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8/30/10
Underground Cinema,
Coffee Bar and Bicycle Repair Shop
Programming and for hire since 1991. Proprietor: Martin Heath.
Film projection formats from 8mm and 9.5mm to 35mm!
80 seats - 2 washrooms - Vintage 1950s La San Marco espresso machine
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Location
& Contact
CineCycle, in the old coach house down the lane behind 129 Spadina Ave.,
on the east side between Richmond St. W. and Adelaide St. W., Toronto.
Map
416-971-4273 Mail: Box 45, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8
The sign above the entrance at CineCycle's first location (1991-1995),
behind 317 Spadina Ave., Toronto. (Photo by John Porter)
The bicycle was built by Leo Slonetsky
using 16mm film reels for the wheels and chainring.
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CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
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RECENT EVENTS
AT CINECYCLE IN 2010
40 Events in 2009
AUGUST 22
10th
Bicycle Film Festival Tour
4th year in Toronto. Mostly video. (unclassified)
August 18-22
INCLUDING
Empire
by Christian Thormann & Luke Styles
(USA, 2010, video, 55 minutes) preceded by 2 short videos.
Sunday, August 22, 8pm, at CineCycle
2 EVENTS IN JUNE 2010
Celebrating Toronto Bike Month with
Pedal
Power
Director Christopher Sumpton in person!
Preceded by live music by local musician Donald
Quan
on his custom Bikrophone
- a musical bicycle instrument.
Thursday, June 17, 8pm, $5
Pleasure Dome celebrates it's 20th Anniversary with
Curating from the Archives:
A 20th Anniversary Event
A two-part program of past works (1967-2003)
curated by Andrew James Paterson and
Sarah Robayo Sheridan, both in person!
16mm films by Marcel Broodthaer (a very rare print),
Robert Nelson, Andrea Callard, Joyce Wieland, George Kuchar,
and videos by Roberto Ariganello, John Smith, Riccardo Iacona,
Cathy Sisler, Steve Reinke, Martha Colburn, Sadie Benning,
Diane Bonder and Anne McGuire.
Sunday, June
13, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
(moved from outdoors, June 12, due to rain)
4 EVENTS IN MAY 2010
Live Music
Saturday, May 29
WORN
Fashion Journal Issue 10
Release Party and Art-on-Pins Exhibit
Sassy, soulful, sixties songs.
One-inch pins - a buck a button!
Friday, May 28, 9pm-2am, $7
$5 if you wear a pin. Cover includes free Issue 10.
Petunia
Veteran Toronto country-blues music and film artist,
recently based in British Columbia & New Brunswick.
The Minimalist Jug Band
Veteran Toronto slam poet music artist.
Thursday, May 27
Upping
the Anti Launch Party!
Launching Upping the Anti Journal, Issue #10
Raffle, Dancing, Politics, Fun.
DJ Tanner and DJ Zehra.
Thursday, May 20. 8pm, $10
(includes new issue)
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Subscribers get in free.
4 EVENTS IN APRIL 2010
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
presents Part 4 of its Strategies of the Medium series
Pieces of Eight
Super 8 & 8mm films shown on super 8, 16mm, 35mm, video, by
John Price, Gail Mentlik & Anne Borden, John Porter, Roy Mitchell,
Kika Thorne, John Cannizzaro, Chris Kennedy, Alexandre Larose,
Dagie Brundert, Robert Kennedy, Allyson Mitchell, Clive Holden.
Followed by a Panel Discussion with
Alexandre Larose in person from Montreal!,
Kika Thorne, Roy Mitchell and John Porter.
Friday, April 30, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Toronto Film Scene presents
Offside
(Jafar Panahi, Iran, 2006)
Screening in support of the filmmaker
recently jailed in Iran without charges.
Among many international screenings this week
of Panahi's award-winning films.
All proceeds donated to Amnesty International.
Facebook
group "Free Jafar Panahi".
Tuesday, April 20, 8pm, $10 (classified)
The
3rd Zero Film Festival
North America & Europe Tour of the best of the festival
held in Los Angeles and Brooklyn last December.
Self-financed indie films from around the world and
local filmmakers in hosting cities. Curated by Steven Strauss.
Friday, April 16, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
CineCycle presents
Personal Ethnographies
Cinema / Performance by
Ross Lipman in person from Los Angeles!
with his 16mm films, 35mm films, and video.
Sunday, April 11, 8pm, $5
5 EVENTS IN MARCH 2010
The Toronto Japanese Film Appreciation Pow-Wow
presents their continuing series of
experimental and underground films from Japan.
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song
1974
Kazuo Hara's 1974 landmark documentary,
(in Japanese with English subtitles), preceded by
shorts by Toronto film & video artist Da Hye Kim.
Curated by Chris MaGee & Naomi Hocura. Facebook
Friday, March 26, 8pm, $10 (unclassified)
Toronto Media Co-op, Upping the Anti and Groundwire present
I (Heart) Alt Media
Fundraiser for alternative coverage of the G20.
Featuring live music by 100 Dollars, Bob Wiseman,
Garbage Face, John Rose, Kay Pettigrew, D'bi Young,
Anand Rajaram, and DJs Nick Red & DJ B#.
Thursday, March 25, 9pm
The Owle Bird presents its
Music Video Release Party
Live music by The Owle Bird, The Skeletones Four,
The Dead Elm Society of Canada, and Lisa Bozikovic,
plus short videos by local artists, and live video projections.
Thursday, March 11, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
What Manner of Person Art Thou?
Erin Cosgrove's animated video
(2008, 65 minutes)
Saturday, March 6, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Theatre Caravel presents
Sea Change - A Night of New
Performance
with Angelica LeMinh, Krista Dalby, Stevie Jay,
Lara Martin and Dominika Dittwald.
Snacks & refreshments!
Friday, March 5, 8pm, $7 advance, $10
at door
Admission by guest list only, and spaces fill up quick!
RSVP: info at theatrecaravel dot com
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
presents
Part 5 of its Strategies of the Medium screening series
Go Big or Go Home
Screening and Panel Discussion.
Contemporary Canadian artists' films,
all shot and finished on 35mm, 2001-2009,
by John Price, Eve Gordon & Sam Hamilton,
Louise Bourque, Sonia Bridge, Clive Holden,
Christina Battle, Kelly Egan, Steven Woloshen.
Followed by a panel discussion with filmmakers
Kelly Egan and Steven Woloshen in person.
Saturday, February 27, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Receive Bacon Productions presents
The
Human Project: Screening & After Party
Premiere of the pilot episode of The Human Project
series of experimental art documentaries.
Plus DJ J-Lah (http://www.j-lah.com)
Thursday, February 25, 9:30pm, $5 (unclassified)
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Contact: Tekin Maximilian Salimi - 416-722-7445
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The Films of Chris Kennedy
Toronto independent filmmaker,
programmer, writer,
in person with 6 of his recent 16mm films,
a recent 35mm film and a recent video.
Wednesday, February 24, 8pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
The Pleasure Principle
Three films (on video) from the
McMaster University Film Board
in Hamilton, Ontario, 1966-1969.
Introduction by Stephen Broomer.
Friday, February 12, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
The Toronto Japanese Film Appreciation Pow-Wow
presents the Toronto premiere of
Masaki
Iwana's Vermilion Souls
The first ever feature video made by a butoh dancer!
"Best Film" Award at the 2009 Portobello Film Festival!
Featuring Iwana's dance troupe La Maison du Butoh Blanc.
Presented in Japanese, French, Italian with English subtitles.
(Note: Restricted, adults only, brief scenes of graphic sexuality.)
Preceded by a short talk on butoh and Japanese film, and a
live dance by Minae Omi, Meryem Alaoui, Joanie Audet!
Curated by Chris MaGee & Naomi Hocura. Facebook
Poster
designed by Andrew Remington Bailey.
Friday, February 5, 8pm, $10 (unclassified)
JANUARY 2010
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
Public Lighting
by Mike Hoolboom in person!
(Canada, 2004, video, 76 min.) Re-cut for this screening!
Saturday, January 23, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Plus the re-launch of the publication
Projecting Questions? (2009) at 7pm.
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
40 EVENTS IN 2009
25 Selected Events in 2008
Band "Barn Owl" - December 5
Speaker - December 3
6 EVENTS IN NOVEMBER, 2009
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
Identifications
Early artists' television (1970)
by Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Garry Kuehn, Klaus Rinke,
Daniel Buren, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Gino de Dominicis, Ger van Elk,
Reiner Ruthenbeck, Ulrich Rückriem, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier,
Giovanni Anselmo, Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn,
Mario Merz, Franz Erhard Walther, Lawrence Weiner, Gilberto Zorio.
Saturday, November 28, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Theatre Caravel presents
Sea Change - A Night of New
Performance
Afrakaren Nile, Haley McGee, Chere Francoise, Rob Faust.
Visual art by Erin Finley. Snacks & refreshments!
Friday, November 27,
8pm, $7 advance, $10 at door
Admission by guest list only, and spaces fill up quick!
RSVP: info at theatrecaravel dot com
ambientTV.NET presents
Faceless A video by Manu Luksch.
Thursday, November 26, 8pm
aluCine
Toronto Latin Media Festival (Nov 12-28) presents
screenings at CineCycle November 19-21, including
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group co-presents
Films by Jose Rodriguez-Soltero
Two 16mm films from 1965 & 1966.
Friday, November 20, 7:30pm & 9pm, $8 (unclassified)
The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) presents
Cameraless Animation and Animated
Sound
16mm & 35mm Film Workshop with Richard Reeves from Calgary!
Sunday, November 15 , 11am-5pm, $35
Limited enrolment!
Toronto Free Broadcasting (TFB)
/ Toronto Free Gallery
and CineCycle present
Wasting Naples
(Nicol Angrisano)
Digital documentary produced by Insu^TV,
Neopolitan pirate television station,
about the garbage crisis in Southern Italy, 2003-2009,
the largest environmental disaster in Western Europe.
(English cut version. 77 minutes)
Monday, November 2, 7:30pm, free
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
7 EVENTS IN OCTOBER, 2009
Studio Tofu presents
1st Annual Hallowheelin'
Urban Cycling Challenge
Open to all cyclists of all skill levels. Facebook
Helmets & costumes suggested. Lights & bag mandatory.
2 Courses: Easy & Hard. Rain or moon. Tonnes of prizes!
Saturday, October 31, Registration:
5:30pm, $8
Ride: 7pm sharp! Manic Coffee, 426 College
St.
Halloween After-Party at CineCycle, 8pm, Non-Riders: $2
EDGE
- Perspectives on Drug Free Culture
A new documentary video (Germany, 2009, 82 minutes)
by Marc Pierschel & Michael Kirchner, in person!
Poster
on flickr!
Tuesday, October 20, 8pm, $10 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
Just One Kiss - The Fall of Ned
Kelly
Finnish filmmaker Sami Van Ingen in person!
with the premiere his new 35mm film with a live
musical soundtrack by local band Picastro.
Friday, October 16, 8pm, $12 (unclassified)
YYZ Artists' Outlet presents
Fashion Show
Designs by Karey Shinn, War and Leisure
and a performance by guest artists including Xenia Benivolski.
Thursday, October 15, 8pm-9:30pm
Pleasure
Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group and
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
present Part 3 of LIFT's Strategies of the Medium series
The Wooden Lightbox: a Secret
Art of Seeing
Alex
MacKenzie in person from Vancouver, BC!
with the Toronto premiere of his
live performance
using his original hand-made 16mm projector!
Saturday, October 10, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
The 4th Nuit
Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events (no super 8)
in 125 varied locations, indoors and outdoors. Poster
on flickr!
Saturday-Sunday, October 3-4, 7pm-7am, free, including:
CineCycle presents
"Scopitones" on 16mm, outdoors,
all-night
Short, music films from the 1960s.
Saturday-Sunday, October 3-4, 9pm-7am (unclassified)
Courtyard, Main Floor, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
The Dupont and Spadina Corner Collective (DCC) presents
Molotov Rag
Fundraiser for the next issue of the magazine.
Live music by Hush Money, Barf, Pigeons!, and Danger! Danger!,
plus spoken word by White Noise Machine, and a vegan bake sale.
Friday, October 2, 9pm, $5
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
7 EVENTS IN AUGUST, 2009
Theatre Caravel presents
Sea Change - A Night of New
Performance
New work from artists of all media!
Snacks & refreshments provided.
Saturday, August 29, 8pm, $7 advance,
$10 at door
Spaces fill up quick! RSVP: info at theatrecaravel dot
com
Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation (TCAT) presents
Veer
- A New Documentary about Bicycling
(Greg Fredette, USA, 2008, video) Poster
on flickr!
Exploring America’s fast-growing bicycling culture,
profiling 5 people whose lives are tied to bicycling
and the bike-centric social groups they belong to.
Thursday, August 27, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
York University Depatment of Film presents
Alt Vault
Videos by Sarah Devine, Owen Sheppard, Brad Tinmouth,
Mark Hanson, James Harris, Tara Khalili, Meelad Moaphi,
Ariana Andrei, Alexandra Byers and Tess Marie Garneau,
from the 3rd & 4th Year Alternative Project Workshop
taught by Philip Hoffman at York University.
Wednesday, August 26, 8-11pm, $5/pwyc (unclassified)
Family Contact presents the World Premiere of
My Awesome Movie
New feature-length comedy video made locally by Aaron Manezyk.
Saturday, August 22, 9pm, $5 ($8 w/ DVD) (unclassified)
Preceded by stand-up comedy at 8:30pm.
9th
Bicycle Film Festival Tour, August 19-22,
3rd year in Toronto, at The Royal Cinema & Studio Gallery, presents
After Party
Celebrate the new film Where Are You Go?
by Benny Zenga & Brian Vernor, showing at 7pm at The Royal.
Friday, August 21, 9pm, $5, at CineCycle
Free to Festival ticket holders!
Pleasure Dome presents
Un Été comme les autres
A 16mm double-projection film (1969) by Robert Morris,
a 16mm film (1984) by Joyce Wieland & Hollis Frampton, and
two videos (2006, 2007) by Duncan Campbell and Jordan Wolfson.
Friday, August 14, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Annual Open Screening (Under the
Stars?)
Bring your films or videos to show, or just come to watch.
16mm, 8mm, super 8, VHS, DVD, mini-DV.
Max 10 minutes. First come, first shown.
Saturday, August 8, 9pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
Due to rain, held at CineCycle
(not in the courtyard of 401 Richmond St. W.)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
4 EVENTS IN JULY, 2009
Pleasure Dome presents
La
Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet)
(René Laloux, France/Czechoslovakia, 1973, on 35mm!)
Saturday, July 25, 9pm, $8 (unclassified)
Outdoors in the courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
Due to rain, held at CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave.
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
presents Part 2 of its Strategies of the Medium series
Screening / Panel: Printed Light
16mm & 35mm films made using optical printers,
by Martin Arnold, John Kneller, Alexandre Larose,
Barbara Sternberg, Francois Miron, Christina Battle,
Gary Popovich, Louise Bourque, and Amanda Dawn Christie.
Screening followed by a panel discussion with filmmakers
Christina Battle, John Kneller and Francois Miron.
Saturday, July 11, 8pm, $8 suggested donation (unclassified)
Preceded by the LIFT Summer BBQ, 6-8pm,
in the parking lot behind CineCycle.
The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) presents
Vegan Delights from Halifax, Nova
Scotia
Screening & discussion with Siloen Daley in person
presenting animated videos made over the past 10 years
by herself and other Halifax women who inspired her:
Beck Barker, Helen Hill, Helen Bredin, Shelley Wallace,
Amy Lockhart, Katherine Sheehan, and Andrea Dorfman.
Friday, July 10, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome presents
The Mourning of Everyday Life
Recent Films by Sarah Pucill, in person from UK!
Friday, July 3, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
7 EVENTS MARCH-JUNE, 2009
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
presents its Strategies of the Medium series
Screening / Panel: Animating Analogue
Current practices in film-based animation using animation stands.
Screening 16mm films by Jonathan Amitay, Wendy Tilby, Larry Jordan,
Frank Mouris & Caroline Mouris, Janie Geiser, Amy Lockhart,
Chris Gehman, Ed Ackerman & Colin Morton, Rick Raxlen.
Followed by a brief panel discussion with Canadian artists
Jonathan Amitay, Chris Gehman, and Ellen Besen.
Friday, June 19, 7pm, $8 suggested donation (classified)
Ed Video and Pleasure Dome present
The
Iberoamerican Trilogy
by Martin Sastre, in person from Madrid.
(Spain, 2002-2004, video, 40 minutes)
Saturday, June 6, 8pm, $5/pwyc (unclassified)
Celebrating Bike
Month (Toronto, May 25 - June 25),
CineCycle and The Bicycle Film Festival (BFF,
Aug 19-22) present
Film
Night
Premiere of the BFF trailer shot in Toronto in May 2009,
rare 16mm bicycle films curated by Martin Heath and Benny Zenga,
new bicycle videos by Benny Zenga with live music by Nif-D + Melons,
a new bicycle video by Nicholas Kovats, and a super 8 film by John Porter.
Thursday, June 4, 8pm, $5 (adults only)
19th Inside
Out
Toronto LGBT Film & Video Festival
May 14-24, $12/9 each, various venues
No super 8. (classified)
Fridays, May 15 & 22, 7:45pm & 10pm, $9, CineCycle
Honest I's CD Release
also with Mina May, Videotape, Lan Sounds.
Friday, April 10, 10pm, $5 ($8 with a CD)
32elvismovies.com presents
Creepy Classics
Old cartoons, shorts and a black & white horror feature,
all projected on 16mm! With an illustrated program booklet!
Thursday, March 26, 7:30pm, $8
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
6 EVENTS IN FEBRUARY 2009
Jamie's Area Fundraiser
Support the new art space
opening in Kensington Market, March 2009!
Live music by Anagram, Bush League ft. Jeremy Strachan,
Katie Stelnanis, Animal Monster, DJ Rob Gordon, and a
special performance by collaborative artists Butt+Poon.
Saturday, February 28, 10pm, $10
The Community Bicycle Network (CBN) presents
CBN Movie Night
Tired of winter? Break away with the movie
Breaking
Away (Peter Yates, USA, 1979)
Free popcorn, and a raffle for great CBN prizes!
A CBN Fundraiser and Critical Mass Ride After-Warm-Up.
(Join the monthly Critical
Mass Ride at 6pm, Bloor & Spadina.)
Friday, February 27, 8pm, $5 or pwyc (unclassified)
South Asian Visual Arts Collective (SAVAC) presents
Monitor 5: New South
Asian Short Videos
Artists of South Asian heritage in Canada and internationally.
Siddhartha S. Joag, Nilanjan Bhattacharya, Khaldoon Ahmed,
Richard Fung & Ali Kazimi, Natasha Mendonca, Unum Babar,
John Greyson, Aseem Mishra and Ujjwal Utkarsh.
Curated by New York-based filmmaker Mridu Chandra.
Thursday, February 26, 7:30pm, $5 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome presents
Sorry, Baby, but You’re
Disturbing My Fantasy
Videos by Nina Könnemann, in person,
Anna Berger, Keren Cytter, Viola Klein and Claus Richter.
Sunday, February 22, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
PUNCHCLOCK and Barriere Lake Solidarity present
Music Show in Support of
The Algonquin of Barriere Lake
A fundraiser for their legal fees, with music by
Young Wife, Woolly Leaves, $100 Trio Electric,
Personal Helicopter, and DJ Michael ComeauI.
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Friday, February 20, 9pm, $5-5,000
Pleasure Dome presents
Hold Me Now All Through the Night
Michael Robinson in person from USA!
with recent videos and 16mm films by himself,
Shana Moulton, Kent Lambert and Luther Price.
Saturday, February 7, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
4 EVENTS IN JANUARY 2009
So&So Fundraiser
Support the new Toronto-based arts and culture periodical
to be released in early March 2009!
Live music by Sounds Like BS and Our History of Cowboys,
plus DJ Philpmode.
Thursday, January 29, 9pm, $5
Pleasure Dome presents
Internal Archivists
Aleesa Cohene & Dani Leventhal
in discussion with Brenda Goldstein.
Saturday, January 24, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Ruckus
Magazine Concert / Reading
Student performances by Erich Boshart, Jimmy McInnis,
Zoe Alexis-Abrams, Jasmyn Burke, Guy Doucette,
Terror Lake, Barn Owl. Baked treats and buttons.
Friday, January 16, 8pm, $5
Pleasure Dome presents
Ryan Trecartin’s I-Be
Area
Plus Members New Year's Party!
Saturday, January 10, 8pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
25 SELECTED EVENTS
IN 2008
40 Events in 2009
2 EVENTS IN DECEMBER 2008
Primary Colors presents
DD/MM/YYYY
Music Video Launch Party
I Really Dig Your "Sound" Love, Carol by Jesi
the Elder.
Live music by DD/MM/YYYY,
Romo Roto, Narwhalz, Ear Power,
with Jesi the Elder's projections all night long.
Friday, December 12, 10pm, $10 (includes free zine)
Niagara Custom Lab presents its
Artist-in-Residence Daan DeBakker
in person with a very short program of his own
single 8 films, and video, from Holland.
Saturday, December 6, 8pm, free
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
6 EVENTS IN NOVEMBER 2008
Pleasure Dome presents
Ponytail (2008,
video, 90 minutes)
A computer animation by Barry Doupé, in person!
Saturday, November 29, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty presents its
"Save The Liu Family Home!"
Fundraising Party
Live Music & DJ. Auction. Food. Raffle.
Friday, November 28, 7:30pm
Over the Top Festival presents
Yeast (Mary Bronstein, USA, 2008, video)
Wednesday, November 26, 8pm, (unclassified)
$10, or 3 for $20! (Bring two friends you
don't like.)
Pleasure Dome presents
Under the Microscope
Recent videos from UK, Asia & USA, by Kim Kyung-Mook,
Martin Creed, Ömer Ali Kazma, Semiconductor, and
M.M. Serra, in person from New York City!
Saturday, November 22, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
This Ain't the Rosedale Library presents
Me
and My Brother by Robert Frank
(1968, USA, 16mm, 91 minutes) plus
Getting it Together, about poet Larry Eigner,
by Leonard Henny and Jan Boon (1967, USA, 16mm, 20 minutes).
Monday, November 17, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome presents
Testing Body, Mind and Soul
Historical Performances
Saturday, November 15, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
7 EVENTS IN OCTOBER 2008
Pleasure Dome presents
Sad Nuggets
Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn
Saturday, October 25, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome presents
The Philosopher of Chaos
John Bock Films
Saturday, October 18, 8pm, free (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome presents
Screaming City: West-Berlin
1980’s
Curated and presented by
Florian Wüst and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, in person!
Friday, October 17, 6:30, 8:30 &
10pm,
$5 each / $10 all (unclassified)
Lantern Revue
A night of film & video performance, music, storytelling & theatre
by Robert Kingsbury & Troy Coulterman & Vanessa Kimmons,
Neil Cavalier, David Stein, Amy Bowles & Lisa Kennedy,
David Frankovich & D. Alex Meeks & Chris Wiseman,
J.M. McNab & Stefan Banjevic.
installation by Rebecca Pletsch & Alex Unger.
Friday, October 10, 9pm, $5 (unclassified)
The 3rd Nuit
Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events (no super 8)
in 125 varied locations, indoors and outdoors,
Saturday-Sunday, October 4-5, 7pm-7am, free, including:
Pleasure Dome presents
Hooliganship: Cartune Xprez
Peter Burr and Christopher Doulgeris in person from Portland,
with their multi-media performance, plus animated videos by
Takeshi Murata, Shana Moulton, Bruce Bickford and others.
Same program shown twice,
Saturday, October 4, 9pm & 11pm, $pwyc
(unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
CineCycle presents
"Scopitones" on 16mm, outdoors,
all-night
Short, music films from the 1960s.
Saturday-Sunday, October 4-5, 10pm-7am (unclassified)
Courtyard, Main Floor, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
Ruckus Magazine Launch
Party!
These Electric Lives (TEL)
Remixed, and Terror Lake.
Mark & Gary will be DJing after the bands play.
MySpace
Friday, October 3, 9:30pm, $10/7
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
CineCycle and Locheal Communications present
microcinefest
2008
Films & videos not at the Toronto International Film Festival, by
Hee Won Cho,
Tracy German, Martin Heath, Vanessa Renwick, Helen Hill, Melinda Stone,
Les Blank, Richard Leacock & Don Pennebaker, Craig Baldwin, Kaljo
Kiisk,
Andrew Patterson, Martin Reis, Istvan Kantor, John Porter, Robert Frank,
Renata Mohamed, Marcos Arriaga, Tony Romano, Van Guylder,
Dusan Makaveyev, John Greyson, Lutz Dammbeck, and more.
35mm, 16mm, super 8, 8mm and DLP video projection.
Subversive archival films. Midnight surprises.
September 5-12, $10 each / $50 pass (unclassified)
The
Torrent's
Catherine Deneuve Video Premiere
plus animated and psychedelic videos by
Amy Lockhart and Philippe Blanchard, in person!
Live music by The Torrent and Animal Monster.
Hosted by Keith Cole.
Saturday, September 20, 9pm, $5 (unclassified)
Pages Books presents
This
is Not A Reading Series
Nowtopia
author Chris Carlsson in person
for a reading, reception and book-signing.
Thursday, September 4, 8pm, free
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
5 EVENTS IN AUGUST 2008
Dandy
Horse - Toronto on Two Wheels!
Launch of Toronto's urban cycling magazine:
This first issue is a full-colour, 48-page
celebration of bicycling in Toronto!
DJs, fresh magazines and cake!
Thursday, August 28, 7:30pm, $5
Pleasure Dome presents
Skip, Divided
The Films of Rosalind Nashashibi
From Glasgow. Videos & 16mm films, 2000-2005.
Saturday, August 16, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Annual Open Screening Under the
Stars
Bring your films or videos to show, or just come to watch.
16mm, 8mm, super 8, VHS, DVD, mini-DV.
Max 10 minutes. First come, first shown.
Saturday, August 9, 9pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
Outdoors in the courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
(Due to rain, held at CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave.)
CIUT-FM 89.5 and Afrofest '08 present
5 X 4
A performance installation with
20 performers and 20 household objects.
Conception & Direction by Alicia Grant & Cara Spooner.
Performances by Alicia Grant, Alicia Winn, Anni Spadafora,
Cara Spooner, Chelsea Omel, Chris Wiseman, D Alex Meeks,
Jenn Sciarrino, Laura Mendes, Natalie Boustead, Rebecca Pletsch,
Shirin Yousefi, Rebecca Simonetti, Robert Kingsbury, Sarah Fregeau,
Shelly Hering, Devon Hyland, Erin Cowan, Jared Raab, Jasmyn Burke.
Music by: Nick Storring.
Friday, August 8, 8.30pm, $5-10
Pleasure Dome presents
Art(core):
The Avant Garde and the Cinematic Body
Curated by M.M. Serra, in person from NYC! Outdours!
Filmmaker and director of the Film-makers’ Cooperative.
Films (1963-2002) by M.M. Serra, Carolee Schneemann,
George Kuchar, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Scot-Free,
Peggy Ahwesh, James Fotopoulos, Martha Colburn,
and a double-screen projection by Barbara Rubin.
Saturday, August 2, 9pm, $5 (unclassified)
Outdoors in the courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
(rain location: CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave.)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
JULY 2008 AT CINECYCLE
Pleasure Dome presents
Sinbad of Baghdad:
Jack
Smith's Super 8 Films
Curated by Jerry
Tartaglia, in person from NYC! Outdoors!
North American premiere of recently restored super 8 films
on video (1975-1985), plus two 16mm films (1968-1970).
Saturday, July 26, 9pm, $5 (unclassified)
Outdoors in the courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
(rain location: CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave.)
The Latino Canadian Cultural Association (LCCA)
presents
Rhyme the Image arts festival (July 4, 12, Aug. 16), including
Capsules of Time
- Video Night
Videos by Julian Calleros, Lena Recollet, Monica Gutierrez,
Faisal Anwar, Rocio Boliver, Rivelino Diaz, Donna Huanca,
Constanza Camelo, Prashant Miranda, Bradley Nolan,
We are not Speedy Gonzales. See MySpace
page.
Saturday, July 12, 7pm, $pwyc
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
CineCycle celebrated
"Bike Month" 2008 with
Free Screenings May 28, June 5, 9, 11.
Celebrating Bike
Month (Toronto, May 26 - June 21),
and The Cycle Messenger World Championships (CMWC)
(Toronto, June 13-16), CineCycle presents
Quicksilver
- 8pm
(Tom Donnelly, USA, 1986, 106 minutes) on 16mm!
Classic Bicycle Racing Films - 10pm
on 16mm!
Wednesday, June 11, free (unclassified)
Celebrating Bike Month (May 26 - June 21), CineCycle presents
Jour
de fête by Jacques
Tati
(France, 1949, 70 minutes) on 16mm!
and a short by Tex Thayer.
Monday, June 9, 8pm, free (unclassified)
Celebrating Bike Month (May 26 - June 21), CineCycle presents
Historic Bicycle Photography
Lorne Shields' 35mm slides and commentary
from his collection of early cycling photography.
The evolution of the bicycle from the early 19th Century.
Fashion, sport, social history, invention, manufacturing, touring.
Thursday, June 5, 8pm, free
Celebrating Bike Month (May 26 - June 21), CineCycle presents
The
Bicycle Thief by Vittoria
De Sica
(Italy,
1948, 93 minutes) on 16mm!
and a short super 8 film by Martin Reis.
Wednesday, May 28, 8pm, free (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
Pianists to accompany
A Bicycle-powered Festival of Silent Film Classics!
A new invention by CineCycle's Martin Heath and
Petra Chevrier, using bicycle-riders from the audience!
National Post, Saturday, December 1, 2007
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Bike-powered projector soon to get its own filmfest
by Sarah B. Hood
A review of Pleasure
Dome's premiere presentation of
artist Liss Platt riding a bicycle-powered 16mm projector
designed by Petra Chevrier and Martin Heath of CineCycle,
on Saturday, November 24, 2007 at the Latvian House, Toronto.
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
Cinema Rentals - 35mm, 16mm, 9.5mm, 8mm, super 8, VHS, DVD!
Mobile Cinema Service - Project any format, anywhere! Biked!
DIY Music Venue - Voted favourite by Eye Weekly readers!
Performances - Exhibitions - Parties - Meetings - Shoots
Bicycle Repairs & Rentals: by appointment
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
- Photos
of Bike Week 2007 at CineCycle, by Martin Reis! -
(That's John Porter in the Janet Bike Girl "SUPER
8" t-shirt!)
- CineCycle story by Erin MacKeen, w/ a photo of Martin -
- 401 Richmond Street West, arts building with CineCycle -
- CineCycle t-shirts by
CineCycle partner Janet
Bike Girl -
Photos - CineCycle
logo
- Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition, most often at CineCycle -
- Photo and review of CineCycle -
- R.I.P. cat Timmy 1992?-2007 -
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
