the 8 fest schedule

January 27-January 31, 2010

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Friday, January 29

7pm ZINGER: Tales from The Funnel Volume 1 curated by Milada Kovacova

9pm Acadian Super 8 Now! curated by Mario Doucette (in person!)

11pm FAG OFF! J.D.’s HomoPunk HitParade curated by Kevin Hegge

Saturday, January 30

7pm Golden: the Polyphonic Aural Experience curated by Milada Kovacova

9pm Another Day and Night in Japan - curated by Tomonari Nishikawa (in person!)

Sunday, January 31

7pm Guardiaregia a film by Giovanni Sampogna

9pm Bagerooo, three! survey of submitted Canadian & international films

All screenings at:

Canadian Corps Headquarters, 201 Niagara Street (Just South of King) Toronto, ON

Tickets $5 per event/$25 festival pass

Please note: This is a 19+ venue

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PLUS

up & down & back & forth & round & round

the 8 fest installations

Thursday, January 28 - Sunday, January 31, 12-6pm

Fountain Enterprises, 1261 Dundas Street West, (East of Dovercourt)

Wednesday January 27 7pm - Opening - free!

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January 28-31, 2010

up & down & back & forth & round & round

the 8 fest installations

Fountain Enterprises, 1261 Dundas Street West, (East of Dovercourt), 12-6pm

Inspired by the optical toys which were the progenitors of cinema, this exhibition presents works by six local artists that recover the immediacy, intimacy and wonder of those early inventions. All of the works share a sense of play, some due to their interactive nature, and others owing to their content or optical quality. Installations by Rob Cruickshank, Vuk Dragojevic, Alexi Manis, John Porter, Lina Rodriguez and Alex Rogalski.

Please join us for a reception on the opening night of the installation (Wednesday Jan. 27, 7pm). - free!

Friday January 29 2010 7pm

ZINGER: Tales from The Funnel, Volume 1 curated by Milada Kovacova

an Art Gallery of York University co-presentation

The Funnel Experimental Film Theatre, which operated for 12 years, from 1977 to 1989, was a one-stop alternative. The Funnel was a collective of thirty, mostly artists, who provided 16mm, 8mm and super 8, film production, distribution and exhibition facilities, for personal film artists only. Volume One just skims the surface of the small-gauge treasures produced at The Funnel. ZINGER: Tales from The Funnel showcases the films of three visual artists who sometimes make movies. All films in Super 8! Films by Lorna Mills, Dave Anderson and Jim Anderson.

Friday January 29 2010 9pm

Acadian Super 8 Now! curated by Mario Doucette (in person!)

sponsored by Trinity Square Video

Hailed as North America’s longest running super8 film screening, Acadie Underground has been an integral part of the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA) since 1996. The collaboration with Galerie Sans Nom, an artist-run centre, insures that the participants have access to workshops, films, and cameras. Filmmakers have 48 hours to submit one roll of edited-in-camera film. Here are a few examples of the films screened at Acadie Underground in Moncton, New Brunswick. All films in Super 8! Films by Christian Roy, David LeBlanc, Jule Haché, David Gregory, Jennifer Bélanger, Julien Cadieux, Nisk Imbeault, Joseph Teakles, Amanda Dawn Christie, Jocelyne Chaput, Tracy Lavoie, Mathieu Saulnier & Martin Cormier and Linda Rae Dorman.

Friday January 29 2010 11pm

FAG OFF! J.D.’s HomoPunk HitParade curated by Kevin Hegge

a Pleasure Dome co-presentation

A rare chance to catch the early films of Toronto’s original queer punk provocateurs: the J.Ds crew.

Featured selections include work from Bruce LaBruce and his cinema-conspirator Candy Parker, plus an entirely new movie by J.D’s co-creator G.B Jones herself — her first film since completing her epic The Lollipop Generation in 2008. All films in Super 8!

Saturday January 30 2010 7pm

Golden: the Polyphonic Aural Experience curated by Milada Kovacova

sponsored by FADO Performance Art Centre

Experimentation, audacity, and revolt will be essential elements of Golden. This is a rehash. Expect no biases here. There is no inclination here of picture dominating sound. Audio plays as equal a part as the image. Golden is a random fusion of 5 filmmakers with 5 audio artists continuously rotating so that each flick shapeshifts. Audio artists: Sym Corrigan, Ken Gregory, Darsha Hewitt, Taimaz Moslemian and Steve Reinke. Super 8 filmmakers: Deco Dawson, John Kneller, Nicholas Kovats, Tricia Martin and Midi Onodera. On the theme of “Golden”.

Saturday January 30 9pm

Another day and night in Japan curated by Tomonari Nishikawa (in person!)

sponsored by Images Festival

This program consists of contemporary Japanese 8mm films, including six works shot on Fujifilm’s “Single-8.” It features a diverse selection from Japan’s personal 8mm filmmakers, from a hand-processed experimental film to a short narrative with magnetic soundstripe. All films in Super 8! Films by Toshiyuki Maeda, Maya Asaba, Eriko Sonoda, Akira Mizuyoshi, Mie Kurihara, Satoshi Yajimachi, Masaharu Oki, Kenji Onishi.

Sunday January 31 2010 7pm

Guardiaregia (1985) a film by Giovanni Sampogna

sponsored by the Homemade Movies home movie history project

“Guardiaregia is the ancestral home of both my parents for well over 1000-years and is located about an hour drive northeast of Naples two hours southeast of Rome. The village’s name was given to us by the King of Naples during the renaissance age – it literally means, “The Kings Guardian” – even though the village itself is over 2000 years old. I was born in Australia, but grew up in Guardiaregia from age 3-7 & I have been back over a dozen times usually for 2-months or more. My dads family farm of over 400 years is still in operation there & opens this film. Y’arrr!!!” Originally made as Sampogna’s thesis film (it remains the longest thesis film ever completed at Ryerson), Guardiaregia is a cinema-verite portrait of a daily agrarian life that has not changed much in the small town’s 2000-year history. Guardiaregia was quickly transferred to video after shooting and has NEVER been shown on its original format. This night marks the one and only chance to see this extraordinary documentary projected on super 8 sound film! Guardiaregia (the Kings Guardian) Giovanni Sampogna Super 8, sound on film, Canada/Italy 1985 96 min.

Photo by Joe Vecchiarelli

Sunday January 31 2010 9pm

Bagerooo, three!

recent Super 8 filmmaking!

sponsored by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

An exciting collection of new small gauge films and one rarely screened older film closes out this year’s screenings! These films were selected from an international call for recent Super 8 films. Augmenting the selection of recent work is a new performance by local super 8 hero, Peggy Anne Berton.

This year we saw an increase in submissions from Spanish-speaking countries and from filmmakers under the age of thirty, further proof that we’re just scratching the surface of contemporary interest in small gauge filmmaking. Tonight’s program features beautiful city symphonies, celebrations of childhood, gothic nightmares and abstractions drawn from an thoughtful attentiveness to the natural world--sometimes in the same film! All films in Super 8!

Films by Rich Bahto (Los Angeles), Andres Victorero Rey (Ames, Spain), Jonathan Sajda (San Francisco), Cecilia Arenada (Winnipeg), Siue Moffatt (Toronto), Nicky Hamlyn (Lewes, UK), Gerald Saul (Regina), Ryan Hill (Regina), Paul Clipson (San Francisco), Alberto Cabrera Bernal (Madrid), Kevin T. Allen (Brooklyn), Brandon Fox (Boulder, CO), Helder Carvajal (Regina) and Peggy Anne Berton with Marc St Aubin (Toronto).

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.