CineZine
documenting the alternative film scene since 2005,
hilighting film projection, super 8, and local film classification laws.
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56 EVENTS Jan-June 2020
39 EVENTS IN
TORONTO 17 EVENTS BEYOND
TORONTO
Cancelled due to Pandemic, April-June 2020 in Toronto
33rd Images Festival, Online April 16-22, 2020 in Toronto
Cancelled by Pandemic Earlier in Toronto
- London, Ontario
Montréal, Québec
- Calgary, Alberta
- Dresden, Germany
Pre-pandemic March 2020 in Toronto
- Peterborough, Ontario
February 2020 in Toronto
- Hamilton, Ontario
- Montréal, QC
Vancouver
- Windsor, ON - Brooklyn,
NY - Ottawa, ON
January 2020 in Toronto
- Halifax, NS
- London, UK
Stuttgart, Germany
- Brooklyn, New York
3 EVENTS CANCELLED DUE TO PANDEMIC APRIL-JUNE
33RD IMAGES FESTIVAL ONLINE
APRIL 16-22, 2020
8 EARLIER EVENTS CANCELLED
DUE TO PANDEMIC
2 EVENTS PRE-PANDEMIC MARCH 2020
7 EVENTS FEBRUARY 2020
8 EVENTS JANUARY 2020
3 EVENTS CANCELLED
APRIL-JUNE IN TORONTO
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Morgan! (Karel Reisz, UK, 1966, 97 minutes)
Friday, June 12, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Terror
Beneath the Sea
(Hajime Satô, Japan, 1966, 79 minutes)
Friday, May 8, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
Antique Shows Canada presents
Vintage Camera & Photo Show
First annual show and sale of vintage cameras,
photographs, film, accessories and related
ephemera, advertising, print and more.
Sunday, April 26, 10am-3pm
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St., Toronto
33rd Images
Festival
of Independent Film, Video and New Media
Video screenings online via livestream. Guest artists!
Performances and installations! Facebook
April 16-22, 2020, free! (unclassified)
from downtown Toronto
8 EARLIER
EVENTS
CANCELLED DUE TO PANDEMIC
MARCH 14 - APRIL 10 IN TORONTO
CANCELLED
DUE TO PANDEMIC,
APRIL 10, 2020 IN TORONTO
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, 2nd Friday each month.
Facebook group
Excalibur
(John Boorman, USA, 1981, 140 min.)
Friday, April 10, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
CANCELLED
DUE TO PANDEMIC,
APRIL 9, 2020 IN TORONTO
Wavelengths series presents
kinema ikon 1975-1984
10 short experimental videos shot on 16mm, made at
Romania's kinema ikon collective by George Sabau,
Romulus Budiu, Ioan T. Morar, Marcela Muntean,
Emanuel Tet, Alexandru Pecican, and Ioan Ples.
Presented in conjunction with the TIFF series,
"Romanian Cinema Before the New Wave".
Total running time: 67 minutes.
Thursday, April 9, 9pm, free! (unclassified)
TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W., Toronto
CANCELLED DUE TO PANDEMIC,
MARCH 29, 2020 IN TORONTO
Camerama Camera Show
Used photographic equipment sale.
Antique & usable, film & digital, still & cine.
Many merchants tables. Facebook
Sunday, March 29, 9:30am-2:30pm, $7
Edward
Village Hotel, 185 Yorkland Blvd., Toronto
(west of Victoria Park Ave., south of Sheppard Ave.,
very near intersection of Highway 401 & the DVP)
Free parking! gvperry at gmail dot com 905-550-7477
CANCELLED DUE TO PANDEMIC,
MARCH 26, 2020 IN TORONTO
York
University Department of Cinema & Media Arts and
Pleasure
Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group present
FLUIDØ
(USA, 2017, video, 80 minutes)
by Shu Lea Cheang, in person!
Facebook
Thursday, March 26, 8pm, $10/pwyc (unclassified)
Jackman Hall (entrance on McCaul St.),
Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St. W., Toronto
CANCELLED DUE TO PANDEMIC,
MARCH 26, 2020 IN TORONTO
Wavelengths series presents
Ganga
(Velu Viswanadhan, France / India, 1985, video, 150 min.)
Experimental doc by the Indian painter, shot on 16mm.
Thursday, March 26, 6:30pm, free! (unclassified)
TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W., Toronto
CANCELLED DUE TO PANDEMIC,
MARCH 17, 2020 IN TORONTO
Moving to an online platform. RSVP to participate.
Media Arts Network of Ontario (MANO-RAMO)
presents its
Advocacy Committee Meeting
Re: the 109-year-old Ontario Film Classification Act
which the current government seeks to modernize.
All are welcome to attend the meeting, but MANO
is primarily seeking input from its membership.
Please RSVP to membership@mano-ramo.ca
Tuesday, March 17, 4pm-6pm, free!
Toronto Media Arts Centre (TMAC),
32 Lisgar St.
(west of Dovercourt, south of Queen), Toronto
POSTPONED DUE TO PANDEMIC,
MARCH 15, 2020 IN TORONTO
Toronto Film Review presents
New Works by Mike Hoolboom
Local artist Mike Hoolboom in person with his videos.
Facebook
Sunday, March 15, 2pm, free! (unclassified)
Media Commons Theatre, 3rd floor, Robarts Library,
130 St. George St., University of Toronto, Toronto
POSTPONED
DUE TO PANDEMIC,
MARCH 14, 2020 IN TORONTO
The
Art Museum at the University of Toronto, and
Hart House
present "Listening to Snow" Screenings
La Région Centrale
(Michael Snow, Canada, 1971, 16mm, 190 min.)
Saturday, March 14, 7pm, free! (unclassified)
Innis
Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto
(at St. George St., south of Bloor St. W.)
in conjunction with the exhibition
Listening to Snow January
18 - March 21
Art Museum, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery,
Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto
Reception: January 18, 3-5pm. Facebook
2 EVENTS
PRE-PANDEMIC
MARCH 2020 IN TORONTO
York
University Department of Cinema & Media Arts presents
its weekly lunchtime cinema series: "Nat Taylor Tuesdays".
Francisca Duran
Local artist in person! with her videos,
and in a Q&A with Phillip Hoffman!
Tuesday, March 10, 12:45pm, free! (unclassified)
Nat Taylor Cinema, N102, Ross Building,
Campus Walk, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook
group
Adiós,
Sabata
(Gianfranco Parolini, Italy, 1970, 102 min.)
Facebook
event
Friday, March 6, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
7 EVENTS
FEBRUARY 2020
IN TORONTO
Pix Film Collective presents
Experiment Leap Day
Sound and Images - analog, electronic music,
film performance by Blaine & Ross Speigel,
impromptu performances. Facebook
Saturday, February 29, 7-11:30pm, free! (unclassified)
Pix Film Gallery, Unit C, 1411 Dufferin St., Toronto
(2 blocks north of Dupont St.)
The
Art Museum at the University of Toronto, and
Hart House
present "Listening to Snow" Screenings
Rameau’s Nephew...
(Michael Snow, Canada, 1974, 16mm, 270 min.)
Saturday, February 22, 1pm, free! (unclassified)
Wavelength
(Michael Snow, Canada, 1967, 16mm, 45 min.)
plus Snow
in Vienna - a documentary
(Laurie Kwasnik, Canada, 2012, video, 34 min.)
Saturday, February 29, 1pm, free! (unclassified)
Innis
Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto
(at St. George St., south of Bloor St. W.)
PLUS MARCH 14 - CANCELLED DUE TO PANDEMIC
La Région Centrale
(Michael Snow, Canada, 1971, 16mm, 190 min.)
Saturday, March 14, 7pm, free! (unclassified)
all in conjunction with the exhibition
Listening to Snow January 18 - March 21
Art Museum, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery,
Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto
Reception: January 18, 3-5pm. Facebook
re:assemblage collective,
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC),
and
Pleasure
Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group present
Tribute to Barbara Hammer
16mm films and a super 8 film, 1967-1985,
by USA artist Barbara Hammer (1939-2019),
plus a recent short by Deborah Stratman.
Total running time: 69 min. Facebook
Tuesday, February 18, 7pm
(unclassified)
$ by donation - all $$ go to Barbara's
Lesbian
Experimental Filmmaking Fund!
Toronto Media Arts Centre (TMAC),
32 Lisgar St.
(west of Dovercourt, south of Queen), Toronto
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook
group
Pajama
Party
(Don Weis, USA, 1964, 82 min.)
Facebook
event
Friday, February 14, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
Pix Film Gallery and Tricky Women present
Bright Spots and
Pushing Boundaries
Recent animated videos by Austrian women,
Rebecca Akoun, Evelyn Kreinecker, Anna Vasof,
Ingrid Gaier, Martina Tritthart, Eni Brandner, LIA,
Sebastian Doringer, Lucia de Quiqueran-Beaujeu,
Ji-yoon Lee, Esther Martens, Andreas Neudecker,
Marlene Heidinger, Maité Kalita, Silvia Knödlstorfer,
Maria Chalela, Daniela Leitner, Amelie Schlöglhofer.
Curated by Tricky Women / Tricky Realities.
Total running time: 50 minutes. Facebook
Tuesday, February 11, 7pm, free! (unclassified)
Pix Film Gallery, Unit C, 1411 Dufferin St., Toronto
(2 blocks north of Dupont St.)
Wavelengths series presents
Private Imaginings:
The Films of Edward Owens
3 short videos, 1967-1970, total 60 minutes, by
African-American teenager Edward Owens.
Tuesday, February 4, 8:45pm, free! (unclassified)
TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W., Toronto
8 EVENTS
JANUARY 2020
IN TORONTO
The
Revue Cinema, UBC
Press,
and Glad Day Bookshop
present
Book Launch:
Ruling Out Art by Taryn Sirove
Panel discussion and historical video clips related to
Ontario media arts communities' legal battles with
Ontario government Censor Board in the 1980s.
A timely launch, with changes to regulations of
movies in Ontario currently being considered.
Monday, January 27, 7pm, free!
(postponed from November 25)
The Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto
13th Annual the8fest
A Little Festival for Small Films
Super 8, 8mm, 9.5mm, UltraPan8!
Performances! Installations! Visiting Artists!
A Workshop! A Talk! 8 programs! Facebook
Friday-Sunday, January 24-26
$pwyc, suggested $8 each, $40 pass
(unclassified)
Polish Combatants
Hall, 206 Beverley St., Toronto
(at Cecil St., 1 block south of College St.)
Toronto Film Review presents
Don Owen Tribute
Partners (Canada, 1976, video, 97 min.)
by Toronto director Don Owen (1931-2016).
His son Andrew Owen in person! for talk.
Facebook
Sunday, January 26, 2:30pm, free! (classified)
Media Commons Theatre, 3rd floor, Robarts Library,
130 St. George St., University of Toronto, Toronto
Wavelengths series presents
The Plagiarists
(Peter Parlow, USA, 2019, video, 76 min.)
Thursday, January 23, 9pm, $14 (unclassified)
TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W., Toronto
Camerama Camera Show
Used photographic equipment sale.
Antique & usable, film & digital, still & cine.
Many merchants tables. Facebook
Sunday, January 19, 9:30am-2:30pm, $7
Edward
Village Hotel, 185 Yorkland Blvd., Toronto
(west of Victoria Park Ave., south of Sheppard Ave.,
very near intersection of Highway 401 & the DVP)
Free parking! gvperry at gmail dot com 905-550-7477
The
Art Museum and Hart
House
at the University of Toronto present
Listening to Snow
Sound installations by Michael Snow.
January 18 - March 21
Opening Reception
Saturday, January 18, 3-5pm. Facebook
Art Museum, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery,
Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto
PLUS
Screenings of Michael Snow's 16mm
films
February 22 & 29
& March 14,
free!
Innis Town Hall, 2
Sussex Ave., Toronto
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
presents its
Winter 2020 Film, Video &
Interactive Art Workshops
Super 8, 16mm, 35mm! Finish on film!
Limited enrolments. First come - first served.
Over 55 workshops!
Registration began Tuesday, January 14, 10am
L.I.F.T., 1137 Dupont St. (at Gladstone Ave.), Toronto
Medium Density Fibreboard Films (MDFF),
Cinema Scope and TIFF
present "MDFF Selects"
Wilcox and vulture with
Denis Côté and Phil Hoffman
vulture (Phil Hoffman, Canada, 2019, video, 57 min.),
Wilcox (Denis Côté, Canada, 2019, video, 66 min.),
followed by a Q&A with the directors in person!
Facebook
Thursday, January 16, 8:45pm, $14 (unclassified)
TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W., Toronto
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Cancelled by Pandemic March & April 2020 in London,
Ontario
Montréal, QC
- Calgary, AB
- Dresden, Germany
Pre-pandemic March 2020 in Peterborough,
Ontario
February 2020 in Hamilton,
ON - Montréal,
QC - Ottawa, ON
Vancouver, BC
- Brooklyn, New York
- Windsor, ON
January 2020 in Halifax,
Nova Scotia - London,
UK
Stuttgart, Germany
- Brooklyn, New York
CANCELLED
DUE TO PANDEMIC,
IN LONDON, ONTARIO
London Vintage Film Camera Shows presents
London Spring
Vintage Film Camera Show
Southwestern Ontario's largest, best and friendliest
used and vintage film photo equipment sale.
Antique & usable, still & cine, 1880s-1980s.
More than 70 local merchants' tables.
Facebook
Sunday, April 19, 10am-3pm, $4 / kids free
Carling
Heights Optimist Community Centre,
656 Elizabeth St., London, Ontario
(behind Wolseley Barracks on Oxford)
POSTPONED
DUE TO PANDEMIC,
NEAR MONTREAL, QUEBEC
The Range Finder presents
65th Montreal Camera Show
Used photographic equipment sale. Since 1988!
Antique & usable, film & digital, still & cine.
Sunday, April 5, 9:30am-2:30pm, $7
Marriott Hotel Montreal Airport,
7000 Place Robert-Joncas, Saint-Laurent, Québec
POSTPONED
DUE TO PANDEMIC,
IN CALGARY, ALBERTA
The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF) presents its
28th Annual
Artifact
Small Format Film Festival
(formerly The $100 Film Festival)
Recent shorts projected on 16mm and super 8 film!
Each program opens with a different work made collaboratively
by a different local artist and band performing live with the film.
Thursday-Saturday, April 2-4, 7pm, $20 each / $40 Pass
Theatre Junction Grand, 608 1st St. SW, Calgary, Alberta
POSTPONED DUE
TO PANDEMIC,
IN DRESDEN, GERMANY
21st Dresdner Schmalfilmtage (March 19-22) presents
Focus Canada: SUPERSUPER8
Videos shot on super 8 film by Canadian artists
John Porter, Renata Mohamed, Jamie Phelan,
Juliana Saragosa, Midi Onodera, Kika Thorne,
Chris Kennedy, Steven Topping, Stevi Urben.
Facebook
March 22, postponed to October 15, 2020
Thalia Cinema, Görlitzer Str. 6, Dresden, Germany
PRE-PANDEMIC MARCH
2020
IN PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO
The Canadian
Images in Conversation collective and
Trent University present the collective's inaugural screening
The Early Works of Shelley Niro
Shelley Niro in person! with her early
films
Honey
Moccasin (Canada, 1998, 16mm, 47 min.)
plus
It Starts with a Whisper (Canada, 1993, 16mm, 28 min.),
followed by a discussion with Shelley Niro. Facebook
Tuesday, March 3, 7pm, free! (unclassified)
Market Hall Performing Arts Centre,
140 Charlotte St., Peterborough, Ontario
The Art Gallery of Hamilton presents
Michael Snow's Wavelength
(Canada, 1967, 16mm, 45 minutes)
Michael Snow in person! for a discussion
with James King, curator of the exhibition
"Early Snow: Michael Snow 1947-1962",
at the AGH until May 24. Facebook
Thursday, February 27, 7pm, $12 (classified)
The Art Gallery of Hamilton Pavilion,
123 King Street W., Hamilton, Ontario
2 EVENTS
FEBRUARY 2020
IN MONTREAL, QUEBEC
Double Negative Collective, Visions and la lumière present
Tomonari Nishikawa
in person from Binghamton, New York! with
2 screenings of his films! Facebook
Thursday, February 20, $7
Shades and Motifs - 7pm
16mm and 35mm films, 2009-2019,
by Tomonari Nishikawa, plus a
35mm slide projector performance
with Jeremy Young. Total: 60 min.
This Side of Paradise - 9pm
Recent super 8 films by Tomonari Nishikawa,
16mm films by Ernie Gehr and Mark LaPore,
1991 & 2002, Total: 60 minutes.
la lumière, #506, 7080, rue Alexandra, Montréal, Québec
Visions and la lumière present
Rhayne Vermette:
Message from the Darkroom
Rhayne Vermette in person from Winnipeg!
with her recent videos made from 16mm film.
Total running time: 42 minutes. Facebook
Monday, February 10, 8pm, $7
la lumière, #506, 7080, rue Alexandra, Montréal, Québec
FEBRUARY 2020 IN VANCOUVER, BC
Iris Film Collective presents its Works In Progress series
The Hollow Mountain
Iris Film Collective member Alex MacKenzie's
35mm film performance, manually projecting
with a modified film viewer, and lens play.
Free! Facebook
Open House - Sunday, February
16, 4-6pm
Window Screening - Thursday, Feb. 20, 6-7pm
Iris Film Collective's Burrard View Park Fieldhouse,
545 N. Slocan St., Vancouver, British Columbia
House of Toast presents
24th Media
City Film Festival
International Experimental Film and Video Art.
16mm, 35mm, super 8, video, performance!
Facebook
February 13-16, 2020
$pwyc, suggested $5, Pass $25
(adults only, by law)
Mackenzie Hall, 3277 Sandwich St. W., Windsor, Ontario
Light Industry presents
The Children's Cinema
Recreation of The Children’s Cinema's first program,
in February 1958, at Beekman Theatre, Manhattan.
The series was part of Amos and Marcia Vogel’s
seminal "Cinema 16" film society, 1947-1963.
16mm films and a video, 1923-1954, by Len Lye,
Lotte Reiniger, Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline,
Shirley Clarke, and Charles & Ray Eames.
Total running time: 61 min. Facebook
Saturday, February 8, 2pm, $8
Limited seating. Doors at 6:30pm.
Light Industry, 155 Freeman St., Brooklyn, New York
The Canadian Film Institute (CFI) presents it's Café Ex series
Rhayne Vermette:
Messages from the Darkroom
Rhayne Vermette in person from Winnipeg!
with her recent videos made from 16mm film.
Facebook
Thursday, February 6, 7pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario
The Handmade
Film Collective and the
Atlantic Filmmakers Co-op (AFCOOP),
present their second annual
A Handmade Film Screening:
From West Coast to East Coast
20 recent short Canadian handmade films & videos,
shot on super 8, 8mm, 16mm, and 35mm film, by
Zyanya Bárbara Juárez Arellano, Ross Unger, Dan Smeby,
Jelovina, Kristina Campbell, Peter Sandmark, Todd Fraser,
Margaret Lapp, i kramer, Linda Dornan, Sarah MacArthur,
Rachel Evans, Sasha Lanine, Susy Raxlen, Trace Nelson,
Christopher Reiche, Ursula Handleigh, Soloman Nagler,
the tata sisters, Elvie Simons, Grace Salez, Jason Lei,
Herb Theriault, Rena Thomas, and Dawn George.
Preceded by a film performance in the lobby.
Followed by Q&A with some of the filmmakers.
Popcorn! Facebook
Tuesday, January 28, 6:30pm, free!
The
Bus Stop Theatre Co-op,
2203 Gottingen St., Halifax, Nova Scotia
2 EVENTS JANUARY
2020
IN LONDON, UK
Close-Up Film Centre and Lithuanian Culture Institute present
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
Two 16mm films by Lithuanian-American film artist
and advocate Jonas Mekas (1922-2019).
As I Was Moving
Ahead Occasionally
I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
(Jonas Mekas, 2000, 16mm, 288 minutes)
Sunday, January 19, 2pm, €16 (adults
only)
Walden (Jonas
Mekas, 1969, 16mm, 180 min.)
Wednesday, January 22, 7pm, €13 (adults
only)
Close-Up Film Centre, 97 Sclater St., London, UK
JANUARY 2020
IN
STUTTGART, GERMANY
33rd Stuttgarter
Filmwinter
Festival for Expanded Media
Film, New Media, Video, Installation, Performance.
Facebook
January 16-19, 2020, €7 each
FITZ!
Center for Figurentheater,
Eberhardstraße 61, Stuttgart, Germany
Light Industry presents
Hollis Frampton + Owen Land
Palindrome (Hollis Frampton, 1969, 16mm, 22 min.),
Wide Angle Saxon
(Owen Land/George Landow, 1975, 16mm, 22 min.).
Introduced by P. Adams Sitney!
Facebook
Tuesday, January 14, 7pm, $8
Limited seating. Doors at 6:30pm.
Light Industry, 155 Freeman St., Brooklyn, New York
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