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85 EVENTS Nov-Dec 2008

Latest in December in Ottawa - Toronto - Los Angeles - Chicago
Brooklyn, NY - Vancouver, BC - Halifax, NS - Madrid - Hamilton, ON
Winnipeg - Paris - Galway, UK - Glasgow, UK - Buffalo, NY - Bristol, UK
Latest in November in Brooklyn - Dublin - London - Peterborough - Toronto
Halifax - Ottawa - Calgary - Rotterdam - Detroit - Amsterdam - Sackville, NB
Vancouver - Washington, DC - Buffalo - Hollywood - Kingston, ON - Chicago
Queens, NY - Portland, OR - Olympia, WA - Regina - Leeds, UK - Montreal

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DECEMBER 27 IN OTTAWA

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.
Tonight: Hell Night (Tom DeSimone, USA, 1981)

Saturday, December 27, 11pm, $5 (classified)

This will be the last Saturday Night Sinema screening at
Club SAW, Arts Court, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario

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"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre.
Features and shorts projected on 16mm, 8mm or super 8.

Avalanche (Corey Allen, USA, 1978)

Friday, December 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)

Fridays, in Toronto or online, on CKLN-FM 88.1, listen to
Cinephobia - 2-3pm with host Stuart (Feedback) Andrews

TODAY BEGINNING WITH

The First "Porter Report"
John's monthly Cinephobia announcements now expanded!
Christmas report on home movies, with John reading his true story,
The Catherine Films (2000) - it's first-ever public reading!

Friday, December 19, 2:00pm-2:15pm

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DECEMBER 18 IN LOS ANGELES

Echo Park Film Center presents its

Quarterly Open Screening
Any genre! Any style! New, old, work-in-progress!
DVD, VHS, mini-DV, DV-CAM, Super 8, 8mm, 16mm.
First come, first shown. 1 film, 10 minute max per person.

Thursday, December 18, 8pm, $5 (free w/ film!)

Microcinema, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset Blvd.),
Los Angeles, California

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DECEMBER 17 IN CHICAGO

White Light Cinema presents

Early Experimental Animation by Lewis Klahr
Including a rare presentation of his earliest film (1983-85)
available for screening, shown in its original super 8 format,
and a 16mm film from 1993.
Introduced by University of Chicago Professor Tom Gunning.

Wednesday, December 17, 8pm

The Nightingale, 1084 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, Illinois

DECEMBER 16 IN BROOKLYN, NY

Light Industry presents the New York premiere of

The Lollipop Generation by G.B. Jones
(2008, video shot on super 8, 80 min., Toronto)
Fifteen years in the making! YpuTube Trailer
Followed by a talk with Jones and K8 Hardy.

Tuesday, December 16, 8pm, $6

3rd Floor, 55 33rd Street, Brooklyn, New York

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DECEMBER 15 IN VANCOUVER, BC

DIM, a monthly series curated by Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk, presents

Cartune Xprez: 2008 AMRCAN FALL Tour
Short animated videos by Takeshi Murata, Adrian Freeman,
Martha Colburn, Blu, Paper Rad, Shana Moulton, Timo Katz,
Corey Lunn, Ola Vasiljeva, Jim Trainor, Josh Mannis, Lief Hall,
Bruce Bickford, Taras Hrabowsky, Shayne Ehman, Seth Scriver,
Emanuele Bortoluzi, Eric Dyer, Jeff Kricshun, E*Rock, Mumbleboy.
Plus, curators Peter Burr and Christopher Doulgeris in person
with their most recent Hooliganship performance!

Monday, December 15, 7:30pm, $9.50 (adults only, by law)

Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St., Vancouver, BC

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DECEMBER 15 IN HALIFAX, NS

THE SHOOT & SHOW SUPER 8 FALL SEASON CLOSES WITH

The Atlantic Filmmakers Co-op (AFCOOP) presents its

8th Super Duper Super 8 Holiday Spectacular
Super 8 films recently shot & edited-in-camera in two days,
now shown first time, even to the filmmakers, on super 8!
Films by Natalia Diaz-Insense, Chloe Jones, Adam Myatt,
Colin MacDonald, Zahra Pahlevani, Cam Erais, Sam Madore,
Stephen Rite, Kevin Fraser, Kirsten Flowers, Svetlana Shkuratova
(Films may not be suitable for children.)

Monday, December 15, 8pm, free
AFCOOP General Meeting: 6:30pm

CBC Radio Room, 5600 Sackville St.
(South Park entrance), Halifax, Nova Scotia

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DECEMBER 13 IN MADRID, SPAIN

4th Annual Toma Única
International "Shoot & Show" Super 8 Film Festival

Saturday, December 13, Madrid, Spain

DECEMBER 13 IN TORONTO

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre.
Features and shorts projected on 16mm, 8mm or super 8.

First Regular Saturday Screening!

American Nightmare
(Don McBrearty, Toronto, 1983)
Producer Ray Sager, in person!

Saturday, December 13, 9:30pm, $5 (classified)
Doors CLOSE at 9:25pm!

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)

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DECEMBER 12 IN HAMILTON, ONT

The Factory presents its

3rd Annual Members Screening
Short videos during the James Street North Art Crawl,
by Khamphiene Phommisai, Craig T. Watkins & Tim Bissell,
Eves Raja, Robert Bruce, Bob Ezergailis & Robert Morpheal,
Lynda Morris, Bo Richardson, Harold Duckett, J. Aldric Gaudet,
Alex Szatmary, GooBop Media Productions & newMediaStar.tv.

Friday, December 12, 7:30pm (unclassified) Bring the family.

The Factory: Hamilton Media Arts Centre,
126 James St. North, Hamilton, Ontario

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DECEMBER 12 IN TORONTO

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre.
Features and shorts projected on 16mm, 8mm or super 8.

Educational Shorts

Friday, December 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)

Primary Colors presents

DD/MM/YYYY Music Video Launch Party
I Really Dig Your "Sound" Love, Carol by Jesi the Elder.
Live music by DD/MM/YYYY, Romo Roto, Narwhalz, Ear Power,
with Jesi the Elder's projections all night long.

Friday, December 12, 10pm, $10 (includes free zine)

CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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DECEMBER 10 IN WINNIPEG

Winnipeg Film Group presents

Notes from the Underground:
The 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival
International Tour 2008
The best experimental films of Ann Arbor’s 2008 Festival,
introduced by Deco Dawson.

Wednesday, December 10, 9pm (classified)

Winnipeg Cinematheque, Artspace Building,
100 Arthur St. (at Bannatyne, W of Main), Winnipeg, Manitoba

DECEMBER 10 IN TORONTO

The Free Screen presents

Limite (Mário Peixoto, Brazil, 1931)
Special screening of restored archival 35mm print
with the original soundtrack, composed of vinyl recordings.

Wednesday, December 10, 7pm, free (adults only, by law)

Cinematheque Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto

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DECEMBER 9-14 IN PARIS, FRANCE

Le nouveau Collectif Jeune Cinéma presente

10ème Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris
Recent & historical, 35mm, 16mm, super 8 films, and videos.

à l’Archipel et à Mains d’Oeuvres, 17 bd de Strasbourg,
et 1, rue Charles Garnier 93 400, Saint-Ouen, Paris, France

DECEMBER 6 & 7 IN GALWAY, IRELAND

The First Different Directions Film Festival
Ireland's first international experimental film festival!
Contemporary & classics, shot on film (not video art),
demanding a cinematic projection, including works by
Peter Tscherkassky, José Luis Guerin, Chaab Mahmoud,
Jean-Luc Godard, Patrick Bokanowski, Jean-Daniel Pollet,
Pierre Clementi, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Naomi Kawase, Stan Brakhage,
and a tribute to F.J. Ossang, in person!

Saturday & Sunday, December 6 & 7, Noon - 10pm

Town Hall Theatre and Nun's Island Theatre, Galway, Ireland

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DECEMBER 6 & 7 IN GLASGOW, UK

Arika presents

Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
Experiment sound-film / music-image.
35mm, 16mm, 8mm, super 8 and video. Performances by
Location, Location, Location, Epileptic Seizure Comparison,
Light Trap: Greg Pope, La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine,
Andrew Lampert, Bruce McClure, Ken Jacobs & Eric La Casa,
Shutter Interface, Word Associations, Out of Sight, Out of Synch,
Keith Rowe, Kjell Bjørgeengen & Philipp Wachsmann, About Face.

Saturday & Sunday, December 6 & 7, 6:30pm - 10:45pm,
£5 each, £10/day, £17/weekend, all ages

Glasgow Cinema, Centre For Contemporary Arts (CCA),
350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland

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DECEMBER 6 IN TORONTO

Niagara Custom Lab presents its

Artist-in-Residence Daan De Bakker
in person with a very short program of his own
single 8 films, and video, from Holland.

Saturday, December 6, 8pm, free

CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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DECEMBER 5 IN BUFFALO

7th Annual Dysfunctional Holiday Party
Short videos, films, performances, installations about the holidays.

Friday, December 5, 8pm, $6

Squeaky Wheel / Buffalo Media Resources,
712 Main St., Buffalo, New York

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DECEMBER 4-6 IN TORONTO

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre.
Features and shorts projected on 16mm, 8mm or super 8.

Beyond and Back (James L. Conway, USA, 1978)

Friday, December 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)

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The U. of T. Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) presents

Free Friday Films
Repertory movies, projected on 35mm film! Tonight:
The Last Winter (Larry Fessenden, USA / Iceland, 2006)

Friday, December 5, 7pm, free (classified)

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

ovn.tv presents

Bruce LaBruce: A Retrospective
World premiere of his latest video - Otto; or, Up With Dead People, plus
The Raspberry Reich, Hustler White, No Skin Off My Ass, Super 8 1/2.
A Bruce LaBruce Master Class! A Performance by Crystal Castles.
A Panel on Censorship in Canada. All hosted by Bruce LaBruce!
Learn how to make movies outside the system.

Thursday - Saturday, December 4-6 (classified)

The Royal Cinema, 608 College St., Toronto

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DECEMBER 4 IN OTTAWA

Available Light Screening Collective presents

Fractured Frames: Best of
The 21st Annual Images Festival, Toronto, 2008
Recent 16mm, 35mm, super 8 films, & videos, from Canada & abroad,
by Karl Lemieux, Paul Clipson, Barbra Sternberg, Inger Lise Hansen,
John Price, Jonathan Schwartz, Naoyuki Tsuji, and Marianna Milhorat.
Curated & presented by Pablo de Ocampo, Artistic Director of Images.

Thursday, December 4, 7:30pm, free/pwyc (unclassified)
Cash Bar

Club SAW, Arts Court Building, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario

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DECEMBER 3 IN TORONTO

The Free Screen presents

Takashi Ishida in person, from Japan
with his videos and 16mm films, 1995-2007.
Curated and presented by Chris Gehman.

Wednesday, December 3, 7pm, free (adults only, by law)

Cinematheque Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto

PLUS: Installation by Takashi Ishida, Nov. 15 - Dec. 19,
Trinity Square Video, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto.
Article in Toronto Daily Star - December 1st.

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DECEMBER 2-4 IN BRISTOL, UK
and this weekend in Glasgow, UK!

Arika presents

Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
Experiment sound-film / music-image.
35mm, 16mm, 8mm, super 8 and video. Performances by
Location, Location, Location, Epileptic Seizure Comparison,
Light Trap: Greg Pope, La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine,
Andrew Lampert, Bruce McClure, Ken Jacobs & Eric La Casa,
Shutter Interface, Word Associations, Out of Sight, Out of Synch,
Keith Rowe, Kjell Bjørgeengen & Philipp Wachsmann, About Face.

Tuesday - Thursday, December 2-4, 6:30-10:45pm
£5 each, £10/day, £17/week, all ages

Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, and
Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, UK

December 6 & 7 in Glasgow, UK

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DECEMBER 2 IN LOS ANGELES

Mad-Actions (Barcelona), The IotaCentre,
Cinefamily, and Los Angeles Filmforum, present

Punto y Raya (Dot and Line) Festival
Final date in US tour of competition winners!
The most basic form of abstract films & videos
by Tom Jobbins, Thomas Bey & William Bailey,
Astrid Hagenguth, Calpurnio, Iconish & Foraudiofans,
Jules Engel, Bret Battey, Katsuyuki Hattori, Laurie Gibbs,
Aleksandra Dulic & Kenneth Newby, Albert Callejo Amat, and
Danielle Ye, Chris Casady, Larry Cuba, Joaquin Kino Gil in person!

Tuesday, December 2, 8pm, $12

The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, California

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NOVEMBER 30 IN BROOKLYN, NY

2nd Annual Mono No Aware
Super 8 and 16mm Film Performance Event.
The cinematic experience - viewing film prints.
Live performances, music, audio & visual accompaniments.
by experimental filmmakers, fine artists, poets & musicians.
Organized and funded by local filmakers!

Sunday, November 30, 6-10pm, free

East Coast Aliens Salon, 216 Franklin St., Brooklyn, NY

NOVEMBER 30 IN DUBLIN, IRELAND

Experimental Film Club presents its

Monthy Screening - "Time"
Videos by Anthony Kelly & David Stalling, Stephen Rennicks,
Julius Ziz, Eamonn Doyle, Djamel Kokene and Taysir Batniji,
and a 35mm slide-projection by Alan Lambert..

Sunday, November 30, 4pm, 5€

upstairs in the Ha'penny Bridge Inn,
42 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland

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NOVEMBER 29 & 30 IN LONDON, UK

Arika presents

Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
Experiment sound-film / music-image.
35mm, 16mm, 8mm, super 8 and video. Performances by
Location, Location, Location, Epileptic Seizure Comparison,
Light Trap: Greg Pope, La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine,
Andrew Lampert, Bruce McClure, Ken Jacobs & Eric La Casa,
Shutter Interface, Word Associations, Out of Sight, Out of Synch,
Keith Rowe, Kjell Bjørgeengen & Philipp Wachsmann, About Face.

Saturday & Sunday, November 29 & 30, £5

National Film Theatre, ICA Theatre, BFI IMAX, London, UK

and December 2-4 in Bristol, December 6 & 7 in Glasgow

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NOVEMBER 29 IN PETERBOROUGH

Trent Film Society presents its first-term party, including

Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man
on video, with live score by Dahn Mirabelli.

Saturday, November 29, 8pm, free

Artspace, 378 Aylmer St., Peterborough, Ontario

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NOVEMBER 29 IN TORONTO

Pleasure Dome presents

Ponytail (2008, video, 90 minutes)
A computer animation by Barry Doupé, in person!

Saturday, November 29, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)

CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

NOVEMBER 29 IN HALIFAX

The Linda Joy Media Arts Society presents

The Helen Hill Animated Award Reception
Announcement of the 2008 winner of the annual award at 7pm!
Recognizing an emerging, Atlantic-region, animation artist
who will receive over $9000 of production support.

Saturday, November 29, 6pm, free

eyelevelgallery, 2063 Gottingen St., Halifax, Nova Scotia

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NOVEMBER 29 IN OTTAWA

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.

Saturday, November 29, 11pm, $5 (classified)

Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank St., Ottawa, Ontario

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NOVEMBER 28 IN TORONTO

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre.
Features and shorts projected on 16mm, 8mm or super 8.

Tomboy and the Champ (Francis D. Lyon, USA, 1961)

Friday, November 28, 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:
Belle De Jour (Luis Bunuel, France / Italy, 1967 101 min.)

Friday, November 28, 7pm, free (classified)

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

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NOVEMBER 27-29 IN CALGARY

The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF) presents

Surrealism on Film
New short 16mm, 35mm, super 8 films, and videos,
by local, national, and international artists:
Shawn Atkins, Valerie Buhagiar, Virgil Widrich, Shawn Fulton,
Scott Amos, Tinu Sinha, Wrik Mead, Cam Woykin, Clint Enns,
Gerard Freixes Ribera, Julian Dahl, Laura Taler, Gerald Saul,
Christina Zeidler, Bill Burns, Andre Schreuders, Victoria Prince,
Andres Garcia Franco, Amalie Atkins, Chris Bose, Eric Ostroski,
Poyan Jafarizadeh Dezfoulian, Rick Raxlen, Roberto Ariganello,
Allyson Mitchell, David Armstrong, Don Best, Elizabeth Lazebnik,
Deco Dawson, Guillaume Valee, Solomon Nagler, Amy Lockhart.
Plus Un Chien Andalou by Salvador Dali and Luis Buneul.

November 27-29, 7pm, $10/8

CSIF Sofa Cinema, Building J2,
2711 Battleford Ave. SW (Currie Barracks), and
The Plaza Theatre, 1133 Kensington Rd. NW, Calgary, Alberta

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NOVEMBER 26 & 27 IN TORONTO

The Loop Collective and The School of Image Arts present
their weekly Lighthouse Series devoted to experimental cinema

Stan Brakhage 8mm:
Song XXVII: My Mountain & Rivers

Third of 3 rare screenings of Brakhage on 8mm!

Thursday, November 27, 7pm, free (unclassified)

Room 304, 122 Bond St., (1 block NW of Dundas & Church)
The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto

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The Free Screen presents

Reason Over Passion by Joyce Wieland
(Canada, 1969, 16mm, 80 minutes)

Wednesday, November 26, 7pm, free (adults only, by law)

Cinematheque Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto

Over the Top Festival presents

Yeast (Mary Bronstein, USA, 2008, video)

Wednesday, November 26, 8pm, (unclassified)
$10, or 3 for $20! (Bring two friends you don't like.)

CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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NOVEMBER 26 IN ROTTERDAM

WORM presents

Schnitzeljagd
Super 8 short films evening with Dagie Brundert

Wednesday, November 26, 9pm, 5€

WORM, Achterhaven 148, Rotterdam, Netherlands

NOVEMBER 22 & 23 NEAR DETROIT

Photorama USA presents

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

Saturday, November 22, 10am-3pm, $6
Clawson Troy Elks Lodge, 1451 E. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, Michigan

Sunday, November 23, 10am-3pm, $6
Sheraton Hotel, 21111 Haggerty Rd., Novi, MIchigan

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NOVEMBER 21-23 IN TORONTO

Toronto International Camera Show
Used photographic equipment sale.
Antique & usable, film & digital, still & cine.

Sunday, November 23, 10am-3pm, $7

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

Pleasure Dome presents

Under the Microscope
Recent videos from UK, Asia & USA, by Kim Kyung-Mook,
Martin Creed, Ömer Ali Kazma, Semiconductor, and
M.M. Serra, in person from New York City!

Saturday, November 22, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)

CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre.
Features and shorts projected on 16mm, 8mm or super 8.

13 Frightened Girls (William Castle, USA, 1963)

Friday, November 21, 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)

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The U. of T. Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) presents

Free Friday Films
Repertory movies, projected on 35mm film! Tonight:
La Haine (Hate) (Mathieu Kassovitz, France, 1995, 96 min.)

Friday, November 21, 7pm, free (classified)

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

Bike Pirates present

Bike-In Film NIght
Local short videos and a feature about bicycling in Toronto:
"Critical Mass" 2008, "Reclaim the Streets" and more!
Hot chocolate provided with a hotplate!

Friday, November 21, 7pm, $5/pwyc (unclassified)

Bike Pirates, 1292 Bloor St. W. (east of Lansdowne), Toronto

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NOVEMBER 21 IN AMSTERDAM

The SHIFT Festival (Amsterdam, Nov 18-22 & Toronto, Feb 25 - March 3),
The Images Festival (Toronto) and Continuum Contemporary Music present

Notes on Composing:
5 collaborations in film and music

Premiere of commissioned films & videos by Canadian artists,
each scored by a different Canadian or Dutch composer -
Christina Battle with Martin Arnold, Guy Maddin with Richard Ayres,
Clive Holden with Oscar van Dillen, Vera Frenkel with Rick Sacks,
and Daichi Saito with Malcolm Goldstein,
with live music by CCM's ensemble, and Malcolm Goldstein.
Pre-concert talk with Michel Khalifa at 7:30pm.

Friday, November 21, 8:30pm

Muziekgebouw Grote Zaal, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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NOVEMBER 19-29 IN TORONTO

9th aluCine Toronto Latino Media Festival
North America's largest festival of recent Latino shorts.
Video, 35mm, 16mm, no super 8. (unclassified)

November 20-29, $6 each

NFB Spotton Cinema, 150 John St., Toronto

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The Loop Collective and The School of Image Arts present
their weekly Lighthouse Series devoted to experimental cinema

Stan Brakhage 8mm: 23rd Psalm Branch
Second of 3 rare screenings of Brakhage on 8mm!
More Brakhage on 8mm - next Thursday!

Thursday, November 20, 7pm, free (unclassified)

Room 304, 122 Bond St., (1 block NW of Dundas & Church)
The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto

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The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents

MOVIE-OKE & Silent Auction
LIFT's Annual Silent Auction and Film Karaoke Event.
Perform the dialogue to scenes from your favourite movies,
with live musical accompaniment by Southern Charles.
Plus LIFT's annual Silent Auction Fundraiser,
with many film-related and other deals.

Thursday, November 20, 7-11pm, $12/7 (unclassified)

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

Mind Officially Blown
A one-night screening of some of the best European & American,
recent experimental videos from the last three years of the
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival in Germany.
Maria Theresa Alvez, Anissi Kasitonni, Aurora Reinhardt,
Cory Arcangel, Liv Strand, Angela Duran, Lars Siltbery,
Martijn van Boven, Shana Moulton, Kurt D'Haeseleer.
Programmed by Deirdre Logue. Running 67 minutes.

Thursday, November 20, 7:30pm, free (unclassified)

Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington Ave., Toronto, Ontario

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The Free Screen presents

Free Films Made Freely
The Experimental Cinema of Paolo Gioli of Italy.
Canadian premieres of silent 16mm films, 1969-2008.
Curated and presented by Patrick Rumble.

Wednesday, November 19, 7pm, free (adults only, by law)

Cinematheque Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto

Mobifest presents

3rd Mobifest Mobile Movie Festival
40 videos shot on small digital cameras.

Wednesday, November 19, 7pm, $5 (unclassified)

The Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto

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NOVEMBER 18 IN SACKVILLE, NB

"Motion Picture Making on Film" Workshop
Super 8 and 16mm cameras and camerless filmmaking.
Hand-processing, shooting with a camera,
editing on film and running the projectors.
Instructed by Amanda Dawn Christie.

Tuesday, November 18, 6-10pm, $10/5

Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre,
7 Lorne St., Sackville, New Brunswick

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NOVEMBER 17 & 18 IN VANCOUVER

Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society presents

After School Special
Videos by Elisabeth Subrin, Kika Thorne, Alex Bag.

Tuesday, November 18, 7:30pm, $10

Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St., Vancouver, BC

The Legend of Buck Kelly - 7:30pm
(Peggy Anne Berton, Canada, 2006, super 8 film-on-video)

ScareCity - 9pm
Vancouver premiere of a new super 8 film-on-video with live
performance by Peggy Anne Berton and Marc St Aubin,
combining Peggy Anne’s personal stories and footage
with Marc’s original music and songs.

Monday, November 17, $9.50/8 (adults only, by law)

Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe St., Vancouver, BC

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NOVEMBER 17 IN TORONTO

This Ain't the Rosedale Library presents

Me and My Brother by Robert Frank
(1969, USA, 16mm, 91 minutes)
plus Getting it Together, about poet Larry Eigner, by
Leonard Henny and Jan Boon (1967, USA, 16mm, 20 minutes).

Monday, November 17, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)

CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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NOVEMBER 16 NEAR WASHINGTON, DC

Photorama USA presents

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

Sunday, November 16, 10am-3pm, $6

Holiday Inn Fort Washington,
432 Pennsylvania Ave, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania

NOVEMBER 13-15 IN TORONTO

Pleasure Dome presents

Testing Body, Mind and Soul
Historical Performances

Saturday, November 15, 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.

Skip Tracer (1977)

Friday, November 14, 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)

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The Loop Collective and The School of Image Arts present
their weekly Lighthouse Series devoted to experimental cinema

Stan Brakhage 8mm: Songs XIV - XX
First of 3 rare screenings of Brakhage on 8mm!
More Brakhage on 8mm - Nov 20 & 27!

Thursday, November 13, 7pm, free (unclassified)

Room 304, 122 Bond St., (1 block NW of Dundas & Church)
The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto

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NOVEMBER 13 IN BUFFALO

Squeaky Wheel Media Resources presents

Landscape & Memory, with Cade Bursell
Experimental film & video screening with
Squeaky Wheel's Artist-In-Residence from the
Cinema & Photography Department, Southern Illinois University.
Other works by Katherin McInnis, Nathaniel Dorsky, Jeanne Liotta.

Thursday, November 13, 8pm, $6

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

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NOVEMBER 13 IN HOLLYWOOD

THE SHOOT & SHOW SUPER 8 FALL SEASON CONTINUES WITH

Norwood Cheek's Flicker LA and the American Cinematheque present

The 8th annual Attack of the 50 Foot Reels
New videos shot on super 8 for the screening.
Each film was shot on one 50-foot cartridge, edited-in-camera,
then processed at Yale Film & Video, transferred to video,
and now premiered with original soundtracks played "wild",
and with the filmmakers seeing them for the first time.

Thursday, November 13, 7:30pm, $9

Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California

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NOVEMBER 11-16 IN TORONTO

12th Toronto Reel Asian
International Film Festival

No super 8

November 12-16, $10 each (adults only, by law)

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

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ScareCity
Toronto premiere of a new super 8 film-on-video with live
performance by Peggy Anne Berton and Marc St Aubin,
combining Peggy Anne’s personal stories and footage
with Marc’s original music and songs.

Tuesday, November 11, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)

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

NOVEMBER 10 IN KINGSTON, ONT

The Department of Film & Media, Queen's University
and the Cameo Cinema series, present

Super 8 Films by John Porter
in person from Toronto!

Monday, November 10, 8pm, free (unclassified)

The Artel, 205 Sydenham St., Kingston, Ontario

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NOVEMBER 9 NEAR CHICAGO

Photorama USA presents

Chicago Camera Collectors Show
Used photographic equipment sale.
Antique & usable, film & digital, still & cine.

Sunday, November 9, 10am-3pm, $6

Radisson Hotel Schaumburg,
1725 East Algonquin Rd., Schaumburg, Illinois
(I-90 or 290 West to 53 North to Algonquin Rd. West 1/2 mile)

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NOVEMBER 8 & 9 IN TORONTO

Pleasure Dome presents

To See The Enormous Night Arise
Performances by Gale Allen, Irene Loughlin,
Mikiki & Naufús Ramirez-Figueroa.

Sunday, November 9, 8pm, $10 (unclassified)

Latvian House, 491 College St., Toronto

Pleasure Dome presents

Mike Kelley's Day Is Done
(Los Angeles, video, 169 min, 2006)

Saturday, November 8, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)

Latvian House, 491 College St., Toronto

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NOVEMBER 8 IN QUEENS, NY

Queens International Film Festival (Nov 6-9) presents

Donovan Slacks (Kivmars Bowling, 2008, UK)
East Coast premiere of indie experimental feature video
shot on super 8 Kodachrome 40!

Saturday, November 8, 12:30pm

Jackson Room, Crowne Plaza,
104-04 Ditmars Blvd., Queens, New York

NOVEMBER 7-15 IN PORTLAND

35th Northwest Film & Video Festival <<<
video, 35mm, 16mm, super 8

November 7-15, Portland, Oregon

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NOVEMBER 7-15 IN OLYMPIA, WA

The 25th Annual Olympia Film Festival
Including CINE-X Expanded Cinema with new 16mm films by
Scott Stark, Pip Chodorov, Jon Behrens and Vanessa O'Neill,
Kerry Laitala's 16mm & 35mm multi-projector performance,
a live multi-media performance by Amber Smith, and
Robert Schaller's handmade films. Many artists in person.

November 7-15, Olympia, Washington

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NOVEMBER 7 & 8 IN SACKVILLE, NB

Distribution Workshop
with Larissa Fan, Educational Sales & Outreach Coordinator at
The Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre (CFMDC) of Toronto.

Saturday, November 8, 1pm, free

Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre,
7 Lorne St., Sackville, New Brunswick

ReGeneration - 40th Anniversary Screening Tour
The Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre (CFMDC) of Toronto
celebrates with a tour of seven commissioned 16mm films & videos,
and the 16mm Canadian avant-garde classics that inspired them.
Works by Michael Snow, Mike Hoolboom, Adam Garnet Jones,
Chris Gehman, Susan Justin, Joyce Wieland, Allyson Mitchell,
Louise Bourque, Lise Beaudry, Shelley Niro, Jerry Thevent,
Stan Brakhage, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Midi Onodera.
Hosted by Larissa Fan, in person from Toronto,
Educational Sales & Outreach Coordinator at the CFMDC.

Friday, November 7, 8pm, free

Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre,
7 Lorne St., Sackville, New Brunswick

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NOVEMBER 7 IN TORONTO

The U. of T. Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) presents

Free Friday Films
Repertory movies, projected on 35mm film! Tonight:
Microcosmos (France/Switzerland/Italy, 1996, 80 min.)
by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou.

Friday, November 7, 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.

The Swimmer (Frank Perry, USA, 1968, 95 min.)

Friday, November 7, 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)

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NOVEMBER 7 IN OTTAWA

Available Light Screening Collective and the
Independent Filmmakers' Co-operative of Ottawa (IFCO) present

Long Live the Short Films of
Roberto Ariganello: A Retrospective & Tribute
Six, 16mm films, curated by James Missen on the occassion of
ARCCOs national conference Hot Buttons.
Followed by conversation and revelry. Music by DJ Bear Witness.

Friday, November 7, 8:30pm, free (unclassified)
Cash Bar (all proceeds donated to L.I.F.T.).

Club SAW, Arts Court, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario

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NOVEMBER 6-15 IN TORONTO

16th Rendezvous With Madness
Film Festival

Experimental, documentary, drama, animation
dealing with mental health and addiction.
No super 8. (classified)

November 6-15 (adults only, by law)

Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen St. W., Toronto

The Loop Collective and The School of Image Arts present
their weekly Lighthouse Series devoted to experimental cinema

Films by Marie Menken
Early 16mm films from USA.

Thursday, November 6, 7pm, free (unclassified)

Room 304, 122 Bond St., (1 block NW of Dundas & Church)
The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto

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NOVEMBER 6 IN REGINA

THE SHOOT & SHOW SUPER 8 FALL SEASON CONTINUES WITH

The 8th Original One Take Super 8 Event
30 new films shot & shown on super 8 by local artists
using one 3-minute roll of film each, without any ‘second takes’,
and the filmmakers do not view their film before the screening.
Terry mialkowsky, jori cachene, Ken Wilson, Dave Turcotte,
Devin Coppens, Jeannie Straub, Lexi Lennebohm, Ryan Hill,
Shawn Fulton, Jennifer Sparrowhawk, rdp, Katherine Skelton,
Trevor Anderson, Jennifer Gemmett, Angela Edmunds, Jade Duckett,
Brent Braaten, Gerald Saul, Ericl Hill, Tricia Martin, Daniel Suchoboki,
Marcel Petit, Krystal Lewis, berny hi & jemma gilboy, Dianne Ouellette,
Matt Yim, Peter Brass, Alex Rogalski, Helder Carjaval, Tyler Banadyga.

Thursday, November 6, 8pm, free

Regina Public Library Theatre, Main Branch,
2311 12th Ave., Regina, Saskatchewan 306-777-6000

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NOVEMBER 4-16 IN LEEDS, UK

22nd Leeds International Film Festival
Including the KINETIKA! experimental film series,
mostly on 16mm, with Sector 16 from Hannover,
EXP24 hand-processed Super 8 and 16mm films,
and a Super 8 Film Workshop.

November 4-16, Leeds, UK

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NOVEMBER 2 IN MONTREAL

The Range Finder presents

43rd Montreal Photographica Flea Market
Used photographic equipment sale.
Antique & usable, film & digital, still & cine.

Sunday, November 2, 10am-3pm, $6

Holiday Inn Pointe-Claire,
6700 Trans Canada Hwy, Pointe-Claire, Quebec
(Hwy 40, Exit 52/Boul. St-Jean, facing Fairview Shopping Centre).
sol at therangefinder dot com

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NOVEMBER 2 NEAR WASHINGTON, DC

Photorama USA presents

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

Sunday, November 2, 10am-3pm, $6

Best Western Tysons Westpark,
8401 Westpark Drive, McLean, Virginia.
(from I-495 take exit 47, Route 7W towards Tyson Corner)

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NOVEMBER 1st IN TORONTO

Pleasure Dome presents

Colouring the Virtual:
Jim Campbell and Cinematic Futurity
Talk by Erin Manning, moderated by Firoza Elavia.
Symposium & Book launch.

Saturday, November 1, 3-6pm, free

Pixel Gallery, 156 Augusta Ave., Toronto

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre.
Features and shorts projected on 16mm, 8mm or super 8.

Plague (Ed Hunt, 1978, shot in Toronto!)

Saturday, November 1, 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)

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