Followed by... a video program from recent Canadian videos
curated by Nicole Gingras (Montréal/CAN)

Fourteen videos rooted in fiction, fable and the capturing and construction of an image. The modes range from confession, fabrication, delirium, and description, to melancholy, comedy, irony and the absurd. Each works is uniquely the author’s, and it is impossible to confuse the genres. Each reveals a need to confide, to show, to observe, to comment, to fantastically transform reality. Each arises from the pleasure of telling: words in the head, words in the mouth. And in each we can see the power time has over the body, over the emotions, memories, pleasure and pain. This video program was initially screened at FIFA, Festival international des films sur l'art, Montréal, March 2003. Nicole Gingras also thanks the artists and distributors (Vidéographe, Vtape, Video Pool, GIV and Perte de Signal) for their collaboration.

Anhedonia
Thirza Jean Cuthand, 2001, 10 min, colour, distribution: V Tape
Confession of an artist in her daily struggle to assert her identity. A sharing of doubts

Falling
Frédérick Belzile, 2002, 2 min 30, colour, distribution: l’artiste
The fall in its simplest manifestation; the movement unfolds; the words fall with cool indifference. Dream, incantation, rite of passage.

The Hunter’s Guide To Bereavement
Erica Eyres, 2002, 4 min, colour, distribution: Video Pool
Behind closed doors with a young woman, her animal fetish; and a few dark thoughts.

Lost in Space
Tricia Middleton & Joel Taylor, 2003, 11 min 25 s, colour, distribution: V Tape
An exploration of mundane reality, of the overfamiliar spaces that are often ignored or taken for granted. Lost in Space is a reflection on environmental and social decay, from which death is perhaps the only escape.

Sex and Sadness – part 1
Brian Macdonald, 2001, 4 min 19 s, colour, distribution: l’artiste
A woman, a man and their intimacy treated in an absurd way.

Un bain saisonnier
Frédéric Lavoie, 2002, 2 min 23 s, colour, distribution: Vidéographe
A young woman in the desert abandons herself to reveries.

Comptes à Rebours
Nathalie Bujold, 2002 , 4 min , colour, distribution: Vidéographe
Eight events that lead to loss, adventures that were supposed to transcend domestic life, but which totally embrace it. A game that swings between sublimated trivia and trivialized sublimity. (Vidéographe catalogue)

Michel in the Suêtes
Neil Livingston, 1998, 4 min 58 s, colour, distribution: Vidéographe
A documentary in which a man attempts conduct his daily activities during a hurricane. The Suêtes, or winds from the south-west, occur in the spring and fall on the north-west coast of Cape-Breton.

Death Poem
Joe Hiscott, 2001, 3 min 20 s, colour, distribution: GIV
Short poems with accompanying images shot by the artist in India. Transformations is the key word – of odours, plants, bodies and light.

Suburban Discipline
Jeremy Drummond, 2002, 6 min, colour, distribution: Video Pool
A suburb observed from a mosaic of perspectives, some from a distance and others close-up.

Dinner in Florida
Adad Hannah, 2002, 2 min 37 s, distribution: l’artiste
A fragment of Stills, a series of shots in which the participants create various tableaux vivants. Barely perceptible oscillations on the screen’s surface give these seemingly fixed images a troubling presence. A family dinner takes on the appearance of photography, painting and cinéma vérité.

Rentre chez toi 2
Claudette Lemay, 2002, 3 min, colour, distribution: Perte de Signal
A reflection on the space considered one’s own, and on the resurgence of memories in emotional turmoil.

Site
Anne Golden, 2002, 2 min 40 s, colour, distribution: GIV
A site transforms into a clinic, a commune and weekend refuge.

Clay Girl
Victoria Prince, 2002, 5 min, colour, distribution : Video Pool
An animated film dealing with pornography, sex and violence in a strip-club.


special screening II
Zeroglab Nanofestival - ultrashortfilms (Rotterdam/NL)
ZEROGLAB NANOFESTIVAL is an open source festival for extremly short (10 seconds!) short films, web-movies and software-art. The festival is organized by ZEROGLAB, an independent art-lab in Rotterdam. All submitted works as well as the festival are completely open source and licensed unter the Creative Commons License:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0
ZEROGLANB is run by Károly Tóth visual artist and Veronika László, ICT manager. The lab is in an evolving process of exchange with initiatives of individuals and institutions, based on mutual sympathy.
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