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New Cineworks 2009


Dates:
Tue Mar 10, 2009 00:00 - Tue Mar 03, 2009

NEW CINEWORKS 2009
A WILD CELEBRATION OF LOCAL INDEPENDENT MOVING IMAGES

New Cineworks is an annual screening of films produced with the support of Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society. The program represents the diverse nature of the centre by showcasing a variety of film interests and genres that Cineworks members explore and that Cineworks programming supports. The result is an innovative and engaging exhibition of moving images.

New Cineworks ignites excitement for local filmmaking and filmmakers by showcasing independent, under-the-radar cinema of outstanding quality. 2009’s program explores the spaces between experiment and narrative, film and video, humans and animals. Visually engaging and thought provoking, coincidence abounds in a cast of films that range from tongue-in-cheek social analysis to an examination of Deleuze’s movement image.

Following the screening, the audience is invited to a reception with the filmmakers and is encouraged to quench their curiosity regarding the hows and whys of the showcased films over snacks.

Featuring new works from Cineworks members Daniel Conrad, Sharon Kahanoff, Yun Lam Li, Sean MacPherson, Karen Nielsen, and John Woods; trailers by Cineworks members Brent Fidler, Ileana Pietrobruno, Chris Scheuerman, Terry Wolfe and Dale Wolff; with works produced with Cineworks’s support by Aili Meutzner + Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk, Mark Penner and Tracy D. Smith + Ian Tang.

NEW CINEWORKS 2009
Reception to follow
10 March 2009, 7:30pm
Pacific Cinematheque [1131 Howe]
$5 Cineworks members, $8 non-members

Cineworks gratefully acknowledge the ongoing support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver. Cineworks would like to extend massive gratitude to Okanagan Spring Brewery for supporting independent media art in Vancouver. Thank-you!


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Techniques for Interactive Cinema


Dates:
Sat Jan 24, 2009 00:00 - Fri Jan 09, 2009

TECHNIQUES FOR INTERACTIVE CINEMA
INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP FOR INDEPENDENT MEDIA ARTISTS

Technological advances are now enabling approaches to cinema previously unimaginable. Interactive movies, video mixing and even video games are forcing filmmakers and audiences alike to redefine the ways in which they engage in cinema. This workshop will investigate various techniques and theories that might be employed in the creation of an interactive cinema, be that narrative, experimental or something in between.

In conjunction with Cineworks’s presentation of The Soft Revolution, an interactive cinematic installation, this workshop offers an opportunity for those interested in interactive techniques to engage with artists Brian Johnson and Anthony Roberts in an intimate environment of exchange.

Techniques for Interactive Cinema
24 January 2009
Interurban Gallery [1 East Hastings]
Cost is $35 for members/$50 for non-members

Registration: Please call 604.685.3841 or send an electronic message to Leanne at info@cineworks.ca.

Registration Deadline: 21 January 2009

Instructors: Brian Johnson’s current field of work challenges the traditional parameters of filmmaking by inviting immediacy and improvisation into the cinematic experience. He is a member of the Truth Channel-an ongoing collective of artists working in the emerging forms of multimedia and performed cinema.

Anthony Roberts is a writer/director, composer and teacher. He has worked on a number of groundbreaking film and multimedia projects whose concerns range from interactivity to improvisation to surrealist collage. In 1990 he formed The Truth Channel with filmmaker Bill Mullan-an experimental multimedia group that has co-produced over two-dozen installations/performances.


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Interdisciplinary Artists in the Cinematic Continuum


Dates:
Thu Jan 29, 2009 00:00 - Fri Jan 09, 2009

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTISTS IN THE CINEMATIC CONTINUUM
A CINEMATIC SALON WITH THE ARTISTS OF THE SOFT REVOLUTION

Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society celebrates our presentation of the interactive cinematic installation The Soft Revolution with a discussion with its makers.

Are artists still defined by their chosen medium? How does the movement toward an interdisciplinary approach to creation affect artistic product and practice? Focusing on inventive uses of film in practices that are not film-centric, and given the proliferation of artist films in galleries, this salon will explore the future of film outside of the theatre. This moderated discussion will feature excerpts of The Soft Revolution to guide a dialogue that will take place in an intimate and informal atmosphere where audience members will be encouraged to join the exchange.

Brian Johnson’s current field of work challenges the traditional parameters of filmmaking by inviting immediacy and improvisation into the cinematic experience. He is a member of the Truth Channel-an ongoing collective of artists working in the emerging forms of multimedia and performed cinema.

Anthony Roberts is a writer/director, composer and teacher. He has worked on a number of groundbreaking film and multimedia projects whose concerns range from interactivity to improvisation to surrealist collage. In 1990 he formed The Truth Channel with filmmaker Bill Mullan-an experimental multimedia group that has co-produced over two-dozen installations/performances.

Moderator TBA.

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTISTS IN THE CINEMATIC CONTINUUM
29 January 2009, 7pm
Interurban Gallery [1 East Hastings]
Free


EVENT

The Soft Revolution


Dates:
Thu Jan 22, 2009 00:00 - Fri Jan 09, 2009

THE SOFT REVOLUTION
AN INTERACTIVE CINEMATIC INSTALLATION

Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society is excited to present The Soft Revolution, an interactive cinematic installation by Vancouver-based media artists Brian Johnson and Anthony Roberts.

The Soft Revolution explores cinematic narrative form in a highly abstracted, tangential way. Just as the phenomenon of persistence of vision allows the human brain to perceived a series of rapidly presented still images as fluid motion-one might suggest an analogous phenomenon that we will call the persistence of narrative. In such a scenario, despite continuous digression, little exposition and a structure that engages the chaotic nature of the I-Ching, scenes accumulate meaning and ultimately story, through a continuity of theme, character and the common referent of the aforementioned Taoist philosophical text. Just as we look for representational elements within the abstract [faces in clouds, astrological figures], mankind's desire to understand causal situations in terms of narrative is deeply ingrained. The Soft Revolution explores this nexus between reverie and story.

Created by independent media artists Brian Johnson and Anthony Roberts, The Soft Revolution is a three-channel video installation. When participants interact with the work by making narrative choices on the control consoles, a simple local network of computers running on a combination of purpose built hardware and software translates and transmits their decisions to installation screens. The Soft Revolution is an action, a performance, and will never be read the same way twice. Though not explicitly about the technology behind the scenes, the improvisatory nature of The Soft Revolution is an innovative exploration of cinematic forms because it shifts the weight of narrative framing squarely to the particular interacting participant.

THE SOFT REVOLUTION
Opening 22 January 2009, 7-9 pm, artists in attendance
23, 24, 28-30 January 2009, 1-5pm
Interurban Gallery [1 East Hastings]


EVENT

After School Special


Dates:
Tue Nov 18, 2008 00:00 - Thu Nov 13, 2008

AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL

School, work, school. Alex Bag, Kika Thorne, Elisabeth Subrin. Cineworks presents After School Special, three videos from the late nineties as an attempt to flesh out the gap between the WACK! show at the Vancouver Art Gallery and contemporary feminist art practice.

With music by Peaches, Kika Thorne's Work stars real life artist Shary Boyle who plays an artist in a documentary that is not a documentary.

In Untitled Fall '95, Bag, the art student, "plays" Bag the art student. Through a series of deadpan performances, interspersed with fragments of pop detritus, Bjork, Hello Kitty, Killer Bunnies, Alex Bag successfully maintains television's banal, static and endearing ineptitudes.

A cinematic doppelganger without precedent, shot for shot, Elisabeth Subrin's Shulie reenacts a 1967 documentary portrait of a young Chicago art student, who a few years later would become a notable figure in Second Wave feminism and author of the radical 1970 manifesto, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. Not a clone in the end, but a brilliant rethinking of history. Subrin makes manifest the eternal return of film.

Join us post punk feminists at 7:30 on November 18 at the Pacific Cinemateque to view the distant past through the lens of the recent past.

Part of VAG WACK!

After School Special
Elisabeth Subrin // Shulie
Kika Thorne // Work
Alex Bag // Untitled Fall '95
18 November 2008, 7:30pm
Pacific Cinematheque [1131 Howe]
$8 Cineworks Members, $10 Non-members