Emotional Rollercoaster7 pm Thursday, May 8
John Dutton Theatre, W.R. Castell Library
616 Macleod Trail S.E.
Sliding scale admission at the door (5$ - 20$)Hang on because these films are going to take you for a ride - first all the way up, then all the way down, then around and around...!!!
Old Lady
Artist: Kelly O’Brien
The Flight
Artist: Zarah Laszlo
Location: MB
Year: 2001
Time: 11:24
This experimental film is about the imagination invading the real. A woman waits in an airport and dreams of a lover "who does not show up to find her. The film is essentially about waiting, and the pain of it."
Panic-on-Dundas (World Premiere)
Artist: Sara MacLean
Location: ON
Year: 2000
Time: 3:30
Set to the enthusiastic play-by-play of golf commentators, a young woman runs her morning errands, and wins!
Listless
Artist: Laurel Swenson
Location: BC
Year: 2002
Time: 6:11
The video-maker mulls over familiar states of chaos and focus as embodied in the 'to do list' with an underlying complaint about our achievement focused ideology, in which she is an uneasy, though willing, participant.
Quel jour etait-ce? (What day is it?) (French with English subtitles)
Artist: Lyne Charlebois
Location: QC
Year: 2001
Time: 21:00
Sometimes, life acts in mysterious ways; an hour, a day, may change the entire components of the following days. It's a day to day thing that is propagated into the brain and the soul. But life goes on. Then comes Monday, Tuesday, etc.
Camoflauged
Artist: Dyan Achjadi
Location: QC
Year: 2000
Time: 3:00
A textured, visually rich animated short in which sampled images of soldiers and weapons are projected onto a woman's head.
Rigour Mortis
Artist: Lauren Mainland
Location: BC
Year: 2001
Time: 2:52
Like chocolate pate, Rigor Mortis is brief but intense, a little dish of super-8 garnished with scratch animation and a personal narrative. It is a sharing of affliction and healing; it seeks to show there is life beyond the stiffness.
The Fine Arts
Artist: Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
Location: BC
Year: 2002
Time: 3:38
"I hate the fine arts, I hate I am disgusted by the fine arts because, um, the fine arts are always made with artifice."
Weather Permitting
Artist: Deborah Van Slet
Location: QC
Year: 2001
Time: 27:00
Weather permitting is this storyteller's perspective on her place in the cycle, an attestation to the significance of her insignificance. Water the garden and wait for the train. Bundle up and walk or wait for the bus. Executive decisions, weather festivals, flooding of biblical proportions, lentil soup and a revolution based on the principle of dressing warmly and thinking of it as an adventure.
Theme Songs II
Artist: Tricia Middleton & Joel Taylor
Location: BC
Year: 2001
Time: 3:30
This piece borrows its name from the seminal Acconci tape, re-packaging the self-delusional banter of the Acconci piece in a formalised and much truncated version. While Acconci's persona appeared to only want to get laid in the original, the character in Theme songs II has different goals. Image and text combine to articulate the rampant image-based narcissism in a society ever increasingly hung up on 'celebrity'.
Callesthetics
Artist: Callianne Bachman, Asa Godstein, Brownwen Marsden & Rebecca Simonetti
Location: BC
Year: 2001
Time: 2:31
This is a super-8 film with stop-motion and scratch animation that explores the struggle of a girl dealing with the repercussions of sexual abuse, who learns how she is still beautiful.
