All screenings @ Zeidler Hall in the Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave

March 10th, 2010 04:59 p.m.

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

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 spookier than they are cute. There are snapshots of mundane domesticity that will baffle and amaze you (and make you feel better about the state of your own kitchen floor). And there are travel films more eloquent than that stuff you shot out your car window last summer.

Includes work by Alexandre Larose, Ashleigh Brown, Brenna George, Clint Enns, Jason Britski, Jim Verburg, Kim Sheppard, Michael Rollo, Riaz Mehmood, Rick Raxlen, Ryan Stec & Veronique Couillard, Tom Sherman, Tracy German and Trevor Anderson. Curated by Leslea Kroll, Tim Folkmann and Marsh Murphy.

Screenings:
  • Feb 11 @ 7pm

Le Corps Humain (introduction: la génération)

Director: Alexandre Larose
Canada 2007, 4 min, 16mm

A portrait of four generations captured on a single roll of super 8mm film. Le Corps Humain was edited in-camera and hand-processed. The raw formal treatment parallels the naive universe of the newborn child taking consciousness of a physical world... view more

Scheme

Director: Tracy German
Canada 2006, 2 min

“Scheme is composed of photographs, text and drawings from my son’s creative play and school work. Many of the images are photographs he shot with a child’s Crayola 110 camera, which I feel capture some of the essence of movement... view more

Searching for Wallenberg

Director: Rick Raxlen
Canada 2007, 3 min

Drawings and text bring to life a poem by Isa Milman. .....Someone named Vera is looking for Raoul Wallenberg; he was last seen in a Soviet prison, scratching into the stone wall. Isa was born in a DP camp in... view more

Witchcraft

Director: Jason Britski
Canada 2009, 5 min

Witchcraft is an examination of the nostalgic, and darker implications of my family’s Super 8 “home movies”.... It is an extension of an earlier work, Down Payment on a Dead Horse, which is rooted in a quote from Ernest Hemingway... view more

Here We Are

Director: Kim Sheppard
Canada 2007, 5 min

Constructed of footage and sound found on You Tube, “Here We Are” explores online watchers and their subjects. Low-resolution personal documents and family photos create this abstracted and voyeuristic video.

Lola

Director: Michael Rollo
Canada 2008, 3 min

Through the eyes of pure content in light and darkness, to objects strange and shifting, a cat's curiosity of all things moving.

Carpet Diem

Director: Trevor Anderson
Canada 2008, 2 min

A two-minute creative documentary made of two unaltered still photos: one taken by a cell phone, the other by a professional Hollywood paparazzo.

Fray

Director: Tom Sherman
Canada 2007, 4 min

High school girls play tackle football without helmets or pads. This grudge match between members of the junior and senior classes at Nottingham High School in Syracuse, New York was recorded in 2002.

Dustpan

Director: Brenna George
Canada 2009, 3 min

Time is measured in increments of what falls on the kitchen floor.

Two Things

Director: Ashleigh Brown
Canada 2008, 10 min

The whimsical story of a beautiful summer’s day in the life of one confused girl. Guided by a narration built from years of home video, Two Things wonders, waits, and hopes for an answer to just one question: “what’s in... view more

For a Relationship

Director: Jim Verburg
Canada 2007, 5 min

In this visually beautiful and daring work, Verburg sorts through 2 years of photographs to make sense of the relationships in his life. Sexual, romantic and familial ties blend together in this intimate reflection on the artist’s relationship with his... view more

Amanat

Director: Riaz Mehmood
Canada 2009, 3 min

In Islamic culture, Amanat means ‘trustworthy’ or ‘safekeeping’. When someone gives something to someone else for safekeeping and returns the item back, they show that they are amanat-dhar or trustworthy by returning the object undamaged. This short video is an interview... view more

Motel to Motel

Director: Ryan Stec & Véronique Couillard
Canada 2006, 7 min

Motel to Motel is an experimental travelogue back dropped against the slowly eroding nostalgic atmosphere of the roadside motel. The work blends experimental and documentary approaches with photographic and cinematic influences as it follows a couple through cool and playful... view more

Winnipeg Stories: Sacrificial Memories

Director: Clint Enns
Canada 2008, 5 min

An experimental film made from discarded film footage found in thrift shops and flea markets in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Music is “Eu un miroir, obscurement” by French duo Natural Snow Buildings.


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