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Thursday April 12
08 pm:
Gala Opening Night Screening (Bloor Cinema)
Japan Focus: Body Drop Asphalt w/ Insurrection
Junko Wada's eccentric comedy of young Tokyo screens with an experimental animation by Rena Del Pieve Gobbi (Canada).
Friday April 13
07 pm:
Janie Geiser Retrospective (Innis Town Hall)
American experimental animator Janie Geiser presents a complete retrospective of her work, including three brand new films in their Toronto premieres.
09 pm:
Between Science & Garbage (Innis Town Hall)
Pierre Hébert & Bob Ostertag in performance
Canadian animator & American composer/musician present the world premiere of their duo digital performance.
09 pm:
Live Nude Girls Unite! (Julia Query & Vicky Funari ) (Bloor Cinema)
Sexy, funny, dramatic documentary on the formation of the first strippers' union in the United States.
11 pm:
International Program One: Worlds in Black and White (Innis Town Hall)
Canadian premiere of Zoe Beloff's 16mm 3D biopic of a 19th-century medium (!), with three other black-&-white films from the US, Australia & the UK.
11 pm:
I.K.U. (Shu Lea Cheang) (Bloor Cinema)
Tokyo cybersex; wall-to-wall sex in eye-popping electronically-generated spaces.
Saturday April 14
01-06 pm:
Other Cinemas: A Symposium on Film in the Age of Electronic Reproduction (Innis Town Hall):
01 pm Panel - Technology And Risk;
03 pm Panel - Unknown Histories;
05 pm Keynote Speaker: Scott Macdonald
07 pm:
Landscape with Shipwreck: The Films of Philip Hoffman, Program One (Innis Town Hall)
The world premiere of Philip Hoffman's What these ashes wanted, with his first film, On the Pond. Philip Hoffman in attendance.
09 pm:
International Program Two: Home, Heart, Hand, Tongue (Innis Town Hall)
These works locate bodies in relation to other bodies, other spaces, to what is absent and desired. Includes new works by Louise Bourque, Jeremy Drummond, Leighton Pierce, Julie Murray, Brothers Quay.
11 pm:
Digital Interference: Global Techno Video (sPaHa, 66 Harbord St. at Spadina)
Experimental videos from Taiwan, Scotland, Austria and Japan that blur the boundaries between fine art video and contemporary club culture. Includes videos by Fujui Wang, Skot, maia./notdef and Shin'ichi Yamamoto.
Sunday April 15
02 pm:
Book Launch (Lava, 507 College St.)
Landscape With Shipwreck: First Person Cinema and the Films of Philip Hoffman (eds. Karyn Sandlos & Mike Hoolboom)
Other Conundrums: Race, Culture, and Canadian Art (Monika Kin Gagnon)
03 pm:
Making Contact: Distribution for Independent Film and Video Makers (Innis Town Hall)
Advice to independent film & video makers from a panel of distribution professionals.
05 pm:
International Program 3: Mind & Matter (Innis Town Hall)
From Bible to Big Bang, from deep freeze to deep space, join us for an investigation of inner & outer space. Includes new works by David Gatten, Keith Sanborn,Julie-Christine Fortier, Phil Solomon.
07 pm:
Japan Focus: Gardening in Fields of Light, Part One (Innis Town Hall)
This collection of Japanese short films focuses on spare and subtle studies of light & duration, using the materials of everyday life. Includes new works by Takashi Ishida and three films by Shiho Kano.
09 pm:
Landscape with Shipwreck: The Films Of Philip Hoffman, Program Two (Innis Town Hall)
The second program in our Hoffman retrospective includes his classics !O, Zoo? and passing through/torn formations. Philip Hoffman in attendance.
Monday, April 16
07 pm:
F is for Film (Innis Town Hall)
Top student films, local, national, and international.
09 pm:
V is for Video (Innis Town Hall)
Recent student videos from Canada and beyond.
Tuesday, April 17
07 pm:
International Program Four: Society Against the State? (Innis Town Hall)
These artists, by turns coolly analytical, fractious, and utopian, take on civilization, capital, & a garden bench. Inludes new work by John Wood & Paul Harrison, Abigail Child, Gary Kibbins.
09 pm:
International Program Five: Close to Far from Home (Innis Town Hall)
Four films about place - observed, remembered, & imagined. Includes works by Mary Beth Reed, Peter Hutton, Bill Brown, Paul Driessen.
Wednesday April 18
07 pm:
Japan Focus: Tokyo Stories (Innis Town Hall)
Short films & videos from Japan that uncover the repressed conflicts and impulses seething beneath the orderly surface of daily life. Includes works by Hajime Kawaguchi, Junko Wada, Tabaimo, Takumi Kawai & Hiroki Okamura
09 pm:
La Bande Vidéo (Innis Town Hall)
Spotlight on this busy, technically savvy Québec City video collective - dayglomatic!
Thursday April 19
07 pm:
When a Woman Speaks (Innis Town Hall)
Curated by Debby Keeper & Debra Prince
Celebrating the excellence of Aboriginal & Indigenous women in film & video.
09 pm:
Lo-Fi/Sci-Fi: a Charles Street Video Presentation (Innis Town Hall)
Six super-powered art mutants bring you brand-new lo-fi/sci-fi video universes. Featured: Benjamin Nemerofsky Ramsay, Karma Clarke-Davis, Mike Hoolboom, Michael Caines & Louise Liliefeldt, Michael Balser.
Friday April 20
07 pm:
International Program Six: Inventions of Desire (Innis Town Hall)
The body takes in: sounds & visions, sensations, tastes, & smells. The body projects: ideas & fantasies, desires, fears, & feelings. Includes new works by Sarah Abbott, Chris Chong, Si Si Peñaloza, Erik Saks & Michael Goedecke.
09 pm:
Japan Focus: Gardening In Fields of Light, Part Two (Innis Town Hall)
Single-frame works of animation & structural experimentation from Japanese independents. Includes works by Ichiro Sueoka, Teruo Koike, Yuiko Matsuyama, Takashi Ito.
Saturday April 21
03 pm:
Japan Focus: Devotion, dir. Barbara Hammer (Innis Town Hall)
American director Barbara Hammer excavates the history of Japanese documentary unit Ogawa Productions and turns up some surprises.
05 pm:
International Program Seven: Innocence Regained/Innocence Disdained (Innis Town Hall)
These artists seem to adopt a manner of innocence, naïvete, or wounded pessimism - meet the Douanier Rousseaus of cinema. Includes new work by Yuri A, Amy Lockhart, Nancy Andrews, Meesoo Lee & Jeannette Ordas, Eri Yoshimura.
07 pm:
International Program Eight: Labyrinths (Innis Town Hall)
These films & videos encompass a range of documentary, experimental, & narrative forms in complex structures that loop, repeat, and turn back on themselves. Includes works by Jay Rosenblatt, Isabelle Hayeur, Marion Kainz, Seongho Cho, Jem Cohen.
09 pm:
Art Dyke 2001 (Innis Town Hall)
It's our closing night gala, so get ready to rock the room & see which of our lovely and talented contestants will be chosen to lay down a glamour fix for the coming year.
10 pm:
Califone Meets Harry Smith (Ted's Wrecking Yard, 549 College St., upstairs)
Indie rockers from Chicago take on the Early Abstractions of the legendary Harry Smith.
Sunday April 22
3:30 pm:
Awards Presentation & International Program Nine: Let Ends Begin (Innis Town Hall)
Following our annual awards presentation, our final screening until next year. Elida Schogt, Ken Kobland, Zachery Longboy, Gariné Torossian, Simon Pummell, Steve Reinke, Nadia Roden.
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