John's Upcoming
Shows - John's
Past Shows 2005-2012
100
Solo Shows - Sample
Show - 300
Films - New
Films - Bio
- JOHN'S RECENT SHOWS -
2023: Last July in Toronto
Last May in Toronto
2021: Los
Angeles - San Francisco
3 Shows in Toronto
2020: Dresden,
Germany 1 Show in Toronto
2019: Sackville,
New Brunswick 3 Shows in Toronto
2018: Vienna,
Austria - Calgary,
AB 2 Shows in Toronto
2017: New
York City, New York - Binghamton,
New York
Johnson City, New York
4 Shows in Toronto
2016: Italy
- Spain 3 Shows in
Toronto - "Film
Busking"
2015: 5 Shows in Toronto
2014: Los
Angeles - Winnipeg,
MB 6 Shows in Toronto
2013: 3 Shows in
Montreal, Quebec
4 Shows in Toronto
2005-2012: Past Shows
The world premiere of
The List of Pandemic Dehumidifier by John Porter
(2020, super 8, 3.5 min., live narration & sound)
Friday, July 28, 9pm
INCLUDED IN
16th Annual the8fest
A Little Festival for Small Films
Super 8, 8mm, 9.5mm, UltraPan8!
Performances, visiting artists, workshops.
In-person and online. Facebook
Friday-Sunday, July 28-30
Beaver Hall Gallery, 29 McCaul St., Toronto, Canada
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
presents
A Science Fair
Demos of devices and techniques by
filmmakers and collectives, including
"Projecting Original Film" by John Porter.
Friday, May 26, 4:30pm-7:30pm
The Music Gallery, 918
Bathurst St.
AN EVENT INCLUDED AS PART OF:
Analogue Resilience:
A Film Labs Gathering
Demonstrations, workshops and discussions of
the material qualities of the film medium for the
international analogue filmmaking community:
artist-run film labs, collectives, and filmmakers.
May 25-30, 2023
at independent venues in downtown Toronto
DECEMBER 2021,
ONLINE FROM LOS ANGELES
& PHYSICALLY IN TORONTO
John's Talk, December 11, 2021, now on Vimeo!
Echo
Park Film Center presents its monthly Talks by
analog "Film Friends". Season 2: "Simple Machines".
Talk 2021: https://vimeo.com/666103577
Busk 2016: https://vimeo.com/191410506
John Porter
A Talk & demonstration by veteran Toronto artist
about his super 8 film performances including
camera dances, projector dances, film busking.
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Saturday, December 11, 1pm EST, free!
Online on Zoom from Echo
Park Film Center,
1200 N. Alvarado St., Los Angeles, California
and in person
at
CineCycle,
behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
Photos & videos screen-shared in John's Zoom Talk
1. "Cinefuge 4 & 5" (1980/81, 4 minutes)
- on digital video from USB stick
http://www.super8porter.ca/Cinefuge.htm
2. "Camera Dances" (1981) - paper poster for the film series
3. & 4. "Down on Me" (1980/81) - two frame blow-ups (colour) http://www.super8porter.ca/DownonMe.htm
5. "In the Gutter" (2001) - frame blow-up (colour) http://www.super8porter.ca/InTheGutter.htm
6. "A Trip Around Toronto Harbour" (1986) - frame blow-up (b&w print)
7. Alex MacKenzie at Blinding Light!! Cinema, Vancouver (1998) - documentary photo (b&w print)
8. "Scanning 1" (1981) at The Funnel - documentary photo (b&w print, photo by Edie Steiner) http://www.super8porter.ca/Scanning.htm
10. Scott MacDonald at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (1998) - documentary photo (b&w print)
11. "CineCycle", John with projector on bicycle at CineCycle (1992) - documentary photo (b&w print)
12. John holding "Scanning" projector & screen at CineCycle (1991) - documentary photo (b&w print, photo by Paul Lamothe) http://www.super8porter.ca/PhotosofJP.htm
13. "Film Busking" outside CineCycle (October 2021, 1 minute) - documentary video by Ryerson film students Anthony Wegner and Charlie Hill
14. & 15. "Film Busking" (1999) - two documentary photos of John holding projector & screen (b&w prints, photos by Blaine Speigel)
16. "Film Busking" (2001) - documentary photo of John holding projector only (b&w print, photo by Blaine Speigel) http://www.super8porter.ca/PhotosofJP.htm
17. - 19. "Film Busking" at Harbourfront (2001) - 3 documentary photos of John projecting on floating screen (b&w prints, photos by Blaine Speigel)
20. John holding projector in his Letter Carrier bag (1989) - documentary photo (b&w print, photo by Edie Steiner) http://www.super8porter.ca/PhotosofJP.htm
21. John projecting for the band Fifth Column (1986) - documentary photo (colour print, photo by Tim Howe) http://www.super8porter.ca/PhotosofJP.htm
SEPTEMBER
2021, ONLINE
FROM SAN FRANCISCO
San
Francisco Cinematheque presents its 12th annual
Crossroads
Festival
New artist-made avant-garde films and videos.
Artists in person! September 17 - October 21
INCLUDING PROGRAM 4
darkness provides protection
Shorts by Wenhua Shi, Susan DeLeo, Alix Blevins,
Julia Dogra-Brazell, J.M. Martínez, Pere Ginard,
Milton Secchi & Liyan Zhao, Douglas Urbank,
Kevin Jerome Everson, and Kyle Whitehead (with
Ale Samaniego, Jeremy Moss and John Porter).
Total run time: 62 min., plus live filmmaker intros!
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Monday, September 20, 7pm PDT,
and livestreaming to October 21
from San Francisco, California
PHYSICALLY IN TORONTO NOVEMBER
2021
ONLINE FROM TORONTO JULY
2021
NOVEMBER
2021,
ONLINE FROM TORONTO
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)
presents
the launch of Goose
Lane Editions (New Brunswick) book
Moments of Perception
Experimental Film in Canada
An illustrated history and guide book
Paperback, 6.5” x 9”, 352 pages, $29.95.
Edited by Jim Shedden and Barbara Sternberg,
with a major historical essay by Michael Zryd, and
125 profiles of key filmmakers by Stephen Broomer,
Jim Shedden and Barbara Sternberg.
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Online Launch with
a video presentation
and discussions among the four authors and
Canadian Brett Kashmere, Executive Director
of Canyon Cinema in San Francisco.
Tuesday, November 30, 6pm EST, free!
Register on Eventbrite.
Book includes 14 photographs, 1983-2013, by John Porter:
OFAVAS celebrates court victory (The Funnel, March
25, 1983, 1/6 page)
with Edie Steiner, David Bennell, Carolyne Wushke, Ross McLaren, Michaelle
McLean, Martha Davis, David Poole, Mikki Fontana, Jim Anderson.
The Funnel program poster (November/December 1983, 1/6 page)
Peter Lipskis at home in Vancouver (June 11, 1986, 1/8 page)
Innis Film Society screening (Innis Town Hall,
February 8, 1991, 1/2 page)
with Paul Sharits, Michael Snow, Bruce & Kathy Elder, Jim Shedden,
Bart Testa, and Roger Bourdeau.
LIFT members screening with Susan Norget, Kika
Thorne, Edie Steiner, Clare Hodge, and Annette Mangaard with her baby
son Carson.
(CineCycle, March 30, 1992, 1/6 page)
Carl Brown and John Kamevaar screening (CineCycle, October 22, 1993, 1/8 page)
Pleasure Dome screening (CineCycle, April 21,
1995, 1/6 page)
with Liz Czach, Abigail Child, Andrew James Paterson, Tom Taylor.
Robert Cowan and George Kuchar in Robert’s Toronto
home
(June 29, 1996, 1/4 page)
Alex MacKenzie at a Blinding Light Cinema screening
(36 Powell St., Vancouver, October 28, 1998, 1/8 page)
Available Light Film/Media Collective screening
(Club SAW, Arts Court, Ottawa, May 12, 2001, 1/6 page)
with Jason St-Laurent, Phil Rose, James Missen, Dan Gainsford, Carol
Breton, Penny McCann.
TIFF"s Film Revision crew (90 Harbour St., Toronto,
September 13, 2001)
Martin Heath, Kate MacKay, Alexi Manis, Andre Gravelle.
Niagara Custom Lab"s first screening
(254 Niagara St., Toronto, December 7, 2002, 1/3 page)
with Sebastjan Henrickson, Julie Saragosa, Nathan Moles, Christina Battle,
Christina Zeidler, Elmer Birkbeck, Alexi Manis, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof,
Riccardo Iacono, John Price, and Michele Stanley.
Loop Collective screening (Ryerson University,
March 9, 2006, 1/6 page)
with Richard Kerr and Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof.
Sebastian Di Trolio with his film buttons
(CineCycle, February 16, 2013, colour, 1/8 page)
NOVEMBER
2021,
PHYSICALLY IN TORONTO
Porter Performs
Toronto artist John Porter with 5 of his live super 8
film performances (1981-2016, total 16 minutes)
for a scene in a short documentary about him
by some Ryerson University film students.
Shootout with Rebecca (1983, 3:20)
Revolving Restaurant (1981, 3:20)
Animal in Motion (1980, 2:00)
Scanning 1 (1981, 3:20)
Scanning 8 (2016, 3:20)
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Wednesday, November 10, 8pm, $10 / $5
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
LIMITED CAPACITY. Advance commitment,
mask-wearing & proof of vaccine required.
Pay cash at door, or early on Eventbrite.
JULY 2021,
ONLINE FROM TORONTO
14th Annual the8fest (July 9-11) presents
Bageroo 14! Volume 2
New videos shot on super 8 and 8mm film
by Iria Silvosa, Camille Pueyo, Chris Kennedy,
Elena Duque, Kyle Whitehead, Azucena Losana,
Boris du Boullay, Derek Jenkins, Franco Consales,
Holly Chang, Blake Barit, Brian Wilson, Craig Orrett.
Total running time: 60 minutes. Facebook
online Sunday, July 11, 9pm, free!
includes
Interstices Volume lll (2019, 11 minutes)
by Kyle Whitehead and his collaborators:
John Porter, Jeremy Moss, Ale Samaniego.
OCTOBER 2020
IN
DRESDEN, GERMANY
21st Dresdner Schmalfilmtage (October 15-18) presents
Focus Canada:
SUPERSUPER8
Super 8 films showing on video, by Canadian artists
John Porter, Renata Mohamed, Midi Onodera,
Juliana Saragosa, Kika Thorne, Jamie Phelan,
Chris Kennedy, Steven Topping, Stevi Urben.
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Thursday, October 15, 2020, 7pm
Motorenhalle, Wachsbleichstraße 4a, Dresden, Germany
13th Annual the8fest
A Little Festival for Small Films
Super 8, 8mm, 9.5mm, UltraPan8!
Performances! Installations! Visiting Artists!
A Workshop! A Talk! 8 programs! Including
John Porter's new film Pumpkin
Parade
premiered Sunday, January 26, 9pm.
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Friday-Sunday, January 24-26
$pwyc, suggested $8 each, $40 pass (unclassified)
Polish Combatants
Hall, 206 Beverley St., Toronto
(at Cecil St., 1 block south of College St.)
DECEMBER 2019 IN
SACKVILLE, NEW BRUNSWICK
Faucet Media Arts Centre and Struts Gallery present
Super 8 Screening & Workshop
by John Porter, in person from Toronto!
Screening
- Tuesday, December 10, 7pm, free!
Super 8 films and performance by John Porter.
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Workshop
- Wednesday, December 11, 6pm, free!
Learn super 8 cameras, projectors, viewers and splicers,
history and current events, Canadian and world-wide.
Faucet & Struts, 7 Lorne St., Sackville, New Brunswick
2 SHOWS JANUARY
2019
Wavelengths series presents
Film Farm
25 Years of Phil Hoffman"s annual,
week-long, Independent Imaging Retreat.
2 nights, 2 programmes, a Talk, a book launch!
Programme 1: 16mm films and videos, 1995-2018,
by Dawn Wilkinson, Carolynne Hew, Daniel McIntyre,
Christina Zeidler, Cecilia Araneda, Jaene Castrillon,
Helen Hill, Cara Morton, Lyndsay Bloom, Jennifer Reeves,
Deirdre Logue, John Greyson, Jonathan Culp, John Porter.
Phil Hoffman and some of the filmmakers in person!
Total running time: 86 minutes.
Wednesday, July 10, 9pm, free! (classified)
TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W., Toronto
plus a
35mm Film Loop Installation by Phil Hoffman
and 50 Film Farm videos looped on different screens
Tuesday-Saturday, June 25-July 19, 12-5pm, free!
(Wednesday, July 10, 12pm-8pm)
CIBC Film Gallery, 4th floor, TIFF
Bell Lightbox
2 SHOWS
JANUARY 2019
IN TORONTO
The 12th Annual the8fest (January 25-27, 2019) presents
Myth of a SuperHero
Super 8 films, including two by John
Porter:
Spadina Circle and Bowling in Manitouwadge.
Curated by Milada Kovacova. Facebook
Saturday, January 26, 10:30pm
$pwyc / $8 each, $40 pass (unclassified)
Polish Combatants
Hall, 206 Beverley St., Toronto
(at Cecil St., 1 block south of College St.)
^^^
JOHN'S FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Spadina Circle (John Porter, 2014, super
8, 8 minutes, silent)
A continuously circling view from John's bicycle of the old
University of Toronto Art Department building at the centre
of Spadina Crescent, a roundabout, shot from dawn to dusk,
and including Toronto's old and new models of streetcars also
circling the building in the foreground, John keeping up, bicycling.
Bowling in Manitouwadge (2007, 7 minutes,
silent, live narration)
A tour of the centre of a small, isolated mining town in northern
Ontario, then John and friends bowl in the 4-lane bowling alley.
York
University Department of Cinema & Media Arts presents
its weekly lunchtime cinema series: "Nat Taylor Tuesdays".
Super 8 Films and
Performance by John Porter
Toronto filmmaker since 1968, in person!
with some of his 300 films, then a Q&A.
Family-friendly - bring the kids!
Program details!
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Tuesday, January 8, 2019, 12:45pm,
free!
(unclassified)
Nat Taylor Cinema, N102, Ross Building,
Campus Walk, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto
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Program
Pre-show:
Gappa: The Triphibian Monster / Monster from a Prehistoric
Planet
(Haruyasu Noguchi, Japan, 1967, edited version 10 minutes, sound on
film)
showing during a hands-on demonstration of vintage super 8 film toys.
12:45pm: Introductions - approximately 5 minutes.
Sandbox (1968 - John's first film! - 3.5 minutes,
silent)
Cinefuge
4 & 5 (1980/81, 4.5 minutes, sound on film)
Santa
Claus Parade (1976, 4.5 minutes, silent)
Amusement
Park (1978/79, 6 minutes, silent)
Firefly
(1980, 3.5 minutes, silent)
Angel
Baby (1979, 2 minutes, silent)
Swinging (1981, 2 minutes, silent)
Down
on Me (1980/81, 4 minutes, silent)
A
Trip Around Toronto Harbour (1986, 3.5 minutes, silent)
In
the Gutter (2000, 3.5 min., sound on CD or cassette)
Jewison, Superstar (1995, 4.5 minutes, sound on film)
Toy
Catalogue 3 (1996, 18 minutes, sound on film)
Pumpkin Parade (2018, 3.5 minutes, silent)
Scanning
8 (2016, 3.5 minutes, silent, performance)
Total running time after introductions - 66 minutes.
Questions & Answers - approximately 20 minutes.
Barred by Pleasure Dome (2018, 3.5 minutes, silent)
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Film Collective, Filmkoop
Wien,
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT),
Setzkasten,
Zwischendecke, and Blickle Kino, present
From A to Z
Film Screening and Exhibition
by Canadian film artists, most from Toronto.
Leslie Supnet, Marcos Arriaga, Lisa Myers, John Porter,
Christine Lucy Latimer, Stephen Broomer, Blaine Speigel,
Michael Snow, Dan Browne, Kelly Egan, Winston Hacking.
Curated by Madi Piller and Clint Enns.
Screening & Magazine Release
Friday, April 20, 7pm-9pm
Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21 Contemporary Art Museum,
Arsenalstraße 1, Vienna, Austria Facebook
Exhibition & Live Music
Live sound by B. Fleischmann, Lionoir,
Johannes Bankl, and Jakob Schauer.
Saturday, April 21, 7pm-3am
Setzkasten
and Zwischendecke,
Hernalser Hauptstraße 29-37, Vienna, Austria
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MARCH 2018 IN CALGARY, ALBERTA
The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF)
presents, formerly The $100 Film Festival,
26th Annual
Artifact
Small Format Film Festival
Recent shorts projected on 16mm and super 8 film!
This year"s Visiting Artist - John Porter from Toronto!
presenting his super 8 films, a Workshop, and a Talk.
Thursday-Saturday, March 8-10, 7pm, $12 each
Theatre Junction Grand, 608 1st St. SW, Calgary, Alberta
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!
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in a come 'n' go cafe setting!
Tuesday, April 17, 9pm-1am, $pwyc (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
Drop by after the Images Festival!
The 11th Annual the8fest (January 26-28) presents
It’s All Fun
& Games
Until Somebody Breaks a Rule
Super 8 films, 1979-2016, by Ericka Beckman,
John Porter, Karen Asmundson, Stanley Sunday,
Martha Davis, Pascal & Eo Sharp / Munro Ferguson.
Total run time: 54 min. Curated by Cameron Moneo.
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Sponsored by LIFT. Unclassified.
Friday, January 26, 10:30pm, $8, $40 pass
Polish Combatants
Hall, 206 Beverley St., Toronto
(at Cecil St., 1 block south of College St.)
Anthology Film Archives presents its "Show & Tell" series
John Porter:
B-Sides and Rarities
Super 8 Films and Performance by John
Porter
in person from Toronto, Canada! Facebook
Wednesday, October 18, 7:30pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Ave. (at 2nd St.), New York City
JOHN PORTER'S B-SIDES AND RARITIES
Selected partly by Clint Enns. Super 8 and by John Porter unless stated
otherwise.
OTHERS'
"Skitzoid Epizoid" (Kate Edwards, 1993, 4.5 min., sound on
film, camera by John Porter)
"John Porter's T-Shirt Collection" (digital video) and "John's
T-Shirts"
(both by Clint Enns / Leslie Supnet / John Porter, 2014, 2 min., silent)
STUDENT'S
"Independent Filmmaking" (1974, 2.5 min, 16mm, live narration)
SILENTS
"Fashion Show 1" (1978, 5.5 min., silent)
"Light Sleeper" (2011, 3.5 min., silent)
"Spadina Circle" (2014, 8 min., silent)
"A Trip Around Toronto Harbour" (1986, 3.5 min., silent)
SOUNDS
"Ellen's Cottage" (1986, 9 min., sound on film)
"Picture Pitcher" (1989, 4 min., sound on film)
"The List of Bicycle Messenger" (1994, 4 min., sound on film)
"The Secret of the Lost Tunnel" (1992, 3.5 min., sound on
film)
"In the Gutter" (2000, 3.5 min., wild sound on CD)
"Fifth Column at The Funnel" (1982, 7 min., sound on film)
DANCE
"Scanning 8" (2016, 3.5 min., silent, performance)
Total 66 minutes
OCTOBER 2017 IN BINGHAMTON, NY
Binghamton University
Visiting Film & Video Artists & Speakers Series presents
Super 8 Films and
Performance by John Porter
in person from Toronto, Canada!
Thursday, October 19, 7:30pm, free!
Binghamton University Lecture Hall 6,
4400 Vestal Parkway E., Binghamton, New York
PORTER'S CONDENSED RITUALS
"Landscape" (1977, 1 minute, silent)
"Mother and Child" (1977, 2 minutes, silent)
"Exams" (1982, 3.5 minutes, silent)
"Amusement Park" (1978/79, 6 minutes, silent)
CAMERA DANCES
"Firefly" (1980, 3.5 minutes, silent)
"Light Sleeper" (2010, 3.5 min., silent)
"Angel Baby" (1979, 2 minutes, silent)
"Down on Me" (1980/81, 4 minutes, silent)
"Cinefuge 4 & 5" (1980/81, 4.5 minutes, sound on film)
"Shovelling Snow" (1992, 3.5 minutes, sound on film)
"Calendar Girl" (1981-88, 3.5 minutes, sound on film)
"Ellen's Cottage" (1986, 9 min., sound on film)
"Picture Pitcher" (1989, 4 min., sound on film)
"The List of Bicycle Messenger" (1994, 4 min., sound on film)
"The Secret of the Lost Tunnel" (1992, 3.5 min., sound on
film)
"In the Gutter" (2000, 3.5 min., wild sound on CD)
PROJECTOR DANCE
"Scanning 8" (2016, 3.5 min., silent, performance)
Total 64.5 minutes
OCTOBER 2017 IN JOHNSON CITY, NY
5th Transient Visions
Festival of the Moving Image
Screenings, installations, performances! Facebook
Friday & Saturday, October 20 & 21, 2017
including
Super 8 Films & Performance
by John Porter
in person from Toronto! October 20, 10pm
Spool Contemporary Art Space,
140 Baldwin St., Johnson City, New York
PORTER'S CONDENSED RITUALS
"Landscape" (1977, 1 minute, silent)
"Mother and Child" (1977, 2 minutes, silent)
"Exams" (1982, 3.5 minutes, silent)
"Amusement Park" (1978/79, 6 minutes, silent)
CAMERA DANCES
"Firefly" (1980, 3.5 minutes, silent)
"Light Sleeper" (2010, 3.5 min., silent)
"Angel Baby" (1979, 2 minutes, silent)
"Down on Me" (1980/81, 4 minutes, silent)
"Cinefuge 4 & 5" (1980/81, 4.5 minutes, sound on film)
"Shovelling Snow" (1992, 3.5 minutes, sound on film)
"Calendar Girl" (1981-88, 3.5 minutes, sound on film)
PROJECTOR DANCES
"Shootout with Rebecca" (1983, 3.5 minutes, sound on film,
live performance)
"Revolving Restaurant" (1981, 3.5 minutes, silent, live performance)
"Animal in Motion" (1980, 1 minute, sound on film, live performance)
"Scanning 8" (2016, 3.5 min., silent, performance)
Total 48.5 minutes
FEBRUARY 2017
2 SHOWS JANUARY 2017
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month at CineCycle.
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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.
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Friday, June 9, 9:30pm (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
Mike Hoolboom presents
The Funnel, 1977-1988
Panel Discussion moderated by Mike Hoolboom,
with Judith Doyle, Dot Tuer and David McIntosh,
plus a Book Launch for Mike Hoolboom's new book,
Underground: The Untold Story of The Funnel Film Collective
which includes 30 photographs by John Porter!
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Thursday, February 2, 7pm-10pm, free!
OCAD University, Room 230, 100 McCaul St., Toronto
2 SHOWS JANUARY 2017 IN TORONTO
Wavelengths presents
The Funnel, 1977-1987
16mm films and videos, 1974-2014, by Judith Doyle,
Annette Mangaard, Midi Onodera, Jim Anderson,
and Peter Dudar. Total running time: 67 minutes.
Plus a Book Launch! for Mike Hoolboom's new book,
Underground: The Untold Story of The Funnel Film Collective
which includes 30 photographs by John Porter!
Mike
Hoolboom and some of the screening
and book artists in attendance!
Tuesday, January 31, 6:30pm, free! (classified)
TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W., Toronto
The 10th Annual the8fest
A Little Festival for Small Films
Friday-Sunday, January 27-29
Polish Combatants
Hall, 206 Beverley St., Toronto
(at Cecil St., 1 block south of College St.)
INCLUDING
Super 8 Film Performance by John
Porter
Friday, January 27, 11pm, $8
Scanning 8
(2016, super 8, colour, 3.5 minutes, silent, projector performance)
A remake of Scanning 5 (1983) with the same movements and actor
(David Anderson), but in a new location - Roundhouse Park on Bremner Blvd. in downtown Toronto.
The Scanning series are "surround super 8" projector
dances performed live, projecting the image around the room using a hand-held projector in front of the audience.
AND
Super 8 Camera Workshop by John Porter
Cameras provided, or BYO. Shoot some film!
Sunday, January 29, 1pm-4pm, $25
Video of John Porter "Film Busking" at this event!
Type Books presents
Long Live Analog
The world launch of The Revenge of Analog:
Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax
of Toronto who will be DJing with his own turntable!
"Bring Your Own Vinyl" - contribute to the music!
David will say some words and sign the books for sale!
Super 8 "Film Busking" by John Porter! Facebook
Monday, November 7, 7pm-9pm, free! (unclassified)
Type Books, 883 Queen St. W., Toronto
(between Bathurst and Ossington)
Early
Monthly Segments presents its screening #82,
celebrating its 7th Anniversary! with
John Porter in Person
Super 8 & 16mm films with live performance!
by the Toronto artist, agitator and historian.
Films 1968-2011. Total run time: 76 min.
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Monday, March 7, 8pm (unclassified)
$5-10 suggested donation
Ballroom, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto
PROGRAMME
16mm films
Pirouette (1972, 2.5 min, 16mm, sound)
Independent Filmmaking (1974, 2.5 min, 16mm, live narration)
Phil's Film Farm (2002, 11 minutes, 16mm, silent)
super 8 films
Sandbox (1968 – 1st film! – 3.5 minutes, silent)
Landscape (1977, 1 minute, silent)
Mother and Child (1977, 2 minutes, silent)
Exams (1982, 3.5 minutes, silent)
Down on Me (1980/81, 4 minutes, silent)
Light Sleeper (2011, 3.5 minutes, silent)
Cinefuge 4&5 (1980/81, 4.5 minutes, sound on film)
Picture Pitcher (1989, 4 minutes, sound on film)
The Secret of the Lost Tunnel (1992, 3.5 minutes, sound on film)
The List of Bicycle Messenger (1994, 4 minutes, sound on film)
Toy Catalogue 3 (1996, excerpt 18 minutes, sound on film)
performances
Shootout with Rebecca (1983, 3.5 min, sound on film/live)
Revolving Restaurant (1981, 3.5 minutes, film performance)
Animal in Motion (1980, 1 min, film performance, sound on film)
Scanning 5 (1983, 3.5 minutes, silent/live)
The 9th Annual the8fest
A Little Festival for Small Films
A new super 8 film by John Porter.
the8fest's first published book!
John
Porter's CineScenes
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Friday-Sunday, January 29-31, 7pm
& 9pm
6 screenings, $8 each, $40 pass (unclassified)
INCLUDING
Super 8 Camera Workshop by John
Porter
Sunday, January 31, 1pm-4pm, $25
Polish Combatants
Hall, 206 Beverley St., Toronto
(at Cecil St., 1 block south of College St.)
The 52nd
Pesaro International Film Festival
July 2-9, 2016, Pesaro,
Italy
PRESENTS
Super 8 Films and
Performance by John Porter
in person from Toronto, Canada!
Friday, July 8, 6:30pm
Saletta Pasolini, Piazza del Popolo, Pesaro, Italy
7th (S8)
Mostra de Cinema Periférico
Super 8 and 16mm films, and videos shot on super 8.
Retrospectives, performances, installations!
Many contemporary filmmakers in person!
Work from Toronto's film co-op LIFT,
with
LIFT Director Chris Kennedy in person!
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June 1-5, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Includes a super 8 film by John Porter,
Light
Sleeper (2011, 3.5 minutes),
Saturday, June 4, 5pm, free!
Centro Galego de Artes da Imaxe (CGAI),
Durán Loriga, 10. Baixo, A Coruña, Spain
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MAY 2015
- APRIL 2015
- FEBRUARY 2015
- JANUARY 2015
the8fest
small-gauge film festival (Jan 29-31, 2016)
presents the launch of its first book!
John
Porter's CineScenes
Documentary Portraits of Alternative Film Scenes,
Toronto and Beyond, 1978-2015
TONIGHT: Super 8 films and stories by John Porter!
A new 35mm film by CineCycle's Martin Heath!
Guest speakers - Dot Tuer + Mike Hoolboom!
MC - Caroline Azar! Slide-show! Videos!
Book-signing! Surprises! Refreshments!
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Wednesday, December 9, 8:30pm, free! (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
CONTACT Photography Festival (May 1-31) presents
Bright Lights Dark City: Niagara
Custom Lab
and Toronto Experimental Film Photo Exhibit
Work by Michael Barker, Carl E. Brown, Sylvain Chaussée,
John Porter, R. Bruce Elder, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof,
Kelly Egan, John Price and Elisa Julia Gilmour.
Curated by Kate Addleman-Frankel. Facebook
May 1-31, daily 12-5pm.
Opening Reception Friday, May 1, 7-10pm.
3rd & 4th Floors, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto
CineCycle presents its Spring 2015
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.
Including a super 8 film by John Porter!
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Sunday, April 26, 7:45pm, $pwyc
(unclassified)
Sign-up begins at 7pm.
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
CineCycle presents its Winter 2015
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.
Including 2 super 8 films by John Porter!
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Sunday, February 8, 7:30pm, $pwyc
(unclassified)
Sign-up begins at 7pm.
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
The 8th
Annual the 8
fest
A Little Festival for Small Films.
Super 8, 8mm, 9.5mm, UltraPan8!
Performances! Super 8 Camera Workshop!
Friday-Sunday, January 30 - February
1, 2015
7 screenings, $5 each, $25 pass (unclassified)
INCLUDING
Super 8 Camera Operation Workshop
by local super 8 filmmaker John Porter.
Saturday, January 31, 1pm-4pm, $25
Polish Combatants Hall, 206 Beverley St., Toronto
2 SHOWS NOVEMBER 2014 IN TORONTO
CineCycle presents its Autumn 2014
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.
Max 10 min. 1st come, 1st shown.
Premiere of 2 new films by John Porter!
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Sunday, November 23, 7:30pm, $pwyc
(unclassified)
Sign-up begins at 7pm.
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
The St. Thomas Poetry Series presents
Remembering George Johnston (1913-2004)
With readings from his poetry by William Blissett,
Robyn Sarah, Bob Johnston, Andrew Johnston,
John Reibetanz, Richard Greene, John Terpstra,
plus George's 8mm film of Denmark in the 1968.
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Wednesday, November 19, 8pm, free!
Parish Hall, St. Thomas’s Church, 383 Huron St., Toronto
Program
1. Welcome
2. John Porter intro. "Denmark and Faroe Islands" (8mm
film, 1970s, 13 minutes).
3. William Blissett: George Johnston and Reciting Poetry.
4. George Johnston: “Elaine in a Bikini”.
5. Andrew Johnston: “Multitude”; “An Affluent
Grace”; “Night Noises”.
6. Bob Johnston: “Us Together”; “Veterans”.
7. Robyn Sarah: “Cathleen Sweeping”; “There”;
“Indoors”; “Outdoors”; “Delay”.
8. Richard Greene:
“Rest Hour”; “Art and Life”; “O Earth
Turn”; “Bargain Sale”; “October Snow”.
9. John Reibetanz:
“Terror”; “Bedtime”; “No Way Out”;
“Ecstatic”; "For William Frank Blissett”.
10. John Terpstra:
“In It,” “Honey”; “Happy Enough”;
“Wintering”; “Fred’s Sixty-Fifth Birthday“.
11. George Johnston: “Goodbye Margaret”.
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents
Super 8 Filmmaking Intensive Workshop
All-inclusive 'mini-course'. Instructor: John Porter!
Make your own super 8 film in a month!
Shoot, view, edit and project on film!
Includes a roll of film with processing, camera rental,
editing time, transfer to video. Enrollment limited to 8.
Two Saturdays, Oct. 18 & Nov. 1, Noon-4pm, $165
L.I.F.T., 1137 Dupont St. (at Gladstone Ave.), Toronto
Don Pyle, celebrating WorldPride
2014 (Toronto, June 20-29),
curated and presents
The City’s In Flame!
Archival and rarely seen videos and films, 1977-2011,
on music and queer themes - the gay roots of art/punk rock,
by GB Jones, Suzanne Naughton, John Porter, Matt Thomas,
Andrew J. Paterson, Wrik Mead, Martin Sorrondeguy, Alan Fox.
Some video and filmmakers in person!
Total running time: 105 minutes. Facebook
Wednesday, June 25, 7pm, free! (unclassified)
Fort York Branch of the Toronto
Public Library,
190 Fort York Blvd., Toronto (wheelchair accessible)
2 SHOWS JANUARY 2014 IN TORONTO
The
7th Annual the
8 fest
A Little Festival for Small Films
Super 8, 8mm, 9.5mm, UltraPan8!
Friday-Sunday, January 24-26, 2014
$5 each, $25 pass (unclassified) Facebook
INCLUDING
Super 8 Camera Operation Workshop
by local super 8 filmmaker John Porter.
Saturday, January 25, 1pm-4pm, $25
AND
Tit-For-Tat
beginning with Daily Double Dick Van Dykes
(John Porter, 1985, triple-projection performance, 4 minutes),
then performative films by Eldon Garnet & Duncan Johnson,
Madi Piller, John Caffery & Michael Barry, Rena Thomas,
Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, Gordon & Tara Nelson,
and Matt Whitman. Curated by Milada Kovacova.
Saturday, January 25, 11pm, $5
Polish Combatants Hall, 206 Beverley St., Toronto
Echo Park Film Center's Filmmobile presents
Film Farm L.A. 20th Anniversary
Show
The Independent Imaging Retreat or "Film Farm",
an annual summer week of 16mm filmmaking,
overseen by Philip Hoffman in rural Ontario.
Early and recent 16mm films and videos by
Trixy Sweetvittles, John Porter, Chris Chong,
Helen Hill, Lisa Marr, Maia Cybelle Carpenter,
Clint Enns, Deirdre Logue, Pouyan Jafarizadeh,
Brenda Longfellow, Lillah Halla, Jennifer Reeves.
Philip Hoffman and other artists in person!
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Sunday, August 31, 8pm, free!
Outdoors! in Echo Park,
Los Angeles, California
(corner of Echo Park Ave. and Park Ave.)
JUNE 2014 IN WINNIPEG, MANITOBA
Open City Cinema presents its
2nd Annual Winnipeg
Underground Film Festival
Videos, 16mm and a super 8 films, live performances!
June 27-29 Facebook
Frame Arts Warehouse, 318 Ross Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba
including John Porter"s T-Shirt Collection
by Clint Enns!
(a loop consisting of John Porter"s film-related t-shirts)
in "the 90 Second" screening, Friday, June 27, 7pm.
The
Double Negative Collective, la Société des arts
technologiques
(SAT), et du Partenariat
du Quartier des spectacles present
Projection Super 8 en Plein Air
25 super 8 films by local filmmakers, projected on
super 8!
Charles-André Coderre, Steven Woloshen & Alexandra Grimanis,
Amber Goodwyn, Marjorie Lemay, Terryll Loffler, Stéphane Calce,
Sonya Stefan & Charlotte Bonin, André Habib, Anne-Michèle
Fortin,
Claudie Lévesque, David J. Romero, Suzie Synnott & Georges
Mauro,
José Garcia-Lozano, Alexandre Larose, Kara Blake, Guillaume Vallée,
including Double Negative members Karl Lemieux, Eduardo Menz,
Daïchi Saïto, Mike Rollo, Malena Szlam, Toronto's John
Porter.
Each film shot on one roll of film, edited in-camera, in one take,
most made for past Montreal "One
Take Super 8 Events".
Total running time: 85 minutes. Facebook
Wednesday, August 21, 9pm, free!
BBQ w/ DJ Diagraf & chef Chrissy Durcak!
7-9pm
Place de la Paix, St. Laurent Blvd., Montréal,
Quebec
(between Ste Catherine & René-Lévesque E, next to
SAT)
The Double Negative Collective presents
30X30: Films for 30 Years of L.I.F.T,
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (L.I.F.T.),
celebrating 30 years in 2012, commissioned 30 videos & films.
Tonight: videos by R. Bruce Elder, Christina Battle, Alan Zweig,
Scott Miller Berry, Kika Thorne, Tess Girard, Francisca Duran,
Adam Rosen & John Creson, 16mm films by Susan Oxtoby,
Chris Kennedy, Nobu Adilman, Larissa Fan, John Price, and
super 8 films by John Porter and Alexandre Larose.
Total running time: 102 minutes. Facebook
2012 LIFT Director Ben Donoghue in attendance!
Thursday, April 25, 9pm, $8
Casa del Popolo, 4873 St. Laurent Blvd., Montréal, Quebec
The International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), March 14-24, presents
Super 8 - Cinema According to John
Porter
in person from Toronto with his
super 8 films and live performance!
In French and in English.
Program
Description
Thursday, March 21, 9pm, $12
Cinémathèque
québécoise (Salle Claude-Jutra),
335, de Maisonneuve Blvd. E., Montréal, Québec
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents
Super 8 Filmmaking Intensive Workshop
All-inclusive 'mini-course' with John Porter!
including screening of some of his many films!
Shoot, view, edit, paint and project on film!
Includes a roll of film, processing, camera rental,
editing time, transfer to video. Max enrollment 10.
Two Saturdays,
July 6 & 20, Noon-4pm
and every Spring, Summer, Fall since 2010!
L.I.F.T., 1137 Dupont St. (at Gladstone Ave.), Toronto
The 26th Images Festival (April 11-20) presents its
Book Launch of
Explosion in the Movie Machine:
Essays & Documents on Toronto Artists' Film
& Video
An anthology book including writing & photos by John Porter.
Event includes a panel discussion about censorship and more,
with David Poole, Su Ditta, Wanda Nanibush, Chris Kennedy,
and moderated by the book's Editor, Chris Gehman.
Thursday, April 18, 3pm-4pm, free!
Urbanspace Gallery, #117, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
The 6th Annual the
8 fest
A Little Festival for Small Films
Super 8 & 8mm! February 8-10
a short film by John Porter - Sat., Feb. 9, 9pm
Workman
Arts Theatre,
St. Anne's Parish Hall, 651 Dufferin St., Toronto
POSTER DESIGNED BY JOHN PORTER
Sackville, Augusta's Yours
Shorts from Sackville, New Brunswick
New videos by Sackville artists including Ilse Kramer,
Amanda Fauteux, Sue Johnson, and Tara K. Wells,
a Sackville super 8 film by John Porter, and
old Sackville footage from 1945-1967.
Saturday, February 2, 4:30pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
Videofag, 187 Augusta Ave. (north of Dundas), Toronto
John's Upcoming
Shows - John's
Past Shows 2005-2012
100
Solo Shows - Sample
Show - 300
Films - New
Films - Bio
