LAB FIRES, A NIAGARA PROGRAM Saturday, October 14th 12:30pm
LAB MOVIE (Sebastjan Henrickson, Canada, 2002, 16mm)
Description: When I first started work in the lab my old boss told me that these machines were built for continuous run, the more film we pushed thru them the better it would be, that's when I started shooting film in the lab, to feed the machines, hungry bastards…Lab Movie is one of these films, shot in 92 finished 20something…
FINGER PETALS (Kelly Egan, Canada, 2002, 16mm)
Description: "Finger Petals" is a handmade cameraless film which uses collage techniques to sculpt the images and sound. The visual composition was made by meticulously cutting, shaping and collaging flowers onto the filmstrip. The sound treatment is created by pasting E.E. Cummings' poem "Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond,"
FIX (Michele Stanley, Canada, 2001, 16mm)
Description: Handpainting and scratching on 16mm, 8mm blow-ups, and photo-animation are all used to manipulate images of urban, natural, and human landscapes. Conventional compositions are gradually transformed into ephemeral abstractions as the emulsion is forcibly eroded and then reapplied by hand. The perception of what is real alters with the letters themselves forming the audio as their graphic shape is translated into sound.
DEFI DES ETOILES (Sara MacLean, Canada, 2005, 16mm)
Description: January 29, 1991: “Ladies and gentlemen, would you please now rise and join us in a moment of silence for the Canadian troops in the Persian Gulf War, for our gold metal winning team, and our country.”
MIGRATION (Christina Battle, Canada, 2005, 16mm)
Description: A late summer prairie storm as heard from above... someplace between this atmosphere and the next...
NATION (John Price, Canada, 1998, 16mm)
Description: In 1995, The Liberal Government of Canada organized a massive rally in Montreal just before the residents of the province went to the polls to vote on questions relating to attaining independence from the rest of Canada. They organized free bus trips for residents from outside of the province to travel to Montreal for this event and provided free flags. It was a colorful event that I documented with a 100 foot spool of Kodak's finest 16mm color negative emulsion (which has since been discontinued). Fragments of this roll were re-photographed with a J/K onto cheap color print film and hand-developed in ECP chemistry. Some of the hand-processed material was re-photographed and hand-processed… the film evolved from a series of printing and processing tests into an uneasy study of Nationalism. The exhibition print is the original hand-developed material that emerged from the J/K. I had an internegative made and an answer print with an optical soundtrack but it did not come close to communicating the specific texture of the material and so instead of circus music you will hear the intermittent whispering of silver and dye that found it's way into the path of the exciter bulb.
The exhibition print is the original hand-developed material that emerged from the J/K. I had an internegative made and an answer print with an optical soundtrack but it did not come close to communicating the specific texture of the material and so instead of circus music you will hear the intermittent whispering of silver and dye that found it’s way into the path of the exciter bulb.
ELECTRIC LIGHT (Josh Bonnetta, Canada, 2005, 16mm)
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THE FINITE (Alexi Manis, Canada, 2004, 16mm)
Description: “The Finite” lays bare the ephemeral nature of family, home and life on earth through a combination of home movies and archival footage from a science documentary. The two forms of imagery entwine along a common and inescapable course toward destruction, revealing the gravity of personal loss.