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ABCAM

“Richard Martin deconstructs the process of montage, exploring a sequence of a TV movie, revealing the central conventions of the genre and its raw, rhythmic and mesmerizing predictability”. – Les Rencontres Internationales Paris, 2016

South Lakewood North

A personal landscape film of time and memory and a porch. A time-tunnel of moments and experiences.

Fettered

Unfolding to the melancholy strains of piano and accordion, which recall the dramatic live accompaniment of the silent cinema, “Fettered” is a lyrical tale of an Icarus-like man who attempts to realize his dreams of flight by constructing his own fragile wings. Scenes of dream-like heroism are contrasted with mundane reality. Coupled with the frozen lifelessness of glass-bound museum birds, and the awkward flight of animated photographs, this creates a picture of a man’s attempts to capture a futile ambition.

Mount Misery

Emotionally drained after learning of the death of her long estranged sister, an elderly woman spends the day lost somewhere between her past and present and her conscious and subconscious mind. In this state, she ponders the inevitabilities of life, death and the hereafter. “Mount Misery” won Best Film prize at the Black International Cinema, Berlin film festival, 2017.

Local Hero Programme

With a moving-image practice spanning 30 years and a stalwart, ongoing dedication to the molding of young artist minds at OCAD University, Toronto-based media artist Wrik Mead is truly a local hero. His distinct short-form works combine an animator’s patience with the reflexivity of the DIY psychodrama, producing brilliant first-person narratives of desire, difference and accommodation. Mead’s intelligent, sensitive parables are an intoxicating, visceral mix of painstaking pixillation, fairy-tale allegory and queer-identity. – Christine Lucy Latimer, Pleasure Dome Local Hero Programme includes the following titles: What Isabelle Wants (1987, super 8/16mm blowup, 3 minutes) Warm (1992, super 8/16mm blowup, 5…

2076 (Elegy)

In the year 2076, a cyborg finds moving images made by their great-grandmother in the last years of celluloid. Looking at the images, they are struck by the past, causing them to dig into their own memories, history, and identity. Gleaned from images from the filmmaker’s life, 2076 looks at the ways in which familial history and queer identity are communicated through the archive/photographic image. Topically situated as the analog image is quickly disappearing, this film explores its virtues, illustrating the ways in which the past imbues small moments with power and glimpses of our past can speak and serve…

Palmerston Blvd.

In “Palmerston Blvd.”, Dan Browne invites the audience into the intimate space of his living room in this portrait of a bay window recorded over the course of a year. Gradual shifts in the interior and exterior environments mark the passing of the seasons, a slow dance of objects and light juxtaposed by the rapid speeds of bodies and the urban landscape, revealing the processes inherent in all things. Selected Screenings: Toronto International Film Festival, Wavelengths Programme, 2017 (Toronto, ON); Antimatter Media Art Festival, 2017 (Victoria, BC)

Genres: experimental