Metro Cinema Society: EIFF: Prairie Tales 10

EIFF: Prairie Tales 10

Canada 2008, 85 min, DigiBeta, Dir: Various

For the past ten years Edmonton's Metro Cinema has circulated the annual Prairie Tales program of Alberta-made independent media art. The fifteen works featured in Prairie Tales 10 showcase the wide diversity of originality, ingenuity and technical achievement of Alberta media creators at varying stages of their careers.

Rating: 14A (14A)
Advisories:

Nudity

Screenings:

Tuesday September 30 at 9:15PM Tweet

A Chandelier Accident

Director: Daniel Dugas

Canada, 3 min

Chandeliers from an antique shop in New Orleans are juxtaposed with the news of David Hasselhoff's chandelier accident.

What You're Ready For

Director: Corey Lee

Canada, 6 min

An emotionally devastated man seeks truth in the words of the charismatic self-help guru who stole his wife. Based on the short story by John Gould from his Giller Prize nominated collection, _kilter: 55 fictions_.

Transitting

Director: Collin Ward MacDonald

Canada, 3 min

The bustling streets of Calgary shift into altered gear through 'Momentism' (the creator's term for his animation style inspired by Time-lapse and Pixillation techniques).

Ice Climber's Waltz

Director: James Reckseidler

Canada, 15 min

The haunted yet dormant memory of an aging mountaineer is reawakened after a chance encounter with a beautiful young woman.

Intergalactic Who's Who: Praepredatorprae

Director: Carol Beecher & Kevin D.A. Kurytnik

Canada, 1 min

Animated homage to Canada's Hinterland Who's Who that presents one of the fantastical species inhabiting the wild desert planet of Zig 5.

Photosynthesis

Director: J. Scott Portingale

Edmonton, 5 min

A camera and vacuum cleaner belonging to a young couple comes to the stop-motion rescue of their dehydrated organic co-habitant when left alone one evening.

For Me

Director: Thea Killen-Smith

Canada, 1 min

A glimpse into the not always syncopated rhythms of the heart when love is given but not received.

Sleepless

Director: Mike McLaughlin

Edmonton, 12 min

A young man's struggle with the tedium of insomnia takes a passionate turn when he encounters a similarly sleep deprived soul mate.

Zap Girl Makes Toast

Director: Chris J Melnychuk

Canada, 2 min

A young girl's hungry impatience has electrifying consequences.

Inside | Outside

Director: Kyle Armstrong

Edmonton 2007, 6 min, Super 8

A non-linear black and white film spawned from the core creative concept of "parasites as ideas".

Evolution

Director: John Osborne

Edmonton, 2 min

A sequence of evolving patterns captured frame-by-frame using evolutionary algorithms set to music composed using open source loops.

DINX!

Director: Trevor Anderson

Edmonton, 13 min

A dissatisfied bar waiter in a men's burlesque club is thrown back in time to relive a definitive day from his childhood (while wearing short-shorts).

Beech-Nut

Director: Cam Woykin

Canada, 5 min

In dealing with his self-destructive infatuation with Amelia Earhart, an unidentified man instructs the viewer through a five-step process on how to construct the perfect paper airplane.

Greycon4

Director: Brandon Bloommaert

Canada, 6 min

The inhabitants of an alternate universe are cajoled, comforted and chaotically menaced by sinister forces. Non-traditional animation utilitizing random scene assemblage, various tactile materials and digital processes.