From: Artcite / Media City (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Feb 09 2007 - 10:28:00 PST
>13th annual Media City Festival-- February 13-17 2007
>
>More than seventy-five films, videos and media artworks from fifteen
>countries, presented in eleven programs over five days, including
>retrospective screenings, gallery installations, panels and
>discussions
>with visiting artists and curators
>
>Full festival schedule at: http://houseoftoast.ca/mediacity/festival.html
>For more information, contact: Jeremy Rigsby or Oona Mosna, Media
>City Program Directors,tel. 519 977 6564, <email suppressed>
>
>
>MEDIA CITY 13 SCHEDULE
>
>- unless otherwise indicated all events are at the Capitol Theatre
>and Arts Centre, 121 University Av. W., Windsor
>- unless otherwise indicated admission per day (all screenings) is 8
>CAD general/ 6 CAD students and Artcite members
>
>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10
>
>3:00 pm pre-festival screening
>Minima Moralia (Robert Lee, Canada, video, 80:00, 2005)
>at the Cranbrook Art Museum, 39221 Woodward Ave, Bloomfield Hills
>a co-presentation with the "Shrinking Cities" exhibition
>presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Cranbrook Art Museum
>
>
>TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13
>
>8:00 pm OPENING SCREENING
>Pine Flat (Sharon Lockhart, USA, 16mm, 138:00, 2006)
>at the Detroit Film Center, 1227 Washington Blvd, Detroit
>a co-presentation with the Detroit Film Center's New Cinema Series
>and the "Shrinking Cities" exhibition presented by the Museum of
>Contemporary Art Detroit and Cranbrook Art Museum
>admission: 5 USD/3 USD DFC, Artcite, MOCAD members/students free w. ID
>
>Sharon Lockhart is an internationally renowned photographer and
>filmmaker whose work balances on the knife edge between documentary
>and staged event. Her latest film, PINE FLAT, was shot over the
>course of three years in a rural community in the foothills of the
>Sierra Nevada. The film's subjects are local children, who are
>filmed alone or in small groups in a series of precisely framed
>tableaux- no adults appear in the film. SHARON LOCKHART studied at
>the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Her films and
>photographic work have been widely exhibited in international film
>festivals and at innumerable museums, cultural institutions and
>galleries around the world. She has received solo exhibitions at
>institutions including the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), the
>Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Kunsthalle Zurich. She
>teaches at USC's School of Fine Arts in Los Angeles, where she lives.
>
>
>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14
>
>6:00 pm RECEPTION FOR INSTALLATION EXHIBITION
>at Artcite Inc, 109 University Ave. West, Windsor
>The Evil Series (Tony Cokes, USA, 2005-06)
>Magical World (Johanna Billing, Sweden, 2005)
>admission: free
>
>8:00 pm INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 1
>New film and video by Tim Shore (England), Michael Robinson (USA),
>Julia Barco (Mexico), Jem Cohen (USA), Ton van Zantvoort
>(Netherlands) and Nooshin Farhid (England)
>
>9:30 pm INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 2
>world premier of At Sea (Peter Hutton, USA, 16mm, 55:00, 2007)
>
>
>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15
>
>3:00 pm TOUR OF INSTALLATION EXHIBITIONS
>at the Art Gallery of Windsor, 401 Riverside Dr. West, Windsor
>with guest-curator Jan Schuijren (Netherlands)
>Deeparture (Mircea Cantor, Romania, 2005)
>Summer Lightnings (Victor Alimpiev, Russia, 2005)
>Free with gallery admission
>
>6:00 pm PANEL FOR INSTALLATION EXHIBITIONS at Artcite Inc, 109
>University Ave. W. with curator Jan Schuijren and artist Tony Cokes
>moderated by Bart Testa (Canada) Free to attend
>
>The work of Mircea Cantor, Victor Alimpiev and Johanna Billing was
>curated for Media City by JAN SCHUIJREN (Holland). Jan Schuijren
>worked at the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam from 1991
>until 2001. Since 2002 he has worked as an independent curator,
>developing and presenting film, video and media art projects for
>many international organizations, museums and other venues. Recent
>projects include "Drawn by Reality - Encapsulated in Life", an
>international group exhibition presented in Pittsburgh, and in
>September 2006 he co-curated the 7th Werkleitz Biennial in Halle,
>Germany.
>
>8:00 pm RETROSPECTIVE HELGA FANDERL (Germany) with artist in attendance
>Twenty-one films screened on the original Super-8mm, 1991-2006,
>2:00-3:00 each. Followed by discussion with the filmmaker.
>
>HELGA FANDERL studied at the Städelschule (Frankfurt) and at Cooper
>Union (New York). Since 1990 her films have been exhibited at venues
>including the Deutsches Filmmuseum (Frankfurt), Kino Arsenal
>(Berlin), Anthology Film Archives (New York), and the Centre
>Pompidou (Paris). Her work is in the permanent collections of the
>Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt and the Louvre (Paris).
>"Helga Fanderl is a sensitive poet who works with cinema. Her use of
>the medium is straight and simple. The films, mostly edited
>in-camera, make me sometimes think of the work of Emily Dickinson."
>(Peter Kubelka)
>
>9:30 pm INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 3:
>New works by Igor Strembitsky (Ukraine), Jayne Parker (England),
>Grant Wiedenfeld (USA), Robert Todd (USA), Nathaniel Dorsky (USA),
>Nick Collins (England)
>
>
>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16
>
>6:00 pm REGIONAL ARTISTS PROGRAM
>at the B-Movie Ballroom, 315 Ouellette Ave. Admission: $4.99
>Eleven new works by artists from Windsor, Detroit and the southerly
>parts of Ontario and Michigan.
>
>
>8:00 pm RETROSPECTIVE SERGEI LOZNITSA (Russia) with artist in attendance.
>Three films: Portrait (35mm, 28:00, 2002), Factory (35mm, 30:00,
>2004) and Halt (35mm, 24:00, 2000). Followed by discussion with the
>filmmaker.
>
>SERGEI LOZNITSA has been documenting the changes taking place in
>Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Beautifully shot and
>composed, his films are poetic, insightful and haunting portraits of
>Russia. Loznitsa studied at Moscow's VGIK (State University of
>Cinematography) and has made eight films since 1997, most of them
>produced at the St. Petersburg Documentary FIlm Studio. His work has
>screened at countless international venues, winning several awards
>including Best Documentary at the Karlovy Vary IFF (2003) and Grand
>Prize of the International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2003).
>
>9:30 pm INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 4
>New work by Jim Jennings (USA), David Gatten (USA), Bruce McClure
>(USA), Robert Todd (USA),
>Nicky Hamlyn (England)
>
>
>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17
>
>New York Near Sleep for Saskia (Peter Hutton)
>
>1:00 pm RETROSPECTIVE PETER HUTTON (USA) with artist in attendance
>Five films: New York Near Sleep for Saskia (16mm, 10:00, 1972),
>Boston Fire (16mm, 8:00, 1979), New York Portrait: Chapter Two
>(16mm, 16:00, 1981), Lodz Symphony (20:00, 1993), Study of a River
>(16mm, 16:00, 1997). Followed by discussion with the filmmaker.
>
>PETER HUTTON was born in Detroit and studied at the San Francisco
>Art Institute. He is primarily known for the silent, evocative 16mm
>portraits of cities and landscapes that he has made over the past
>thirty-five years. Hutton's films have screened at all major venues
>for artists' film, including the Whitney Museum, the NY MoMA, the
>IFF Rotterdam, Cinematheque Ontario and at Media City 11. The world
>premiere of Hutton's new film AT SEA also screens at Media City 13.
>Since 1985 Hutton has been the director of the Film and Electronic
>Arts Program at Bard College in New York state.
>
>8:00 pm INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 5
>New work by Olivier Fouchard (France), Nicky Hamlyn (England),
>Vincent Grenier (USA), Ryusuke Ito (Japan), Andreas Wutz (Czech
>Republic), Hans Michaud (USA), John Price (Canada)
>
>9:30 pm INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 6
>New work by Bill Morrison (USA), Rose Lowder (France), Robert Todd
>(USA), Sergei Loznitsa (Russia), Minyong Jang (Korea), Chris Curreri
>(Canada)
>--
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