-6pm
A movie-related variety radio show.
La 8ème Festival
Tourné Monté Super8
avec le réalisateur Steven Kaysersberg
21 et 22 Octobre, 19h
Palais des Fêtes de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
OCTOBER 20th IN OTTAWA
Available Light Screening Collective presents
Screaming City: West-Berlin
1980’s
Videos & 16mm films. Co-curator Florian Wüst in person!
Monday, October
20, 4pm , 7pm & 8:30pm, free
(unclassified)
Club SAW, Arts Court, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario
info: availablelightcollective at gmail dot com Facebook
OCTOBER 20th IN TORONTO
York University Film Department presents its
7th Annual CineSIEGE
showcase of student films on video
Monday, October 20, 7pm, free!
The Royal Cinema, 608 College St., Toronto
Photorama USA presents
Cleveland Camera Collectors Show
Used photographic equipment sale.
Antique & usable, film & digital, still & cine.
Sunday, October 19, 10am-3pm, $6
Cleveland-Richfield Quality-Inn,
4742 Breckville Rd., Richfield, Ohio
(off I-80, East Exit 173, South on Route 21)
OCTOBER 18 & 19 IN TORONTO
The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) presents
Animation Workshop with Ishu Patel
Plasticine animation under the camera
Limited to 10 participants. Register: tais at bellnet dot ca
Sunday, October 19, 10am-5pm, $50/35
NFB Atelier, 150 John St., Toronto
The Film Reference Library presents
6th International Home
Movie Day
Open Call screenings on 8mm, super 8, 16mm.
Saturday, October 18, 12-5pm, free (unclassified)
Cinematheque Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto
Film submissions by appointment only:
416-967-1517 | jlofthouse at tiffg dot ca
Homemade Movies, the West Toronto Junction Historical Society,
and the Toronto Public Library - Annette Street Branch present
Home
Movie Day in the Junction
Show your home movies, or come just to watch.
8mm, super 8 or 16mm (sorry no video).
homemademovies at hotmail dot com
Saturday, October 18, free
Film Inspection & Repair Clinic: 1-3pm
View your films privately, select ones to show.
Get help with repairs, advice on preserving your films.
Screening: 2pm
Annette Library, 145 Annette St., Toronto
(1 block S of Dundas W, just W of Keele)
The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) presents
Ishu Patel, in person
35mm Film Screening and Master Class
RSVP: tais at bellnet dot ca
Saturday, October 18, 3-6pm, free (adults only, by law)
NFB Spotton Cinema, 150 John St., Toronto
Pleasure Dome presents
The Philosopher of Chaos
Films by John Bock and others
Saturday, October 18, 8pm, free (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
The University of Calgary presents
6th International Home
Movie Day
Bring & show your own home movies, or come just to watch.
Saturday, October 18, 12-5pm, free
12-2pm: Film inspection and check-in. 2-5pm: Home movie screening
Memorial Park Library, 1221 - 2nd Street SW, Calgary, Alberta
OCTOBER 18 IN EDMONTON, ALBERTA
The Provincial Archives of Alberta and
The University of Alberta
present
6th International Home
Movie Day
Open Call screenings on 8mm, super 8, 16mm.
Saturday, October 18, 1-4pm, free (unclassified)
1pm: Film inspections with archivists. 2pm: Home movie screening.
Room #2-157, Enterprise
Square,
10230 Jasper Ave., Edmonton, Alberta
OCTOBER 15-17 IN TORONTO
The U. of T. Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) presents
Free Friday Films
Repertory movies, projected on 35mm film! Tonight:
Buffalo
'66 (Vincent Gallo, USA, 1998, 110 min.)
Friday, October 17, 7pm, free (classified)
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto
Pleasure Dome presents
Screaming City: West-Berlin 1980’s
Videos and 16mm films, curated and presented by
Florian Wüst and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, in person!
Friday, October 17, 7pm, 9pm &
10:30pm,
$5 each / $10 all (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash
Palace Theatre.
Features and shorts projected on 16mm, 8mm or super 8.
The Super Cops (Gordon Parks, USA, 1974)
Friday, October 17, 9:30pm, $5 (classified)
Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets
at
Tequila Bookworm,
512 Queen St. W., 416-603-7335
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)
THE AMBiENT PiNG presents
Impossible Structures
featuring Spacenoiz, and Little
Oak Animal with
projected 35mm slides and super 8 films by Rob Cruickshank.
Thursday, October 16, 8:30pm, $6/pwyc (unclassified)
The Renaissance Café, 1938 Danforth Ave.
(2 blocks west of Woodbine), Toronto
The Loop
Collective and The School of Image Arts present
their weekly Lighthouse Series devoted to experimental cinema
Films by Double Negative Collective
16mm films and videos from Montreal.
Thursday, October 16, 7pm, free (unclassified)
Room 304, 122 Bond St., (1 block NW of Dundas & Church)
The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto
9th imagineNATIVE
Film & Media Arts Festival
Video and 35mm. No super 8 or 16mm.
October 15-19 (unclassified)
Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina Ave., Toronto
The 7th Lausanne
Underground Film & Music Festival
October 15-19, Lausanne, Switzerland
OCTOBER 15-19 IN NEW YORK CITY
21st MIX
NYC New York
Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival
8mm, super 8, 16mm, 35mm, video, performance, installation, media art
Mix Factory, Seaport, 217 Water St., New York City, New York
OCTOBER 15th IN OTTAWA
Wednesdays, in Ottawa or online, on CKCU-FM 93.1, listen to
Drunken
Master Revue 5-6pm
A movie-related variety radio show.
The Canadian Film Institute (CFI)'s
Café
eX series (since 1999),
and SAW
Video Co-op present
Imagine Meaning:
The Moving Images of Joe Hiscott
In person from Québec with his recent work.
Wednesday, October 15, 7:30pm, $10/6 (adults only, by law)
Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario
Light Industry presents
Crossroads: A Tribute to Bruce Conner
New works made for the screening by
25 artists inspired by and in tribute of Bruce Conner (1933-2008):
Dara Birnbaum, Roger Beebe, John Michael Boling, Bryan Boyce,
Peggy Ahwesh, Martha Colburn, Craig Baldwin, Stephanie Barber,
Michael Robinson, Michael Gitlin and Jacqueline Goss, Ken Jacobs,
Oliver Laric, Jeanne Liotta, Eileen Maxson, Jenny Perlin, Luther Price,
Kent Lambert, Keith Sanborn, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Deborah Stratman,
Animal Charm, Bradley Eros, Kevin Everson, Ernie Gehr, Aaron Valdez.
Part of proceeds to Anthology Film Archives' preservation of Connor's
films.
Tuesday, October 14, 8pm, $6
3rd Floor, 55 33rd Street, Brooklyn, New York
OCTOBER 12-19 IN CORK, IRELAND
53rd
Cork Film Festival
Ireland’s oldest & largest film event. Wide-ranging & eclectic.
International & New Irish Cinema. Features & Shorts.
35mm, 16mm, super 8, video.
John Porter in person from Toronto, Canada,
with 3 different super 8 film-performance shows
including one for youth. Plus a super 8 workshop.
October 12-19, Cork City, Ireland
OCTOBER 12 & 13 IN NEW YORK CITY
ZAC Association and the Link Campus University of Malta present
2nd
Annual Abstracta 2008 New York
International Exhibition of Abstract Cinema
Only festival of Its kind in the world today.
The Living Theatre, 21 Clinton St., New York City
(Abstracta 2008 Cairo
- October 26 & 27)
(Abstracta 2008 Roma - September 23-28, Rome)
OCTOBER 11 & 12 IN TORONTO
Pleasure Dome presents
Artist
Talks
with Michael Bell-Smith & Laurel Nakadate
Sunday, October 12, 2pm, $5
Pixel Gallery, 156 Augusta Ave., Toronto
Pleasure Dome presents
I-Be Area by Ryan Trecartin
Recent feature-length video by Philadelphia-based artist.
Sunday, October 12, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Latvian House, 491 College St., Toronto
Pleasure Dome presents
A Lower World:
Excesses and Extremes in Film and Video
Recent media works by Takeshi Murata, Michael Bell-Smith,
Mungo Thomson, Nathalie Djurberg, Marcus Coates,
Julian Hoeber, and Laurel Nakadate.
October 11 - November 29
Opening: Saturday, October 11, 1-6pm, free (unclassified)
Pixel Gallery, 156 Augusta Ave., Toronto
Pleasure Dome presents
We Are All Made of Stars
Videos by Laurel Nakadate, in person!
Saturday, October 11, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Latvian House, 491 College St., Toronto
OCTOBER 10-12 IN DUNDEE, SCOTLAND
Arika presents
The 6th Kill Your Timid Notion
Experiment sound-film / music-image.
35mm, 16mm, 8mm, super 8 and video.
7 film programmes including work by Walter Ruttman,
Luis Recoder, Robert Nelson, David Askevold, Toshiya Tsunoda,
Hollis Frampton, Luc Ferrari, Christoph Migone, and many more.
Experimental film/ sound performances by Francisco Lopez,
Raha Raissnia & Charles Curtis, Declarative Mode (Paul Sharits),
Aileen Campbell, Keith Rowe, Kjell Bjorgeengen & Philipp Wachsmann,
Luke Fowler & Lee Patterson, Guy Sherwin, L’Anticoncept (Gil
Wolman),
Seth Cluett, Benedict Drew & Sachiko M, Malcolm Le Grice & Keith
Rowe,
Installations by Felix Hess and Paul Sharits. Talks, workshops, etc.
October 10-12, £10/day, £25/all
Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, Dundee, Scotland
The
4th Annual Lucca Film Festival
Independent and experimental film and video.
Kiyoshi Kurasawa’s Cure-Charisma-Kairo trilogy,
retrospectives by Jonas Mekas and Shane Meadows,
and Christian Lebrat’s film, photography and performance art.
October 10-12, Lucca, Italy
OCTOBER 10th IN TORONTO
Lantern Revue
A night of film & video performance, music, storytelling & theatre,
by Robert Kingsbury & Troy Coulterman & Vanessa Kimmons,
Neil Cavalier, David Stein, Amy Bowles & Lisa Kennedy,
David Frankovich & D. Alex Meeks & Chris Wiseman,
J.M. McNab & Stefan Banjevic.
Installation by Rebecca Pletsch & Alex Unger.
Friday, October 10, 9pm, $5 (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash
Palace Theatre.
Features and shorts projected on 16mm, 8mm or super 8.
Wacky Taxi (John Astin, USA, 1972)
Friday, October 10, 9:30pm, $5 (classified)
Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets
at
Tequila Bookworm,
512 Queen St. W., 416-603-7335
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)
The 3rd WNDX
Festival
of Avant-Garde and Underground Film
Recent Prairie experimental 16mm, 35mm, video
October 9-12, $7 each / $10 pass
Cinematheque and Winnipeg Film Group Studio,
100 Arthur St. (Artspace), at Bannatyne, Winnipeg
INCLUDING
The 3rd Winnipeg One
Take Super 8 Event
Premieres of 30 new super 8 films made for the screening by
Gwen Trutnau, Sarah Petz, Arlead Ashcroft & Andrea von Wichert,
Andreas Goldfuss, Joshua Stanton, Amanda Smart, Stephan Oystryk,
Cam Woykin, Jaimz Asmundson, Karen Asmundson, Matthew Etches,
Heidi Phillips, Allison Yearwood, Jordan Crossthwaite, Kristen Andrews,
Leslie Supnet, Danielle Sturk, Aaron Zeghers, David Streit, Erik Arnason,
Kevin Bacon, Robert Vilar, Andrew Milne, Jonah Nepon, Damien Ferland,
Clint Enns, Sheena Shand, Deco Dawson, Hope Peterson, Mike Maryniuk.
Each film edited-in-camera on a single reel of super 8, then shown as
shot,
the artists not seeing their work first. An annual event in Regina since
2000.
Sunday, October 12, 9pm, $pwyc
The Marlborough Garrick Centre, 330 Garry St., Winnipeg
OCTOBER 9th IN TORONTO
The Loop
Collective and The School of Image Arts present
their weekly Lighthouse Series devoted to experimental cinema
Richard Kerr in person!
from Montreal with his 16mm films and videos.
Thursday, October 9, 7pm, free (unclassified)
Room 304, 122 Bond St., (1 block NW of Dundas & Church)
The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto
Kino05
Open Screening
Toronto chapter of Kino international video group.
Submit your shorts on the spot at 7pm! or just come to watch.
This month's featured artist: Ulysses Castellanos.
Thursday, October 9, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Camera Bar, 1028 Queen St. W., Toronto
OCTOBER 8th IN OTTAWA
The Canadian Film Institute (CFI)
and
The Independent Filmmakers Co-operative of Ottawa (IFCO)
present
Just Because I'm Standing Here,
Doesn't Mean I Want To
Pim Zwier in person from Filmbank,
Netherlands,
with recent Dutch landscape videos and films, by
Gerbrand Burger & Tijman Hauer, Anna Lange, Esther Urius,
Pim Zwier, Paul van de Wildenberg, Guido van der Werve,
Jérome Schlomoff, and Francien van Everdingen.
Wednesday, October 8, 7pm, $10/6 (adults only, by law)
Auditorium, Library & Archives Canada,
395, rue Wellington St., Ottawa, Ontario
Wednesdays, in Ottawa or online, on CHUO-FM 89, listen to
Click
here 5-6pm
Today: Pim Zwier visiting from Filmbank,
The Netherlands,
discussing his programme of recent Dutch landscape videos
showing tonight at 7pm at The Library & Archives Canada.
OCTOBER 3-7 IN TORONTO
6th
Toronto Japanese Short Film Festival
No super 8
October 7-10, $10 each, $7 advance (unclassified)
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto
The Photographic Historical Society of Canada (phsc) presents
The Big One
Photographica Fair
Canada's oldest, largest sale of used photographic equipment.
Antique & usable, film & digital, still & cine. Over 140 tables.
Sunday, October 5, 10am-3pm, $7
The Soccer Centre, 7601 Martingrove Rd.
(east side, south of Hwy 7), Woodbridge, Ontario
The 3rd Nuit
Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events (no super 8)
in 125 varied locations, indoors and outdoors,
Saturday-Sunday, October 4-5, 7pm-7am, free, including:
CARFAC
Ontario presents CARFAC's
40th Anniversary info booth 7pm-12am, and
Rooftop Jack Chambers Film Screening
Hart
of London (1970, Canada, 16mm, 80 min.)
Saturday, October 4, 9pm, free (unclassified)
Rooftop Garden, 401
Richmond St. W., Toronto
Pleasure
Dome presents
Hooliganship: Cartune Xprez
Peter Burr and Christopher Doulgeris in person from Portland,
with their multi-media performance, plus animated videos by
Takeshi Murata, Shana Moulton, Bruce Bickford and others.
Same program shown twice,
Saturday, October 4, 9pm & 11pm, $pwyc
(unclassified)
CineCycle,
behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
The Goethe-Institut
Toronto presents
Oliver Husain's Mount Shasta
Toronto premiere of his short 16mm film (10 min.), outdoors,
with live music accompaniment by Mantler (Chris A. Cummings)
and live foley sound by Oliver Husain. Repeated performances,
Saturday, October 4, 10pm-Midnight, free
(unclassified)
Garden of the Consulate
General of Italy, 136 Beverley St., Toronto
CineCycle
presents
"Scopitones" on 16mm, outdoors, all-night
Short, music films from the 1960s.
Saturday-Sunday, October 4-5, 10pm-7am (unclassified)
Courtyard, Main Floor, 401
Richmond St. W., Toronto
The U. of T. Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) presents
Free Friday Films
Repertory movies, projected on 35mm film! Tonight:
Open
Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos)
(Alejandro Amenabar, Spain/France/Italy, 1997, 117 min)
Friday, October 3, 7pm, free (classified)
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash
Palace Theatre.
Features and shorts projected on 16mm, 8mm or super 8.
Shemp Fest - the unsung Stooge
plus first episode of The Pantom Creeps serial.
Friday, October 3, 9:30pm, $5 (classified)
Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets
at
Tequila Bookworm,
512 Queen St. W., 416-603-7335
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)
The
Double Negative Collective and
Pop Montreal / Film Pop
(Oct 1-5) present
Film Pop: Double Negative Collective
A one-night-only, immersive, film-loop environment / installation
by the members of Montreal's Double Negative Collective,
with new works from Lucia Fezzuoglio, Amber Goodwyn,
Matt Law, Karl Lemieux, Eduardo Menz, Micheal Rollo,
Daichi Saito, Ithamar Silver, and Malena Szlam.
Friday, October 3, 7-11pm, free
Ctrllab, 3634, boul. St-Laurent, Montréal, Québec
OCTOBER 2nd IN TORONTO
The Loop
Collective and The School of Image Arts present
their weekly Lighthouse Series devoted to experimental cinema
Just Because I'm Standing Here,
Doesn't Mean I Want To
Pim Zwier in person from Filmbank,
Netherlands,
with recent Dutch landscape videos and 16mm films by
Gerbrand Burger & Tijman Hauer, Anna Lange, Esther Urius,
Pim Zwier, Paul van de Wildenberg, Guido van der Werve,
Jérome Schlomoff, and Francien van Everdingen.
Thursday, October 2, 8pm, free (unclassified)
Room 304, 122 Bond St., (1 block NW of Dundas & Church)
The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto
OCTOBER 1-3 IN BROOKLYN, NY
Women's
Experimental Screening Series
16mm films and videos by USA women since the 1940's.
Programmed by MM Serra, Rebecca Cleman, Marie Losier.
Wednesday-Friday, October 1-3, 8pm, $10
Oct 1 - Films by Sara-Kathryn Arledge, Marie Menken,
Silvianna Goldsmith,
Storm De Hirsch, Carolee Schneemann, Doris Chase, Rosalind Schneider.
Oct 2 - Videos by Lynda Benglis, Dara Birnbaum, Pat Hearn, Martha
Wilson,
Lynn Hershman Leeson, Cynthia Maughan, Howardena Pindell.
Oct 3 - Films and Videos by Peggy Ahwesh, Martha Colburn, Cecile
Paris,
Michelle Handelman, Kerry Laitala, Xander Marro, Shana Moulton,
Shannon Plumb, Ava Warbrick, Virginie Yassef & Aurelie Godard.
ISSUE Project Room, 3rd floor, (OA) Can Factory,
232 Third St. (Gowanus neighbourhood), Brooklyn, New York
The Goethe-Institut Toronto and Camera Bar present
Ernst Lubitsch: The Berlin Years 1919-1921
Silent films on video with live musical accompaniment by,
in turn, Alison Melville, Ben Grossman, Kathleen Kajioka,
Gabe Shuford, Marilyn Lerner and John Gzowski.
Tuesdays, September 30 - October 21,
7:30pm,
$5 membership plus $5 per evening (classified)
Camera Bar, 1028 Queen St. W., Toronto
The Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival presents its
Super 8 Touring Programme
The "Best of the Fest", on video, by Sam Giles,
David Pfluger, Bertrand Louis & David Poussin,
Chris Wagganer, Dan Marceaux, Eriko Sonada,
Norwood Cheek, Nick Golebiewski, John Cannizzaro,
Jason Nardella, Shane Davey, Allan Levasseur Brown,
Introduced by Simon Mullen from Cambridge Super 8.
Suitable for a general audience.
Sunday, September 28, 3pm, £3
The Babylon Gallery, Waterside, Ely, UK
Experimental Film Club monthly screening
TVs and Bodies
Works by experimental video artists Stephen Dwoskin,
Maximilian Le Cain, Nam June Paik, and Aldo Tambellini.
Sunday, September 28, 4pm, 5€
upstairs in the Ha'penny
Bridge Inn,
42 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland
SEPTEMBER 28th IN TORONTO
The 3rd COMMFFEST
Community Film Festival. No super 8.
September 26-28, $10 each (adults only, by law)
Rainbow Cinema, 80 Front St. E., Toronto
(also in Kensington Market, Brampton and Scarborough)
The Factory's Hamilton Film Week (Sept 22-27) presents
Naked Vision - Gala Finale
Short Independent Film & Video Art, on video.
Some artists present for Q & A. Post-screening party.
Saturday, September 27, 7:30pm, $10 suggested
The Factory: Hamilton Media Arts Centre,
126 James St. N., Hamilton, Ontario
Drunken Master Revue (Wed's 5-6pm, CKCU-FM 93.1) presents
Saturday Night Sinema
Rare Canadian, exploitation and grindhouse classics
on 35mm or 16mm film! Monthly, on the last Saturday.
American
Nightmare
(Don McBrearty, Canada, 1983, 88 minutes, 16mm)
Producer Ray Sayer in person.
Saturday, September 27, 11pm, $5 (classified)
Club SAW, Arts Court, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario
8th Student
Shorts Film Festival
Video & 16mm (unclassified)
The Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W., Toronto
THE "SHOOT
& SHOW" SUPER 8 SEASON BEGINS WITH
the oldest annual "shoot & show" super 8 screening in the
world!
22e Festival international du cinéma francophone
en Acadie
(FicfA), 25 sept -
4 oct, et la Galerie Sans Nom
présente
12e année Acadie
Underground
New super 8 films made for the screening
by Eric Allain, Laura Bonney & Joshawa Lamkey,
Mario Doucette, Marie-Thérèse François & Gabriel
Lévesque,
Bernard C. Cormier, JD Léger, Isabelle Dugas, Mélanie Durepos,
Paul Goguen & Suzanne Léger, Joe Teakles & Alexandre Tremblay.
Each film shot recently, in 48 hours, edited-in-camera, on one roll,
then processed at Exclusive
Lab in Toronto so filmmakers
see their film for the first time at the public premiere,
silent, or with "wild" sound or live performance.
"Audience Choice" Awards!
Vendredi, 26 Septembre à 21h, $5
Ciné-Bistrot, Studio 700. 700 rue main, Moncton, New Brunswick
SEPTEMBER 24-26 IN TORONTO (& NYC)
The U. of T. Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) presents
Free Friday Films
Repertory movies, projected on 35mm film! Tonight:
Funky
Forest: The First Contact (Japan, 2005, 150 min.)
directed by Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine, Shunichiro Miki.
Friday, September 26, 7pm, free (classified)
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto
Tropfest
New York 2008
"The world's largest short film festival". On video.
A rock concert-style event, outdoors, with live musical acts
beginning at 5pm. Bring a blanket. "Best Film" prize of $20,000!
Friday, September 26, screening at 8pm, free
The World Financial Center Plaza, Battery Park City, New York City
and live via satellite, outdoors in the plaza
at
First Canadian Place, 100 King St. W. (at Bay St.), Toronto, Ontario
(due to Hurricane Juan in NYC, the Toronto screening was not live)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" Trash
Palace Theatre, now weekly,
presents features and shorts projected on 16mm, 8mm or super 8.
Dogpound Shuffle (Canada, 1975)
Friday, September 26, 9:30pm, $5 (classified)
Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets
at
Tequila Bookworm,
512 Queen St. W., 416-603-7335
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)
Screening Party - 7pm
with super 8 loop projections
Introductory Video Screening - 8:30pm
Wednesday, September 24, free (unclassified)
Outdoors in the Quadrangle, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle
(at end of Wellesley St. W.), University of Toronto.
Rain Location: The Great Hall, Hart House
The Royal Theatre presents
A Bravo!FACT
Screening
Some of the best Bravo!FACT short videos from across the country.
Hosted by Second City performers Lauren Ash and Karen Parker.
Followed by a reception with artists in attendance.
The Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent.
Wednesday, September 24, 7pm, free (unclassified)
The Royal Theatre, 608 College St. Toronto
SEPTEMBER 23-27 IN ROME, ITALY
ZAC Association and the Link Campus University of Malta present
2nd
Annual Abstracta 2008 Roma
International Exhibition of Abstract Cinema
Only festival of Its kind in the world today.
September 23-27
L'Orangerie, "Teatro dell'Accademia",
Via Alessandro Volta 41-a,Testaccio, and
Casa del Cinema, Largo Marcello Mastroianni n.1,
Villa Borghese, Roma, Italy
Abstracta New York - October 12
& 13,
The Living Theatre, 21 Clinton St., New York City
Abstracta Cairo - October 26 & 27
SEPTEMBER 23rd IN NEW YORK CITY
Crossing the Line: FIAF
Fall Festival (Sept 16 - Oct 5)
and the Luxe
Gallery present
Marie Losier’s Film Portraits
Her recent 16mm film portraits including one of
Tony Conrad, in person for Q&A with Marie.
Tuesday, September 23, 7pm, $10
Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th St., New York City
Squeaky Wheel Media Resources presents
The Films of Dean Snider (1949-1994)
16mm films and videos by this co-founder of the
No Nothing Cinema, the legendary film/performance venue.
Presented by curator Douglas Katelus, in person from San Francisco.
Tuesday, September 23, 8pm, $6
Squeaky Wheel Cinema, 712 Main St., Buffalo, New York
SEPTEMBER 22nd IN OTTAWA
The Independent Filmmakers Co-operative of Ottawa (IFCO) presents
Super 8 Club Meeting
Super 8 filmmakers, novice & veterans!
Screen and talk about super 8 filmmaking.
Check out cameras and other super 8 stuff.
Bring your own super 8 film to project.
Snacks and refreshments available.
Monday, September 22, 6:30pm, free
IFCO Lounge, 2 Daly Ave., Suite 140, Ottawa, Ontario
Photorama USA presents
Detroit Camera Show & Sale
Used photographic equipment sale.
Antique & usable, film & digital, still & cine.
Sunday, September 21, 10am-3pm, $6
Holiday Inn - Southfield,
26555 Telegraph Rd., Southfield, Michigan
SEPTEMBER 20th IN BUFFALO
Hallwalls Media Arts Program presents
Vincent Grenier: Films & Videos 1978-2008
In person with a retrospective ranging from
his early 16mm films to his most recent videos.
Saturday, September 20, 8pm
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo
SEPTEMBER 20th IN TORONTO
The
Torrent's
Catherine Deneuve Video Premiere
plus animated and psychedelic videos by
Amy Lockhart and Philippe Blanchard, in person!
Live music by The Torrent and Animal Monster.
Hosted by Keith Cole.
Saturday, September 20, 9pm, $5 (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
SEPTEMBER 19-27 IN VICTORIA, BC
11th Antimatter
Film Festival
Video, 16mm, 35mm.
September 19-27, $6 each, $30/6
Open Space Arts Centre, 510 Fort St., and
Cinecenta, U. of V. Student Union Bldg., Victoria, British Columbia
SEPTEMBER 19th IN TORONTO
The U. of T. Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) presents
Free Friday Films
Repertory movies, projected on 35mm film! Tonight:
El
Cid (Anthony Mann, Italy/USA/UK, 1961, 182 min.)
Friday, September 19, 7pm, free (classified)
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" Trash
Palace Theatre, now weekly,
presents features and shorts projected on 16mm, 8mm or super 8.
Willie
McBean & His Magic Machine
(Rankin-Bass, USA, 1965)
Friday, September 19, 9:30pm, $5 (classified)
Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets
at
Tequila Bookworm,
512 Queen St. W., 416-603-7335
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)
SEPTEMBER 17th IN SAN FRANCISCO
16mm Films by Dominic Angerame
Wednesday, September 17, 8:30pm. $15-20
Varnish Gallery, 77 Natoma St.,
(between 1st & 2nd, south of Market St.), San Francisco
Photorama USA presents
Chicago Camera Shows & Sale
Used photographic equipment sale.
Antique & usable, film & digital, still & cine.
Sunday, September 14, 10am-3pm, $6
Radisson Hotel Schaumburg,
1725 East Algonquin Rd., Schaumburg, Illinois
SEPTEMBER 12th IN TORONTO
The U. of T. Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) presents
Free Friday Films
Repertory movies, projected on 35mm film! Tonight:
The
Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, France, 1956, 34 min.)
Flight
of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien, France, 2007,
113 min.)
Friday, September 12, 7pm, free (classified)
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" Trash
Palace Theatre, now weekly,
presents features and shorts projected on 16mm, 8mm or super 8.
Massacre at Central High (USA, 1976)
Friday, September 12, 9:30pm, $5 (classified)
Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets
at
Tequila Bookworm,
512 Queen St. W., 416-603-7335
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)
SEPTEMBER 11-20 IN HALIFAX, NS
The 28th Atlantic Film Festival
(AFF)
September 11-20, Halifax,
Nova Scotia
16mm, 35mm, video. No super 8.
7th
Super 8mm Festival Szeged
New and old, super 8 and 8mm films.
September 10-14, Szeged, Hungary
SEPTEMBER 7-10 IN TORONTO
Hart House's annual, all-day, “Wide Open House”
and the Hart
House Film Board present
Super 8 Open Screening in the Chapel
Bring your super 8 films to show, or just come to watch.
Soundtracks can be played on film, CD or cassette.
Hosted and projected by filmmaker John Porter
who will also show some of his own films.
Wednesday, September 10, 8-10pm, free (unclassified)
Hart House Chapel, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle
(at end of Wellesley St. W.), University of Toronto
OCAD Generations
Retrospective of videos by
Ontario College of Art & Design students over the years.
Wednesday, September 10, 7pm, $5 (unclassified)
The Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W., Toronto
Toronto International Camera Show
Used photographic equipment sale. Antique & usable,
film & digital, still & cine. phsc.ca
for details
Sunday, September 7, 10am-3pm, $7
Thornhill Community Centre,
7755 Bayview Ave. (at John St.), Markham, Ontario
Photorama USA presents
Cleveland Camera Collectors Show
Used photographic equipment sale.
Antique & usable, film & digital, still & cine.
Sunday, September 7, 10am-4pm, $6
Cleveland-Richfield Quality-Inn,
4742 Breckville Rd., Richfield, Ohio
(off I-80, East Exit 173, South on Route 21)
SEPTEMBER 6th IN BUFFALO
Squeaky
Wheel Media Resources and the
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Gusto at the Gallery present
Silent/Sound Outdoor Film Festival
Musician Don Metz performs a score for 4 guitars,
to classic and new experimental shorts by international
and local artists Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Michael Lent,
Nicole Rademacher, Angeles Cossio, Cara Marisa Deleon,
Sang Um Nam, Courtney Grim, Adam Paradis, John Larsen,
Karen Brummond, Henry Gwiazda and Jon Monaghan.
Saturday, September 6, 8:30pm, free
Columbus Park (Niagara St. & Porter Ave.), Buffalo,
New York
(Rain location: Squeaky Wheel, 712 Main St., near Tupper.)
The Richmond Moving Image Co-operative (RMIC) presents
Selections from Flicker Richmond,
1998-2008
Films selected by James Parrish - Flicker Richmond co-founder
- including a new super 8 film by Jere Jere Kittle.
Part of 1708 Gallery’s 30th anniversary celebration -
InLight
RICHMOND - featuring light-inspired outdoor
installations by regional and international artists.
Friday, September 5, 7pm-midnight, free
Theatre IV's Empire Theatre, 114 W. Broad St., Richmond,
Virginia
(at the First Fridays Art Walk)
SEPTEMBER 4 & 5 IN TORONTO
CineCycle and Locheal Communications present
microcinefest
2008
Films & videos not at the Toronto International Film Festival, by
Hee Won Cho,
Tracy German, Martin Heath, Vanessa Renwick, Helen Hill, Melinda Stone,
Les Blank, Richard Leacock & Don Pennebaker, Craig Baldwin, Kaljo
Kiisk,
Andrew Patterson, Martin Reis, Istvan Kantor, John Porter, Robert Frank,
Renata Mohamed, Marcos Arriaga, Tony Romano, Van Guylder,
Dusan Makaveyev, John Greyson, Lutz Dammbeck, and more.
35mm, 16mm, super 8, 8mm and DLP video projection.
Subversive archival films. Midnight surprises.
September 5-12, 8pm & Midnight, $10 each (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
The 17th Cabbagetown
Short Film & Video Festival
Recent, international & local short videos
Friday, September 5, 8pm, $10 (unclassified)
Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester St., Toronto
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" Trash
Palace Theatre, now weekly,
presents features and shorts projected on 16mm, 8mm or super 8.
Sudden
Fury (Canada, 1975)
Director Brian Damude in person!
Friday, September 5, 9:30pm, $5 (classified)
Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets
at
Tequila Bookworm,
512 Queen St. W., 416-603-7335
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)
33rd Toronto International Film Festival
(TIFF)
September 4-13, $20 each. Adults only. No
super 8.
with it's 8th Wavelengths
Series, September 5-8
Avant-garde films & videos by James Benning, Vanessa O’Neil,
Jennifer Reeves, Nathaniel Dorsky, Skúli Sverrisson, Olaf Nicolai,
Ben Russell, Doug Goodwin, Robert Todd, T. Marie, Eriko Sonoda,
Rosalind Nashashibi, Chris Chong Chan Fui, Norbert Pfaffenbichler,
Jean-Marie Straub, Hannes Schüpbach, Charlotte Pryce, Erika Loic,
Lucy Skaer, David Gatten, Astrid Ofner, Abraham Ravett, Pat O'Neill,
Curated by Andrea Picard.
and it's 2nd Future
Projections Series
Free video installations outside of the cinema, around the city,
SEPTEMBER 4-10 IN SEOUL, KOREA
The 5th EXiS
Experimental Film and Video Festival.
35mm, 16mm, Super 8, Video.
September 4-10
Seoul Art Cinema, IndieSpace, Seoul, Koreah
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