What better way to celebrate a big birthday than by throwing a party and ensuring some great gifts? To mark their 40th anniversary last year, the CFMDC (Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre) commissioned seven artists to make works inspired by films that are significant to them as image-makers. Premieres meet archetypes from the avant-garde in this unique evening that pairs new films with their influential companion pieces.
Adam Garnet Jones's Secret Weapons is an intensely personal animated film essay whose formal qualities speak to Mike Hoolboom's seminal, award-winning Frank's Cock (1993). Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof fashions a visual duet comprised of a 16mm film, The Garden of Earthy Delights, and a self-portrait photogram motivated by the incomparable virtuosity of Stan Brakhage's Christ Mass Sex Dance (1991). Jerry Thevent's Shelley renders homage to Shelley Niro's work in its meditation on binding relationships between nature, Western ideals, and native life in Canada. Louise Bourque's use of home movies in Fissures (1999) triggers a promise from mother to son in Lise Beaudry's La Vie en pellicule. With a playful, destructive spirit, Chris Gehman's Rostrum Press: Materials Testing "responds to an isolated aspect of two films by Michael Snow: Breakfast (Table Top Dolly) (1972-76) and Presents (1980-81), with an additional/incidental nod to Snow's Wavelength (1967)" (Chris Gehman). Afghanimation by Allyson Mitchell celebrates Joyce Wieland's brawn and brash, and her enduring legacy. Crushed by Susan Justin is a miniature study of grief and tribute to Midi Onodera's The Basement Girl (2000). (Andréa Picard, Cinematheque Ontario)
- Breakfast (Table Top Dolly) by Michael Snow (Canada 1976 15 min. 16mm)
- Rostrum Press: Materials Testing by Chris Gehman (Canada 2008 3:30 min. 16mm silent )
- Frank's Cock by Mike Hoolboom (Canada 1993 8 min. 16mm)
- Secret Weapons by Adam Garnet Jones (Canada 2008 7 min. 16mm)
- Fissures by Louise Bourque (Canada 1999 2:30 min. 16mm)
- La vie en pellicule by Lise Beaudry (Canada 2008 4:30 min. 16mm)
- Tree by Shelley Niro (Canada 2006 5:40 min. Video)
- Shelley by Jerry Thevent (Canada 2008 3:42 min. 16mm)
- Christ Mass Sex Dance by Stan Brakhage (U.S.A. 1991 5:30 min. 16mm)
- The Garden of Earthly Delights by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof (Canada 2008 8 min. 16mm silent)
- The Basement Girl by Midi Onodera(Canada 2000 11:40 min. 16mm)
- Crushed by Susan Justin (Canada 2008 2:10 min. 16mm)
- Rat Life and Diet in North America by Joyce Wieland (Canada 1968 16 min. 16mm)
- Afghanimation by Allyson Mitchell (Canada 2008 6 min. 35mm)
- Thursday October 02 at 9:15PM
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This screening is part of the larger thematic series:
- Edmonton International Film Fest 2008
- EIFF: Spanish Shorts
- EIFF: Just because I'm standing here, doesn't mean I want to
- EIFF: OOB 1 (2008)
- EIFF: OOB 2 (2008)
- EIFF: OOB 3 (2008)
- EIFF: OOB 4 (2008)
- EIFF: OOB 5 (2008)
- EIFF: OOB 6 (2008)
- EIFF: OOB 7 (2008)
- EIFF: OOB 8 (2008)
- EIFF: OOB 9 (2008)
- EIFF: International Shorts 1
- EIFF: International Shorts 2
- EIFF: Prairie Tales 10 (2008)
- EIFF: Picturing the Yukon
- EIFF: CFMDC Regeneration (2008)
- EIFF: Canadian Shorts (2008)
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