Three organizations (Mile Zero Dance, FAVA, and Metro Cinema) are collaborating to present the latest edition of STEM Cell, a celebration of experimental film, video, media art, and dance-on-screen works.

The 2010 festival includes:

• a live performance by Daniel Barrow of his manual animation, Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry
• the premiere of Mile Zero Dance's Bad Lands (Good Luck), a dance on screen work made in collaboration by Gerry Morita, Hideo Arai, and David Jeffrey Buchanan
• five packages of short experimental documentaries, including work by John Greyson and Tom Sherman (both winners of the Bell Award in Video Art), and by local filmmakers aAron munson, Trevor Anderson and Ashleigh Brown, among many others.
• a screening of Blush, a dance on screen work by Ultima Vez & Wim Vandekeybus, with music by David Eugene Edwards of Woven Hand, and 16 Horsepower
• two screenings of short dance on screen work, including Danse Macabre by Pedro Pires (one of Canada's Top Ten Short Films of 2009)
• a piece of media art abandonware by local artist Dr Wik. A media art sculpture will be left in public during the course of the festival; once we know the location, we will announce it via Facebook and our website. There is no guarantee that the work will not be cleaned up, vandalized or removed before audience members get to see it, although we will document it as best as we can.

Tickets: $10 general, $8 students/seniors/MZD+FAVA members
Festival Passes: $40
Passes available in advance from Metro Cinema, Mile Zero Dance or FAVA
Individual tickets available only at the door

More information: StemCellEdmonton.blogspot.com

STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 1: Variations on the Home Movie

Director: Various

• Feb 11 @ 7pm

These films contain all the elements we've grown to expect in home movies, but always with a twist. There's a lot more frankness and sexy hi-jinks than in your parent's old Super8's. There are animals and kids - but they're... view more

Reeling: MZD's Bad Lands (Good Luck)

Director: D Jeffrey Buchanan

Canada 2010, 60 min

• Feb 11 @ 9pm

The premiere screening of MZD's Bad Lands (Good Luck), an international and interdisciplinary creation that challenges current notions of dance performance, technology, home and environment. Shot live in the raw and desolate Badlands of Alberta and among the urban/human architecture... view more

Reeling: Sex, Death & Arabesque

Director: Various

• Feb 12 @ 7pm

A package of short dance-on-screen works, including works by: Allen Kaeja, Denise Fujiwara, Isabel Rocamora, Jenn Goodwin, Kenneth Sherman, Lesley Farley, Luke Langsdale, Manuel Saiz, Pedro Pires, Raha Shirazi, Robert Deliskie, Marlene Millar & Philip Szporer. Curated by Gerry Morita,... view more

Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry

Director: Daniel Barrow

Canada 2008, 60 min, Manual animation

• Feb 12 @ 9pm

Awarded the 2008 Images Prize at its premiere, Daniel Barrow's newest "manual animation" combines overhead projection with video, music, and live narration to tell the story of a garbage man with a vision to create an independent phone book chronicling... view more

Artist's Talk with Daniel Barrow @ The ARTery

• Feb 13 @ 2pm

This will be a free artist's talk with Daniel Barrow, who is in town for STEM Cell, presenting his latest manual animation, [Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry][1], screening at Metro Cinema on Fri, Feb 12 @ 9pm. Daniel's... view more

STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 2: Landscapes

Director: Various

• Feb 13 @ 6pm

The landscape has always been a part of the Canadian art tradition, from Lawren Harris and Emily Carr, to the road movies of Bruce Macdonald. This stunning collection includes films about landscapes, cityscapes, architecture and the dying prairie, by filmmakers... view more

STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 3: The Medium of Media

Director: Various

• Feb 13 @ 7:30pm

Films and videos that address the materiality of the medium (the physical artifacts of film and video), while simultaneously addressing the role of 'the media' in our lives. From the smart, funny and piercing work of John Greyson, to the... view more

Reeling: Blush - A film by Ultima Vez

Director: Wim Vandekeybus

2004, 52 min, 35mm

• Feb 13 @ 9pm

In May and June of 2004 Wim Vandekeybus shot a 52-minute feature based on his successful performance Blush.  Carried by the music of David Eugene Edwards and Woven Hand and with texts by the Flemish author Peter Verhelst, Blush is... view more

STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 4: Memory

Director: Various

• Feb 14 @ 1pm

Films dealing with memory and history; the moments in our lives when things changed, or could have. The pasts that form us, or that founder us. The pasts that form us as individuals, and that founder us as cultures. Including work... view more

Reeling: Gravity of Desire

Director: Various

• Feb 14 @ 2:30pm

A series of short dance-on-screen works, including work by: Frederick Pelletier, Geoffrey Pugen, Geraldine Carr, Heather Keung, Isabel Rocamora, Karen Kaeja, Allen Kaeja, Karen Rose, Nikko Snyder, Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer. Curated by Gerry Morita, Katrina Smy, and Marsh... view more

STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 5: Phenomenology & Perception

Director: Various

• Feb 14 @ 4pm

Films and videos documenting phenomenal perceptions, or the perception of phenomena. Films and videos documenting phenomenal perceptions, or the perception of phenomena, this is a screening that includes studies of light and color; attempted documentations of the lived experience of... view more