Bulletin Culturel May 2010 f o c u s HOT DOCS INSIDE OUT CONTACT - TORONTO PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL Year after year, human activities build up the metropolis. Among all the banal yet needed lives, a few people emerge far above. For its 2010 edition, Contact Photo Festival presents its artists within the fruitful legacy of a world-known Media theorist, Torontonian Marshall McLuhan. Contents “All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, PAGE 3 - Festivals ethical and social consequences that they leave no part of us PAGES 9-10 - Music untouched, unaffected, unaltered.”(*) PAGES 11-12 - Theatre The documentary program at HotDocs Festival offers a major focus PAGE 13 - Dance on producers and directors from France. The diversity of film production from France is a great asset for the more appealing than PAGE 13 - Cinema ever Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Inside Out. If you would like to PAGE 14 - Speakings rest from two-dimensional images, theatrical performances await PAGE 15 - Television your attendance! Joël Savary, Cultural Attaché (*) “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.” Cambridge, Mass MIT Press, 1994. First published 1964. MAY 2010 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday CONTACT - PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL MAY 1 TO 31 HOT DOCS HOT DOCS LES VOIX LES VOIX FREDERIC DU COEUR DU COEUR CHAMPION HOT DOCS HOT DOCS HOT DOCS HOT DOCS HOT DOCS HOT DOCS HOT DOCS LA LA LA SAGOUINE SAGOUINE SAGOUINE LA LA LA LA LA LA LA SAGOUINE SAGOUINE SAGOUINE SAGOUINE SAGOUINE SAGOUINE SAGOUINE THOMAS INSIDE OUT INSIDE OUT INSIDE OUT INSIDE OUT HIRSCHHORN FILM FESTIVAL LA LA LA LA LA LA SAGOUINE SAGOUINE SAGOUINE SAGOUINE SAGOUINE SAGOUINE INSIDE OUT INSIDE OUT INSIDE OUT INSIDE OUT INSIDE OUT INSIDE OUT INSIDE OUT CIE PASCOLI F e s t i v a l s CONTACT - TORONTO PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL MAY 1-31 Primary Exhibition: Contact Festival invites Marina Gadonneix, French photographer. She is being part of the collective exhibition The Brothel Without Walls with Susan Anderson, Evan Baden, Douglas Coupland, Jessica Dimmock, Clunie Reid, Stefan Ruiz, Joachim Schmid and Christopher Wahl. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE MAY 1-31 15 KING'S COLLEGE CIRCLE, MAIN FLOOR OF LAIDLAW WING 416 978 1838 WWW.UTAC.UTORONTO.CA Featured Exhibition: TPW Gallery invites Eric Baudelaire, French photographer. His art is part of the Centre Pompidou and the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain’s collections. GALLERY TPW MAY 6TH - JUNE 5TH OPENING MAY 6TH, 7PM -10PM 56 OSSINGTON AVE TUE – SAT 12 – 5PM 416 645 1066 [email protected] WWW.GALLERYTPW.CA 3 CONTACT - TORONTO PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL 1-31 MAI ALWAYS MOVING FORWARD Always Moving Forward: Contemporary African Photography from The Wedge Collection, is a selection of images by contemporary photographic artists of African origin. Through a wide range of photographic practices, Always Moving Forward speaks to a world in which migrations, economies and cultures have all gone global. Among the artists five of them have a connection with France, Mohamed Bourouissa (Algeria), Hassan Hajjaj and Bouchra Khalili (Maroc), Samuel Fosso (Cameroon) and Mohamed Camara GALLERY 44 (Mali). MAY 1-29 401 RICHMOND ST W, SUITE 120 TUE - SAT 11AM - 5PM 416 979 3941 [email protected] MIDDLESEA MiddleSea features the North American premiere of acclaimed artist Zineb Sedira’s eponymous video installation and accompanying photographs. A French woman of Algerian parentage, Sedira uses the sea as an allegory for the ideological contests of nations and the displacement of individuals. Opening reception held in conjunction with the release of Prefix Photo 21. Accompanied by an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist. PREFIX INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MAY 6–JULY 24 401 RICHMOND ST W, SUITE 124 DU MERCREDI AU SAMEDI 10H-17H 416 591 0357 [email protected] 4 CONTACT - PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL MAY 1-31 UKRAINIAN JOURNEY To better understand Ukraine, the MAY 6 - JUNE 1 not-for-profit organization Altemus ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE SPADINA Photography in the Soviet Union was commissioned a team of young 24, SPADINA ROAD an instrument of the state used to Eastern European photojournalists, GALERIE PIERRE LÉON document achievements and define members of the Sputnik Photos ideologies of the communist party. collective, to travel the country and FREE ADMISSION MONDAY TO SATURDAY This exhibition provides a capture its ethos. contemporary example of the role OPENING RECEPTION BY INVITATION photography plays in the quest for a MAY 5 post-Soviet identity. THIERRY DE DUVE that we are in the midst of an rhetoric discourse established by emphatic "return of the medium." Darget around his images. Clement The medium seems to be nowhere Cheroux is curator for photography and everywhere. at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. De Duve is a professor of aesthetics GLADSTONE HOTEL and art history at Université Lille III MAY 3RD, 7PM in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. His research and writing are focused on 1214 QUEEN ST W a reinterpretation of modernism. WWW.GLADSTONEHOTEL.COM Marcel Duchamp's readymade and its implications for aesthetics have long been a central focus of his work. For the Joan and Martin Goldfarb’s summer university, York University MOCCA invites Thierry De Duve, a famous TUESDAY MAY 6TH,7:30PM modern and contemporary art 952 QUEEN ST.WEST teacher. His lecture is about the 416-395-0067 (MOCCA) medium in arts: When did the YORKU.CA/FINEARTS/SUMMERINSTITUTE Medium Disappear? CLEMENT CHEROUX De Duve posits that within recent years, the field of visual arts has In the late nineteenth century, just been described as being in the after the discovery of X rays by midst of two seemingly Roentgen, Louis Darget, a retired incompatible states. On the one military and occult enthusiast, hand, critics such as Rosalind Krauss made numerous attempts to record have argued that we are now in a his thoughts on a photographic “post-medium” condition. On the plate. The lecture will focus on the other hand, many critics suggest 5 HOT DOCS APRIL 29 - MAY 9 BABIES NÉNETTE KINGS OF PASTRY Thomas Balmès Nicolas Philibert Chris Hegedus et D.A. Pennebaker A visually stunning and joyful A captivating study of an enigmatic Sixteen top chefs, three intense chronicle of the lives of four of the animal and our relationship to her, days, and one chance at France's world's newest human inhabitants – NÉNETTE asks us what we can learn top pastry honour: the Meilleur in Mongolia, Namibia, San from an orangutan, and what she Ouvrier de France. Frosting flies as Francisco, and Tokyo – from first can teach us about ourselves. documentary legends D.A. breath to first steps, on a journey Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus at once universal and amazingly THURSDAY, MAY 6TH, 7PM serve up this epic battle for sweet original. SATURDAY, MAY 8TH, 4:30PM victory. Bon appétit! ISABEL BADER THEATRE THURSDAY, APRIL 29 6:30 PM 93 CHARLES STREET WEST WEDNESDAY, MAY 5TH, 6:30PM WINTER GARDEN THEATRE BLOOR CINEMA 189 YONGE STREET WE DON'T CARE ABOUT 506 BLOOR STREET WEST FRIDAY, MAY 7TH, 11AM FRIDAY, APRIL 30 1:45 PM MUSIC ANYWAY ISABEL BADER THEATRE ROM THEATRE Cédric Dupire and Gaspard Kuentz 93 CHARLES STREET WEST The line separating music and noise WAR GAMES AND THE MAN is blurred in this showcase of Tokyo's WHO STOPPED THEM explosive avant-garde music scene. Dariusz Jabłoński From radical turntablism to a simple, amplified heartbeat, sound During the Cold War, Polish Colonel collides with image to offer a Ryszard Kukliński spied for the CIA, frenetic montage of the cityscape. revealing Russia's secret plans to invade Western Europe. Through his TUESDAY, MAY 6TH, 9:45PM act of betrayal, Kukliński saves his ROYAL CINEMA beloved homeland, but is forced 608 COLLEGE ST W into exile. THURSDAY, MAY 8TH, 11H45PM BLOOR CINEMA FRIDAY, MAY 7TH, 6:45PM 506 BLOOR STREET WEST ROM THEATRE SATURDAY, MAY 8TH, 7PM EYES WIDE OPEN - ALLIANCE CUMBERLAND CINEMAS EXPLORING TODAY'S SOUTH 159 CUMBERLAND STREET AMERICA INTO GREAT SILENCE DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE Gonzalo Arijón HUBERT SAUPER Philip Gröning In this epic journey, Uruguayan The monks of the Grande Devastating and prescient, this filmmaker Gonzalo Arijón travels Chartreuse, home to the Catholic award-winning film is a shocking across the continent uncovering its Church's strictest order, dedicate look at how globalization reduced a current social and political progress. themselves, in permanent silence, country to ruin. It's compulsory After 500 years of exploitation and to the service of God. This viewing for anyone enjoying the repression in the region, Arijón mesmerizing and poetic chronicle of privileges of the Western lifestyle. presents an empowered voice of a spiritual devotion provides a rare, new South America. FRIDAY, APRIL 30TH, 11:15AM moving, and transformative ISABEL BADER THEATRE experience. THURSDAY, MAY 6TH, 9:30PM 93 CHARLES STREET WEST SATURDAY, MAY 8TH, 2PM SUNDAY, MAY 2ND, 1:30PM ROM THEATRE INNIS TOWN HALL 2 SUSSEX AVENUE 6 INSIDE OUT- GAY AND LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL MAY 20-30 OUT OF THE BLUE (LA THE KING OF ESCAPE (LE ROI SURPRISE) DE L'ÉVASION) Alain Tasma Alain Guiraudie Veteran French filmmaker Alain A gentle giant of a tractor salesman Tasma assembles an award-winning in the southwest of France, Armand cast in this hard-hitting mysterious Lacourtade plays the game of drama about finding love in a place hanging out in roadside cruising you never thought to look. spots, but would prefer to settle down with Mr. Not-So-Bad. He uses Feeling dispirited with her cash to stop the rape of a teenager, marriage, schoolteacher Marion only to find himself on a renegade leaves her husband on the night of adventure with the girl, an their 20th anniversary.