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CineCycle
Underground Cinema
Coffee Bar & Bicycle Repair Shop

behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto, 416-971-4273

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109 EVENTS 2017-2019


18 EVENTS 2019 35 EVENTS 2018 56 EVENTS 2017

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18 EVENTS IN 2019


1 EVENT NOVEMBER 2019 5 EVENTS OCTOBER 2019
1 EVENT SEPTEMBER 2019 1 EVENT AUGUST 2019
1 EVENT JUNE 2019 2 EVENTS MAY 2019
1 EVENT APRIL 2019 3 EVENTS MARCH 2019
3 EVENTS FEBRUARY 2019

NOVEMBER 2019

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook group

Hot Rods to Hell
(John Brahm, USA, 1967, 92 minutes)
Facebook

Friday, November 8, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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5 EVENTS OCTOBER 2019

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook group

Witchfinder General
(Michael Reeves, UK / USA, 1968, 86 minutes)
Facebook event

Friday, October 11, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

The 14th Nuit Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events!
85 varied locations, indoors & outdoors. No super 8.
Facebook

Saturday, October 5, 7pm-7am, free!

INCLUDING

CineCycle presents 'Scopitones'
Short, 1960s music films on 16mm! (unclassified)
Outdoors in the Courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto

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The 19th aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (Oct 3-6) presents

Sensory Dimensions
Recent Latin American Experimental Shorts by
Victoria Giesen Carvajal, Rodrigo Andres Valenzuela,
Mauricio Saenz, Khalil Charif & Marcos Bonisson,
and Eduardo Williams & Mariano Blatt.
English subtitles. Facebook

Friday, October 4, 7pm, $pwyc / $10 suggested
(adults only, by law)

FOLLOWED BY

The 19th aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (Oct 3-6) presents

Tribute to
Latin & Canadian Experimental Film

by Sumie Garcia, Flores Silvestres & Jean-Jacques Martinod,
Alexandra Gelis, Alejandra Higuera, Francisca Duran,
Sheena Rossiter & Sandro Silva & Nadia Sussman,
Marcos Joao Serafim Neto & Jefferson Kielwagen &
Steevens Simeon, Jorge Lozano, Cecilia Araneda.
Many of the artists in person! English subtitles.
Facebook

Friday, October 4, 9pm, $10 (adults only, by law)

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Petunia
Veteran Canadian country-blues musician
from British Columbia & New Brunswick
on his annual East Canada tour with

The Minimalist Jug Band
Veteran Toronto slam poet music artist.

Monday, September 30, 8:30pm - 11:30pm
Tuesday, October 1, 8:30pm - 11:30pm

Facebook

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SEPTEMBER 2019

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook group

Methadone:
An American Way of Dealing

(Jim Klein & Julia Reichert, USA, 1974, 61 min., doc)
preceded by four Classroom Anti-drug Films!
Facebook event

Friday, September 13, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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AUGUST 2019

Sunday Wilde
The Grammy long-listed musician from Atikokan,
Northern Ontario, belting out blues and playing piano,
plus Sheila Gostick with her Honest Ed's guitar.

Wednesday, August 7, 8:30pm, $10-20 suggested

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JUNE 2019

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook group

The Sergeant
(John Flynn, USA, 1968, 108 minutes)
Facebook

Friday, June 14, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

LAST TRASH PALACE BEFORE SEPTEMBER!

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2 EVENTS MAY 2019

Gary Topp presents

STIV:
No Compromise, No Regrets

(Danny Garcia, Spain, 2019, video, 85 minutes)
A new documentary, followed by a Q&A with
Cynthia Ross and David Quinton-Steinberg.
Facebook

Friday & Saturday, May 17 & 18, 7:30pm
$12 advance
(unclassified)

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook group

Pleasure Palace
(Ed Hunt, Canada, 1973, 91 minutes)
Toronto street life in a seedy drama!
Facebook event

Friday, May 10, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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APRIL 2019

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook group

The Born Losers
(T. C. Frank, USA, 1967, 113 minutes)
Facebook event

Friday, April 12, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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3 EVENTS MARCH 2019

Lauryn Zuk presents a benefit event

CRAZYWISE
(Phil Borges & Kevin Tomlinson, USA, 2016, digital, 82 min.)
Documentary film screening followed by an
open discussion hosted by Lauryn Zuk.
All proceeds go to Toronto homeless shelters.
Facebook

Tuesday, March 26, 7:30pm, $pwyc (unclassified)

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook group

Savage Gringo
(Anthony Roman & Mario Bava, Italy / Spain, 1966, 82 min.)
Facebook event

Friday, March 22, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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Teach For Canada presents

Power, Empower.
Indigenous Women in Film

Videos and performances by Ardelle Sagutcheway,
Victoria Anderson-Gardner, Savannah Boucher,
Casha Adams, Michelle Derosier, and others!
Artists in person! for introductions and Q&A.
Wet'suwet'en Strong t-shirts, hoodies on sale,
all proceeds support Gidumt'en territory!
Facebook

Thursday, March 21, 7pm, free! (unclassified)

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3 EVENTS FEBRUARY 2019

Shorts That Are Not Pants presents

Shorts That Are Not Pants
February 2019 Screening

Kicking off our 8th season of quarterly screenings!
Facebook

Thursday, February 21, 7pm (unclassified)

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"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook group

Winter A-Go-Go
(Richard Benedict, USA, 1965, 88 minutes)
Facebook event

Friday, February 8, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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Saving CineCycle!
A Benefit Film Event

Film screenings, music and dancing!
DJs Richard Vermeulen & guests, cash bar,
potluck food, raffle, limited-edition t-shirts.
Facebook

Saturday, February 2, 7:30pm-2am
(unclassified) $15 suggested donation

35 EVENTS IN 2018


DECEMBER 2018 - NOVEMBER 2018 - OCTOBER 2018
SEPTEMBER 2018 - AUGUST 2018 - JULY 2018 - JUNE 2018
MAY 2018 - APRIL 2018 - MARCH 2018 - FEBRUARY 2018 - JANUARY 2018

DECEMBER 2018

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook group

The Wrath of God
(Ralph Nelson, USA, 1972, 111 minutes)
Facebook event

Friday, December 14, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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2 EVENTS NOVEMBER 2018

Shorts That Are Not Pants presents

Shorts That Are Not Pants
Film Festival

Facebook

Friday, November 23, 7pm & 9pm
Saturday, November 24, 1pm, 3pm, 7pm, 9pm
(unclassified)

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook group

Trip Through the TV Time Tunnel!
Wonder Woman, Fantasy Island, Green Acres!
Facebook event

Friday, November 9, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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4 EVENTS OCTOBER 2018

Accessible washroom installed.

Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT),
Pix Film Gallery and Le Labo present

Stefano Canapa
LIFT's and Pix's Artist-in-Residence
in person from Paris presenting his
16mm & 35mm films
and others from
L’Abominable artist-run film laboratory.
Films, 2000-2018, by Stefano Canapa, Elisa Ribes,
Maria Kourkouta, Emmanuel Lefrant, Tomaz Burlin,
Guillaume Mazloum, Yoana Urruzola, David Dudouit.
Total running time: 83 minutes. Facebook

Thursday, October 18, 7pm, $pwyc (unclassified)

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"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group

Holy Ghost People
and Cult Explosion

Two scary docs about religion and cults!
Holy Ghost People (1967, Peter Adair),
Cult Explosion (1980). Facebook event

Friday, October 12, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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The 18th aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (Oct 3-6, 2018),
12th the8fest Small-Gauge Film Festival (Jan 25-27, 2019), and
32nd Images Festival of Media Art (April 11-18, 2019), present

Cine Toro
Colombia experimental videos, 2009-2015,
from the Cinetoro Experimental Film Festival,
by Juan Camilo González, Edgar Humberto Álvarez,
Alexander Quezada, Javier González, Carlos Santa,
Carlos Andrés Granada, Ana Caro, Fernando López.
Total running time: 83 min. All with English subtitles.
Curator Andrés Uzuga skyping from Colombia!
Facebook

Friday, October 5, 7pm, $pwyc ($5 suggested)
(adults only, by law)

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FOLLOWED BY

The 18th aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (Oct 3-6, 2018),
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT),
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC), and
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group present

Departures
Recent Latin-Canadian experimental videos by
Ben Donoghue & Julieta María, Sumie García,
Milena Salazar & Joella Cabalu, Pablo Diconca,
Pablo Alvarez-Mesa & Fernando Lopez Escriva,
Leonardo Suarez, Cecilia Araneda, Franci Duran,
Madi Piller, Mikel Guillen, Samay Arcentales Cajas.
Total run time: 122 min. All with English subtitles.
Many of the artists in person! Facebook

Friday, October 5, 9:30pm, $pwyc ($5 suggested)
(adults only, by law)

Followed by a reception with filmmakers, food, drinks, music!

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SEPTEMBER 2018

The 13th Nuit Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events!
85 varied locations, indoors & outdoors. No super 8.
Saturday, September 30, 7pm-7am, free!
Facebook

INCLUDING

CineCycle presents 'Scopitones'
Short, 1960s music films on 16mm!

Saturday, September 29, 7pm-4am, free! (unclassified)

Outdoors! in the Courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto

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3 EVENTS AUGUST 2018

Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents its

Annual Open Screening
and Community Dinner
Bring your films or videos to show,
or just come to watch!
Maximum 5 min., 1st come, 1st shown.
35mm, 16mm, 8mm and super 8 film!
plus VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, QuickTime.
Facebook

Sunday, August 12, free! or by donation
6:30pm - Sign-in / Community Dinner outdoors
8:00pm - Screening (unclassified)

CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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Nick Kovats and Mikel Guillen present

The Kinochrome Sessions
16 international contemporary experimental videos & films
by Aman Wadhan, Sebastian Eklund, Susu Laroche,
James Pomeroy, Sandy McLennan, Guillaume Vallée,
Michael Lyons, Paul Clipson, Müge Yildiz, Carl Looper,
Kent Tate, Wolfgang Lehmann & Telemach Wiesinger,
Scott Barley, Agustin Telo, Eric Souther, Muriel Montini.
Total running time: 131 minutes. Facebook

Saturday, August 11, 7:45pm, $10 or pwyc (unclassified)

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle,
Facebook group

Carry On Screaming!
(Gerald Thomas, UK, 1966, 97 minutes) plus
a cartoon, a Scopitone, and Chapter 13
of the 1944 serial Captain America.
Facebook event

Friday, August 10, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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JULY 2018

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle,
Facebook group

The Force On Thunder Mountain
(Peter B. Good, USA, 1978, 93 minutes) introduced by
Stacey Case, in person from Hamilton, Ontario!
Plus a Scopitone, and 1950s 16mm home movies
shot in Toronto and Hamilton. Facebook event

Friday, July 13, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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3 EVENTS JUNE 2018

Toronto Film Review presents

[redacted]
Recent, short, Canadian videos,
followed by Q&A with the artists.
Facebook

Thursday, June 14, 8:30pm, $5 (unclassified)

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DocNow Documentary Festival presents

206 Carlton
(Sylvia Nowak, Canada, 2018, video, 14 min.)
Racism and resistance in the city of Toronto,
focusing on Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel
when he built a bunker at 206 Carlton St.
Plus a panel discussion and a related
exhibition from Alternative Toronto.
Facebook

Wednesday, June 13, 7pm, free! (unclassified)

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group

The Marx Brothers' Duck Soup
(Leo McCarey, USA, 1933, 68 minutes) plus
a cartoon, a Scopitone, and short comedies.
Facebook event

Friday, June 8, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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8 EVENTS MAY 2018

The Trapdoor Fest,
a new, all-ages music festival (May 25-27) presents

Trapdoor Fest Night 1
with bands Bad Waitress, Cliff Cardinal,
Luna Lii, Hot Garbage, Fade Awaays.
A dry event - booze is not welcome!
Facebook

Friday, May 25, 8:30pm-1am, $10

Toronto Film Review presents

Now It's Dark
Recent short, Canadian, genre videos by
Joële Walinga, Matthew Rankin, Sally Rylett,
Scooter Jenner, Justin Decloux, Nate Wilson,
Marianne Hill, Steve Kostanski. Total 77 min.
Followed by Q&A with the artists. Facebook

Wednesday, May 16, 8pm. (unclassified)
Pre-show at 7pm. $pwyc / $5 suggested.

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Show Your Work
An art pop-up curated by Saba Moghtader.
15 years of artwork by Chiedza Pasipanodya.
Paintings, drawings, prints, collages, photographs, a book.
Fundraiser for her residencies in California and Zimbabwe.
Including Chiedza's Artist Talk at 4pm, and a screening of
Flame
(Ingrid Sinclair, Zimbabwe, 1996, video, 85 min.).

Sunday, May 13, 3pm-8pm. (classified)
suggested donation $5 (no one turned away)

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle,
Facebook group

Run, Angel, Run!
(Jack Starrett, USA, 1970, 95 min.) plus
a cartoon, a Scopitone, and Chapter 12
of the 1944 serial Captain America.
Facebook event

Friday, May 11, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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ConverSalon presents

Conversation with
Park Chan-kook and ConverSalon

Park Chan-kook from Seoul, Korea in conversation
with Rebecca Garrett and Alexandra Gelis from
ConverSalon, Toronto, Canada. Facebook

Tuesday, May 8, 7pm-9pm, free!

Ontario College of Art and Design University presents

DPXA Year-End Screening
Work by 20 OCADU graduating students of
Digital Painting and Expanded Animation.
Program repeated both nights. Facebook

Saturday & Sunday, May 5 & 6, 7pm, free!

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Colectivo Toronto presents

A First Retrospective of
Films by Francisca Duran

Toronto-based artist in person!
with her videos & 16mm films.
Total running time: 83 min.
Facebook

Friday, May 4, 8pm (unclassified)
$pwyc / suggested donation $5

Sheila Gostick presents

Village Genius
*40 Years of Radical Brilliance
Damned by Dickville.

(*120 Toronto years)

Tuesday, May 1, 8:30pm, $20 / pwyc

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5 EVENTS APRIL 2018

Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents

Traces of an alternative future:
the work of SODA_JERK

Dan and Dominique Angeloro, aka SODA_JERK,
in person from Brooklyn, New York!
with their recent short works. Facebook

Saturday, April 28, 8pm (unclassified)
$5-10 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

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31st Images Festival of Media Art (April 12-20) presents its

Festival Lounge
Cash bar, DJ, food!

Thursday, April 19, 11pm-2am, free!

John Porter's First
Film Filibuster
Stand-up Stories of Toronto and Canada Film Scenes!
News! Histories! Politics! Requests! Discussions!

Tonight's topics include "The Calgary Film Scene".
Screenings of super 8 films - John's and BYO!
BYO Super 8 Equipment Clinic! Merch!
Facebook

in a come 'n' go cafe setting!
Tuesday, April 17, 9pm-1am, $pwyc (unclassified)

Drop by after the Images Festival!

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31st Images Festival of Media Art (April 12-20) presents

Party, with BAMBII
Cash bar, DJ, food! Facebook

Saturday, April 14, 11pm-2am, $10
(free with Festival Pass or 9:30pm ticket stub)

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle,
Facebook group

Juvenile Delinquent
Classroom Films

Vintage educational shorts. Annual tradition,
this year's theme is juvenile delinquency.
Plus a cartoon, a Scopitone, Chapter 11
of the 1944 serial Captain America.
Facebook

Friday, April 13, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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3 EVENTS MARCH 2018

HS Doc Club presents its 5th Anniversary Screening and Party

Aim for the Roses
(John Bolton, Canada, 2016, video, 102 min.)
A "musical docudrama", followed by a
Q&A with the director. Facebook

Thursday, March 15, 7pm (unclassified)

SOLD OUT!

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Toronto Film Review presents

That DMX Feeling
CanCon series, tonight “VanCon”, with
recent videos by Heather McDonald,
Sophy Romvari, and Neil Bahadur.
Total run time: 70 min., followed
by Q&A with the filmmakers.
Facebook

Wednesday, March 14, 7:30pm. (unclassified)
Pre-show at 6:30. $pwyc / $5 suggested.

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group

Hollywood's Children
(Gene Feldman, USA, 1982, 58 minutes)
plus Drive-In Blues.

Friday, March 9, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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3 EVENTS FEBRUARY 2018

Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents

Indigiqueer Cinema:
Short Videos by Thirza Cuthand

Veteran Toronto video and performance artist.
Videos, 1996-2017, total run time: 58 min.
Facebook

Saturday, February 24, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)

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TechnoCycle and Toronto Film Review present

Valentine's Doomsday
Recent videos by local artists

Mitch Greenberg, Isiah Medina, Chandler Levack,
Rebeccah Love, Pierce Csurgo, Karen Chapman,
Kathleen Hepburn, Mike Hoolboom, and more!
Q&A moderated by TFR's David Davidson.
Plus the launch of Csurgo & Greenberg's
new web-series, La chasse. Facebook

Thursday, February 15, 8:30pm, $pwyc (unclassified)

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"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group

Happy Birthday to Me
(J. Lee Thompson, Canada, 1981, 110 minutes)
Shot in Toronto with local supporting actors!
Cast reunion screening! Some in person!
Facebook event

Friday, February 9, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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JANUARY 2018

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group

The Crazies
(George A. Romero, USA, 1973, 103 minutes)
preceded by
Chapter 9 of the 1944 Captain America serial.
Facebook event

Friday, January 12, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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56 EVENTS IN 2017


DECEMBER 2017 - NOVEMBER 2017 - OCTOBER 2017
SEPTEMBER 2017 - AUGUST 2017 - JULY 2017 - JUNE 2017 - MAY 2017
IMAGES FESTIVAL'S EVENTS AT CINECYCLE APRIL 15-27 2017
APRIL 2017 - MARCH 2017 - FEBRUARY 2017 - JANUARY 2017

4 EVENTS DECEMBER 2017

Waiting For Ishtar
(co-directed & co-produced by John Mitchell)
Premiere / Release Party of a love letter to Ishtar,
hosted by Richard Crouse with a panel of guests.

Thursday, December 14, 8pm, $pwyc,
suggested $10
(unclassified)

8pm screening sold out!
Second screening added at 9:30pm!

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"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group

The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
(Don Taylor, USA, 1976, 102 minutes) preceded by
Chapter 8 of the 1944 Captain America serial, and
followed by a 1984 short video by local Hal Kelly.
Facebook event

Friday, December 8, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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Pages Unbound presents

Ecstatic Worlds:
Media, Utopias, Ecologies

Book Launch by Janine Marchessault, and a
screening of short videos by Leslie Supnet,
Morley Markson, and Zachary Finkelstein
(total running time: 35 min.), plus a short
35mm film performance by Martin Heath
using a hand-cranked projector! Facebook

Thursday, December 7, 7:30-10pm, $pwyc (unclassified)

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YTB Gallery presents its

Annual Fundraiser
Art installations, music, food and drinks!
Dance to psychedelic beats by
DJ Soft Drink and DJ Maggy.
Tickets - Facebook

Friday, December 1, 9pm- 2am, $15

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6 EVENTS NOVEMBER 2017

Dia de Santa Cecilia
Patrona of Musicians

Servacion de Nuestras Tra,
Plaza Garibaldi

Live! Singing songs by all original Slayer.

Wednesday, November 22, 8pm, $ by donation

York University Cinema & Media Arts (CMS)
Graduate Film Student Association (GFSA) presents

Cataclysmic Images:
Peer-to-Peer Working Papers

Two doctoral candidates present their research:
Jessica Mulvogue and Genne Speers, each
followed by a short Q&A. Facebook

Tuesday, November 21, 7:30-9:30pm, free!

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Colectivo Toronto presents

In a Present Distance:
A First Retrospective of
Films by Tracy German

Toronto-based Indigenous artist in person!
with her 16mm films & videos, 1994-2007.
Total running time: 68 minutes. Facebook

Friday, November 17, 8pm (unclassified)
$pwyc / suggested donation $6

Conrad Hendrickson presents

11 | 11
a Celebration of Life & Culture

Performances, Artists, Sound Curation.
Facebook

Saturday, November 11, 10pm, $10, 19+

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"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group

Village of the Giants
(Bert I. Gordon, USA, 1965, 81 minutes),
preceded by 1962 doc of Hugh Hefner!
Facebook event

Friday, November 10, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

Global Sonic Takeover presents

Dia de los Muertos
Toronto bands! The Thick, SQUISH,
ART the Band, The LIFTS, PIZZA.
Facebook

Friday, November 3, 9pm, $10

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5 EVENTS OCTOBER 2017

Pleasure Dome presents

My Life, My Life is This:
Film, Video and Performance by
Francesco Gagliardi

Super 8 films, videos, a 16mm film,
and performances, 1993-2017,
total 80 minutes. Facebook

Friday, October 27, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)

Peter Pan and Alma present their

Voyage to Bali-Sumatra
Movies, art, photos

Thursday, October 26, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)

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Pleasure Dome presents

Total Coverage:
Chris Kennedy and Rebecca Baron

A new 16mm film by Chris Kennedy, in-person!
and a video (2005) by Rebecca Baron.
Total running time: 85 minutes.
Facebook

Saturday, October 14, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group

Ghostkeeper
(Jim Makichuk, Canada, 1986, 89 min.)
Cold drinks, merch, pizza. Facebook event

Friday, October 13, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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Pix Film Gallery and
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) present

Time Form Scene #2
Canadian independent experimental animations,
1989-2017, on video, 16mm and 35mm film, by
Louise Bourque, Patrick Jenkins, Alan Pakarnyk,
Judith Poirier, Jim Pomeroy, Rhayne Vermette,
Kelly Egan, Heidi Phillips, Don Best, Greg Boa.
Curated by Madi Piller and Leslie Supnet.
Total running time: 64 minutes.
Greg Boa, Kelly Egan, Patrick Jenkins,
and the curators, in person! Facebook

Thursday, October 12, 8pm, $pwyc / $5 suggested
(unclassified)

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3 EVENTS SEPTEMBER 2017

The 12th Nuit Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events!
85 varied locations, indoors & outdoors. No super 8.
Saturday, September 30, 7pm-7am, free!
85 locations in downtown Toronto

INCLUDING

CineCycle presents 'Scopitones'
Short, 1960s music films on 16mm!

Saturday, September 30, 7pm-6am, free! (unclassified)

Outdoors! in the Courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto

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Impulse Publishing and CineCycle present

Internet Christ
Performance, book launch and exhibition by
Ron Giii, in person from British Columbia!
with his new book of drawings Oxygen Theatre,
and his original drawings on exhibit and for sale!
Facebook

Wednesday, September 20, 9pm, free!

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group

Classroom Films
Vintage educational shorts.
Annual tradition, this year with a theme
- wild anti-drug films! Facebook event

Friday, September 8, 9:30pm, $10 (unclassified)

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AUGUST 2017

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group

Modesty Blaise
(Joseph Losey, USA, 1966, 119 min.)
preceded by Chapter 7 of the serial
Captain America (1944). Facebook

Friday, August 11, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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3 EVENTS JULY 2017

Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents its

Annual "Open" Screening & BBQ
This year with a twist! It's not entirely open.
Exclusively work by women, non-binary and trans artists!
Bring your experimental films or videos to show, or
just come to watch! Max 10 min. 1st come, 1st shown.
35mm, 16mm, 8mm and super 8 film!
plus VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, Quicktime.
Facebook

Saturday, July 22, 8pm, free! (unclassified)
BBQ - 6:30pm, Sign-in time - 7:30pm

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"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group

The Mystery of the
Million Dollar Hockey Puck

(Jean LaFleur & Peter Svatek, Canada, 1975, 83 minutes)
Facebook event

Friday, July 14, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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ReelHeART International Film and Screenplay Festival
(July 3-8), presents

ReelHeART Professional Series
A panel of production teams from Canada and UK!
"Troubles and Triumphs of the Indie Filmmaker".
Plus the Canadian premiere of
35 Days: A Post-Production Odyssey
(Chris Grega, USA, digital video, 88 minutes)
followed by Q&A with Chris Grega in person!
Nighttime Networking Session with food & drinks!
Facebook

Thursday, July 6, 8pm, $15

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4 EVENTS JUNE 2017

Pleasure Dome presents

This Landscape Tells Stories
Videos, 2009-2016, by Caroline Monnet,
and recent videos by Sky Hopinka.
Total time: 69 min. Facebook

Thursday, June 22, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)

The 17th aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (June 7-11, 2017),
the8fest Small-Gauge Film Festival (Jan 27-29, 2017),
and Pleasure Dome present

Closing Gala - Hidden Presences:
Films by Willie Varela Retrospective

Willie Varela in person from El Paso, Texas!

with his 16mm films and videos, 1974-2002.
Total running time: 72 minutes. Facebook

Sunday, June 11, 8pm (unclassified)

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"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
Facebook group

Experimental Classics from
The Cinematic Cesspool
16mm films
, 1965-1986, by George Kuchar,
Joyce Wieland, Ed Ackerman & Greg Zbitnew,
Willie Dunn, and Don Shebib, and super 8 films,
2014 & 1996, by Leslie Supnet and John Porter.
Total: 98 minutes. Guest curated by Clint Enns.
Leslie Supnet, John Porter, Clint Enns in person!
Facebook event

Friday, June 9, 9:30pm (unclassified)

Pleasure Dome presents

Portraits by Kika Nicolela
in person from Brussels and São Paulo!

with her videos, 2005-2016. Facebook

Saturday, June 3, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)

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5 EVENTS MAY 2017

CENSURED IN CANADA
a film festival for Canadian-based artists
and work marginalized by Canadian
festivals and institutions. Facebook

Saturday & Sunday, May 27 & 28, 12pm-6pm
(unclassified)

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The Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) Annual Conference
and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) present

Welcome Gathering / Screening
CFMDC 50: Where Do You Come From?
16mm films and videos, 1991-2016, by Ananya Ohri,
Katherine Asals & Iturra Fernando, Gariné Torossian,
Dawn Wilkinson, Lindsay McIntyre, Nadine Valcin,
Ann Marie Fleming, and Adam Garnet Jones.
Total: 62 min. Programmed by Aimée Mitchell.
Facebook

Friday, May 26, 8pm (unclassified)
FSAC Conference Welcome Reception - 7pm

Briefcasefest 2017, Day 2
Sunlight's Bane, NLP, Dead Register,
Ancress, Brigitte Bardon't, Mourn,
HRRR, Solarium. Facebook

Saturday, May 20, 6pm, $18
$35/weekend, all ages, licensed

CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto

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Greenhouse Video Release
With live music sets by Greenhouse,
Morfius, KyViTa, Teddy's Atlas, Tange.
Facebook

Saturday, May 13, 8pm, $8, all ages! (unclassified)

(This month the MUFF Society joins) Trash Palace Theatre presenting
16mm features and shorts monthly on a Friday. Facebook group

Judy Blume / Beverly Cleary Night
Ramona the Patient (Canada, 1988) starring child Sarah Polley,
plus Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great (Lawrence Blume),
Freckle Juice, and doc Judy Blume: Children's Author, all
preceded by Chapter 5 of the 1944 Captain America serial.
Facebook event

Friday, May 12, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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8 EVENTS APRIL 2017

Images Festival's 3 Events at CineCycle!

30th Images Festival of Media Art (April 20-27) presents
3 events at CineCycle: April 15, April 22, April 27

30th Images Festival of Media Art (April 20-27) presents

Closing Night Screening Party
16mm and super 8 films (the only super 8 films in the festival),
by members of Canadian media artist collectives:
the Loop Collective, Double Negative Collective,
the Iris Film Collective, and The Funnel.

Thursday, April 27, 9:30pm, free! (unclassified)

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PLUS

30th Images Festival of Media Art (April 20-27) presents

Big Gay Party of the Decades
Celebrate Images' 30th year and CFMDC's 50th!
Cash bar, DJs, food!

Saturday, April 22, 11pm, free!

PLUS

The Images Festival (April 20-27) and YYZ Artists’ Outlet present

Tony Conrad's The Flicker
(USA, 1966, 16mm, 30 minutes) followed by
a reading by artist Aryen Hoekstra, whose
installation The Flicker at YYZ, April 14-29,
addresses the film's first screening in NYC.

Saturday, April 15, 5pm, free! (unclassified)

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5 OTHER EVENTS APRIL 2017

Room Full of Spoons
Toronto premiere of documentary by Rick Harper
about cult film The Room (Tommy Wiseau).
Rick Harper in person! for post-screening talk.

Thursday, April 20, 7:30pm, $8 (unclassified)

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4th Annual National Canadian Film Day presents

Laurence Anyways
(Xavier Dolan, Quebec, video, 168 minutes)
in French with English subtitles. details

Wednesday, April 19, 8pm, free!

The Images Festival (April 20-27) and YYZ Artists’ Outlet present

Tony Conrad's The Flicker
(USA, 1966, 16mm, 30 minutes) followed by
a reading by artist Aryen Hoekstra, whose
installation The Flicker at YYZ, April 14-29,
addresses the film's first screening in NYC.

Saturday, April 15, 5pm, free! (unclassified)

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"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts monthly on a Friday. Facebook group

The Curse of Frankenstein
(Terence Fisher, UK, 1957, 83 minutes) preceded by
Chapter 4 of the 1944 Captain America serial.
Facebook event

Friday, April 14, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

Pleasure Dome presents

Archive: Field Work
Videos by Ximena Cuevas, Ivan Puig, Gilberto Esparza,
Hector Centeno, Ariel Guzik, Marcela Armas, Ivan Abreu,
Mario Opazo, Arcangel Constantini, and Brian Kent Gotro.
Total running time: 84 minutes. Facebook
Hector Centeno and Brian Kent Gotro in person!

Saturday, April 8, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)

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5 EVENTS MARCH 2017

Pleasure Dome presents

Everybody Needs a Friend: Queer Journeys with
Allyson Mitchell and Steve Reinke

Allyson Mitchell and Steve Reinke in person! with their
videos, a 35mm and a 16mm film, 1995-2016.
Total running time: 64 minutes. Facebook

Friday, March 24, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)

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Colectivo Toronto presents

This Looming Matter:
Making Material the Forgotten
and Underrepresented Histories
of Women in Technological Arts

16mm and 35mm films by Kelly Egan and
Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, in person!

Total run time: 55 min., plus discussions.
Facebook

Saturday, March 11, 8pm (unclassified)
$pwyc / suggested donation $5

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts monthly on a Friday. Facebook group

Fuzz (Richard A. Colla, USA, 1972, 92 minutes)
Plus: Chapter 3 of the 1945 Captain America serial;
a classic Warner Brothers cartoon; a Scopitone.
Facebook event

Friday, March 10, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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Pleasure Dome presents

Electronic Weavings:
The Videos of Nathalie Bujold
Nathalie Bujold in person from Montréal!
with her videos, 1999-2016, total 50 minutes.
Facebook

Saturday, March 4, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)

YUZU MEUZU
Music / Art - folk, r'n'b, ska, soul, punk, blues.
WOLFGANG, KRAK, JIJI LIVES,
CAPTAIN COWBOY AND THE MONEY MAKER.
Temporary tattoos, face painting, baked goods, merch!
Facebook

Friday, March 3, 8pm, $5, all ages

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6 EVENTS FEBRUARY 2017

ReelHeART International Film and Screenplay Festival presents

Annual ReelHeART Oscar Party
Celebrate the Roaring 20s! Prizes! Facebook

Sunday, February 26, 6pm-midnight, $15-55

Pleasure Dome presents

Sincerely: Kelly O’Brien
Videos and performance by local artist
Kelly O’Brien in person!

Facebook

Saturday, February 18, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)

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2nd Annual GeekFest Toronto
Movies, docs, music videos, talks.
6 different programs! Facebook

Tuesday, February 14, 4pm - 2am,
$12 each / $30 day
(unclassified)

CineCycle presents its Winter 2017

Toronto Open Screening
Bring your films or videos to show!
or just come to watch!
35mm, 16mm, 8mm, super 8 film,
VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, Quicktime, AVI.
Max 10 min. 1st come, 1st shown.
Facebook

Sunday, February 12, 7:45pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
Sign-up begins at 7pm.

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Black Siren presents

1st Annual Homegrown
Music & Arts Festival

Live music, DJs, comedy, movies, visual art, zines.
Music by ARK, Bianca Yzabelle, Xoana, The Pipers,
Imogen Joy, Arkson, Seeping Chaos, and HEX.
Short movies by Nastasia Pappas-Kemps and Carol Nguyen.
Comedy by Ben Ball. DJs Ian McCulloch and Ice Misto Please.
Visual art by Sam Greco, Callahan Bracken, Erica Bruno, Olivia Kerr,
Nara Wrigglesworth, Meghan O'Donnell, Temple Marucci-Campbell,
Juliette Leach, Sadie Phillipson, Rachel Caramico, and Julianna Ham,
curated by Spencer Julien. Facebook

Saturday, February 11, 6pm, $7, all ages (unclassified)

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts monthly on a Friday. Facebook group

Troublemakers
(Robert Machover & Norm Fruchter, USA, 1966, 54 min.)

Friday, February 10, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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6 EVENTS JANUARY 2017

Anne O'Callaghan presents

VIDEO ART DAY
#WAR REMEMBRANCE

International videos with female perspectives
on war’s legacies, by Anne O’Callaghan,
Estabrak Al Ansari, Marina Abramovic,
Nathalie Vanheuele, Linda Duval,
Arja Karkkainen, Victoria Lucas.
Facebook

Saturday, January 28, 8pm, free! (unclassified)

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YUZU MEUZU
Music / Art - blues, rap, rock, punk, soul.
LAAREN, WOLFGANG, MORFIUS, A- LISTERS,
BLUESBERRI JAM, KRAK, JIJI LIVES, REALIJE,
CYPHER then DANCE OFF. More coming soon!
Toronto Spiderman Peter Parkour slingin' webs
and breakdancing! Facebook event

Friday, January 20, 8pm, $5, all ages

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Sunday Wilde
The Grammy long-listed musician from Atikokan,
Northern Ontario, belting out blues and playing piano,
with Reno Jack (Handsome Ned's base player),
and Sheila Gostick with her Honest Ed's guitar.

Tuesday, January 17, 8pm-12am

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts monthly on a Friday. Facebook group

Canadian Mounties
vs. Atomic Invaders

(Franklin Adreon, USA, 1953, 100 minutes)
Facebook event

Friday, January 13, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)

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Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents

Films and Videos from
Mexico and Colombia

Recent videos, 16mm films and a super 8 film,
by Dairo Cervantes, Jorge Lozano, Enrico Mandirola,
Rubén Gutiérrez, María Chalela-Puccini, Paulino Ordóñez,
Estética Unisex Collective, Andrés Jurado, Steve McIntyre,
Rosario Sotelo, Raúl Quintanilla, Roberto Sánchez Santos,
Eliseo Ortiz, Carlos Santa, Victor Vega, Daniel Magallanes.
Curated by LIFT's current Artist-in-Residence,
Jorge Lorenzo, in person from Mexico!
Total running time: 80 minutes. Facebook

Wednesday, January 11, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)

Pins & Needles / Bo Welland / BBQ Pope
The Corks / Rikashay / Spencer Boyle

Live bands! All ages! Facebook

Thursday, January 5, 8pm, $10

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CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273

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