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Pedro Ferreira (Artist-in-Residence at Images Festival) presents
off to Portugalia!
Going-Home Party for Pedro!
Special screenings of Pedro's video doc in-progress,
My Friend Martin: The Short Story of CineCycle, and
Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon on 16mm!
MP3 party - bring your music - you're the DJ!
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Sunday, December 21, 7pm, free!
Pleasure Dome presents
Johnny Minotaur with MM.
Serra
MM. Serra in person from New York City! where
she is Director of New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative,
introducing Johnny Minotaur
(Charles Henri Ford, USA, 1971, 16mm, 80 min.)
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Saturday, December 13, 7:30pm, $8 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome's 25th Anniversary Party
10pm, free!
Pleasure Dome presents
Recent Works from Collectif Jeune
Cinéma
Curated by Filipe Afonso, in person from Paris!
Recent international videos by Anna Marziano, Doplgenger,
Alice Colomer, Neozoon, Gheith Al-Amine, Théodora Barat,
Michael Robinson, Les Ballets Russes, Shambhavi Kaul,
Thibault Le Texier, and a 16mm film by Silvia das Fadas.
Total running time 87 minutes. Facebook
Friday, November 28, 7:30pm, $8 (unclassified)
CineCycle presents its Autumn 2014
Toronto Open Screening
Bring your films or videos to show!
or just come to watch!
35mm, 16mm, 8mm, super 8 film,
VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, Quicktime.
Max 10 min. 1st come, 1st shown.
Premiere of 2 new films by John Porter!
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Sunday, November 23, 7:30pm, $pwyc
(unclassified)
Sign-up begins at 7pm.
The Images Festival presents
Fragments:
Space/Time, Identity and Memory
2014 Artist-in-Residence at Images Festival,
Pedro Ferreira in person from Poland!
with his new videos, super 8 and 8mm films!
Total running time 70 minutes.
Wednesday,
November 19, 8pm,
pwyc / $5 suggested (unclassified)
Flood
Tide (Todd Chandler, USA, 70 min.)
Original score by Dark Dark Dark, plus
shorts by Todd Chandler with live scores by
Todd Chandler and Marshall LaCount in person!
(Dark Dark Dark, XXXPRSNXXX). Facebook
Tuesday, November 18, 8pm,
(unclassified)
$5-10 sliding scale, no one turned away!
vers(ing)
videos by Sandra Gregson and Barbara Sternberg
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Saturday, November 15, 7:30pm, free! (unclassified)
CineCycle presents its "Sounds & Silents" screening series
Nosferatu
on 16mm!
(F. W. Murnau, Germany, 1922, 94 minutes)
the silent Expressionist horror classic film with a
live soundtrack by the Birth of Troubling Forms!
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Sunday, October 26, 8pm, $10 (classified)
Spoony Toons presents
Halloween Cartoon Specials plus
John Carpenter's The Thing
Audience choice! Open cereal bar!
Cocktails and drinks! Facebook
Friday, October 24, 8:30pm-1am, $10 (adults only)
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents
Found Found Found:
Films and Videos by Dirk de Bruyn
LIFT's Artist-in-Residence this month,
in person from Australia! with his
early 16mm films and new videos.
Total run time 70 min. Facebook
Wednesday, October 22, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
The 9th Nuit
Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events
in 150 varied locations, indoors & outdoors. No super 8.
Saturday-Sunday, October 4-5, 7pm-7am, free!
INCLUDING
CineCycle presents Scopitones
Short, 1960s music films on 16mm!
Outdoors! 8pm-4am (unclassified)
Courtyard, 401
Richmond St. W., Toronto
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents
Film as Fabric, Lace and Thread
a new 16mm experimental film performance by
Mary Stark in person from Manchester, UK!
LIFT's Artist-in-Residence this month,
with 35mm, 16mm, super 8, sound, sculpture,
live action, spoken word, a Talk, and more!
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Wednesday, September 24, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
also, not at CineCycle,
Mary Stark Workshop: Film and Object and
Light
Sunday, September 21, 10am-6pm, $75
at LIFT, 1137 Dupont St. (at Gladstone Ave.)
The Dept. of Geography at the University of Toronto
and Pleasure Dome present
Liquid Traces
by Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani.
Lorenzo Pezzani of Forensic Architecture
in person from London, UK! Screening and Talk.
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Tuesday, September 23, 7:30pm, $8
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group of Ontario presents
A
Pact with the Process: 20 Years of Film Farm
Works from Philip Hoffman’s Independent Imaging Retreat,
or "Film Farm,” celebrating it’s 20th anniversary
this year!
16mm films and videos by Leslie Supnet, Carolynne Hew,
Helen Hill, Deirdre Logue, Maria Magnusson, Matt Soar,
Lisa Marr, Eve Heller, Lyndsay Bloom, Carolyn Monnet,
Becka Barker, Lillah Halla, John Greyson, Chris Chong,
Maïa Cybelle Carpenter, Jennifer Reeves, Eva Kolcze.
Philip Hoffman in person! plus Matt Soar
from Montreal,
Jennifer Reeves from New York, John Greyson, Eva Kolcze,
Carolynne Hew from Toronto, and many more Film Farmers!
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Saturday, September 20, 7:30pm, $8 (unclassified)
due to rain forecast, now indoors at CineCycle
Spoony Toons presents its monthly
Saturday Morning Cartoons
from the 80s & 90s -- on a Sunday
This month: superheroes! Audience choice!
Open cereal bar! Cocktails and drinks! Facebook
Sunday, September 7, 12pm-2:30pm, $10 (adults only)
Toronto VeloReel Bicycle Film Festival and CineCycle present
Bike-In Film Fest & Outdoor Screening!
16mm bicycling films from CineCycle's collection.
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Friday, August 22,
9:30pm-Midnight, free!
(unclassified)
1 Fraser Ave., Toronto
(2 blocks south of King St. W., 2 east of Dufferin)
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents
The Mechanical Paradise:
The Films of Steven
Woloshen
in person from Montréal!
with his
hand-made, animated and experimental
16mm & 35mm films, and videos, 1982-2013.
Total running time: 54 minutes. Facebook
Friday, August 15, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
Steven Woloshen's Hands-on Workshop,
Master Class
Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17 respectively,
at LIFT,
1137 Dupont Street Toronto.
The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) presents its 10th annual
TAIS Showcase 2014 and Robot Anijam
Recent short videos by TAIS members Benjamin
Edelberg,
Signe Baumane, Yuval Nathan, Coke Rioboo, Alisi Telengut,
Edmunds Jansons, Gerry Lagendyk, Augusto Bicalho Roque,
Iriz Pääbo, Patrick Jenkins, Rhayne Vermette, Claire Bennett,
Samay Cajas, Jaime Ekkens, Mikko Mällinen, Sharron Mirsky,
Tanya Read, George Ungar, Caroline Blais, Lynn Dana Wilton.
Many of the artists in person! Facebook
Thursday, July 24,
7:30pm, $10 (unclassified)
BBQ at 6pm!
Pleasure Dome presents
Site/Sight/Cite:
The Cinema of Nancy Holt
American artist who died this past January.
Videos of three 16mm films, 1971-2011.
Total running time: 54 minutes.
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Saturday, July 19, 8:30pm, $8 (unclassified)
Outdoors in the Courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., but due
to rain,
now at CineCycle,
behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
CineCycle presents its "Sounds & Silents" screening series
The Short Films of Man Ray on 16mm
Films, 1923-1929, by Man Ray and René Clair,
with live soundtracks by Red Lantern!
(David Lee, William Davison, Bob Vespaziani,
Tena Palmer and Arthur Bull). Facebook
Sunday, July 13, 8pm, $10 (classified)
Pleasure Dome presents
A Public Conversation on
Diverse Media Exhibition
Saturday, July 5, 5pm, free!
BBQ - 6:30pm, free!
Annual Open Screening
Bring your latest experimental films or videos to show
(finished or unfinished, found or stolen), before 8pm,
or just come to watch!
16mm, super 8, VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, Quicktime, Mp3
Maximum 10 minutes. First come, first shown.
Saturday, July 5, 8pm, free! (unclassified)
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Spoony
Toons: CanCon Edition
Monthly nostalgic 80's and 90's cartoons.
Canadian-made The Raccoons, Inspector Gadget,
My Pet Monster, Beetlejuice, Tin Tin, Stickin'
Around.
Open cereal bar! Facebook
Sunday, June 29, 12pm-2:30pm, $10 (adults only)
Nuts & Volts presents
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An electronic buffet of sound, video, performance
with Wizard Of, i + i, SpookyFish, RH +/-, ghettocyb.org,
Distraksjon, CJ Austin, dAeve Fellows, Christina Kozak.
Celebrating Martin Walder's birthday! Facebook
Saturday, June 28, 10pm, $10 (adults only)
Dead Beat Productions and Chart Attack present
Untold Noise
3 Music Documentary Shorts!
Untold Noise, This is Now Here,
and We Are the Heart of This Town,
plus DJ Locke 'n' Lindsay! Free beer!
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Thursday, June 26, 8:30pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
Rockford Peach presents
The Peach Party
Bands. Booze. Babes. Shop.
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Sunday, June 22, 4pm-9pm
Queerean Town presents
Queer(ean) Seen
Toronto Queer Korean Video Screening
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Saturday, June 14, 6:30pm (unclassified)
tickets by donation
3rd
Annual Toronto Korean Film Festival
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May 27-31, $5 / $7 each (classified)
May 27-29 at CineCycle, then May 30-31 at
Jackman Hall, AGO,
317 Dundas St. W., Toronto
Spoony
Toons
Nostalgic 80's and 90's cartoons.
Open cereal bar! Facebook
Sunday, May 25, 12pm-2:30pm, $10
CineCycle presents its "Sounds & Silents" screening series
L’Âge
d’Or / The Golden Age
(Luis Buñuel, France, 1930, 16mm, 63 min.)
with live soundtrack by Red Lantern!
(Arthur Bull, David Lee, Tena Palmer, Bob Vespaziani)
plus related short films, all on 16mm! Facebook
Sunday, May 11, 8pm, $10 (classified)
Images
Festival at CineCycle!
APRIL 11-18
27th Images
Festival of Media Art (April 10-19) presents
2 events (1 recurring) April 11-18 at CineCycle
Post-Screening
Lounge
Cash bar, DJs, food!
April 11-18, 11pm-2am, free!
Kate Ewald's Birthday Celebration!
April 13, 12:01am (Saturday night)
PLUS
Annual
Open Screening
Bring your short film or video (max 10 min.)
to share with your fellow festival goers.
16mm, 35mm, super 8, VHS, DVD, Quicktime.
First come, first screened! Signup starts 10pm.
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Tuesday, April 15, 10pm, free! (classified)
Wavelength Music Series presents
Picastro
Record Release for “You” (Static Clang).
Live Performance with CineCycle 16mm Films!
at 10:30pm, preceded by two opening acts:
8:30pm - Magali Meagher (The Phonemes).
9:30pm - Paul Schedlich Record Release.
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Wednesday, April 9, 8:30pm, $12, all ages!
Spoony
Toons
Nostalgic 80's and 90's cartoons.
Open cereal bar!
Sunday, April 6, Noon, $7
The International Campaign Against War on the People
of India
(ICAWPI) - Toronto
Chapter presents
Red
Ant Dream (Sanjay Kak, India, video, 120
minutes)
documentary on the revolutionary Maoist movement in India.
Sanjay Kak in person for a Q&A!
Saturday, March 22, 2pm
Pleasure Dome presents
A Tribute to
Anne Charlotte Robertson, Film Diarist,
1949-2012
Guest curated by Toni Treadway, in person from USA!
Digital copies of Robertson's super 8 films, 1981-2001.
Total running time: 90 minutes.
Saturday, March 22, 8:15pm, $8
(unclassified)
NEW START TIME!
88 Days Of Fortune presents its
UHURU: a Night of Celebration
Art exhibition by Malcolm Yarde, Zahra Siddiqui, Thomarya F,
Camille Lauren, Jah Grey, Amber Williams-King, Yanick Hunter,
and performances by Mawe Bahari and Jabu, Abigail Ghide,
David Delisca, Tristin Chanel, Zakiyya Thurston, Tyler Nelson,
and live art by Camille Lauren, and a
dance party with DJs Kirsten Aza, Sun Sun, El Machetero.
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Friday, March 14, 7:30pm-3am, $5
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents
The Hand, the Eye and the Mouth:
Films by Anja Dornieden and
Juan David González Monroy
LIFT's Artists-in-Residence in person from Berlin!
with their 35mm film and their new 16mm
triple-projection film performance!
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Tuesday, March 11, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
DJ Ristich presents
Jamar Burnette's Birthday Party
Performances by Jamar Burnette,
Sage Harris, Yung-Flex and JG.
Saturday, March 8, 9pm, $12, all ages!
Pleasure Dome presents
Stemple Pass by James Benning
(USA, 2012, video, 120 minutes)
Canadian premiere! Facebook
Friday, March 7, 7:30pm, $8 (unclassified)
Damage Control:
The Films of Adam Paradis & JB Mabe
in person from Chicago!
Touring the USA and Canada with their
Super 8, 16mm & 35mm films and film performance!
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Sunday, March 2, 7pm, $5 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome presents
The Blazing Familiar:
Recent Film & Video from Chicago
Videos, 2003-2013, by Andrew Mausert-Mooney,
Marianna Milhorat, Kent Lambert, Buki Bodunrin, Basma AlSharif,
16mm films, 2011 & 2012, by Deborah Stratman and Lyra Hill,
and a 2007 super 8 film by Karen Johannesen.
Total running time: 68 minutes.
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Friday, February 28, 7:30pm, $8 (unclassified)
York University's Graduate Department of Film presents
My
Prairie Home:
A Documentary Musical Featuring Rae Spoon
(Chelsea McMullan, Canada, 2013, video, 77 minutes)
followed by a Q&A with Rae Spoon and
cinematographer Maya Bankovic.
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Wednesday, February 26, 8pm, free! (unclassified)
Vector Game + Art Convergence Festival (Feb 19-23) presents
Code in Motion
Early computer animations on 16mm film and digital,
1951-1976, by Stan Vanderbeek & Kenneth Knowlton,
Lillian Schwartz, Pierre Hébert, Peter Foldès, John Stehura,
Mary Ellen Bute, Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambart,
John Whitney Sr., James Whitney, Robert Abel & Ass.
Total running time: 93 min. Guest-curated by Clint Enns.
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Wednesday, February 19, 7pm, $5 (unclassified)
CineCycle presents its "From the Vault" screening
#10,
a Valentine's / Family Day screening
My
Sister My Love
(Vilgot Sjöman, Sweden, 1966, 16mm, 97 min.)
plus surprise 16mm shorts! Facebook
Sunday, February 16, 7:30pm, $5 (classified)
Trash Compactor presents
Hollywood
Babylon
(Van Guylder, USA, 1972, 35mm, 80 min.)
preceded by Fireworks
(Kenneth Anger, USA, 1947, 16mm, 14 min.)
Original Hollywood Babylon poster and books
on display by archivist Michael Greenwood.
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Thursday, February 6, 8pm, $8
(adults only)
Naked people free!
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents
Asleep in the Sun: Films by Pablo
Marìn
LIFT's Artist-in-Residence in person from
Buenos Aires!
with his recent 16mm and super 8 silent films.
Total running time: 46 minutes. Facebook
Tuesday, February 4, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
CineCycle presents its Winter 2014
Toronto Open Screening
Bring your films or videos to show, or just come to watch!
35mm, 16mm, 8mm, super 8 film,
VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, Quicktime, AVI,
or bring your own projector for other formats.
Maximum 10 minutes. First come, first shown.
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Sunday, February 2, 7:30pm, $pwyc
(unclassified)
Sign-up begins at 7pm.
Art Zoo Studio presents the premiere of
Cold Iron Is A Titanic Comedy
(Wesley Rickert, 2013, video, 70 min.)
an absurdist kabuki opera film narrative.
Plus recent short videos by Toronto artists
Istvan Kantor, Chris Boni, Wallace D. Robinson.
Introduction by Istvan Kantor. Facebook
Thursday, January 23, 8pm, $10
York University Department of Film, Faculty of Fine Arts presents
Depth of Field: The New Frontier
A panel discussion on online distribution media, with
panelists Jill Golick, Stephanie Ouaknine, Carly McGowan,
and moderators Erik Anderson and Alex McKinnon.
Thursday, January 16, 8pm, free! all welcome
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Whippersnapper Working Collective presents
Sidewalk Screening Video Art
Party
Celebrating Whippersnapper Gallery's current
video exhibition Sidewalk Screening (to Feb 1).
A dance party with music by DJ Myth Paradise and
the exhibition's videos, artists and curators.
Viewing booths. Projected GIF animations.
Viewer’s Choice Award winners announced!
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Saturday, January 11, 9pm - 2am, free!
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3 EVENTS DECEMBER, 2013
A rare live performance by
Sheila Gostick
Sad Singer & Comedy Legend
scaring squares for 35 years!
The well-dressed truth Toronto tries to silence!
Wednesday, December 18, 8:30pm, $10
CineCycle presents its "From the Vault" screening #9
Brazil
(Terry Gilliam, UK, 1985, 132 min.)
on 35mm! plus 16mm shorts!
Sunday, December 15, 8pm, $5 (classified)
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents
Re-visioning Cultural Encounters
16mm films, 1970-1993, by Garine Torossian,
Chick Strand, Mike Hoolboom & Steve Sanguedolce,
and videos, 1980 & 2010, by Jonathan Schwartz,
Timothy Asch, Linda Connor & Patsy Asch.
Total running time: 84 minutes.
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Friday, December 6, 7:30pm, $8 (unclassified)
3 EVENTS NOVEMBER, 2013
Toronto Korean Film Festival presents
ReCycle at CineCycle
Korean Underground Cinema
First-ever showcase in Toronto of
recent videos, including premieres!
Gye-joong Kim, SoJin Chun, Bansuk Lee, Jae Woo Park,
Louis Yeum, Heejoo Yoon, Randy Hanbyul Lee, Eric Park.
All filmmakers in person! (except Eric Park)
Total running time: 54 minutes. Facebook
Saturday, November 30, 7:30pm, $5 (unclassified)
CineCycle presents its "From the Vault" screening #8
Sorcerer
(William Friedkin, USA, 1977, 121 min.)
on 16mm! plus 16mm shorts!
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Sunday, November 24, 7pm, $5 (classified)
CineCycle presents its Autumn 2013
Toronto Open Screening
Bring your films or videos to show, or just come to watch!
35mm, 16mm, 8mm, super 8 film, VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, Quicktime.
Maximum 10 minutes. First come, first shown.
Videos by James Gillespie, John Creson + Adam Rosen,
Tom Mitchell, Clint Enns, Leslie Supnet + Daniel Valle,
Brian Random, Laurie Kwasnik and Nick Kovats,
super 8 films by John Porter, David Hinton and Rob Cruickshank,
35mm films by Debora Puricelli and Dan Browne, and
16mm films by Dan Browne and Martin Heath.
Monday, November 4, 8:30pm, $pwyc
(unclassified)
Sign-up begins at 8pm.
6 EVENTS OCTOBER, 2013
Mercer Union Gallery and York University Department of Film present
Geoffrey Farmer Carte Blanche Film
Screening
Seven 16mm films,1958-1973, by Stan Vanderbeek,
Arthur Lipsett and Bruce Conner with affinities to
Geoffrey Farmer’s exhibit at Mercer Union,
Nov 1 - Jan 11. Total running time: 63 min.
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Tuesday, October 29, 8pm, free! (unclassified)
CineCycle presents
Vampyr
(Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932, Germany, 16mm, 73 minutes)
with a live score! by
Alan Bloor, Branko Dzinovic, Michael Lynn, Ambrose Pottie.
plus a related 16mm short!
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Sunday, October 27, 8pm, $10 (classified)
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents
Early Signs of Decay
Recent 16mm films by Steve Cossman
and members of his collective, DecayNY:
Josh Lewis and Kenneth Zoran Curwood.
Steve Cossman in person from Brooklyn!
LIFT's Artist-in-Residence, and the founder of
Mono No
Aware Festival (Dec 6 & 7, 2013).
Total running time: 48 minutes. Facebook
Thursday, October 24, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents
I Began to Wish: Films by Julie Murray
LIFT's Artist-in-Residence
in person from USA! with her 16mm films,
1979-2003, plus a work-in-progress. Facebook
Thursday, October 17, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
The 8th Nuit Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events
in 150 varied locations, indoors & outdoors. No super 8.
Saturday-Sunday, October 5-6, 7pm-7am, free!
INCLUDING
CineCycle presents Scopitones
Short, 1960s music films on 16mm!
Outdoors! 8pm-4am (unclassified)
Courtyard, 401
Richmond St. W., Toronto
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents
Special Effect
A live video performance by
Peter Burr, in person from Brooklyn!
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Thursday, October 3, 7:30pm, $8 (unclassified)
FADO Performance Art Centre presents its
Publication Launch
Missing Associates: Lily Eng and Peter Dudar
Performance Art and Experimental Dance
Event starts with a short conversation among
Coman Poon, Lily Eng and Peter Dudar,
followed by projected images, light refreshments.
Limited number of signed DVDs on sale.
Friday, September 6, 7pm, free!
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
and Process
Reversal Collective present
Frenkel Defects, Edition 1
16mm films from the Process Reversal Collective
and other international artist-run film groups. Films by
Kevin Rice, Sarah Biagini, Andrew Busti, Philippe Leonard,
Nicolas Rey, Robert Schaller, Chris Gehman, Taylor Dunne.
Curated by Kevin Rice, after Russian physicist Yakov Frenkel.
Kevin Rice and Sarah Biagini in person from the USA!
Total running time: 55 minutes. Facebook
Tuesday, September 3, 8pm, $5
Zephyr
A live performance!
Projections of 16mm film loops by
Sylvain Chaussée, with live music by Adrian Cook.
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Friday, August 30, 9pm, pwyc ($5 suggested)
Travel Culture Magazine presents
Sonchy’s Silk Road Adventure
Central Asian videos, performances, art, food & prizes,
partly to assist Tajikistan and Afghanistan NGOs,
July 26 & 27 at Innis Town Hall, and
Sunday, July 28, 11:30am-6:30pm at CineCycle
Globe Trekkers: Silk Road - 12pm,
Boxing Girls of Kabul - 4pm,
Buzkashi Boys - 5pm.
$10/7 per show, $15/12 per Day Pass
dandyhorse
#10 Launch Party
Launch of issue #10, The Safety Issue,
of Toronto's urban cycling magazine!
Safety Dance w/ DJ JonathanG Goldsbie!
Prizes - a new Linus bike, a Bern Helmet!
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Saturday, July 27, 9pm, $10 includes magazine.
Free to subscribers, contributors, sponsors!
SITC presents
Sonoran Desert Noise Assault
Noise, ambient industrial, post-punk and throb
with Toronto bands
Marshstepper, Mass Horns, Whartitz and Opiate.
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Tuesday, July 23, 9pm, $10, all ages!
CineCycle presents
The
Adventures of Prince Achmed
(Lotte Reiniger, Germany, 1926, 87 min.)
Rare 16mm print with live score by Odradek!
plus a short documentary on Lotte Reiniger.
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Sunday, July 21, 8pm, $10 (classified)
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents its
Annual Open Screening
Bring your latest experimental films or videos to show
(finished or unfinished, found or stolen), before 8pm,
or just come to watch!
16mm, super 8, VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, Quicktime.
Maximum 10 minutes. First come, first shown.
Saturday, July 20, 9pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
The Toronto Fringe Theatre Festival presents
SQUAT: A Super Secret Back-Alley Musical
A musical comedy with the Watch the Elbow Company,
by Leora Smith, Eyal Rosenblum, Jacob Ulrich.
Show length: 75 minutes. Warnings: mature language,
gunshots, smoking, audience participation.
Thursdays-Saturdays, July 4-6 and 11-13, 8pm,
plus 2pm, Saturdays, July 6 & 13.
$10 advance / $15 at door.
CineCycle presents its "From the Vault" screening #7,
a Pride Week screening of
Outrageous!
(Richard Benner, Canada, 1977, 100 min.)
made-in-Toronto cult comedy classic on 35mm!
plus 16mm shorts! Facebook
Sunday, June 23, 8pm, $5 (classified)
Theatre Caravel presents its quarterly series
15th Sea Change - A Night
of New Performance
New work by Toronto artists of different disciplines,
Refreshments & complimentary homemade snacks!
Saturday, June 22, 8pm, $7
Seating is limited and spaces fill up quickly!
so RSVP now: info at theatrecaravel dot com
Graphic Poetics presents
Why Birds and Wolves Don't Trade
Stones
A Graphic Novel Launch!
Live spoken word by Lishai with
projected images by David Brame.
ASL interpretation, accessible. Facebook
Saturday, June 15, 8pm - 10pm, $5-$10
Sonchy’s Adventures’ Media Department presents
"Sonchy's
Silk Road Adventure" Preview
Buzkashi
(Najeeb Mirza, Canada, 2012, video, 81 min.)
Plus Central Asian food, drink & raffle prizes!
All proceeds go to assist the facilitation of
post-secondary education in Tajikistan.
Preview for a 2-day event in July, Toronto.
Thursday, June 6, 8pm, $4,
free to travel media & bloggers!
Limited seating! First come, first served!
Reservations: Event Brite or info at sonchyadv dot com
The Summer Institute in Film at York
University, SAVAC,
and Pleasure Dome Artists'
Film Exhibition Group present
Cinema of Prayoga:
Indian Experimental Film and Video 1913-2006
2 different programmes of rarely-screened radical videos!
Intro and Q&A by Amrit Gangar, in person from Mumbai!
Total running time: 140 minutes each night.
Tuesday & Wednesday, June
4 & 5, 7:30pm, free!
(unclassified)
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
and
Pleasure Dome Artists'
Film Exhibition Group present
Intertidal
A Film Performance by Alex MacKenzie
in person from Vancouver!
Expanded cinema with two 16mm projectors!
His two most recent works, 2011/12, total 80 min.
Friday, May 31, 7:30pm, $8 (unclassified)
CineCycle presents its "From the Vault" Screening #6
Leo
the Last (John Boorman, UK, 1970, 104 min.)
on 16mm! plus 16mm shorts! including
one by Wladyslaw Starewicz. Facebook
Sunday, May 26, 8pm - NEW TIME!, $5 (classified)
The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) presents
TAIS Animation Showcase 2013
Recent shorts & installations by TAIS members.
A 35mm film by Madi Piller, and videos by Evan DeRushie,
Osman Cerfon & Gregory Duroy, Mike Maryniuk & John Scoles,
Aaron Long, Brandon Blommaert, Elise Simard, Esmunds Janson,
Siamak Haseli, Max Swiecki, Pasquale LaMontagna & Astra Burka,
Tess Martin, Jennifer Linton, Juan Camilo Gonzalez, Leslie Supnet,
Jeff Tran, Haiyang Wang, Iriz Paabo, Janice Schulman & Allan Kane.
Many of the artists in person!
Saturday, May 11, 7pm, $10 (unclassified)
CineCycle presents its "From the Vault" Screening #5
Teorema
/ Theorem
(Pier Paolo Passolini, Italy, 1968, 99 minutes)
on 16mm! Italian with English subtitles.
+ surprise 16mm shorts! Facebook
Sunday, May 5, 7pm, $5 (classified)
6 EVENTS APRIL, 2013
SHITFUN : IX : TVOD
Noisy dance music / dancey noise music.
Live performances by MANDELBRUT, S?RIN,
VIERANCE and AVANT KOOL, and DJs ?†N?,
JUBAL BROWN and GHETTOCYB.ORG.
Saturday, April 27, 10pm-4am
Images
Festival at CineCycle!
APRIL 12-19, 2013
26th Images
Festival of Media Art (April 11-20) presents
4 events (1 recurring), April 12-19, at CineCycle
Post-Screening
Lounge
Cash bar, DJs, food!
April 12-19, 11pm-2am, free!
PLUS, co-presented by Wavelengths
Scoring
CineCycle
16mm films from CineCycle's collection,
accompanied by 3 Toronto bands, live!
Del Bel, Eucalyptus, Lina Allemano Four.
Tuesday, April 16, 9pm, $15 (classified)
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PLUS
Dusty
Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project
(Jodie Mack, USA, 2013, video, 42 minutes)
experimental animated musical documentary
with live performance by Jodie Mack!
Friday, April 19, 10:30pm, $pwyc (classified)
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Annual
Open Screening
Bring your short film or video (max 10 min.)
to share with your fellow festival goers.
16mm, 35mm, super 8, video (DVD, Quicktime).
First come, first screened! Signup starts 11pm.
Friday, April 19, 11:30pm, free! (classified)
Theatre Caravel presents its quarterly series
14th Sea Change - A Night
of New Performance
New work by Toronto artists of different disciplines,
Haley McGee, Andrew Gaboury, Joel Battle,
and The Templeton Philharmonic.
Refreshments & complimentary homemade snacks!
Friday, April 5, 8pm, $7
Seating is limited and spaces fill up quickly!
so RSVP now: info at theatrecaravel dot com
4 EVENTS MARCH, 2013
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents
Dirty Handed Cinema: Richard Tuohy
in person from Australia! with his
recent
hand-processed, hand-printed, 16mm films,
from his Artist
Film Workshop initiative, and
his artist-run Nanolab,
small-gauge film lab.
Wednesday, March 27, 8pm, $8 (unclassified
Richard Tuohy’s Workshop:
Experimental
Colour Processing
Sat & Sun, April 7 & 8, 11am-5pm, $85
at LIFT, 1137 Dupont St., Toronto
CineCycle presents its "From the Vault" screening #4
Adieu
Philippine
(Jacques Rozier, France, 1962, 106 minutes)
rare 16mm print! plus surprise 16mm shorts!
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Sunday, March 17, 7pm, $5 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents
It’s Going Through You Like
an X-ray
Videos by Jesse McLean
in person from Chicago!
Friday, March 15, 7:30pm, $8 (unclassified)
CineCycle presents its "From the Vault" screening #3
Yo
Yo (Pierre Étaix, France, 1965, 92
minutes)
"The French Buster Keaton", rare 16mm print!
plus 16mm shorts including Roman Polanski's
and a Russian Scopitone! Facebook
Sunday, March 3, 7pm, $5 (classified)
2 EVENTS FEBRUARY, 2013
CineCycle presents its "From the Vault" screening
#2
(a post-Valentine's Day screening)
Martyrs of Love /
Mucedníci lásky
(Jan Nemec, Czechoslovakia, 1967, 73 min.)
Rare 16mm print! Not available on DVD!
English subtitles (minimal dialogue),
plus Valentine's Day shorts!
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Sunday, February 17, 7pm, $5 / pwyc (classified)
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents
Moving Shadows: Sami van Ingen in
Person!
from Finland with recent 35mm films
by himself,
Richard Reeves, John Price, Peter Miller, Bill Morrison,
Peter Tscherkassky, and a 16mm film by John Kneller.
Total running time: 77 minutes.
Preceded by the launch of van Ingen’s book Moving Shadows
- Experimental Film Practices in a Landscape of Change.
Saturday, February 16, $8
(unclassified)
Book Launch - 7pm, Screening - 8pm
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents
The Colors that Combine
to Make White are Important
(Barry
Doupé, 2012, video, 119 minutes)
Barry Doupé in person from Vancouver!
DIM
Cinema program description.
Friday, January 18, 7:30pm, $8 (unclassified)
Selected Stories of Ekrem and Scott
16mm films and videos, 2006-2012, by
Scott Puccio & Ekrem
Serdar, in person!
from Buffalo, New York and Austin, Texas!
including an expanded cinema performance
with live music! Program length: 41 min.
Friday, January 4, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
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3 EVENTS IN DECEMBER, 2012
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents
Ready for Extinction
A super 8 film by Leslie Supnet,
and videos by Bruce Connor, Amie Siegel,
Aaron Oldenburg, Laura Kraning, Mél Hogan.
Friday, December 21, 7pm, $8
Private screening for the cast & crew, family & friends of
Tehokkenhén:tons /
Close to Death
(Brandi Boulet, 2012, video, 18 minutes)
Made in Toronto.
Thursday, December 13, 8pm, free!
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents
Magic Kingdoms / Vacation Lands
videos by Martin Arnold, Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács,
Elin Magnusson, Joshua Thorson, Pilvi Takala, Elodie Pong.
Friday, December 7, 7pm, $8
NOVEMBER 22, 2012
Dance Collection Danse,
Canada's archives & publisher of theatrical dance history,
launching its new website & podcast, presents
The 'Speakeasy' Ball
A 1920s speakeasy with dance & music performances
by Catalina Fellay, Meredith J. Thompson and Erin Stone.
Food, drink, prizes! Pro photographer & costumes available!
Handmade merch on sale - art, zines, etc. Browse, sell, swap!
Password: "Bee's Knees". Facebook
Thursday, November 22, 8pm-12am,
$25, includes food and one drink
Tickets here
or at door. RSVP: dcdspeakeasy at gmail dot com
4 EVENTS IN OCTOBER, 2012
CineCycle presents its "From the Vault" screening #1
Halloween Screening
Classic 16mm films from the CineCycle vault:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Rouben Mamoulian, USA, 1931, 96 min.)
preceded by
The Mascot (Puppet Love / The Devil's Ball)
(Ladislaw Starewicz, France, 1933, 20min.)
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Sunday, October 28, 7pm, $5 / pwyc (unclassified)
The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) presents
The Better Sex of Animation:
Films by Signe Baumane
in person from New York City!
screening her award winning animated videos
and excerpts from her upcoming feature video.
Saturday, October 20, 7pm (unclassified)
Saberfrog
(Curt Markham, USA, 2009, 91 min.)
Feature-length guerrilla comedy of a
road trip from Connecticut to Canada.
Curt Markham in person from the USA!
Saturday, October 13, 8pm, $pwyc
Good for Her presents
Bike Smut 6 - Turning TriXXX
Erotic Bicycle Film Festival
Touring program of DIY bike porn.
Short videos, live performances.
Thursday, October 11, 8:30pm, $12 (adults only)
The 7th Nuit
Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events
in 150 varied locations, indoors & outdoors. No super 8.
Saturday-Sunday, September 29-30, 7pm-7am, free!
INCLUDING
CineCycle presents Scopitones
Short, music films from the 1960s
on 16mm! Outdoors! 8pm-4am (unclassified)
Courtyard, 401
Richmond St. W., Toronto
Making Connections
Untapping Emerging Talent in Toronto's Special Needs Community
4 short videos starring actors with special needs,
by Rocco Barriuso, Gerald Patrick Fantone,
Lizz A. Hodgson and Kire Paputts,
followed by a Q&A and drinks.
Actors and directors in attendance!
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Friday, September 28, 9:30pm, free!
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents
Deep State (2012,
45 minutes)
Karen Mirza & Brad Butler in person from UK!
with the Canadian premiere of their video.
The artists are in Toronto Sept. 12 - Oct. 14
for their events, workshops and an exhibition
presented by SAVAC and the Blackwood Gallery.
Opening Wednesday, September 19, 5-9 pm
www.savac.net
Tuesday, September 25, 7pm, $8
AUGUST 11, 2012
Annual Open Screening Under the Stars
Bring your films or videos to show, or just come to watch.
16mm, super 8, VHS, DVD, mini-DV.
Max 10 minutes. First come, first shown.
Saturday, August 11, 9pm, $pwyc
Outdoors in the Courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
Due to rain, held at CineCycle
3 EVENTS IN JULY, 2012
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
Jorge Lozano and and e-fagia present
Acting Out: Video Screening and Talk
Kika Nicolela in person from Brazil!
LIFT's current artist-in-residence with
her recent videos, a talk and Q&A.
Introduction by Jorge Lozano.
Thursday, July 26, 8pm, free! (unclassified)
The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS)
presents its Retrospective and Workshop
Remembering Helen Hill
A Mentorship Residency with Amy Lockhart.
A Helen Hill retrospective including the Toronto premiere
of The Florestine Collection (2011) - Helen Hill's last film!
(completed by her husband Paul Gailiunas). All on 16mm!
Plus premieres of commissioned videos by local artists
Zoe Gordon, Claire Bennett, Kerri Flannigan, Roy Mitchell
and Leslie Supnet, and an installation by Andrew Lennox.
Some artists in person! Facebook
Sunday, July 22, 8pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
Animation Workshop by Amy Lockhart
For children and adults! 16mm film!
All materials & refreshments provided!
3pm-5pm, free!
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents
Me
and My Brother
(Robert Frank, USA, 1969, 16mm, 91 min.)
Saturday, July 21, 9pm, $8 (unclassified)
Outdoors! Courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
Rain location: CineCycle
88 Days Of Fortune presents its
3 Year Anniversary Party
Thee Satisfaction, Les Femme Fatales,
Ayo Leilani, Abstract Random, Bizzarh,
Neverland, Purple Hearts and others!
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Thursday, June 28, 10pm, $12 advance / $18 door
Theatre Caravel presents its quarterly series
12th Sea Change - A Night
of New Performance
New work by Toronto artists of different disciplines:
Kay'la Fraser, Dave Borins, Nicole Ratjen, Teodoro Dragonieri.
Snacks and refreshments!
Saturday, June 23, 8pm, $7 advance, $10 at door
Admission by guest list only, and spaces fill up quick!
RSVP: info at theatrecaravel dot com
Theatre Bassaris presents its
Season Opening Party
Thursday, June 21
A Toronto Bike Film Fest and CineCycle present
Bicycling Films - Outdoors!
16mm shorts from CineCycle's collection.
Wednesday, June 20, 9:30pm-Midnight, free!
7 Fraser Ave., Toronto
(south off King St. W., east of Dufferin)
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group and MoCCA present
The Beauty Is Relentless;
The Short Movies of Emily Vey
Duke and Cooper Battersby
Videos, and a book launch.
Friday, June 15, 8pm, $10 w/ book (unclassified)
Almost Not Quite Collective presents
GET IT | GOT IT | GOOD
Premiere of a video by Vivek Shraya,
Q&A moderated by Farzana Doctor.
DJs Leila P (Gayfinity), Zehra, VS, Mama Knows.
Installation by Jes Sachse.
For Queers and our closest. Wheelchair-accessible.
Saturday, June 9, 8:30pm, $5-10
(unclassified)
(No entry during video screening, 9-10pm.)
Pleasure
Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group
and The Power Plant present
James Richards in Person!
7pm - Recent Videos by James Richards.
9pm - Videos by Duncan Campbell,
Stuart Marshall, Anne McGuire,
and others, curated by James Richards.
Saturday, June 2, 7pm, $8 (unclassified)
2 EVENTS IN MAY, 2012
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
and The Goethe-Institut
Toronto present
Dagie
Brundert: Artist-in-Residence
In person from Berlin with her super 8 films!
ending her month-long residency at LIFT.
Thursday, May 31, 7:30pm, $5 (unclassified)
The Arts Network for Children and Youth and
The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean present
National
Youth Arts Week
Toronto Launch Party
Performances, music, films.
MC: TV host Nicole Stamp.
Tuesday, May 1, 7:30-11:30pm
(unclassified)
$pwyc (suggested donation $5)
Contact: Robin Sutherland (416) 536-6504
robin (at) artsnetwork (dot) ca
5 EVENTS IN MARCH, 2012
Daps, Pleasence + Buzz present
Odonis
Odonis Record Release Party
Odonis Odonis' Hollandaze - on CD and vinyl!
Live music by Silver Dapple, from Montreal!
Odonis Odonis, Hut, Rituals and Hellaluya.
LCBO licensed - 19+.
Friday, March 30, 9pm, $5, $10 w/ CD, $15 w/ vinyl
Theatre Caravel presents its quarterly series
11th Sea
Change - A Night of New Performance
New work by Toronto artists of different disciplines:
The Awesome Collossum, Tony Ho,
Peter McLaren, Simon Rainville.
Snacks and refreshments!
Friday, March 16, 8pm, $7 advance, $10 at door
Admission by guest list only, and spaces fill up quick!
RSVP: info at theatrecaravel dot com
The Shinsedai Cinema Festival (July 12-15) presents
Sneak Peek Screening & Party
Screening of Quirky
Guys and Gals
(Japan, 2011, 90 min., DVD, English subtitles,
Mipo Oh, Yosuke Fujita, Gen Sekiguchi,
Masaya Kakehi, Tomoko Matsunashi).
Followed by DJ Brandon Hocura at 10pm.
Announcement of 2012 festival opening film.
Raffle of many great prizes to benefit the
Niji-Iro 'Rainbow' Cinema Support Project.
Saturday, March 10, 7pm, $10 (adults only)
TEGAN&HOLLY
present their official launch party!
and first event in their 3-part #SEQUELSERIES:
Grease
2 Movie Night & Dance Party
(Patricia Birch, USA, 1982, 115 minutes) plus
The Space Dusters' debut performance!
then The Lazy DJ w/ 1950s-80s music.
Friday, March 9, 8:30pm, $7 / $5 advance (adults only)
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents
George Kuchar Memorial Screening
His last Video Diaries - 7pm.
Tummy Ache Times, Hotspell and
The Butchered Beefcake. (2010-2011)
The Devil's Cleavage - 9pm
(George Kuchar, USA, 1973, 122 min.)
recently restored 16mm print!
Saturday, March 3, $8 each / $12 both (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
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