the
8 fest schedule
January
30-February 1, 2009
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the full catalogue here.
Friday,
January 30
7pm
The West Coast Invades the East curated by Julie Saragosa
8:30pm
Red Shift Jonathan Culp & Picastro
Saturday,
January 31
4pm
White Calligraphy Artist Talk & Performance by Takahiko Iimura
6pm
Home Movie Repair Clinic - free!
7pm
My Year in Malaya + Bring Your Home Movies Homemade Movies home
movie
history project
9pm
Bageroo, too! survey of recent Canadian & international films
Sunday,
February 1 1-5pm
Introduction to 8mm Filmmaking - free!
workshop
led by John Kneller (preregistration required)
All
events at:
Trash
Palace, 89-B
Niagara Street (Just West of Bathurst) Toronto, ON
Tickets
$5 per event, except where noted
more
info: the8fest ( at) gmail.com
PLUS
Window
Installation
by
Robert
Kennedy
Thursday,
January 29 - Sunday, February 1
Paul
Petro Contemporary Art 980 Queen St. West (at Ossington)
Thursday
January 29 7pm - Artist Talk - free!
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January
29 to February 1
window
installation by Robert Kennedy
nightly
in the window of Paul Petro Contemporary Art 980 Queen Street West (at
Ossington)
Animal
Control #3 – (Urban Wildlife) Robert Kennedy
Toronto Super 8 installation 2009
Robert
Kennedy is well known for his many, often moodily playful, Super 8
works such
as Hi, I'm Steve and
Valley of the Chap Stick. Over the past
few years he has also created his Animal
Control series,
in which animals – both wild and domestic – are enlisted as filmmakers.
Their activities trigger an electronic motion sensor and a Super 8
camera thus
they film themselves in the act of using the urban landscape to their
own ends.
Special thanks Colin English (Squirrelcam engineer)!
Please
join us for a reception & talk on the opening night of the
installation
(Thursday Jan. 29, 7pm). - free!
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Friday
January 30 7pm
The
West Coast Invades the East curated
by Julie Saragosa
a
Pleasure Dome co-presentation
The Project8
Film
Collective is
a group of small-format filmmakers who share skills of DIY and
hand-made
filmmaking in the interest of developing a diverse community of local
independent filmmakers in Vancouver. Every year, the Project8 Film
Collective runs
a free mentorship program for people who are interested in learning how
to make
a Super 8 film, but have limited access to resources to do so – Super8
Boot
Camp.
This screening represents work made by participants of the Boot Camp,
the
collective members, and work that's been screened at Project8's annual festival. All films in Super 8!
Films
by Kathleen
Gowman, Sara
Young, Mary Shearman, Diane Thorn Jacobs & Andrew Robert Smith, Amanda Dawn
Christie, Liz Glowacki,
Scott
Amos,
C.J.
Brabant, Ian
MacTilstra, Sacha Fink, Nancy Lizuck.
Friday
January 30 8:30pm
Red
Shift Jonathan Culp & Picastro
sponsored
by The Music Gallery
Red Shift Jonathan Culp
super 8
performance with
live
accompaniment (composed by Liz Hysen, Nick Storring and Brandon
Valdivia)
Toronto 2009 40 min.
World
Premiere!
In this long piece commissioned
specially for this year's the 8 fest, filmmaker Jonathan Culp creates a
hypnotic, rhythmic collage of commercially produced Super 8 material.
Cutting
between faded ('red shifted') Eastmancolor industrial films,
classroom-film
curios, and Hollywood imagery old and new, the pictures interlock with
the
haunting semi-acoustic dissonances of local band Picastro, performing
live with
the film. Red Shift is a slowly disintegrating nightmare of utilitarian
media
gone wrong.
More
info on Jonathan Culp: http://www.satanmacnuggit.com
More
info on Picastro (Liz
Hysen, Nick Storring and Brandon Valdivia): http://www.myspace.com/picastro
Saturday
January 31 4:00pm
Artist
Talk + White Calligraphy performance by Takahiko
Iimura
sponsored
by FADO Performance Art Centre
White
Calligraphy Takahiko Iimura
live Super
8 performance Tokyo 1967/2009
Takahiko
Iimura has been a pioneer artist of Japanese experimental film and
video,
working in film since 1960 and with video since 1970. He has been a
link
between the North American and Japanese experimental media communities
for over
forty years, spending time and making work in both New York and Tokyo.Iimura will
discuss his use
of small-gauge film and his body of work as a whole after performing White
Calligraphy.
This
piece
reworks
a
film initially made in 1967 by writing/scratching the
characters of the 'Kojiki', the oldest story in Japan, directly onto
16mm black
leader (now reduced to Super 8). The language flows by at one character
per
frame. Iimura handholds the Super 8 projector, varying the speed and
angle at
will. The result anthropomorphizes the iconographic characters of the
story,
animating language into a visual dance.
Saturday
January 31 2009 7pm
(Home
Movie Repair Clinic 6 PM)
Homemade
Movies home movie history project presents
My
Year in Malaya
Films
shot by Harold Norris
With
live narration by Cathy Punter
My Year in
Malaya Harold Norris
8mm Toronto
1953-54 30 min.
In
1953 at the age of 13 Cathy Norris (now Cathy Punter) travelled with
her family
from Toronto to live in Malaya for a year. Her father Harold recorded
their
time in Malaya on beautifully preserved colour 8mm film and slides.
Harold
Norris was a schoolteacher in Toronto and was sent under the post-World
War II
Colombo development plan to teach at the government school in the city
of Ipoh
(today the capital of the Malaysian state of Perak). Cathy has vivid
memories of
what she saw in Malaya: The Sultan's court, convent school, the hustle
and
bustle of street markets, British colonial officials, tin mining,
bearing
Kavadis on flesh hooks at the Thaipusam religious procession, the
jungle and
countryside, dhow fishing on the Straights of Malacca – to name a few
of
the subjects captured in her father's films.
followed
by . . .Bring
Your Home Movies The
second part of our screening is your chance to bring your home movies
to show
(8mm, super 8). Dig through your parent's attic or grab that orphaned
reel you
found at the thrift shop. – AND – If you no longer have a working
projector, come early to our Home Movie Repair Clinic starting at 6
PM.
Let
us
help you
one-on-one
to look through your home movie collection again and give advice on
preserving
your films.
Saturday
January 31 2009 9pm
Bageroo,
too!
recent
Super 8 filmmaking!
sponsored
by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution
Centre
An exciting
collection
of new small gauge films closes out this year's screenings! Eight of
these
films were selected from an international call for recent Super 8
films.
Augmenting the selection of recent work is five brand-new films
commissioned by
the
8
fest,
and supported by Kodak Canada and Exclusive Film & Video. Further proof of
the many
possibilities of small-gauge filmmaking, these films range from
evocative
expressions of place to comedic entendres. Hailing from Toronto, across
Canada
and from the USA, Germany & Japan, this survey shows glimpses of
the active
practices of Super 8 film. All films in Super 8!
Films
by
Jason
Halprin
(Pittsburgh),
Jason
Ebanks
(Toronto),
John
Porter (Toronto), Coral Aiken (Montreal), Julie Doucette
(Moncton),
Alex Rogalski (Toronto), Mario Doucette (Moncton), Alexandre Larose
(Montreal),
Tanya Read (Toronto), Andrew J. Paterson (Toronto), Rob Cruickshank
(Toronto),
Tomonari Nishikawa (San Francisco/Tokyo), Adam Paradis (Boston), Faride
Schroeder
(Mexico) and Dagie Brundert (Berlin).
Friday
& Saturday January 30 & 31
on-view
during intermissions
suddenly
everything changed Christina
Battle Toronto dual projection Super 8 installation 2009
Looking
back, the clues were clear. But by the time the emergency crews took
flight it
was too late. Things will never be the same.
Sunday
February 1, 2009 1-5pm
Introduction
to 8mm Filmmaking
workshop
led by John Kneller
a
LIFT workshop
8mm
film - or 'regular 8' – is not just Super 8's crazy uncle: it's the
original 'small gauge' format, and it's still going strong.In this
workshop, local
filmmaker John Kneller will give you a comprehensive introduction to
8mm
filmmaking. You'll get hands-on practice loading the 8mm camera and
'flipping'
the film. Basic principles of camera operation, such as setting
exposure and
focusing using the parallax system, will be discussed. Learn how to
apply
techniques like multiple pass, single frame and 'unslit' projection;
find out
how to splice film and operate an 8mm projector. Get information on
where to
buy and process film. And watch classic examples of 8mm filmmaking in
action.
Beginner and experienced filmmakers alike will find this workshop
informative
and inspiring. FREE!
*Capacity: 15 * Space is
limited, we
suggest you register in advance by email (pending availability, signup
will
also be offered during the festival on Jan 30 - 31). Please email us at
'the8fest (at) gmail.com' with your name and phone number – and
'WORKSHOP' in the subject line.
the
8 fest is made possible through the generous support of:
The
Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council and the City of
Toronto
through the Toronto Arts Council as well as our sponsors and community
partners.