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"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook
group
Hot Rods to Hell
(John Brahm, USA, 1967, 92 minutes)
Facebook
Friday, November 8, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook
group
Witchfinder General
(Michael Reeves, UK / USA, 1968, 86 minutes)
Facebook event
Friday, October 11, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
The 14th Nuit
Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events!
85 varied locations, indoors & outdoors. No super 8.
Facebook
Saturday, October 5, 7pm-7am, free!
INCLUDING
CineCycle
presents 'Scopitones'
Short, 1960s music films on 16mm! (unclassified)
Outdoors in the Courtyard, 401
Richmond St. W., Toronto
The 19th aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (Oct 3-6) presents
Sensory Dimensions
Recent Latin American Experimental Shorts by
Victoria Giesen Carvajal, Rodrigo Andres Valenzuela,
Mauricio Saenz, Khalil Charif & Marcos Bonisson,
and Eduardo Williams & Mariano Blatt.
English subtitles. Facebook
Friday, October 4, 7pm, $pwyc / $10
suggested
(adults only, by law)
FOLLOWED BY
The 19th aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (Oct 3-6) presents
Tribute to
Latin & Canadian Experimental Film
by Sumie Garcia, Flores Silvestres & Jean-Jacques Martinod,
Alexandra Gelis, Alejandra Higuera, Francisca Duran,
Sheena Rossiter & Sandro Silva & Nadia Sussman,
Marcos Joao Serafim Neto & Jefferson Kielwagen &
Steevens Simeon, Jorge Lozano, Cecilia Araneda.
Many of the artists in person! English subtitles.
Facebook
Friday, October 4, 9pm, $10 (adults only, by law)
Petunia
Veteran Canadian country-blues musician
from British Columbia & New Brunswick
on his annual East Canada tour with
The Minimalist Jug Band
Veteran Toronto slam poet music artist.
Monday, September 30, 8:30pm
- 11:30pm
Tuesday, October 1, 8:30pm - 11:30pm
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook
group
Methadone:
An American Way of Dealing
(Jim Klein & Julia Reichert, USA, 1974, 61 min., doc)
preceded by four Classroom Anti-drug Films!
Facebook event
Friday, September 13, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Sunday Wilde
The Grammy long-listed musician from Atikokan,
Northern Ontario, belting out blues and playing piano,
plus Sheila Gostick with her Honest Ed's guitar.
Wednesday, August 7, 8:30pm, $10-20 suggested
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook
group
The
Sergeant
(John Flynn, USA, 1968, 108 minutes)
Facebook
Friday, June 14, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
LAST TRASH PALACE BEFORE SEPTEMBER!
Gary Topp presents
STIV:
No Compromise, No Regrets
(Danny Garcia, Spain, 2019, video, 85 minutes)
A new documentary, followed by a Q&A with
Cynthia Ross and David Quinton-Steinberg.
Facebook
Friday & Saturday, May 17
& 18, 7:30pm
$12 advance (unclassified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook
group
Pleasure
Palace
(Ed Hunt, Canada, 1973, 91 minutes)
Toronto street life in a seedy drama!
Facebook
event
Friday, May 10, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook
group
The
Born Losers
(T. C. Frank, USA, 1967, 113 minutes)
Facebook
event
Friday, April 12, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Lauryn Zuk presents a benefit event
CRAZYWISE
(Phil Borges & Kevin Tomlinson, USA, 2016, digital, 82 min.)
Documentary film screening followed by an
open discussion hosted by Lauryn Zuk.
All proceeds go to Toronto homeless shelters.
Facebook
Tuesday, March 26, 7:30pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook
group
Savage
Gringo
(Anthony Roman & Mario Bava, Italy / Spain, 1966, 82 min.)
Facebook event
Friday, March 22, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Teach For Canada presents
Power, Empower.
Indigenous Women in Film
Videos and performances by Ardelle Sagutcheway,
Victoria Anderson-Gardner, Savannah Boucher,
Casha Adams, Michelle Derosier, and others!
Artists in person! for introductions and Q&A.
Wet'suwet'en Strong t-shirts, hoodies on sale,
all proceeds support Gidumt'en territory!
Facebook
Thursday, March 21, 7pm, free! (unclassified)
Shorts That Are Not Pants presents
Shorts That Are Not Pants
February 2019 Screening
Kicking off our 8th season of quarterly screenings!
Facebook
Thursday, February 21, 7pm (unclassified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook
group
Winter
A-Go-Go
(Richard Benedict, USA, 1965, 88 minutes)
Facebook
event
Friday, February 8, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Saving CineCycle!
A Benefit Film Event
Film screenings, music and dancing!
DJs Richard Vermeulen & guests, cash bar,
potluck food, raffle, limited-edition t-shirts.
Facebook
Saturday, February 2, 7:30pm-2am
(unclassified) $15 suggested donation
DECEMBER 2018
- NOVEMBER 2018 - OCTOBER
2018
SEPTEMBER 2018 - AUGUST
2018 - JULY 2018
- JUNE 2018
MAY 2018 - APRIL
2018 - MARCH 2018
- FEBRUARY 2018 - JANUARY
2018
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook
group
The
Wrath of God
(Ralph Nelson, USA, 1972, 111 minutes)
Facebook
event
Friday, December 14, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Shorts That Are Not Pants presents
Shorts That Are Not Pants
Film Festival
Facebook
Friday, November 23, 7pm &
9pm
Saturday, November 24, 1pm, 3pm, 7pm, 9pm
(unclassified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook
group
Trip Through the TV Time Tunnel!
Wonder Woman, Fantasy Island, Green Acres!
Facebook
event
Friday, November 9, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Accessible washroom installed.
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT),
Pix Film Gallery and
Le Labo present
Stefano Canapa
LIFT's and Pix's Artist-in-Residence
in person from Paris presenting his
16mm & 35mm films and others from
L’Abominable artist-run film laboratory.
Films, 2000-2018, by Stefano Canapa, Elisa Ribes,
Maria Kourkouta, Emmanuel Lefrant, Tomaz Burlin,
Guillaume Mazloum, Yoana Urruzola, David Dudouit.
Total running time: 83 minutes. Facebook
Thursday, October 18, 7pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group
Holy Ghost People
and Cult Explosion
Two scary docs about religion and cults!
Holy Ghost People (1967, Peter Adair),
Cult Explosion (1980). Facebook
event
Friday, October 12, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
The 18th aluCine
Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (Oct 3-6, 2018),
12th the8fest
Small-Gauge Film Festival (Jan 25-27, 2019), and
32nd Images Festival of Media
Art (April 11-18, 2019), present
Cine Toro
Colombia experimental videos, 2009-2015,
from the Cinetoro Experimental Film Festival,
by Juan Camilo González, Edgar Humberto Álvarez,
Alexander Quezada, Javier González, Carlos Santa,
Carlos Andrés Granada, Ana Caro, Fernando López.
Total running time: 83 min. All with English subtitles.
Curator Andrés Uzuga skyping from Colombia!
Facebook
Friday, October 5, 7pm, $pwyc
($5 suggested)
(adults only, by law)
^^^
FOLLOWED BY
The 18th aluCine
Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (Oct 3-6, 2018),
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT),
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC),
and
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition
Group present
Departures
Recent Latin-Canadian experimental videos by
Ben Donoghue & Julieta María, Sumie García,
Milena Salazar & Joella Cabalu, Pablo Diconca,
Pablo Alvarez-Mesa & Fernando Lopez Escriva,
Leonardo Suarez, Cecilia Araneda, Franci Duran,
Madi Piller, Mikel Guillen, Samay Arcentales Cajas.
Total run time: 122 min. All with English subtitles.
Many of the artists in person! Facebook
Friday, October 5, 9:30pm, $pwyc
($5 suggested)
(adults only, by law)
Followed by a reception with filmmakers, food, drinks, music!
The 13th Nuit
Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events!
85 varied locations, indoors & outdoors. No super 8.
Saturday, September 30, 7pm-7am, free!
Facebook
INCLUDING
CineCycle presents 'Scopitones'
Short, 1960s music films on 16mm!
Saturday, September 29, 7pm-4am, free! (unclassified)
Outdoors! in the Courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents its
Annual Open Screening
and Community Dinner
Bring your films or videos to show,
or just come to watch!
Maximum 5 min., 1st come, 1st shown.
35mm, 16mm, 8mm and super 8 film!
plus VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, QuickTime.
Facebook
Sunday, August 12, free! or by donation
6:30pm - Sign-in / Community Dinner outdoors
8:00pm - Screening (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
Nick Kovats and Mikel Guillen present
The Kinochrome Sessions
16 international contemporary experimental videos & films
by Aman Wadhan, Sebastian Eklund, Susu Laroche,
James Pomeroy, Sandy McLennan, Guillaume Vallée,
Michael Lyons, Paul Clipson, Müge Yildiz, Carl Looper,
Kent Tate, Wolfgang Lehmann & Telemach Wiesinger,
Scott Barley, Agustin Telo, Eric Souther, Muriel Montini.
Total running time: 131 minutes. Facebook
Saturday, August 11, 7:45pm, $10 or pwyc (unclassified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle,
Facebook group
Carry
On Screaming!
(Gerald Thomas, UK, 1966, 97 minutes)
plus
a cartoon, a Scopitone, and Chapter 13
of the 1944 serial Captain America.
Facebook
event
Friday, August 10, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle,
Facebook group
The
Force On Thunder Mountain
(Peter B. Good, USA, 1978, 93 minutes) introduced by
Stacey Case, in person from Hamilton, Ontario!
Plus a Scopitone, and 1950s 16mm home movies
shot in Toronto and Hamilton. Facebook
event
Friday, July 13, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Toronto Film Review presents
[redacted]
Recent, short, Canadian videos,
followed by Q&A with the artists.
Facebook
Thursday, June 14, 8:30pm, $5 (unclassified)
DocNow Documentary Festival presents
206 Carlton
(Sylvia Nowak, Canada, 2018, video, 14 min.)
Racism and resistance in the city of Toronto,
focusing on Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel
when he built a bunker at 206 Carlton St.
Plus a panel discussion and a related
exhibition from Alternative Toronto.
Facebook
Wednesday, June 13, 7pm, free! (unclassified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group
The Marx Brothers' Duck
Soup
(Leo McCarey, USA, 1933, 68 minutes)
plus
a cartoon, a Scopitone, and short comedies.
Facebook
event
Friday, June 8, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
The Trapdoor Fest,
a new, all-ages music festival (May 25-27) presents
Trapdoor Fest Night
1
with bands Bad Waitress, Cliff Cardinal,
Luna Lii, Hot Garbage, Fade Awaays.
A dry event - booze is not welcome!
Facebook
Friday, May 25, 8:30pm-1am, $10
Toronto Film Review presents
Now It's Dark
Recent short, Canadian, genre videos by
Joële Walinga, Matthew Rankin, Sally Rylett,
Scooter Jenner, Justin Decloux, Nate Wilson,
Marianne Hill, Steve Kostanski. Total 77 min.
Followed by Q&A with the artists. Facebook
Wednesday, May 16,
8pm. (unclassified)
Pre-show at 7pm. $pwyc / $5 suggested.
Show Your Work
An art pop-up curated by Saba Moghtader.
15 years of artwork by Chiedza
Pasipanodya.
Paintings, drawings, prints, collages, photographs, a book.
Fundraiser for her residencies in California and Zimbabwe.
Including Chiedza's Artist Talk at 4pm, and a screening of
Flame (Ingrid Sinclair, Zimbabwe,
1996, video, 85 min.).
Sunday, May 13, 3pm-8pm.
(classified)
suggested donation $5 (no one turned away)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle,
Facebook group
Run,
Angel, Run!
(Jack Starrett, USA, 1970, 95 min.) plus
a cartoon, a Scopitone, and Chapter 12
of the 1944 serial Captain America.
Facebook
event
Friday, May 11, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
ConverSalon presents
Conversation with
Park Chan-kook and ConverSalon
Park Chan-kook from Seoul, Korea in conversation
with Rebecca Garrett and Alexandra Gelis from
ConverSalon, Toronto, Canada.
Facebook
Tuesday, May 8, 7pm-9pm, free!
Ontario College of Art and Design University presents
DPXA Year-End Screening
Work by 20 OCADU graduating students of
Digital Painting and Expanded Animation.
Program repeated both nights. Facebook
Saturday & Sunday, May 5 & 6, 7pm, free!
Colectivo Toronto presents
A First Retrospective of
Films by Francisca Duran
Toronto-based artist in person!
with her videos & 16mm films.
Total running time: 83 min.
Facebook
Friday, May 4, 8pm (unclassified)
$pwyc / suggested donation $5
Sheila Gostick presents
Village Genius
*40 Years of Radical Brilliance
Damned by Dickville.
(*120 Toronto years)
Tuesday, May 1, 8:30pm, $20 / pwyc
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents
Traces of an alternative future:
the work of SODA_JERK
Dan and Dominique Angeloro, aka SODA_JERK,
in person from Brooklyn, New York!
with their recent short works. Facebook
Saturday, April 28, 8pm (unclassified)
$5-10 (no one turned away for lack of funds)
31st Images Festival of Media Art (April 12-20) presents its
Festival Lounge
Cash bar, DJ, food!
Thursday, April 19, 11pm-2am, free!
John Porter's First
Film Filibuster
Stand-up Stories of Toronto and Canada Film Scenes!
News! Histories! Politics! Requests! Discussions!
Tonight's topics include "The Calgary Film Scene".
Screenings of super 8 films - John's and BYO!
BYO Super 8 Equipment Clinic! Merch!
Facebook
in a come 'n' go cafe setting!
Tuesday, April 17, 9pm-1am, $pwyc (unclassified)
Drop by after the Images Festival!
31st Images Festival of Media Art (April 12-20) presents
Party, with BAMBII
Cash bar, DJ, food!
Facebook
Saturday, April 14,
11pm-2am, $10
(free with Festival Pass or 9:30pm ticket stub)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle,
Facebook group
Juvenile Delinquent
Classroom Films
Vintage educational shorts. Annual tradition,
this year's theme is juvenile delinquency.
Plus a cartoon, a Scopitone, Chapter 11
of the 1944 serial Captain America.
Facebook
Friday, April 13, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
HS Doc Club presents its 5th Anniversary Screening and Party
Aim
for the Roses
(John Bolton, Canada, 2016, video, 102 min.)
A "musical docudrama", followed by a
Q&A with the director. Facebook
Thursday, March 15, 7pm (unclassified)
SOLD OUT!
Toronto Film Review presents
That DMX Feeling
CanCon series, tonight “VanCon”, with
recent videos by Heather McDonald,
Sophy Romvari, and Neil Bahadur.
Total run time: 70 min., followed
by Q&A with the filmmakers.
Facebook
Wednesday, March 14,
7:30pm. (unclassified)
Pre-show at 6:30. $pwyc
/ $5 suggested.
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group
Hollywood's
Children
(Gene Feldman, USA, 1982, 58 minutes)
plus Drive-In Blues.
Friday, March 9, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents
Indigiqueer Cinema:
Short Videos by Thirza Cuthand
Veteran Toronto video and performance artist.
Videos, 1996-2017, total run time: 58 min.
Facebook
Saturday, February 24, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
TechnoCycle and Toronto Film Review present
Valentine's Doomsday
Recent videos by local artists
Mitch Greenberg, Isiah Medina, Chandler Levack,
Rebeccah Love, Pierce Csurgo, Karen Chapman,
Kathleen Hepburn, Mike Hoolboom, and more!
Q&A moderated by TFR's David Davidson.
Plus the launch of Csurgo & Greenberg's
new web-series, La chasse. Facebook
Thursday, February 15, 8:30pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group
Happy
Birthday to Me
(J. Lee Thompson, Canada, 1981, 110 minutes)
Shot in Toronto with local supporting actors!
Cast reunion screening! Some in person!
Facebook
event
Friday, February 9, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group
The
Crazies
(George A. Romero, USA, 1973, 103 minutes)
preceded by
Chapter 9 of the 1944 Captain America serial.
Facebook
event
Friday, January 12, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
DECEMBER 2017
- NOVEMBER 2017 - OCTOBER
2017
SEPTEMBER 2017 - AUGUST
2017 - JULY 2017
- JUNE 2017 - MAY
2017
IMAGES FESTIVAL'S EVENTS AT CINECYCLE APRIL
15-27 2017
APRIL 2017 - MARCH
2017 - FEBRUARY 2017
- JANUARY 2017
Waiting For Ishtar
(co-directed & co-produced by John Mitchell)
Premiere / Release Party of a love letter to Ishtar,
hosted by Richard Crouse with a panel of guests.
Thursday, December 14, 8pm,
$pwyc,
suggested $10 (unclassified)
8pm screening sold out!
Second screening added at 9:30pm!
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group
The
Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
(Don Taylor, USA, 1976, 102 minutes) preceded by
Chapter 8 of the 1944 Captain America serial, and
followed by a 1984 short video by local Hal Kelly.
Facebook event
Friday, December 8, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Pages Unbound presents
Ecstatic Worlds:
Media, Utopias, Ecologies
Book Launch by Janine Marchessault, and a
screening of short videos by Leslie Supnet,
Morley Markson, and Zachary Finkelstein
(total running time: 35 min.), plus a short
35mm film performance by Martin Heath
using a hand-cranked projector! Facebook
Thursday, December 7, 7:30-10pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
YTB Gallery presents its
Annual Fundraiser
Art installations, music, food and drinks!
Dance to psychedelic beats by
DJ Soft Drink and DJ Maggy.
Tickets
- Facebook
Friday, December 1, 9pm- 2am, $15
Dia de Santa Cecilia
Patrona of Musicians
Servacion de Nuestras Tra,
Plaza Garibaldi
Live! Singing songs by all original Slayer.
Wednesday, November 22, 8pm, $ by donation
York University Cinema & Media Arts (CMS)
Graduate Film Student Association (GFSA)
presents
Cataclysmic Images:
Peer-to-Peer Working Papers
Two doctoral candidates present their research:
Jessica Mulvogue and Genne Speers, each
followed by a short Q&A. Facebook
Tuesday, November 21, 7:30-9:30pm, free!
Colectivo Toronto presents
In a Present Distance:
A First Retrospective of
Films by Tracy German
Toronto-based Indigenous artist in person!
with her 16mm films & videos, 1994-2007.
Total running time: 68 minutes. Facebook
Friday, November 17, 8pm
(unclassified)
$pwyc / suggested donation $6
Conrad Hendrickson presents
11 | 11
a Celebration of Life & Culture
Performances, Artists, Sound Curation.
Facebook
Saturday, November 11, 10pm, $10, 19+
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group
Village
of the Giants
(Bert I. Gordon, USA, 1965, 81 minutes),
preceded by 1962 doc of Hugh Hefner!
Facebook
event
Friday, November 10, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Global Sonic Takeover presents
Dia de los Muertos
Toronto bands! The Thick, SQUISH,
ART the Band, The LIFTS, PIZZA.
Facebook
Friday, November 3, 9pm, $10
Pleasure Dome presents
My Life, My Life is This:
Film, Video and Performance by
Francesco Gagliardi
Super 8 films, videos, a 16mm film,
and performances, 1993-2017,
total 80 minutes. Facebook
Friday, October 27, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Peter Pan and Alma present their
Voyage to Bali-Sumatra
Movies, art, photos
Thursday, October 26, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome presents
Total Coverage:
Chris Kennedy and Rebecca Baron
A new 16mm film by Chris Kennedy, in-person!
and a video (2005) by Rebecca Baron.
Total running time: 85 minutes.
Facebook
Saturday, October 14, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group
Ghostkeeper
(Jim Makichuk, Canada, 1986, 89 min.)
Cold drinks, merch, pizza. Facebook
event
Friday, October 13, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Pix
Film Gallery and
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
present
Time Form Scene #2
Canadian independent experimental animations,
1989-2017, on video, 16mm and 35mm film, by
Louise Bourque, Patrick Jenkins, Alan Pakarnyk,
Judith Poirier, Jim Pomeroy, Rhayne Vermette,
Kelly Egan, Heidi Phillips, Don Best, Greg Boa.
Curated by Madi Piller and Leslie Supnet.
Total running time: 64 minutes.
Greg Boa, Kelly Egan, Patrick Jenkins,
and the curators, in person! Facebook
Thursday, October 12, 8pm,
$pwyc / $5 suggested
(unclassified)
The 12th Nuit
Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events!
85 varied locations, indoors & outdoors. No super 8.
Saturday, September 30, 7pm-7am, free!
85 locations in downtown Toronto
INCLUDING
CineCycle presents 'Scopitones'
Short, 1960s music films on 16mm!
Saturday, September 30, 7pm-6am, free! (unclassified)
Outdoors! in the Courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
Impulse Publishing and CineCycle present
Internet Christ
Performance, book launch and exhibition by
Ron Giii, in person from British Columbia!
with his new book of drawings Oxygen
Theatre,
and his original drawings on exhibit and for sale!
Facebook
Wednesday, September 20, 9pm, free!
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group
Classroom Films
Vintage educational shorts.
Annual tradition, this year with a theme
- wild anti-drug films! Facebook event
Friday, September 8, 9:30pm, $10 (unclassified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group
Modesty Blaise
(Joseph Losey, USA, 1966, 119 min.)
preceded by Chapter 7 of the serial
Captain America (1944). Facebook
Friday, August 11, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents its
Annual "Open" Screening & BBQ
This year with a twist! It's not entirely open.
Exclusively work by women, non-binary and trans artists!
Bring your experimental films or videos to show, or
just come to watch! Max 10 min. 1st come, 1st shown.
35mm, 16mm, 8mm and super 8 film!
plus VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, Quicktime.
Facebook
Saturday, July 22, 8pm, free! (unclassified)
BBQ - 6:30pm, Sign-in time - 7:30pm
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group
The
Mystery of the
Million Dollar Hockey Puck
(Jean LaFleur & Peter Svatek, Canada, 1975, 83 minutes)
Facebook event
Friday, July 14, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
ReelHeART
International Film and Screenplay Festival
(July 3-8), presents
ReelHeART Professional Series
A panel of production teams from Canada and UK!
"Troubles and Triumphs of the Indie Filmmaker".
Plus the Canadian premiere of
35 Days: A Post-Production Odyssey
(Chris Grega, USA, digital video, 88 minutes)
followed by Q&A with Chris Grega in person!
Nighttime Networking Session with food & drinks!
Facebook
Thursday, July 6, 8pm, $15
Pleasure Dome presents
This Landscape Tells Stories
Videos, 2009-2016, by Caroline Monnet,
and recent videos by Sky Hopinka.
Total time: 69 min. Facebook
Thursday, June 22, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
The 17th aluCine
Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (June 7-11, 2017),
the8fest Small-Gauge Film Festival (Jan 27-29, 2017),
and Pleasure Dome present
Closing Gala - Hidden Presences:
Films by Willie Varela Retrospective
Willie Varela in person from El Paso, Texas!
with his 16mm films and videos, 1974-2002.
Total running time: 72 minutes. Facebook
Sunday, June 11, 8pm (unclassified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group
Experimental Classics from
The Cinematic Cesspool
16mm films, 1965-1986, by George Kuchar,
Joyce Wieland, Ed Ackerman & Greg Zbitnew,
Willie Dunn, and Don Shebib, and super 8 films,
2014 & 1996, by Leslie Supnet and John Porter.
Total: 98 minutes. Guest curated by Clint Enns.
Leslie Supnet, John Porter, Clint Enns in person!
Facebook
event
Friday, June 9, 9:30pm (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome presents
Portraits by Kika Nicolela
in person from Brussels and São Paulo!
with her videos, 2005-2016. Facebook
Saturday, June 3, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
CENSURED
IN CANADA
a film festival for Canadian-based artists
and work marginalized by Canadian
festivals and institutions. Facebook
Saturday & Sunday, May 27 & 28, 12pm-6pm
(unclassified)
The Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) Annual Conference
and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)
present
Welcome Gathering / Screening
CFMDC 50: Where Do You Come From?
16mm films and videos, 1991-2016, by Ananya Ohri,
Katherine Asals & Iturra Fernando, Gariné Torossian,
Dawn Wilkinson, Lindsay McIntyre, Nadine Valcin,
Ann Marie Fleming, and Adam Garnet Jones.
Total: 62 min. Programmed by Aimée Mitchell.
Facebook
Friday, May 26, 8pm (unclassified)
FSAC Conference Welcome Reception - 7pm
Briefcasefest
2017, Day 2
Sunlight's Bane, NLP, Dead Register,
Ancress, Brigitte Bardon't, Mourn,
HRRR, Solarium. Facebook
Saturday, May 20, 6pm, $18
$35/weekend, all ages, licensed
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
Greenhouse Video Release
With live music sets by Greenhouse,
Morfius, KyViTa, Teddy's Atlas, Tange.
Facebook
Saturday, May 13, 8pm, $8, all ages! (unclassified)
(This month the MUFF Society joins) Trash Palace Theatre presenting
16mm features and shorts monthly on a Friday. Facebook group
Judy Blume / Beverly Cleary Night
Ramona
the Patient (Canada, 1988) starring child Sarah Polley,
plus Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great (Lawrence Blume),
Freckle Juice, and doc Judy Blume: Children's Author, all
preceded by Chapter 5 of the 1944 Captain America serial.
Facebook
event
Friday, May 12, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Images Festival's 3 Events at CineCycle!
30th Images
Festival of Media Art (April 20-27) presents
3 events at CineCycle: April
15, April 22,
April 27
30th Images Festival of Media Art (April 20-27) presents
Closing Night Screening Party
16mm and super 8 films (the only super 8 films in the festival),
by members of Canadian media artist collectives:
the Loop Collective, Double Negative Collective,
the Iris Film Collective, and The Funnel.
Thursday, April 27, 9:30pm, free! (unclassified)
^^^
PLUS
30th Images Festival of Media Art (April 20-27) presents
Big Gay Party of the Decades
Celebrate Images' 30th year and CFMDC's 50th!
Cash bar, DJs, food!
Saturday, April 22, 11pm, free!
PLUS
The Images Festival (April 20-27) and YYZ Artists’ Outlet present
Tony Conrad's The
Flicker
(USA, 1966, 16mm, 30 minutes) followed by
a reading by artist Aryen Hoekstra, whose
installation The Flicker at YYZ,
April 14-29,
addresses the film's first screening in NYC.
Saturday, April 15, 5pm, free! (unclassified)
Room
Full of Spoons
Toronto premiere of documentary by Rick Harper
about cult film The Room (Tommy Wiseau).
Rick Harper in person! for post-screening talk.
Thursday, April 20, 7:30pm, $8 (unclassified)
4th Annual National Canadian Film Day presents
Laurence Anyways
(Xavier Dolan, Quebec, video, 168 minutes)
in French with English subtitles. details
Wednesday, April 19, 8pm, free!
The Images Festival (April 20-27) and YYZ Artists’ Outlet present
Tony Conrad's The
Flicker
(USA, 1966, 16mm, 30 minutes) followed by
a reading by artist Aryen Hoekstra, whose
installation The Flicker at YYZ,
April 14-29,
addresses the film's first screening in NYC.
Saturday, April 15, 5pm, free! (unclassified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts monthly on a Friday. Facebook group
The
Curse of Frankenstein
(Terence Fisher, UK, 1957, 83 minutes) preceded by
Chapter 4 of the 1944 Captain America serial.
Facebook event
Friday, April 14, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Pleasure Dome presents
Archive: Field Work
Videos by Ximena Cuevas, Ivan Puig, Gilberto Esparza,
Hector Centeno, Ariel Guzik, Marcela Armas, Ivan Abreu,
Mario Opazo, Arcangel Constantini, and Brian Kent Gotro.
Total running time: 84 minutes. Facebook
Hector Centeno and Brian Kent Gotro in person!
Saturday, April 8, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome presents
Everybody Needs a Friend: Queer Journeys with
Allyson Mitchell and Steve Reinke
Allyson Mitchell and Steve Reinke in person! with their
videos, a 35mm and a 16mm film, 1995-2016.
Total running time: 64 minutes. Facebook
Friday, March 24, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Colectivo Toronto presents
This Looming Matter:
Making Material the Forgotten
and Underrepresented Histories
of Women in Technological Arts
16mm and 35mm films by Kelly Egan and
Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, in person!
Total run time: 55 min., plus discussions.
Facebook
Saturday, March 11, 8pm (unclassified)
$pwyc / suggested donation $5
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts monthly on a Friday. Facebook
group
Fuzz
(Richard A. Colla, USA, 1972, 92 minutes)
Plus: Chapter 3 of the 1945 Captain America serial;
a classic Warner Brothers cartoon; a Scopitone.
Facebook
event
Friday, March 10, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Pleasure Dome presents
Electronic Weavings:
The Videos of Nathalie Bujold
Nathalie Bujold in person from Montréal!
with her videos, 1999-2016, total 50 minutes.
Facebook
Saturday, March 4, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
YUZU MEUZU
Music / Art - folk, r'n'b, ska, soul, punk, blues.
WOLFGANG, KRAK, JIJI LIVES,
CAPTAIN COWBOY AND THE MONEY MAKER.
Temporary tattoos, face painting, baked goods, merch!
Facebook
Friday, March 3, 8pm, $5, all ages
ReelHeART International Film and Screenplay Festival presents
Annual ReelHeART Oscar Party
Celebrate the Roaring 20s! Prizes! Facebook
Sunday, February 26, 6pm-midnight, $15-55
Pleasure Dome presents
Sincerely: Kelly
O’Brien
Videos and performance by local artist
Kelly O’Brien in person!
Facebook
Saturday, February 18, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
2nd
Annual GeekFest Toronto
Movies, docs, music videos, talks.
6 different programs! Facebook
Tuesday, February
14, 4pm - 2am,
$12 each / $30 day (unclassified)
CineCycle presents its Winter 2017
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.
Max 10 min. 1st come, 1st shown.
Facebook
Sunday, February 12, 7:45pm,
$pwyc (unclassified)
Sign-up begins at 7pm.
Black Siren presents
1st Annual Homegrown
Music & Arts Festival
Live music, DJs, comedy, movies, visual art, zines.
Music by ARK, Bianca Yzabelle, Xoana, The Pipers,
Imogen Joy, Arkson, Seeping Chaos, and HEX.
Short movies by Nastasia Pappas-Kemps and Carol Nguyen.
Comedy by Ben Ball. DJs Ian McCulloch and Ice Misto Please.
Visual art by Sam Greco, Callahan Bracken, Erica Bruno, Olivia Kerr,
Nara Wrigglesworth, Meghan O'Donnell, Temple Marucci-Campbell,
Juliette Leach, Sadie Phillipson, Rachel Caramico, and Julianna Ham,
curated by Spencer Julien. Facebook
Saturday, February 11, 6pm, $7, all ages (unclassified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts monthly on a Friday. Facebook
group
Troublemakers
(Robert Machover & Norm Fruchter, USA, 1966, 54 min.)
Friday, February 10, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Anne O'Callaghan presents
VIDEO
ART DAY
#WAR REMEMBRANCE
International videos with female perspectives
on war’s legacies, by Anne O’Callaghan,
Estabrak Al Ansari, Marina Abramovic,
Nathalie Vanheuele, Linda Duval,
Arja Karkkainen, Victoria Lucas.
Facebook
Saturday, January 28, 8pm, free! (unclassified)
YUZU MEUZU
Music / Art - blues, rap, rock, punk, soul.
LAAREN, WOLFGANG, MORFIUS, A- LISTERS,
BLUESBERRI JAM, KRAK, JIJI LIVES, REALIJE,
CYPHER then DANCE OFF. More coming soon!
Toronto Spiderman Peter Parkour slingin' webs
and breakdancing! Facebook event
Friday, January 20, 8pm, $5, all ages
Sunday Wilde
The Grammy long-listed musician from Atikokan,
Northern Ontario, belting out blues and playing piano,
with Reno Jack (Handsome Ned's base player),
and Sheila Gostick with her Honest Ed's guitar.
Tuesday, January 17, 8pm-12am
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash
Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts monthly on a Friday. Facebook
group
Canadian
Mounties
vs. Atomic Invaders
(Franklin Adreon, USA, 1953, 100 minutes)
Facebook event
Friday, January 13, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents
Films and Videos from
Mexico and Colombia
Recent videos, 16mm films and a super 8 film,
by Dairo Cervantes, Jorge Lozano, Enrico Mandirola,
Rubén Gutiérrez, María Chalela-Puccini, Paulino Ordóñez,
Estética Unisex Collective, Andrés Jurado, Steve McIntyre,
Rosario Sotelo, Raúl Quintanilla, Roberto Sánchez Santos,
Eliseo Ortiz, Carlos Santa, Victor Vega, Daniel Magallanes.
Curated by LIFT's current Artist-in-Residence,
Jorge Lorenzo, in person from Mexico!
Total running time: 80 minutes. Facebook
Wednesday, January 11, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Pins & Needles / Bo Welland /
BBQ Pope
The Corks / Rikashay / Spencer Boyle
Live bands! All ages! Facebook
Thursday, January 5, 8pm, $10
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
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