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40 RECENT EVENTS 2/4/12

Last Night in San Francisco - Toronto - Ottawa, Ontario
Yesterday & Previous 9 Days in Rotterdam, Netherlands
Last Week in Toronto Last Weekend in Toronto - Dresden, Germany
Next Latest in January in Winnipeg, Manitoba - Toronto - Ottawa
Boston - Vancouver, BC - Brooklyn, NY - Montreal, Quebec
Stuttgart, Germany - Chicago - Washington, DC

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LAST NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO!

Will Brown Gallery presents

Paul Clipson & Marielle Jakobsons
Audio / Visual Performance.
Paul Clipson's super 8 films screening with
live musical accompaniment by Marielle Jakobsons!

Friday, February 3, 9pm, free!

Will Brown, 3041 24th St. (the Mission), San Francisco, California

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2 EVENTS LAST NIGHT IN TORONTO!

The U. of T. Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) presents

Free Friday Films
Repertory movies projected on 35mm! Tonight:

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(Julian Schnabel, USA / France, 2007, 112 minutes)

Friday, February 3, 7pm, free! (classified)

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
features and shorts projected on 16mm every Friday night!

Village of the Giants
(Bert I. Gordon, USA, 1965, 81 minutes)

Friday, February 3, 9:30pm, $5 (classified)

Trash Palace, 89B Niagara St., Toronto

advance tickets: Eyesore Cinema, 2nd Floor, 801 Queen St. W.

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LAST NIGHT IN OTTAWA!

The Independent Filmmakers Co-op of Ottawa (IFCO) presents

Get Iced!
10 new videos shot on super 8 by IFCO members.

Friday, February 3, 7:30pm, free!

Arts Court Studio, 2 Daly Ave. Ottawa, Ontario

After Party with live music at Avant-Garde, 135 Besserer St.

YESTERDAY & PREVIOUS 9 DAYS
IN ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS!

41st International Film Festival Rotterdam
35mm, 16mm, video.

January 25 - February 5, 2012

Rotterdam, Netherlands

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2 EVENTS EARLIER LAST WEEK
IN TORONTO!

The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents

Toronto Festivals Panel Discussion
The future of independent filmmaking.
Curators Lynn Fernie from Hot Docs,
Scott Berry from The Images Festival,
Kathleen Mullen from Planet in Focus,
Magali Simard from TIFF's Short Cuts Canada,
Angie Driscoll from Worldwide Short Film Festival.

Thursday, February 2, 7-9pm, free!

L.I.F.T., 1137 Dupont St. (at Gladstone Ave.), Toronto

The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents

Winter 2012 Open House
Learn about what's happening, equipment,
membership and workshops. Walk around.
Half-hour guided tours at 7:15 and 8pm.

Tuesday, January 31, 7pm-9pm, free!

L.I.F.T., 1137 Dupont St. (at Gladstone Ave.), Toronto

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LAST WEEKEND IN TORONTO!

17th annual Camerama Camera Show
Used photographic equipment sale.
Antique & usable, film & digital, still & cine.
50-100 merchants' tables.

Sunday, January 29, 10am-3pm, $7

Toronto Don Valley Hotel, 1250 Eglinton Ave. E., Toronto
(just east of the DVP, entrance on Wynford Drive)
Gary Perry 905-550-7477 gvperry at gmail dot com

The 5th Annual the 8 fest
Small-Guage Film Festival - Super 8, 8mm.
Including Milena Gierke in person from Berlin!
Regular 8mm Filmmaking Workshop by John Kneller!
Live Performances! The Funnel! Winnipeg! Home Movies!
Everything projected on small-guage film! No video!

January 27-29, 9 shows, $5 each, $25 pass (unclassified)

Trash Palace Theatre, 89B Niagara St., Toronto

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LAST WEEKEND IN DRESDEN!

13th Dresdner Schmalfilmtage
Super 8, 8mm, 16mm films

January 26-28, 2012

Motorenhalle, Wachsbleichstraße 4a, Dresden, Germany

JANUARY 27 IN WINNIPEG

Winnipeg Cinematheque and
Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) present

Winter Night
Recent live performances using magic lanterns,
35mm slide projectors, 16mm movie projectors and
live sounds & music, by Winnipeg artists Irene Bindi,
Aston Coles, Doreen Girard and Julia Ryckman.

Friday, January 27, 7:30pm, $8

The Black Lodge, #305, Artspace, 100 Arthur St., Winnipeg, Manitoba

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JANUARY 24-27 IN TORONTO

The U. of T. Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) presents

Free Friday Films
Repertory movies projected on 35mm! Tonight:

Fanny and Alexander
(Ingmar Bergman, 1982, 188 minutes)

Friday, January 27, 7pm, free! (classified)

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

Frameline Host: Barbara Goslawski

Today's guest: filmmaker John Porter
discussing this weekend's the 8 fest in Toronto.

Every Thursday, 2pm - 2:30pm

listen online at Radio Regent

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The Art Gallery of Ontario presents

Jack Chambers: The Hart of London
(Canada, 1970, 16mm, 79 minutes)
Introduced by Bruce Elder.

Wednesday, January 25, 7pm, free! (unclassified)

Jackman Hall, AGO, 317 Dundas St. W., Toronto

accompanying the Jack Chambers exhibition
at the AGO, December 6, 2011 - May 13, 2012

The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents

Filmmaking Workshops - Winter 2012
Super 8, 16mm, 35mm! Finish on film!
Limited enrolments. First come - first served.

Registration begins: Tuesday, January 24, 10am

L.I.F.T., 1137 Dupont St. (at Gladstone Ave.), Toronto

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JANUARY 25 IN OTTAWA

The Lost Dominion Screening Collective presents

The Canadian Cult Revue
Monthly screenings of Canadian films, on 35mm or 16mm!
Faves, lost gems from Archives Canada or private collections.

Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983, 35mm, 88 minutes)

Wednesday, January 25, 7pm, $10, $45/season (adults only)

Bytowne Theatre, 325 Rideau St., Ottawa, Ontario

JANUARY 24 IN BOSTON

Balagan Films presents

Breathing a Fatal Stillness:
A Visit from Daïchi Saïto
In person from Montreal, Canada!
with his 16mm, 35mm and super 8 films,
2003-2011, including a double-projection!
Total running time: 52 minutes.

Tuesday, January 24, 8pm, $10 / 8

Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square, Boston, Mass.

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JANUARY 23 IN VANCOUVER

DIM Cinema, a monthly series curated by Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk,
presents

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
(Jonas Mekas, USA, 1972, 16mm, 82 minutes)

Monday, January 23, 7:30pm,
$10.50 / $9, plus $3 annual membership
(adults only, by law)

The Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St., Vancouver, BC

JANUARY 22 IN BROOKLYN, NY

Vaudeville Park presents

Optics O:O
Optically printed or optical printing-influenced 16mm films,
1943-2011,  by Oskar Fischinger; Kenneth Zoran Curwood,
Pat O'Neill, Lary 7, James Whitney (projected on video),
Sarah Halpern (double projection with live sound!).
  Total 54 minutes. Curated by Victoria Keddie.

Sunday, January 22, 7pm, $5
Limited seating. Refreshments served.

Vaudville Park, 26 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn, New York, NY

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JANUARY 19 & 22 IN MONTREAL

CinemaSpace presents

49th Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) Tour
The longest-running independent and
experimental film festival in North America.
17 shorts from 7 countries, from the 2011 festival.
Experimental, documentary, fiction, animation.

Thursday, January 19, 7:30pm, $10 each, 2/$15
Videos by Braden King, Laure Prouvost, Richard Wiebe,
Natasha Mendonca, Eva Marie Rødbro, Jessica Sarah Rinland,
Soon-Mi Yoo and Atsushi Wada. Total running time: 80 minutes.

Sunday, January 22, 6pm, $10 each, 2/$15
16mm films by Robert Todd, Alexis Bravos, James Sansing,
Malena Szlam, Laida Lertxundi, Helen Hill & Paul Gailiunas,
Shiloh Cinquemani, Deborah Stratman, Jonathan Schwartz.
Total running time: 85 minutes.

Segal Centre CinemaSpace,
5170 Côte-Ste-Catherine, Montréal, Quebec

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JANUARY 19-22 IN STUTTGART

25th Stuttgarter Filmwinter
Festival for Expanded Media
Film, New Media, Video, Installation, Performance.
including Stefan Möckel's Super-8-Liveshow,
January 20, 10pm at Stuttgarter Filmhaus.

January 19-22, 2012

Filmhaus Stuttgart, Friedrichstraße 23 A, Stuttgart, Germany

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JANUARY 21 IN BOSTON

Arts Emerson presents

Views and Wavelengths
Films and videos, 1967-2011, shown in 2011 at
The Toronto International Film Festival’s "Wavelengths" program,
or The New York Film Festival’s "Views from the Avant-Garde".
16mm films by Joyce Wieland, Jonathan Schwartz, Chick Strand,
Jodie Mack, Shiloh Cinquemani, Samantha Rebello, Saul Levine,
a 35mm film by John Price, and videos by S. Barber, Dani Leventhal,
Vincent Grenier, T. Marie, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Leslie Thornton,
Running time 129 minutes, plus a 10-minute intermission,
and followed by a discussion with attending filmmakers.

Saturday, January 21, 7pm, $10

Bright Family Screening Room, Paramount Center,
Emerson College, 559 Washington St., Boston, Mass.

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JANUARY 16-21 IN TORONTO

Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents

Toronto Premiere of Blinding
by Steve Sanguedolce, in person!
(2011, video, 72 minutes)

Saturday, January 21, 7pm, $8 (unclassified)

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

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The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents

"30 x 30"
30th Anniversary Commissioned Films
LIFT celebrates 30 years of filmmaking with 3 programs of
world premieres of newly commissioned films & videos by
30 Canadian artists, made on, or in the spirit of, super 8.
Many filmmakers in attendance for Q&A!

Thursday, January 19, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Kika Thorne, Heather Keung, John Porter, Christina Battle,
Alan Zweig, Marcos Arriaga, Adam Rosen & John Creson,
Prashant Miranda, R. Bruce Elder, Mike Hoolboom.

Friday, January 20, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Jorge Lozano, Madi Piller, Ulysses Castellanos,
Ant Horasanli, Raha Shirazi, Jean-Paul Kelly,
Midi Onodera, Alison Duke, Greg Woodbury.

Saturday, January 21, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Larissa Fan, Julieta María, Nobu Adilman, John Price,
Susan Oxtoby, Alexandre Larose, Chris Kennedy,
Francisca Duran, Scott Miller Berry, Tess Girard.

Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St. W., Toronto

After Party at Hotel Ocho, 195 Spadina Ave.

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The U. of T. Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) presents

Free Friday Films
Repertory movies projected on 35mm! Tonight:

Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus, 1959, 107 minutes)

Friday, January 20, 7pm, free! (classified)

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
features and shorts projected on 16mm every Friday night!

Find the Lady
(John Trent, UK / Canada, 1976, 100 minutes)

Friday, January 20, 9:30pm, $5 (classified)

Trash Palace, 89B Niagara St., Toronto

advance tickets: Eyesore Cinema, 2nd Floor, 801 Queen St. W.

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The Art Gallery of Ontario presents

Short Films by Jack Chambers
Four 16mm films, 1965-1969, 82 minutes.
Wednesday, January 18, 7pm, free! (unclassified)

Jack Chambers: The Hart of London
(Canada, 1970, 16mm, 79 minutes)
Wednesday, January 25, 7pm, free! (unclassified)

Both screenings introduced by Bruce Elder.

Jackman Hall, AGO, 317 Dundas St. W., Toronto

accompanying the Jack Chambers exhibition
at the AGO, December 6, 2011 - May 13, 2012

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Mercer Union presents

Nostalgia (Hollis Frampton, 16mm)
followed by a discussion with artists
Pierre Leguillon and Annie MacDonell.

Tuesday, January 17, 7pm, free! (unclassified)

Jackman Hall, AGO, 317 Dundas St. W., Toronto

Early Monthly Segments presents its monthly screening

Print Generation
A recently restored 16mm print
of J.J. Murphy's film (1974, 50 min.), plus
the launch of PUBLIC Journal's issue on the
Experimental Media Congress, Toronto, 2010.

Monday, January 16, 6:30pm, $5 (unclassified)

Ballroom, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto

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JANUARY 18 IN BOSTON

MassArt Film Society presents

Rebecca Meyers, in Person!
with five of her 16mm films, 2002-2010.

Wednesday, January 18, 8pm, $4

Screening Room 1, East Hall, Film Department,
The Massachusetts College of Art and Design,
621 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts

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JANUARY 15 NEAR CHICAGO

Photorama USA presents

Chicago Camera Show & Sale
Used photographic equipment sale.
Antique & usable, film & digital, still & cine.

Sunday, January 15, 10am-3pm, $6

Holiday Inn, 3405 Algonquin Rd., Rolling Meadows, Illinois
(I-90 or 290 West to 53 North to Algonquin Rd. East 2 blocks)

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JANUARY 11-15 IN TORONTO

Silent Toronto and The Revue Cinema present

Silent Sundays
La Boheme
(King Vidor, 1926, USA, 16mm, 120 minutes, silent)
Live piano accompaniment by William O’Meara!
in the silent-era Revue Cinema, opened in 1912!

Sunday, January 15, 4pm, $12 (classified)

The Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto

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The U. of T. Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) presents

Free Friday Films
Repertory movies projected on 35mm! Tonight:

Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, UK, 2009, 123 min.)

Friday, January 13, 7pm, free! (classified)

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
features and shorts projected on 16mm every Friday night!

Tattoo (Bob Brooks, USA, 1981, 103 minutes)

Friday, January 13, 9:30pm, $5 (classified)

Trash Palace, 89B Niagara St., Toronto

advance tickets: Eyesore Cinema, 2nd Floor, 801 Queen St. W.

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Queen Victrola Residency:
Experimental Film Night

Animated films by Chris Gehman,
plus his selections by other artists,
all screened on 16mm film with
live accompaniment by Queen Victrola!

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

Somewhere There, 227 Sterling Road, Unit 112, Toronto
(just south of Bloor, between Dundas W. & Lansdowne)

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JANUARY 7 IN WASHINGTON, DC

Center for Visual Music presents

Optical Poetry:
Oskar Fischinger Retrospective
35mm preserved prints!
Two different programs! 3pm & 4:45pm.
Introductions by Cindy Keefer of CVM.

Saturday, January 7, 3pm, free!
No entry after 5pm.

Auditorium, East Building Concourse, National Gallery of Art,
4th Street, at Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC

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JANUARY 5 & 6 IN TORONTO

Cinephobia Host: Stuart ("Feedback") Andrews

Every Friday, 2pm - 3pm

listen online at CKLN

"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
features and shorts projected on 16mm every Friday night!

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
(Nicolas Gessner, Canada / USA / France, 1976, 91 min.)

Friday, January 6, 9:30pm, $5 (classified)

Trash Palace, 89B Niagara St., Toronto

advance tickets: Eyesore Cinema, 2nd Floor, 801 Queen St. W.

Frameline Host: Barbara Goslawski

Every Thursday, 2pm - 2:30pm

listen online at CKLN

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JANUARY 2 IN OTTAWA

Drunken Master Revue
A movie-related variety radio program.

Every Monday, 9-10am

listen in Ottawa or online, on CKCU-FM 93.1

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