Cinematheque MArch / APRIL 2010 PROGRAM New World Documentaries | Canadian Shorts, Artist Talks & Live Film Performances Cinema Lounge: Critical Dialogue on Canadian Cinema | THE FILMS OF FRANK COLE: LIFE WITHOUT DEATH

Canadian + International Feature Films HIGH LIFE Dir. Gary Yates | 2009 | Canada | 78 mins with Timothy Olyphant, Rossif Sutherland, Joe Anderson, Stephen Eric McIntyre

››Sat Apr 17 – 9 PM ››Sun Apr 18 – 7 PM ››Wed Apr 21 – 9 PM Internationally-acclaimed Winnipeg director Gary Yates (Seven Times Lucky) has created a great caper film about four wise cracking losers, all looking to score some quick cash in a downtown bank heist from ATM machines. The film features great use of Winnipeg locations and features standout performances, especially local actor Stephen McIntyre.

Music score by Three Dog Night, April Wine, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. “High Life, based on Lee MacDougall’s play of the same name, is a brilliantly acted gangster flick of a bank heist that goes wrong, thanks to the absolute ineptitude of its drugged-out protagonists.” – The Globe and Mail

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PRECIOUS: Based on Antichrist. A grieving couple retreat to ’Eden’, their isolated cabin in the woods, America, The End of Poverty? features the novel “Push” by where they hope to repair their broken THE YES MEN expert insights from: Nobel Prize Sapphire hearts and troubled marriage. But nature FIX THE WORLD winners in Economics, Amartya Sen Dir. Lee Daniels | USA | 2009 | 109 mins takes its course and things go from bad Dirs. Andy Bichlbaum and Mike and Joseph Stiglitz; acclaimed authors with Gabourey Sidibe, Mo‘Nique, to worse. Bonanno | 2009 | USA | 87 mins Susan George, Eric Toussaint, John Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz › The film was the talk of the 2009 Cannes ›Fri Mar 5 – 9 PM Perkins, Chalmers Johnson; university Film Festival, where Gainsbourg took ››Sat Mar 6 – 11:30 PM professors William Easterly and home the award for Best Actress. ››Wed Mar 10 & Thu Mar 11 – 9 PM Michael Watts; government ministers “A powerfully made film. The Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno such as Bolivia’s Vice President Alvaro performances by Willem Dafoe and are two guys who just can’t take “no” Garcia Linera and the leaders of social Charlotte Gainsbourg are heroic and for an answer. They have an unusual movements in Brazil, Venezuela, Kenya fearless. Von Trier’s visual command is and Tanzania. striking. And if you can think beyond what hobby: posing as top executives of he shows to what he implies, its depths * Panel discussion Fri Mar 12 following the 7 PM ››Fri Mar 5 - 7 PM corporations they hate. One day Andy, are frightening. IT IS A REAL FILM. Von purporting to be a Dow Chemical screening (panel starts at 8:45 PM) ››Sun Mar 7 - 7 PM Trier has reached me and shaken me.” spokesperson, gets on the biggest ››Wed Mar 10 & Thu Mar 11 – 7 PM - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times TV news program in the world and Acclaimed around the world, Gabourey announces that Dow will finally clean PROJECT GRIZZLY This film screening is sponsored by the Department of Sidibe gives an astonishing performance up the site of the largest industrial Sociology, Global Political Economy Program – University Dir. Peter Lynch | 1996 | Canada | 72 mins as an overweight and illiterate Harlem accident in history, the Bhopal of Manitoba teenager named Claireece “Precious” catastrophe. The result: as people Jones who is subjected to constant abuse worldwide celebrate, Dow’s stock LA BELLE VISITE and humiliation by her mother and father. value loses two billion dollars. The (JOURNEY’S END) To escape this world of pain she conjures reality hits Andy and Mike like a ton Dir. Jean-Francois Caissy | Canada up daydreams of being a fashion model of bricks: we have created a market | 2009 | 80 mins – French w/ English and rock star. When she gives birth to a system that makes doing the right subtitles second child she is sent to an alternative thing impossible. The Yes Men act as Introduction and Q &A with Director school learning program where she finally ››Wed Apr 21 – 7 PM gonzo journalists, delving deep into Jean-Francois Caissy discovers the light in her soul by learning the question of why we have given Years ago, Troy Hurtubise, a Canadian FREE ADMISSION to read. the market more power than any other scrap-metal dealer and nature enthusiast, ››Thu Mar 18 – 7 PM institution to determine our direction “A rare blend of pure entertainment and had an experience that would change as a society. This poignant new documentary about dark social commentary, this shockingly him forever. After being attacked by a raw, surprisingly irreverent and absolutely growing older recently premiered bear, Hurtubise not only counted himself “Outrageously entertaining....this movie unforgettable story …should not be is glorious testimony to the moral at the prestigious 2010 Berlin Film missed.” - L.A. Times lucky to be alive, but found himself filled power of satire.” – New York Magazine Festival. In the far reaches of the with both a genuine surprise at the Quebec countryside, an abandoned ANTICHRIST situation and a need to relive it. He began THE END OF POVERTY? motel has been converted into a constructing a series of increasingly Dir. Lars Von Trier | Denmark, France, Dir. Phillipe Diaz | USA | 2008 | 104 min - retirement home and time in this Sweden & Italy | 2009 | 104 mins elaborate bear-proof suits, designed to English, Spanish, French, w/ English former travellers’ retreat seems to with Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg withstand any onslaught. subtitles have ground to a halt. La belle visite warning: This film contains Explicit Although it is unclear of what he is trying Narrated by Martin Sheen is an elegiac exploration of old age, Violence and Sexual Content to prove, Hurtubise sets off on an annual set in a place at once physical and research trip to the Canadian Rockies to allegorical. By sharing in the lives of find grizzlies and to test his suits. two dozen seniors over the course of This feature will be preceded by a five seasons, the viewer is drawn into reading from Grizzlyville: Adventures in the pace of old age and rather than Bear Country, by Winnipeg writer Jake providing answers, the film elicits MacDonald. ››Fri Mar 12 & Sat Mar 13 – 7 PM reflection. The scenes unfold as a series of stand-alone but interlocking ››Fri Mar 12 – 10 PM Over twenty-five years, MacDonald ››Sun Mar 14 – 4 PM tableaux devoid of interviews, ››Sat Mar 13 – 9 PM has produced ten books and hundreds ››Wed Mar 17 – 7 PM narration or music. This rigorous ››Sun Mar 14 – 7 PM of stories for various magazines and With so much wealth in the world, attempt to convey reality steadily ››Wed Mar 17 – 9 PM newspapers, which have been recognized why is there so much poverty? builds the film’s tone, a mood between ››Thu Mar 18 – 9: 15 PM with national awards. Grizzlyville (Harper Consider that 20% of the planet’s despair and celebration. ››Fri Mar 19 – 9 PM Collins) part memoir, part natural history, population uses 80% of its resources Co-Presentation with Les Rendez-vous du cinéma ››Sun Mar 21 – 7 PM is MacDonald’s fascinating meditation and consumes 30% more than the québécoise on North America’s largest predators planet can regenerate. To maintain our Lars von Trier is back with the beautiful, and on the people who deal with them, lifestyle means more people will sink terrifying, and altogether engrossing sometimes on a daily basis. below the poverty line. Filmed in the slums of Africa and the barrios of Latin

2 | Cinematheque MARCH / APRIL 2010 New World Henri-Georges Documentaries Clouzot’s Inferno

Henri-Georges Upper Darby, Pennsylvania during the to light in this dynamic exploration of art, entertaining road journey in which he Chrome Dreams II tour. Demme captures commerce and human emotion. interviews a broad range of Native Clouzot’s Inferno the twin sides of Young – acoustic and actors, directors, writers, journalists The screening of this film has been generously sponsored by (L’Enfer de Henri– electric. Both electrifying and poignant, and stand up comics as they discuss INTERACTIVE Georges Clouzot) the concert includes a collection of rare TACTICA COMMUNICATIONS how these negative representations Dirs. Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra song gems (Mexico and Kansas), crowd affected their own self image and how Medrea annonier | France | 2009 | 94 favourites (Cinnamon Girl) and more key positive images inspired them. Reel mins – French w/ English subtitles recent material (No Hidden Path). The THROW DOWN YOUR Injun features a revealing interview with feeling on the stage is of a place where HEART: BELA FLECK IN Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native actress Young is able to create his music exactly AFRICA who attended the Academy award as he wants and is supported by his long- Dir. Sascha Paladino | 2008 | USA | 97 ceremony in 1973 on behalf of Marlon time touring band and friends. Heart of mins Brando, who declined his award to Gold director Jonathan Demme (Silence ››Fri Apr 9 – 7 PM protest discrimination against Aboriginal of the Lambs, Philadelphia), brought his people in the film industry. [Toronto ››Sat Apr 10 – 9 PM veteran crew to shoot the two concerts International Film Festival] ››Sun Apr 11 – 4 PM with mostly hand-held cameras in ››Fri Mar 19 – 7 PM ››Wed Apr 14 – 7 PM HDCam, HDV and Super-8mm formats. ››Sun Mar 21 – 4:30 PM A HARD NAME The screening of this film has been generously sponsored by Meeting at the intersection of cinema, › Dir. Alan Zweig | 2009 | Canada | 90 mins ›Wed Mar 24 & Thu Mar 25 – 7 PM history and ethnomusicology, Throw French director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Down Your Heart follows American banjo reputation is founded on the classics extraordinaire Bela Fleck to Africa as The Wages of Fear (1953) and Les he jams and records with world-class Diaboliques (1955) and it might have musicians and singers. Fleck brings been enhanced if he had completed ART & COPY the banjo back to the continent of its his 1964 project, Enfer, about a jealous Dir. Doug Pray | 2009 | USA | 89 mins origin and blends it in to demonstrate its husband driven towards insanity. This commonality with akontings (the original documentary explains what went wrong banjo), thumb pianos, 12-foot wooden ››Sat Apr 24 & Sun Apr 25 – 7 PM – the director, having alienated cast and xylophones and other traditional African ››Wed Apr 28 & Thu Apr 29 – 7 PM instruments. Throw Down Your Heart crew with his obsessive behaviour and In Alan Zweig’s A Hard Name, we meet is a feast of stirring sounds and sights then having suffered a heart-attack – eight middle-aged ex-convicts who are [Shawn Vitt / The Oregonian] but it also unearths footage of camera trying to stay out of prison, perhaps for tests and experiments in kinetic art *Opening night banjo set by Leonard the first time in their lives. Most have and colouration that suggest how very Podolak (of The Duhks) – Fri Apr 9 at 7 PM spent decades in and out of jail. Prison remarkable the film might have been. Leonard Podolak has been playing his is what they know and they’ve learned Until its discovery and reconstruction, how to survive there. The result is a this remarkable dazzling footage had not unique style of Claw-hammer banjo ››Fri Apr 2 to Sun Apr 4 – 7 PM riveting portrait which humanizes a side been seen for forty years. [A. Quinn / The music professionally for 15 years. With ››Wed Apr 7 & Thu Apr 8 – 7 PM his bands, Scruj MacDuhk, and The of prisoners that we rarely see. Zweig Independent] started his documentary career with the This powerful new film about advertising Duhks, he has toured festivals and legendary film Vinyl, about the world and inspiration by Doug Pray (Surfwise, venues of all sizes. NEIL YOUNG of obsessive record collectors. He then Scratch, Hype!), reveals the work and Co-Presentation with the Winnipeg Folk Festival moved on to create Lovable, about the TRUNK SHOW wisdom of some of the most influential difficulty of being single in a couple’s Dir. Jonathan Demme | 2009 | USA | advertising creative’s of our time. These 120 mins world, and the film I Curmudgeon, about people have profoundly impacted our self described misanthropes. In all these culture, yet are virtually unknown films we see Zweig’s deep sense of outside their industry. Exploding from REEL INJUN humanity and interview skills at work. A advertising’s “creative revolution” of the Dir. Neil Diamond | 2009 | Canada | Hard Name was voted one of the Top Ten 1960s, these artists and writers brought 85 mins Films at the 2009 Hot Docs Festival. a surprisingly rebellious spirit to their with Clint Eastwood and Adam Beach work in a business more often associated ››Sat Apr 10 & Sun Apr 11 – 7 PM with mediocrity or manipulation; ››Fri Mar 26 to Sat Mar 27 – 7 PM & 9:15 PM featuring brilliant campaigns for For decades, Aboriginal people have ››Sun Mar 28 – 7 PM everything from cars to presidents. often been represented in Hollywood ››Wed Mar 31 & Thu Apr 1 – 7 PM & 9:15 PM Visually interwoven with their stories, films, with these depictions often being ››Thu Apr 2 & Fri Apr 3 – 9 PM TV satellites are launched, billboards deeply negative and wildly inaccurate. › ›Wed Apr 7 & Thu Apr 8 – 9 PM are erected, and the social and cultural Diamond takes us on a highly This new, spontaneous and raw concert impact of their ads are brought film was shot during two shows in

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CINEMA + LIGHT: FILM analytic projector that projects a double- to manipulate footage of abandoned A 3D STEREOSCOPIC width image of unsplit 16mm gauge film. farmhouses, shacks and churches. PERFORMANCES by This is the first of two hand-processed Several projections accompanied by VIEWING WORLD ALEX MACKENZIE AND pieces made for this projector (the multi-channel sounds transform the A live performance featuring the Vladmaster second being Loom). Edited entirely in- desolate prairie landscape into a * Special Event pricing – all HEIDI PHILLIPS admissions $5 * Special Event pricing – all camera, the piece was shot on outdated wasteland that verges on apocalyptic. admissions $5 Kodachrome 40 and hand-processed Declining physicality occurs in the film in black and white, then left to lie, half medium itself, as Phillips includes her buried, in the backyard where it was own process as part of the work. The shot for a week. Originally commissioned roughened textures, scratch marks and for the PDX (Portland) Experimental & chemical spills are a deliberate move to Documentary Film Festival, the film is contradict the slick production values in an exploration of the still-standing last contemporary media. Residual invites the season’s dead plants mixed with the viewer to re-experience forgotten prairie newly blooming of the current season, dwellings as our own haunted, soulless periphery ››Sat Mar 20 – 7 PM & 8:30 PM the backyard transformation embedded spaces. ››Sat Mar 6 – 7 PM in and on the film’s surface. Vladamir lives in Oregon where she ABOUT ALEX MACKENZIE has been hand making and selling Writer, curator and filmmaker Alex fixed: view | sky | rail her own Vladmaster 3D stereoscopic MacKenzie and Winnipeg filmmaker Alex MacKenzie has been working as 2009 | 20 mins. disks since 2003. Vladmasters are Heidi Phillips will each premiere a new a media artist for over 15 years with a Hand processed and treated live using handmade ViewMasterTM reels designed, work of expanded cinema. Each artist focus on various models of expanded both looping and lens manipulations photographed and hand assembled works with their own tools - Alex uses cinema and light projection involving the on two 16mm projectors. This triptych by Vladamir. They make use of toys, hand processed loops and rare analytic handmade image. He was the founder reframes frames, flattens vies and neglected household objects, and projectors while Heidi continues to work and curator of the Edison Electric Gallery exposes surfaces in order to see through odd ephemera to tell 28 picture tales. with found footage, working in scratch of Moving Images, the Blinding Light!! and beyond the moment. Three distinct Debuting her first 3D performance of the marks and chemical spills to escape Cinema and the Vancouver Underground moments are used as starting points, Lucifugia Thigmotaxis at the Portland the slick production look of modern Film Festival. His live media works are each simultaneously static and in motion. Documentary and Experimental Film technology. presented at festivals and underground Sound is drawn and manipulated from screening spaces throughout Europe and Festival, it has since shown at events in the 16mm hum and clatter, along with North America, most recently on a tour the US and the UK. PART I: ALEX MACKENZIE the emulsion elements which find their Periphery of the British Isles which included The Audience members will be given a 3D way onto the optical audio track. 2008 | 18 mins Leeds International Film Festival, Cork viewer, a set of disks, and will then be Film Festival, no.w.here in London, and led through the following stories: Performance-based and hand processed PART II: HEIDI PHILLIPS the 7 Inch Cinema in Birmingham. in black and white, this piece is inspired Residual LUCIFIGIA THIGMOTAXIS by remote mountain observations; an 2010 | 15 minS ABOUT HEIDI PHILLIPS exploration of the broad surfaces and Lucifugia means light-fleeing. Influenced by the likes of Peter Thigmotaxis is the need for pressure on invisible minutiae of an island, and Tscherkassky and Janet Cardiff, a looking out and inward. This work all sides of your body in order to feel Winnipeg-based Heidi Phillips’ art safe. Together these two words describe premiered as a part of the Damp: practice straddles experimental film Contemporary Vancouver Media Arts the essential nature of the cockroach. and installation art. Her film work This story is about the adventures of a book launch at the Pacific Cinematheque has been screened in such festivals in Vancouver in 2008. cockroach and the events that transpire as Transmediale (Berlin) and Images when he dares to leave the safety of his Residual (Toronto). She completed her MFA from Goldenfleaf home behind the refrigerator. 2006 | 6 mins Transart Institute in Austria in August Residual is an improvisational live of 2008. Initially borne of the visual and performance whereby Phillips uses mechanical potential of a regular 8mm experimental darkroom techniques

4 | Cinematheque MARCH / APRIL 2010 THE PUBLIC LIFE OF COLOGNE – WINNIPEG ELEVEN IN MOTION: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING JEREMIAH JONES FILMMAKER INTERNATIONAL ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONS IN TO ST. MATTHEW On March 19, 1992 a recreational RESIDENCY ARTIST TALK ANIMATION Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1964 | Italy & airplane flying low over the Cascade * Free Admission * Free Admission France | Italian w/ English subtitles foothills noticed an unusual number ››Sun Mar 21 – 2 PM ››Thu Apr 15 – 7 PM of orange forms dotting the forest floor. Further investigation revealed 86 In February 2010, three Winnipeg Eleven in Motion is a Canadian earthmoving vehicles idle and overgrown filmmakers – Jaimz Asmundson, Jeffrey animation commission that takes as its with weeds spread over five acres of Erbach and Danishka Esterhazy – were starting point the work of the Painters esidual

R forest. This is an investigation of the selected to participate in an international Eleven. The Toronto Animated Image occurrence and the man who may or may filmmaker residency program in Cologne. Society (TAIS) invited eleven Canadian not have been responsible for it. The At this post-residency artist talk session, animation artists to draw inspiration story is told in dioramas built from tiny the three filmmakers will discuss the from and pay homage to the artists and model railroad men and 55 cent plastic work they completed during their seminal works of the Painters Eleven ››Sun Apr 18 – 2 PM residency, including showing clips of bulldozers. Almost none of the objects “The Gospel According To St. Matthew are larger than one inch in diameter. work. Here are the films they created: is Pasolini’s poetic film transposition of This international residency is a special Inner View by Patrick Jenkins – inspired the life of Jesus Christ from the ancient FEAR AND TREMBLING collaboration between the Kölner by Kazuo Nakamura to the modern world “without having to reconstruct it archaeologically or Based on a dinner party as seen from Filmhaus and the Winnipeg Film Group. The Yarwood Trail by Richard Reeves – philosophically” (according to the late inside the head of someone who In May, three filmmakers from Cologne inspired by Walter Yarwood filmmaker). Set in the rocky wasteland of probably shouldn’t have come, escape will travel to Winnipeg to engage in The Importance of Hortense by Lisa the Southern Italian countryside, shot in is sought and perhaps found. Oranges production and development works Morse – inspired by Hortense Gordon black and white film stock, and cast with and blues dominate the color scheme. supported by the resources of the the natives of the region, the film has an Old Ink by Rick Raxlen – inspired by insularity that gives the two-thousand Soup and prawns are on the menu. This Winnipeg Film Group. Harold Town year-old story an authenticity missing Vladmaster is narration-less. The Winnipeg Film Group acknowledges from nearly every other major production STROKE by Ellen Besen – inspired by of the life (or Passion) of Christ on film…. the generous support of the Manitoba ACTAEON AT HOME Tom Hodgson a masterstroke of filmmaking.” M. Tyree Arts Council for this program. Additional The End is the Beginning by Craig Actaeon, to the ancient Greeks, was a support for the participating artists has The screening of GOSPEL Marshall – inspired by Ray Mead hunter unlucky enough to get a good been generously provided by On Screen ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW look at Artemis bathing naked amongst Manitoba, the Winnipeg Arts Council and William’s Creatures by Pasquale will be preceded by a reading her nymphs. For his trespasses, Actaeon the Canada Council for the Arts. LaMontagna – inspired by William from the Montreal based author, was transformed into a stag and then Ronald Mary di Michele, who has written a devoured by his own hounds. This As Above so Below by Élise Simard – book of poems on the filmmaker, a way Actaeon, may or may not have anything inspired by Alexandra Luke into Passolini’s passionate vision of to do with the historical Actaeon. Traffic Flow II by Nick Fox-Gieg – inspired innocence and experience in her new * This program is generously sponsored by Multimedia Risk. by Oscar Cahén collection of poems called Flower of Youth. Her work juxtaposes Pasolini’s Playtime by Steven Woloshen – inspired life and vision in her words, providing a by Jock MacDonald revealing counterpoint to his film. Strips by Félix Dufour-Laperrière – Co-presentation with the Manitoba Writer’s Guild inspired by Jack Bush

THE SUPER 8 CINEMA OF JOHN PORTER: Condensed Rituals and Camera Dances Live film performance * Special Event pricing – all admissions $5 ››Fri Apr 23 – 7 PM Super 8 filmmaker, photographer, performer and writer John Porter is probablyC anada’s best known spokesman for super 8 filmmaking, surpassing even One Take Super 8 Event director Alex Rogalski. Known in his native Toronto as the king of super 8, John has made more than 300 short films, mostly super 8, and has performed more than 80 solo shows internationally. Using film as a visual medium like painting, many of his short films are silent, made in series, and he only shows his originals (no copies). During this presentation, Porter will perform live in front of the audience while screening a selection of his works. Porter’s films are dynamic, humorous and revealing, enjoyed by people of all ages (families are encouraged to bring their kids!). They reveal and highlight the excitement involved in the risk taking of creating a super 8 film. While visiting the Winnipeg Film Group, John Porter will also lead a Super 8 workshop on Sat Apr 14 (10 AM to 4 PM). More information is available at www.winnipegfilmgroup.com or contact Darcy at 925-3450. 5 | Cinematheque MARCH / APRIL 2010 OKEEDOKEE MR. by the notion that film could be done PARK GOOD AFTERNOON anywhere, that Hollywood wasn’t the (1983, 9 mins) ROYAL TOWER JOHNSON: THE FILMS OF only place that makes film, and what we Featuring comedian Randy Woods as (1986, 25 mins) LEON JOHNSON see in theatres is not the only cinema.” the central protagonist and the second In this experimental documentary video, featuring Leon Johnson in conversation with Gene OKEEDOKEE in Leon’s proposed trilogy. A man can’t we spend the day in the cramped and Walz (1973, 3 mins) quite remember if he has forgotten busy office of a woman who manages a * Free Admission something and treks back to his car just rental housing agency. Telephones ring A portrait of the filmmaker’s brother- one more time to check. Did I forget…or incessantly, there is always someone ››Thu Apr 22 – 7 PM in-law Steve Jackson with psychedelic did I….remember ??? hanging around her door and there is photograph animation synchronized to Film sound recordist and independent always someone who can’t pay their filmmaker, Leon Johnson was one music performed by Chuck Aliamo. LE MÉTIF ENRAGÉ (1984, 17 mins) rent. The manager is tough and cynical of the pioneers in the community of CHRISTMAS IN BRANDON but not without a sense of humour. A St. Boniface poet George Morrisette in independent Winnipeg filmmakers in the (1979, 10 mins) subtext on work and power unfolds as a devilish mood tricks the audience at a early 1970’s which led to the creation Christmas Eve, Brandon, a bottle or two we see that her job often involves trying fiddle competition. Instead of playing his of the Winnipeg Film Group. Pressed to of Tia Maria and the warm smile and to get money out of people who don’t violin at the dance he recites a poem in reflect on his career thus far, Johnson demeanour of poet and actor Randy have jobs. As she says: “People should French about themselves and the Métis says “he has always been motivated Woods as he tells of their combined see what this job is like”. French. The crowd turns against him intoxicating effects. sparking a dramatic confrontation.

Cinema Lounge: Critical Dialogue on Canadian Cinema The Cinema Lounge: Critical Dialogue on Canadian Cinema series was created to spark a dialogue about Canadian cinema and help combat the onslaught of Hollywood publicity that saturates all film media coverage in Canada. Through this series, the Winnipeg Film Group invites renowned Canadian filmmakers to select and write about a work or works from the vast and rich body of Canadian cinema that have impacted them as artists. This unique series contributes to a larger public debate on the awareness and thematic concerns addressed by Canadian cinema.

Alex MacKenzie introduces landscape, structure, beauty, light, and NARROWS INLET viewer questioning the film’s structure THE WESTERN INFLUENCE: the tools of cinema.” - Alex MacKenzie Dir. David Rimmer | 1980 | Canada | 10 and purpose. A rumination on cinematic mins (silent) Films by Ellie Epp, Chris 98.3 KHz: (BRIDGE AT ELECTRICAL representation. From a boat swaying on its anchor at the Gallagher, Al Razutis STORM) CURRENT Dir. Al Razutis | 1973 | Canada | 13 mins head of an inlet, a landscape of pilings, and David Rimmer Dir. Ellie Epp | 1985 | Canada | 2:30 mins The suspension bridge as shore, and forest is slowly revealed by (silent) time-lapse photography as the morning * Free Admission electromagnetic tower, antenna for Made in the Museum of Anthropology fog lifts. While the deep space of the sixty years of radio waves and engulfed in Vancouver, vertical lines shift black landscape emerges out of the fog- in video storm. A spatial image of the revealing blue, and then a movement of enshrouded flatness of early morning, transition from an industrial society the black itself. A subtle and cin-erotic the camera skips from fixed point to linked by transport to a post-industrial embodiment of meditation. society linked by communications. fixed point, suggesting the motion of the NOTES IN ORIGIN A repeating journey across the San human eye while reading. Dir. Ellie Epp | 1987 | Canada | 15 mins Francisco Bay Bridge becomes a journey SEEING IN THE RAIN “What I like in film is precision, slightness, into disintegrating visuals and video Dir. Chris Gallagher | 1981 | Canada | 10 mins economy of means, delight, inference, a message from our sponsor transformation. - Al Razutis and a kind of motion that can be followed Shot through the windshield of a but not tagged, and makes seeing ››Sat Mar 6 – 9 PM A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSOR intelligent.” – Ellie Epp. Dir. Al Razutis |1979 | Canada | 9 mins Vancouver city bus, this film transforms “About 20 years ago, I saw a handful the linear narrative of an ordinary city The claustrophobia of media “reality”– Shot in northern Alberta, where the of short films by four Vancouver-based transit ride by inserting images from experimental filmmakers in a university compartmentalized into game shows, artist grew up, the film consists of past and future to the rhythm of the film studies class taught by Peter movies, news reports, commercials – is ten long-take shots of various lengths bus’s windshield wipers. As the time/ Harcourt. They made an immediate and presented as continuous interchangeable divided by black leader bearing a profound impact on me – so much so that space continuum fragments, reality spectacle. This film looks at the ideology number for each successive shot. Here I decided to travel west a few years later seems to be chasing itself. and see what I might find that inspired of misrepresentation, the turning of facts Epp intimates a mysteriously shared these sometimes beautiful, sometimes into icons, history into myth. It analyzes ATMOSPHERE and personal complicity of artist and disturbing, and always rigorous moving the media’s metalanguage, especially Dir. Chris Gallagher | 1975 | Canada | 10 viewer without abandoning that purity mins image works. What I found were the the image of woman as spectacle and and extraordinary elegance that mark filmmakers themselves. Here, then, is commodity; and the psychology and A coastal landscape at Downs Point, Epp as one of the most accomplished of an assembly of some of those early Hornby Island, is panned back and works that continue to impact on my economics of male voyeurism. - Al film artists. – [Bart Testa, Art Gallery of own practice and ongoing interest in Razutis forth to a mysterious pattern or non- Ontario catalogue] pattern. Drum accompaniment keeps the 6 | Cinematheque MARCH / APRIL 2010 SAHARA

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THE FILMS OF FRANK COLE: N Eyes are the windows to the soul...be careful where you look. WHITE is a film MA LIFE WITHOUT DEATH noir thriller written/directed by Holly Marchuk that takes you on a tour of the THE city you’d never ask to take.

Also showing - an encore presentation of WAIT, a short thriller directed by Dion “Legendary Canadian filmmaker Frank Cole entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the first man to cross the Telesky. If you’ve ever used a Ouija board Sahara on foot. Meticulous, fearless, obsessive and the maker of at least two bonafide masterpieces, there has never you’ll want to see this! Come enjoy some been anything in the cinema like Frank Cole. His murder in Mali in 2000 left us with a legacy of two features, a pair of truly independent local film! award-winning short films and a mystery that may never be solved” - Mike Hoolboom Canadian filmmaker, writer and critic Mike Hoolboom and Tom McSorley have edited a new book titled Frank Cole: A Life Without Death. Cinematheque presents a book launch along with screenings of Cole’s works.

* Friday night screenings introduced by Tom A LIFE dangerous Sahara by camel, confronting McSorley of the Canadian Film Institute Dir. Frank Cole | Canada | 1986 | 75 mins his deeply developed obsession with ››Fri Apr 16 – 8:30 PM death. Will the desert beat him, cause THE MAN WHO CROSSED THE SAHARA him to abandon his symbolic negation Dir. Korbett Matthews | 2008 | Canada Alternating between an enclosed room of dying? Or will he fall prey to the | 53 mins and the Sahara desert, A Life contains shifting weather patterns or political ››Fri Apr 16 – 7 PM little dialogue and one lone male banditry in the various countries he character. It offers a poetic rendering Shot with the same stark beauty that passes through? Filmed by Cole himself, of mankind’s struggle against mortality. impelled Cole’s death-defying movies, the striking images of the desert are Cole’s first feature length confrontation Matthews brings us home with Cole’s combined with flashbacks of his beloved Freeze with death, while occasionally family and close-up with the cameraman dying grandfather. In this his final film, impenetrable, is utterly unforgettable. he dragged across the Sahara. He Cole creates a powerful cry for life and a As Geoff Pevere writes, “Made entirely swims alongside best friend Rick moving meditation on mortality. without dialogue, and consisting of a Frame Taylor, and then brings us to filmmaker series of rigorously composed, shot and and wordsmith Peter Wintonick ABOUT TOM MCSORLEY International edited images (mostly in close-up), the (Manufacturing Consent). Each provides film tells a story that, while minimal in Tom McSorley is the Executive Director Film Festival a fascinating, haunting glimpse into the literal terms, strikes deep emotional of the Canadian Film Institute. He is also single-minded burn that drove Cole into for Kids and psychological chords. Visionary and a sessional lecturer in Film Studies, at the Guinness Book of World Records obsessive, A Life is quite unlike anything Carleton University; a film and theatre ››March 6, 7 & 13 as the only person to cross the Sahara made in this country before”. critic for CBC; the editor of Rivers of alone. The Man Who Crossed the Sahara Time: The Films of Philip Hoffman (2008), Every March Freeze Frame presents an is a movie generous with inner and outer * The screening of A Life will be and co-editor of Self Portraits: The award – winning collection of films for geographies. Not only does it travel accompanied by Cole’s two short Cinemas of Canada Since Telefilm (2006) children and young people. They strive to back to Cole’s terminal point in Mali, it documentaries, A Documentary (1979, and Life Without Death: The Cinema of be an international leader in providing an brings us to the Cryonics Institute outside 8 mins) and The Mountenays (1981, Frank Cole. He is the author of numerous enriching cinematic experience through Detroit where his remains lie in a state 22 mins). articles and book chapters on Canadian the delivery of diverse and innovative of deep-freeze preservation. - Mike and international cinema, and the author programming that educates, inspires and Hoolboom, Tom McSorley LIFE WITHOUT DEATH empowers children and youth. Dir. Frank Cole | Canada | 2000 | 86 mins of a new critical study on Atom Egoyan’s 1991 feature, The Adjuster. ››Sat Apr 17 – 7 PM More info at: On November 29, 1989, Cole began www.freezeframeonline.org another harrowing journey across the or phone 949-9355

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28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7:00 PM The Most Dangerous man in 7:00 PM The Most Dangerous man in 7:00 PM Precious Various Freeze Frame Film Festival America: Daniel Ellsberg and America: Daniel Ellsberg and 9:00 PM The Yes Men Fix the World 7:00 PM cinema + Light Performance the Pentagon Papers the Pentagon Papers 9:00 PM cinema Lounge FREE ADMISSION 11:30 PM The Yes Men Fix the World

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Various Freeze Frame Film Festival 7:00 PM & 7:00 PM Precious 7:00 PM Precious 7:00 PM The End of Poverty? Various Freeze Frame Film Festival 7:00 PM Precious 8:30 PM 9:00 PM The Yes Men Fix the World 9:00 PM The Yes Men Fix the World 10:00 PM Antichrist 7:00 PM The End of Poverty? White 9:00 PM Antichrist

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 4:00 PM The End of Poverty? 7:00 PM The End of Poverty? 7:00 PM La Belle Visite FREE ADMISSION 7:00 PM Inferno 7:00 PM 3D Stereoscopic Viewing World 7:00 PM Antichrist 9:00 PM Antichrist 9:15 PM Antichrist 9:00 PM Antichrist 8:30 PM 3D Stereoscopic Viewing World

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2:00 PM cologne Artist Talk FREE ADMISSION 7:00 PM Inferno 7:00 PM Inferno 7:00 PM Neil Young Trunk Show 7:00 PM Neil Young Trunk Show 4:30 PM Inferno 9:15 PM Neil Young Trunk Show 9:15 PM Neil Young Trunk Show 7:00 PM Antichrist

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4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7:00 PM Art & Copy 7:00 PM Art & Copy 7:00 PM Art & Copy 7:00 PM Throw Down Your Heart 7:00 PM reel Injun 9:00 PM Neil Young Trunk Show 9:00 PM Neil Young Trunk Show 9:00 PM Throw Down Your Heart

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18 19 20 21 22 23 24 2:00 PM The Gospel According to St. Matthew 7:00 PM Project Grizzly 7:00 PM The Films of Leon Johnson 7:00 PM The Super 8 Cinema of John Porter 7:00 PM A Hard Name 7:00 PM High Life 9:00 PM high Life FREE ADMISSION

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