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EVENTS July-Aug 2007
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" Trash Palace Theatre presents
Whiskey
Mountain (William Grefe, USA, 1977)
on 16mm, plus 16mm shorts.
Friday, August 31, 9:30pm, doors CLOSE at 9:25! $5
(classified)
Free to enter! Pay to exit, max $5, less the longer you last!
Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets
at
Suspect Video,
619 Queen St. W., 416-504-7135
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)
The Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP) presents
Animations by Jo Dery, projected on 16mm!
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Anchor Archive Zine Project's artist-in-residence, <<<
in person from Providence, Rhode Island.
Thursday, August 30, 8:30pm, free
Lucas D's backyard, 6299 Yukon St.
(between Quinpool Rd. and Allan St.), Halifax, Nova Scotia
Dementia 5 Multimedia Series
Spoken word with Nik Beat and Lara Bozabalian.
Experimental videos, one by Ori Ben-Shabbat
from the Vancouver Film School.
Open mic and afterparty.
Thursday, August 30, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Dominion Pub, 500 Queen St. E., Toronto
Martin Reis' first
"Guerrilla Super 8 Bike Film" Screening
Premiere of his new Super 8 Bike Film,
with original music by Tomasz Ciesla,
and a battery-powered super 8 projector.
Sunday, August 26, 9pm sharp, free attendance:
15
Total screening duration - 15 minutes!
Secret location. Meet at Bellevue Ave. and Nassau St.,
Kensington Market, Toronto
ShangOrama, "the world's first truly digital cinema", presents
Dario Argento's Goblin Trilogy!
Composer Maurizio Guarini in person! 1-hour Q&A - 12am,
Deep Red - 1am, Suspiria - 3:30am, Tenebre - 5:30am.
All on video.
Sunday, August 26, 12am-8am (Saturday night!),
doors open Saturday, 11pm, $5 (unclassified)
Majlis, 163 Walnut Ave., Toronto
(1 street south of Queen St. W., 1 west of Niagara St.)
7th
Bicycle Film Festival Tour
First time in Toronto! No film.
August 22-25 (unclassified)
The Royal Cinema, 608 College St., Toronto
ShangOrama, "the world's first truly digital cinema, the base-end of cinema,
and the only Icelandic cinema outside Iceland" presents
Mario Bava mini-me Movie Marathon!
9 of his 24 movies on video in two dusk-to-dawn nights!
August 17/18, 9pm-7am, $5 (unclassified)
August 18/19, 9pm-7am, $5 (unclassified)
Majlis, 163 Walnut Ave., Toronto
(1 street south of Queen St. W., 1 west of Niagara St.)
CineVic: Society of Independent Filmmakers presents
infinEight - a Super 8 Celebration
Premieres of super 8 films shot "in-camera" by local artists
Robyn Lee Unwin, Nadine Lucas, Diego Deregil,
David Arseneau, Scott Vanmale & Andrew Gable,
Fionn Yaxley, Ana De Lara, Jennifer Cook, Steven Grandy.
Plus other Canadian super 8 films, and videos shot on super 8.
August 17 & 18, 7:30pm, $5
St. Ann's Academy Auditorium, 835 Humboldt St., Victoria, BC
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" Trash Palace Theatre presents
Scared
Straight! (Arnold Shapiro, USA, 1978)
Oscar winning crime doc narrated by Peter Falk,
on 16mm, plus 16mm shorts.
Friday, August 17, 9:30pm, doors CLOSE at 9:25! $5 (classified)
Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets
at
Suspect Video,
619 Queen St. W., 416-504-7135
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)
Trinity Square Video and the Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) present
2007 Spotlight on a TSV Member: Khanhthuan Tran
recent animation and appropriation videos,
plus videos by Naomi Uman and Eddo Stern.
Thursday, August 16, 7pm, free (unclassified)
TSV Gallery, Suite 376, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
The Film Reference Library presents
5th International Home
Movie Day
A programme curated and hosted by Bruce McDonald,
Open Call (now closed) screenings on 8mm, super 8, 16mm,
plus a Film Archivists Panel Discussion.
Saturday, August 11, 12-5pm, free attendance: 70
Cinematheque Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto
Bring your films Mon/Wed/Fri, May 15 - July 20, 12-5pm,
to The Film Reference Library, 2 Carlton St., Toronto.
Homemade Movies and the Hart House Film Board present
5th International Home
Movie Day
Bring & show your own home movies, or come just to watch.
Preview your films privately, then select one or two to show.
8mm, super 8 or 16mm (sorry no video).
Film Inspection & Repair Clinic 4-7pm.
Saturday, August 11, 4-8pm, free attendance: 20
East Common Room, main floor, Hart
House,
7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto, Toronto
homemademovies@hotmail.com
Library & Archives Canada, and Available Light Screening Collective present
Home
Movie Day Ottawa
Screenings on 8mm, super 8 and 16mm.
Show your home movies, or just come to watch.
(Drop off your films at Club SAW, July 10 or 12, 6-8pm)
Saturday, August 11, 7-10pm, free (unclassified)
Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario
homemoviedayottawa@gmail.com
Tina Harvey (819) 953-5428 or Nick Nguyen (819) 934-7349
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" Trash Palace Theatre presents
Chimp Fest!
Short, silent, 8mm and 16mm comedies (1920's-1950's)
enacted by chimps. Projected on film with background DJ music.
Friday, August 10, 9:30pm, doors CLOSE at 9:25! $5 attendance: 20
Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets
at
Suspect Video,
619 Queen St. W., 416-504-7135
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)
9th Photophobia Short Film & Video Screening
Thursday, August 9 (unclassified)
Art Gallery of Hamilton, 123 King St. W., Hamilton, Ontario
see also: Hamilton Film Week at The Factory
Squeaky Wheel / Buffalo Media Arts Center presents
Summer Open Screening Super 8, 16mm, video.
Max 15 minutes (call ahead for longer works).
Wednesday, August 8, 8pm, free
Squeaky Wheel, 712 Main St., Buffalo, New York
The Grey Zone Collective and the Durham Art Gallery present
6th Fabulous
Festival of Fringe Film
16mm, 35mm, video, installations.
Screenings in a barn and outdoors,
including 35mm shorts at a Drive-In.
August 2 - 12 (unclassified)
in the town of Durham, Ontario and other surrounding towns
The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) presents
Camera-less 16mm Filmmaking Workshop
Scratching, Painting, Collage. Go analogue
in this hands-on workshop sans-caméra!
Instructor: Madi Piller, President of TAIS.
Sunday, July 29, 10am-5pm,
$50 includes all supplies! RSVP - limited to 10!
T.A.I.S., Suite 102, 60 Atlantic Ave., Toronto
Stephen Bulger Gallery presents
Weekend Shorts
Videos by Jack Olsen, Bob Pomerantz, Scott Conarroe
(1947-2006, 46 mins)
Saturday, July 28, 1pm & 3pm (unclassified)
Camera Bar, 1028 Queen St. W., Toronto
Photographs by Scott Conarroe July 26 - September 1,
next door at Stephen Bulger Gallery.
Annual Open Screening Under the Stars
16mm, 8mm, super 8, VHS, DVD, mini-DV.
Max 10 minutes. First come, first shown.
Saturday, July 28, 9:30pm, free (unclassified)
outdoors in the courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
(rain location: CineCycle,
behind 129 Spadina Ave.)
Flicker NYC presents Flicker #20:
5th annual Attack of the Fifty Foot Reels!
10 new super 8 films, by local filmmakers! Some shot today!
Three minutes each, edited in-camera, with no post-production!
Screened straight from the lab, unseen by even the filmmakers!
Caitlin Dixon, Lisa Whiteman, Emily Uchytil, Aaron Bergeron,
Max Chan, Jeremy Carr, James Moles, Ezra Bookstein,
Daniel Maldonado, Paul Wyszinski, David Teague.
All projected on super 8!
Friday, July 27, 8pm, $8
Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Ave., Brooklyn, New York
(see CineZine's history of other "shoot & show" super 8 screenings)
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
and Pleasure Dome
present
Nicky
Hamlyn Films & Phenomena
LIFT's Artist-in-Residence, from the UK,
in person with his 16mm films 1990-2007,
including new films made at LIFT this summer.
Friday, July 27, 8pm, $7 attendance: 50
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
York University's Department of Film, Faculty of Fine Arts, presents
Alt-Vault-A-Go-Go
Videos & 16mm films by students & grads of
the Alternative Project Workshop Class of 2007:
alternative filmmaking with Professor Phil Hoffman.
Works by Pouyan Jafarizadeh Dezfoulian, David Frankovich,
Nadia Tan and Martha Welland (including a double projection).
Curated by David Frankovich.
Wednesday, July 25, 8pm, $4 attendance: 30
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents its
annual Ward's Island Picnic & Screening
LIFT's $99 No-Excuses Film Festival 2007,
and LIFT's new 16mm Direct Mail Movie!
Meet LIFT's new Director: Ben Donoghue.
Sunday, July 22, 4-10pm (screening at dusk), $pwyc (unclassified)
take Ward's Island Ferry (schedule)
to Ward's Island Club House
(100 metres from the Ward's Island dock), Toronto
Hand-Processing Film Workshop
Process your previously shot b&w or color films by hand,
tint, tone, solarize or reticulate them, then project them.
Instructor: Brian Milbrand.
Saturday & Sunday, July 21 & 22, 1-6pm, $125/100
Squeaky Wheel, 712 Main St., Buffalo, New York
Squeaky
Wheel's 4th Annual Outdoor Animation Festival
June 14, 17, 30 & July 21. Curated by Sullivan Sheehan.
House of Sweet Magic
Memorial Screening for Helen Hill (1970-2007),
New Orleans based filmmaker. Visit www.helenhill.org
Saturday, July 21, 9pm, free Days Park, Buffalo, New York
The Sorauren Park Festival and Trash Palace Theatre present
Outdoor Screening of The
Force on Thunder Mountain
(Peter B. Good, USA, 1977, on 16mm, 93 minutes)
Saturday, July 21, 9pm, free (classified
'G' - all ages!)
(The Sorauren Park Festival is all day, 9am-10pm)
Sorauren Park, Sorauren Ave. & Wabash Ave.,Toronto
(south of Dundas St. W., west of Lansdowne Ave.)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" Trash Palace Theatre presents
The
Doll Squad (Ted V. Mikels, USA, 1973)
on 16mm, plus 16mm shorts.
Friday, July 20, 9:30pm, doors CLOSE at 9:25! $5
(classified)
Free to enter! Pay to exit, max $5, less the longer you last!
Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets
at
Suspect Video,
619 Queen St. W., 416-504-7135
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)
The National Film Board of Canada's monthly Film Thursdays presents
A World of Shorts
Video & 35mm film award-winners of the 2007
Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival.
Thursday, July 19, 7pm, $6/4 (adults only, by law)
NFB Spotton Cinema, 150 John St., Toronto
FilmCAN.org
Fundraiser
A short screening of short videos.
Live music by We're Marching On and The Good Soldiers.
Wednesday July 18, 9pm, $6
The Drake Hotel Underground, 1150 Queen St. W., Toronto
First
Take International Student Film Festival
July 17-22 video screenings, panels, workshops
Brunswick Theatre, 296 Brunswick Ave., Toronto
Pleasure Dome presents
Infinite Mind Expansion: Psychedelic Cinema 1967-69
16mm films (1967-'68) by Jerry Abrams, Robert Cowan,
Ira Cohen, Jud Yalkut, Les Blank & Skip Gerson,
and a video (2002) by Ira Schneider.
Saturday, July 14, 9:30pm, $5 attendance: 45
outdoors in the courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
In case of rain (which is forecast), at CineCycle,
behind 129 Spadina Ave.
ToRo Arts Group and U. of T. Cinema Studies Student Union present
Exposé on Romanian Cinema's New Wave
Including shorts. English subtitles.
Friday, July 13, 7pm, $10/5
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto
The Film Reference Library presents their
Film Archivists Julie Lofthouse and Christina Stewart
calling for films for Home
Movie Day screening (August 11)
Thursday, July 12, 7:40am
on Breakfast Television, Citytv, Channel 57, Toronto
The Images Festival, The Power Plant and DHC/ART present
Zidane:
a 21st Century Portrait
A film by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno
(2006, France/Iceland, 35mm, 90 minutes). Toronto Premiere.
7pm attendance: 850 (full)
Tuesday, July 10, 7 & 9pm, $12/10 (classified, all ages)
The Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W., Toronto
Kids' Film Camp
Storyboard and shoot your own film on super 8,
then screen it for your friends and family!
Instructor: Sullivan Sheehan
July 9-13, Monday-Friday, 2-5pm, $160/150
Squeaky Wheel, 712 Main St., Buffalo, New York
Free Video Documentaries All Week At The Brunswick!
July 8-14, times vary 2pm-9pm, free (classified)
Brunswick Theatre, 296 Brunswick Ave., Toronto
Artists Against War presents
Peace Reel Outdoor Film Festival
Anti-war videos
Sundays, July 8, 15, 22, 29 - 8pm, free (classified)
Christie Pits Park, Bloor St. W. and Christie St., Toronto
The Good Catch General Store presents
2nd annual Phoney Baloney Film Festival
Short videos by Toronto's underground auteurs
Vesna Mostivac, Saugat Datta, The Lennox Brothers,
Teresa Ascencao, Gudrun Heinze, Julian Jozsvai, John Hammers,
Darryl Gold, Mary Jozsvai, Bill Buzadi, Garry Maher, Andrew Pascoe.
Saturday, July 7, 9:30pm, $pwyc attendance: 60
Good Catch General Store Outdoor Theatre, 1556 Queen St.
W., Toronto
(east of Sorauren Ave., next door to Mitzi's Sister)
NOW Weekly Magazine and Toronto's Harbourfront
Centre
present Beats, Breaks & Culture Festival (July 6-8) including
Man
with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, USSR,
1929, 68 minutes)
Toronto premiere of a video version using a score by
The
Cinematic Orchestra (UK)
(which will perform live on the Concert Stage at 9:30pm after the film!)
Friday, July 6, 7pm, free (classified)
Studio Theatre, York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay W., Toronto
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" Trash Palace Theatre presents
Deathsport
(Allan Arkush & Nicholas Niciphor, USA, 1978)
on 16mm, plus 16mm shorts.
Friday, July 6, 9:30pm, doors CLOSE at 9:25! $5 (classified)
Secret Toronto location printed on advance tickets
at
Suspect Video,
619 Queen St. W., 416-504-7135
(which is a few blocks from Trash Palace Theatre)
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
and Toronto's Harbourfront
Centre present
Generations: True Patriot Love
Celebrating Canada's 140th birthday and
Canadian independent cinema and its legacy with
two different programmes of 16mm films and videos
(1968-2007) curated by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof.
Sunday, July 1, 1:30pm, free (unclassified)
David Rimmer, Richard Kerr, Stephen X. Arthur, Tyler Tekatch,
Christina Battle, Roberto Ariganello & Chris Gehman, Richard Reeves.
Sunday, July 1, 6:30pm, free (unclassified)
Joyce Wieland, Garine Torossian, Roberto Ariganello,
Larissa Fan, Brian Stockton, Francine Leger, John Price.
Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W., Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
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