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PAST EXHIBITS
Jan-Feb 2010 in Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan January 2010 in Toronto
Latest in 2009 in Ottawa
- Toronto - Hamilton
- Barcelona - Sackville
Latest in 2008 in Toronto
- Kingston, Ontario
- New York City
Latest in 2007 in Portland,
Maine - Toronto
- Buffalo -
Vancouver
Latest in 2006 in
Toronto, Perth, Australia, Winnipeg
JANUARY-MARCH, 2010 IN TORONTO
50 Light Fixtures from Home Depot
Premiere of a new 35mm film loop
by Christian Giroux & Daniel Young.
Days of the Eclipse
Works by Kristan Horton, Euan Macdonald,
Marie Jager,Will Rogan, Elizabeth Zvonar,
and a 16mm film loop by Gary Beydler.
Curated by Sarah Robayo Sheridan.
January 22 - March 6, Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm
Opening: Friday, January 22, 7pm
Mercer Union, 1286 Bloor St. W., Toronto
Residual
A multimedia installation by Heidi
Phillips from Winnipeg.
Experimental darkroom techniques, 16mm film projections,
accompanied by multi-channel sounds.
January 15 - February 20
Closing Reception and Performance
Saturday, January 30, 7:30pm, free
PAVED Arts, 424 20th St. W., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
The 3rd Annual the
8 fest
Small Guage Film Festival
including:
up & down & back & forth
& round & round
Super 8 film installations by Rob Cruickshank,
Vuk Dragojevic, Alexi Manis, John Porter,
Lina Rodriguez, and Alex Rogalski.
Thursday, January 28 - Sunday, January 31,
12pm - 6pm.
Opening: Wednesday, January 27, 7pm.
Fountain, 1261 Dundas St. W. (east of Dovercourt), Toronto
OCT 15 - NOV 14, 2009 IN OTTAWA
Galerie SAW
Gallery and the
Ottawa
International Animation Festival (Oct 14-18) present
Martha Colburn and Allyson Mitchell
Curator: Stefan St-Laurent.
October 15 - November 14
Opening Party: Thursday, October 15, 7-11pm, $pwyc
Allyson Mitchell in person from Toronto! Cash bar.
Performance by Spirit Duplicata from Montréal - 8pm.
Music by local DJs Michael Caffrey and Rainville.
Galerie SAW Gallery, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario
The Loop Collective and The School of Image Arts presents
R1-R2-R3-R4 (Who's afraid of...?)
A new installation by Christian
Lebrat
created exclusively for the Image Arts Gallery!
March 9-14
Room 310, 122 Bond St., (1 block NW of Dundas & Church)
The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto
Fragmented Views Recomposed: Photography After Cinema
Christian Lebrat will give a paper on his photographic work.
Thursday, March 12, 4-6pm, Room 301, 122 Bond St., Toronto
www.ryerson.ca/newparagone
Christian Lebrat in Conversation with Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
Friday, March 13, 4-5pm and Closing Reception 5-6:30pm
Room 301, 122 Bond St., Toronto
and, with The Free Screen, presents
Entre Les Images
Christian Lebrat in person from France
with some of his 16mm films (1976-1985) and one video (2008).
Thursday, March 12, 8:30pm, free (adults
only, by law)
Cinematheque
Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto
Cinematheque
Ontario, Gallery TPW,
and Goethe-Institut
Toronto present
Nina Könnemann 2008/2009
February 25 - March 11, 2009
Opening Reception
with Nina Könnemann in person from Germany!
Wednesday, February 25, 7-9pm, free
Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington Ave., Toronto
Hamilton Artists Inc presents
Carl Brown: Visual Alchemy / Ocular
Alkahest
Ontario artist's "Visual Alchemy" photographs.
February 13 - March 7
Opening - February 13, 7pm Artist in attendance
Hamilton Artists Inc., 161 James St. North, Hamilton, Ontario
PLUS
Carl Brown: Film Screening &
Artist Talk
Two dual projection 16mm films!
Monday, March 2, 7pm, free (unclassified)
Christ’s Church Cathedral, 252 James St. North, Hamilton
The Experimental Film Lab presents
De la palabra poética al experimento
fílmico
(From the Poetic Word to the Film Experiment)
An exhibition to show an alternative approach on cinema,
including super 8 and 16mm film loop projections
by Maximiliano Viale and Oriol Sánchez, a super 8 film
shown on a hand-cranked super 8 viewer by Esperanza Collado,
and other works by Albert Alcoz, Antoni Pinent, Merche Blasco,
Luís Macías, and Laboratorium (Pere Ginard & Laura Ginés).
Curated by Maximiliano Viale.
February 20-27, 2009
Espai Betúlia (Badalona), C/Enric Borràs 43-47, Barcelona, Spain
JAN 9 - FEB 22 IN SACKVILLE, NB
What's in a Frame?
An exhibition by three Sackvillian animation artists:
Paula Jean Cowan, Amanda Fauteux and Tara Wells.
Hand-drawn rotoscopes, hand-held creations, maquettes,
playmation constructions, videos in a viewing environment.
January 9 - February 22, 2009
Opening Reception - January 9, 8pm
with remarks by Leah Garnett & John Murchie.
Round Table with the Artists - February
4, 7:30 pm
Moderator Chris Down.
The Owens
Art Gallery, Mount Allison University,
61 York St., Sackville, New Brunswick
JAN 29 - FEB 1, 2009 IN TORONTO
The 2nd annual the 8 fest Small-Guage Film Festival presents
Animal Control
- Part 3
A new, commissioned film installation by Robert Kennedy.
January 29 - February 1, 7-10pm
Opening & Artist Talk - Thursday, January 29, 7pm, free
Installation in the window of
Paul Petro
Contemporary Art, 980 Queen St. W., Toronto
The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Nov
12-16)
and Trinity Square Video (TSV)
present
Takashi Ishida Trans
A new site-specific installation by Takashi Ishida,
pairing him with up-and-coming Canadian artists
who also combine drawing, painting, and video.
Review in Toronto
Daily Star - December 1st.
November 15 - December 19, 2008
Monday - Friday, 10am - 6pm. Saturday, 12-4pm.
Trinity Square Video, suite 376, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto, Ontario
^^^
PLUS, DECEMBER 3
The Free Screen presents
Takashi Ishida in person, from Japan
with his videos and 16mm films, 1995-2007.
Curated and presented by Chris Gehman.
Wednesday, December 3, 7pm, free (adults only, by law)
Cinematheque Ontario, 317 Dundas St.W., Toronto
OCT - NOV 2008 IN TORONTO
Pleasure Dome presents
A Lower World:
Excesses and Extremes in Film and Video
Recent media works by Takeshi Murata, Michael Bell-Smith,
Mungo Thomson, Nathalie Djurberg, Marcus Coates,
Julian Hoeber, and Laurel Nakadate.
October 11 - November 29 (unclassified)
Pixel Gallery, 156 Augusta Ave., Toronto
SEPTEMBER 2008 IN TORONTO
33rd Toronto International Film Festival
(TIFF)
September 4-13 Adults only. No super 8.
presents it's 2nd Future
Projections Series
Free video installations outside of the cinema, around the city.
New York-based Glenn Ligon's video installation
The Death of Tom, shot on 16mm by Deco Dawson,
September 4-28, Tuesday-Sunday, 11am-6pm, $pwyc,
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA),
952 Queen St. W., Toronto
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre presents
Infra-Ordinary
Christine D’Onofrio, Preston Scheidel, Collin Zipp,
Toni Hafkenscheid, Dave Kemp (with Kevin Robbie).
August 2 - September 6, Tuesday-Saturday, 12-5pm
Reception: Saturday, August 2, 7pm
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, 21A Queen St, Kingston, Ontario
PRECEDED ON AUGUST 2nd BY
Taken
A moving camera-obscura in a blacked-out van!
While riding inside, view a live moving image of the outside!
A disorienting perceptual experience performed by Dave Kemp,
recent graduate of Master of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto.
Saturday, August 2, 12-5pm
Meet the artist and book your ride at the Modern Fuel booth,
Courtyard, Springer Market Square, in downtown Kingston.
JUNE - SEPTEMBER 2008 IN TORONTO
Bachelor
Machines
16mm film installations by Rosalind Nashashibi
from Glasgow, Scotland.
June 25 - September 7, Tuesday-Friday, 1-7pm
OCAD Professional Gallery, Level 2, 100 McCaul St., Toronto
presented in conjunction with
Skip, Divided
The Films of Rosalind Nashashibi
Videos & 16mm films, 2000-2005,
presented by Pleasure
Dome,
Saturday, August 16, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
CineCycle,
behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
MAY - JULY 2008 IN NEW YORK CITY
Drawing on Film
'Direct Cinema' - manipulating film without a camera - by
Jennifer Reeves, Jennifer West, Richard Reeves, Dieter Roth,
Harry Smith, Norman McLaren, Bärbel Neubauer, Jenny Perlin,
Len Lye, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Amy Granat, Pierre Hébert.
May 29 - July 24, 2008
Tuesday-Friday, 10am-6pm. Saturday, 11am-6pm.
The Drawing Room, The
Drawing Center,
35 Wooster St., New York, New York
MARCH - MAY 2008 IN TORONTO
The 21st Images
Festival, April 3-13
Film, Video, New Media, Installation, Performance
presents
Pulse 2: Film and Painting after
the Image
Experimental videos by Vincent Grenier, Rose Lowder and
Fred Worden, and abstract paintings by Cora Cluett,
Nicole Collins, Angela Leach and Monica Tap.
Curated by Barbara Sternberg.
April 4 -May 3, 2008
Launch - Saturday, April 5, 12-5pm
Wynick/Tuck
Gallery,
Suite #128, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
YYZ Artists' Outlet and the 21st Images Festival (April 3-13) present
Uncharted Histories: Pirates
A film, video and collage exhibition by
Christina Battle
March 8 - April 19, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, March 7, 8-11pm
YYZ Artists' Outlet, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
2007
SEPTEMBER 2007 IN PORTLAND, MN
The Portland Film + Video Artists Collective presents
New Multimedia Projections and Installations
Video, super 8 and 16mm film in combination with
painting, performance, fabric and large-format photography
by Collective members Betsy Nelson, Deborah Wing-Sproul,
Stefanie Loeb, Kenneth White, Peter Shellenberger,
Ling-Wen Tsai, Sydney and Keith Fitzgerald.
September 5 – 27, 2007, Tuesday - Saturday, 12-6pm
Opening Reception: Friday, September 7, 5pm, free.
Artist talks & performances: Thursday, September 20, 7pm, free.
SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, Maine
The 32nd Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) presents
The 1st Future
Projections
9 video installations (8 are free!) outside of the cinema,
around the city,
by Jeremy Shaw, Francesco Vezzoli, Noam Gonick, Luis Jacob,
Lav Diaz, Daryl Cloran, Anita Doron, Mateo Guez, Ana Serrano,
Anita Lee, Brian Johnson, Anthony Roberts, Ryan Sluggett,
with an open, online symposium
on film & art.
Co-ordinated by Daniel Cockburn.
September 6-15
Experimental Storm Surge Flood Models
Media Installation by Ghen Dennis
An on-going archive using hand-processed film,
photographs, video, found objects, and audio.
August 24 - September 12
Opening Reception: Friday, August 24, 7-9pm
with artist in attendance
Squeaky Wheel, 712 Main St., Buffalo, New York
JULY 2007 IN TORONTO
as
storms take shape in the distance...
by Christina Battle <<<
(2007, mixed media)
Solo show of works on paper, collage, film and video.
July 6 - August 4, Tuesday-Saturday, 10:30am-6pm.
Opening: Friday, July 6, 7-9pm
>>> Fleishman Gallery, 79a Harbord, Toronto 416-323-3131
Cineworks presents
Cinemachinations
Recent expanded cinema installations
by Joe Kelly (Calgary) and Christophe Runne (Vancouver).
Large-scale projections, cinematic machines.
May 18 - June 2
Opening Reception: Friday, May 18, 7-10pm
InterUrban Gallery, 1 East Hastings, Vancouver, British Columbia
MAY 2007 IN TORONTO
Contact Toronto Photography Festival (May 1-31) presents
Still
Motions
Photo-based video & 16mm film loops by Ulla Von Brandenburg,
Chris Curreri, Mark Andre Pennock, David Rothenberg,
Francois Lemieux, Rose Lowder, Annie MacDonell.
Curated by Mark Andre Pennock.
May 9 - 26, 2007. Tuesday - Saturday, 12-5pm
Opening: Friday, May 11, 7-10pm
InterAccess
Gallery, 9 Ossington Ave., Toronto
416-599-7206 helpme@interaccess.org
Contact Toronto Photography Festival (May 1-31) presents
5 Short Videos by Nicholas and Sheila Pye
Recent work by these OCAD
alumni, 55 minutes.
Saturdays, May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2007. 1pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
Camera Bar, 1028 Queen St. W., Toronto
Their Contact exhibition, including continuous
screenings of 1 video,
at Angell Gallery,
890 Queen St. W., May 4 - June 2, 2007. review
>>>
Projections >>>
A major survey of projection-based works in Canada, 1964-2007.
David Askevold, Rebecca Belmore, Geneviève Cadieux, Mark Lewis,
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Ian Carr-Harris, Christine Davis,
Nestor Krüger, Kelly Mark, John Massey, Nathalie Melikian, Judy Radul,
Gar Smith, Michael Snow, Jana Sterbak, Robert Wiens, Krzysztof Wodiczko,
Stan Douglas, Murray Favro, Wyn Geleynse, Rodney Graham, David Hoffos.
Curated by Barbara Fischer.
April 8 - June 17, 2007
at the University of Toronto's four major galleries:
Doris McCarthy Gallery (Scarborough campus);
Blackwood Gallery (Mississauga campus);
University of Toronto Art Centre (Downtown);
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Downtown).
Opening: Sunday, April 8, 1-6pm
Bus Tours 1pm & 2pm.
Rodney Graham's Two Generators (1984)
at Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., continuous 4-6pm.
Year-end Party: Friday, April 13, 7-11:30pm
Projection performances and DJ at Hart House.
University of Toronto Art Centre and Justina M. Barnicke Gallery open
to 9pm.
Lecture by Stan Douglas: Friday, April 20, 7:30pm
Hart House
Bus Tour: Sunday, April 29, 11:30am
From Hart House to all four venues,
plus the Koffler Gallery and Art Gallery of York University.
Young Scholars Round Table: Monday, May 14,
5pm
Presentation by emerging writers, art historians, and culture historians
on issues in contemporary experimental film, installation, and video projection.
Hart House.
Round Table: Monday, May 21, 5pm
“Must we put an end to projection?”
Hart House.
Artists' Talks: Tuesday, June 5, 5-7pm
A walk through the exhibition with Ian Carr Harris,
Michael Snow, John Massey, Jana Sterbak, Kelly Mark.
University of Toronto Art Centre, 15 King's College Circle
Catalogue Launch: September, 2007
APRIL 2007 IN TORONTO
The 20th annual Images Festival (April 5-14) presents
John Porter's Photo Archives:
30 Years of Alternative Film Activity in Toronto and Beyond
A rare exhibition of 100 of John's 1,000 black & white, documentary,
portrait photographs of film people at alternative film events since 1978.
The Funnel, Images, CineCycle, Pleasure Dome, Splice This! and more.
Read
all the detailed captions!
April 7 - 27, 2007
Daily 12-5pm. Opening Saturday, April 7, 5-7pm
3rd & 4th Floors, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto
The 20th annual Images Festival (April 5-14) and The Free Screen present
Grossraum by Lonnie van Brummelen
(Netherlands, 2005, 35mm, 35 minutes)
April 5 - May 5, 2007
Hourly projections Tuesday - Saturday, 12:15pm - 4:15pm
35mm projection by Martin Heath of CineCycle
Opening Reception with artist in person from Amsterdam
Saturday, April 7, 12-5pm
Toronto Photographers Workshop Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington Ave., Toronto
The 20th annual Images Festival (April 5-14) presents
Carolee Schneemann, Transgressing Borders
films, videos, photographs by the legendary American artist
March 23 - April 22, 2007
Tuesday - Sunday, 11am-6pm
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art MoCCA, 952 Queen St. W., Toronto
FEBRUARY 2007 IN TORONTO
Garine Torossian's
Celluloid Diaries and Fountain of Dreams
Photographs from her previous film work, plus painted paper works.
January 26 - February 25, 2007
Opening reception: Friday, January 26, 6-9 pm Artist will be present.
LandymoreKeith Contemporary Art, 800 Dundas St. W., Toronto
contact: Meredith Keith 416-361-3074 | info@landymorekeith.com
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto LIFT,
celebrating its 25th ("Silver") Anniversary, and The Free Screen
present
Film is Dead... Long Live Film!
premieres of commissioned films, videos, performances, installations
November 22 - December 20, 2006
INCLUDING
Film & Video Installations - Opening Thursday,
November 23
16mm by Blaine Speigel. November 23 - December 3. Opening 6-9pm
AWOL Gallery, 76
Ossington Ave., Toronto
16mm multiple projection by Tracy German & Marta Cela.
Super 8 film & video by Rick Palidwor.
November 23 - December 20. Opening 5-8pm
Trinity Square Video TSV,
401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
>>> Jessica Bradley Art + Projects presents
Back and Forth
new short film-loops by
Berlin-based British artist Jonathan Monk and Canada's Michael Snow
November 9 - December 2, 2006
Opening - Wednesday, November 8, 6-8pm
Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Wed-Sat, 12-5pm,
1450 Dundas St. W. (at Gladstone Ave.), Toronto
AND
Screenings
Michael Snow's <----> (Back and Forth), 1968-69 and Corpus
Callosum, 2002
Thursday, November 16, 7pm
Michael Snow's So is This, 1982, and Corpus
Callosum, 2002
Friday, November 17, 7pm
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art MoCCA, 952 Queen St. W., Toronto
Catherine Sharland's first solo exhibition
Cinema Culinaire
Interactive projection piece.
Six giant filmstrips in an oversized 35mm projector.
October 9-12, 2006, 4-9pm. October 13, 2-4pm
Opening: Tuesday, October 10, 7pm
Kurb Gallery,
310 William St., Northbridge, Perth, Western Australia
sharlc01@student.uwa.edu.au 0421-067-898
Video Pool presents
The Pit Bar, Dawson City
by Allison Hrabluik, from Toronto
animated music video with The Constantines,
on exhibit with its miniature stage and cut-out paper figures
made from video frames of the Constantines at The Pit Bar.
July 21 - August 18, 2006
Closing Reception: August 17, 7pm (artist in attendance)
Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts,
100 Arthur St., Winnipeg, Manitoba
RBC DEXIA Investor Services present
Andy Warhol / Supernova: Stars, Deaths and
Disasters, 1962-1964
AGO only venue combining Warhol’s underground films (on video) with
his paintings,
curated by David Cronenberg, organized by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
All ages. Contains graphic and explicit depictions of sex & violence.
July 8 - October 22, 2006, $18/$15/$12/free (unclassified)
Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St. W., Toronto, Ontario
