COMPETITION JURY CHRISTINA BATTLE (Canada) is an artist, curator, filmmaker, and organizer. She holds a B.Sc. from the University of Alberta, with specialization in Environmental Biology, and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her films have screened at venues including EXiS (Seoul), Musée d’art moderne André Malraux (Le Havre), Kino Arsenal (Berlin), Jihlava Documentary Festival (Czech Republic), and IFF Rotterdam. She is a contributing editor to INCITE!, and a collective member of Mice Magazine. CHRISTOPHER HARRIS (USA) is Head of Film and Video Production in the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa. His films have screened at venues internationally including the Artists’ Film Biennial at ICA (London), Princeton University (New Jersey), the Viennale, etc. He was the recipient of a Creative Capital grant to support his film Speaking in Tongues (2015), and recently completed two multi-screen installations reimagining slave daguerreotypes commissioned by Louis Agassiz in 1850. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa. STEVE POLTA (USA) holds a BA in Film Studies from UC Berkeley, an MFA in Filmmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a Masters of Library and Information Science from San Jose State University. He is Archivist and Artistic Director for the San Francisco Cinematheque, and co-founder and curator of CROSSROADS, presented at SFMoMA in 2017. Polta was awarded a Research Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation, resulting in Perpetual Motion, an extensive series of live cinema performances presented in the Bay Area (2016). He lives in Oakland, California.
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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 2 8:00PM [OPENING NIGHT]
THE FILMS OF YOKO ONO MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN [LIVE PERFORMANCE]
DETROIT FILM THEATRE at the DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
PRESENTING PARTNER: TRINOSOPHES & DFT
MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL: OPENING NIGHT DETROIT YOKO ONO & MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 8:00PM At the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), Detroit Film Theatre Admission: $5 (Free for Media City pass holders) 5200 Woodward Avenue Detroit, Michigan Celebrate Media City Film Festival’s Opening Night in Detroit with a screening of films by legendary artist Yoko Ono. The program will include selected work from the Fluxfilm catalogue, and Ono’s pioneering films Fly and Freedom (1971). This screening is the first retrospective of her films in Detroit. The evening will also include a series of live performances by legendary artist and composer Malcolm Goldstein, including a tribute to Rosa Parks along with compositions written for Goldstein by Ornette Coleman.
THE FILMS OF YOKO ONO “Whisper your dream to a cloud. Ask the cloud to remember it” – Yoko Ono
Eyeblink (Fluxfilm 9), 3 min, 1966 Match (Fluxfilm 14), 5 min, 1966 Four (Fluxfilm 16), 6 min, 1966
Fly, 24 min, 1971 Freedom, 1 min, 1971 Apotheosis, 19 min, 1970
YOKO ONO (Tokyo, Japan 1933). Studies at Gakushūin University (Tokyo), and Sarah Lawrence College (New York). Multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist, also known for her work in performance art. 20+ films since 1966; screenings and exhibitions including major solo shows at MoMA and the Whitney Museum (New York), Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), and countless other venues internationally. Recipient of Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Human Rights Award (2012), Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement (2009), MOCA Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts (2003), Oskar Kokoschka Prize (2012), Honorary Doctorate of Law, Liverpool University (2001), and Honorary Degree of Fine Arts, Bard College (2002). Lives in New York, NY.
“[Goldstein makes] true revolutionary music whose blues and folk-inflected language remains accessible to all.” – The Wire
My feet is tired but my soul is rested (Dedicated to Rosa Parks) Soundings for solo violin Trinity (Composed by Ornette Coleman for Goldstein, 1985) MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN (Brooklyn NY, 1936). Studies at Columbia University with Otto Luening. Co-founder of the Tone Roads Ensemble with James Tenney and Philip Corner in 1963. His compositions have been performed at the Judson Dance Theatre and Whitney Museum (New York), Sound Culture (Tokyo), Pro Musica Nova (Bremen), Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik (Witten), etc. Guggenheim Fellow (1968), Artists Foundation Fellowship (1988), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award (1990), Prix Acustica International (1994). Subject of the film Espace Ouvert – Portrait of Malcolm Goldstein by Thierry Collins (2007). Past collaborators include Allison Knowles, Jackson Mac Low, Nam June Paik, John Cage, Ornette Coleman, and many others. One of the leading violin innovators of the 20th century. Lives in Montréal, Quebec.
THURSDAY AUGUST 3 7:30PM
THE CIRCLE OF TIME: A TRIBUTE TO ARTAVAZD PÉLÉCHIAN THE CAPITOL THEATRE
PRESENTING PARTNER: TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL & ART GALLERY OF WINDSOR
THE CIRCLE OF TIME: A TRIBUTE TO ARTAVAZD PÉLÉCHIAN “The films of Armenian-born Artavazd Péléchian are amongst the most stunning documentaries of the postwar Soviet era. Trained in the classrooms of Moscow’s storied cinematography school VGIK, Péléchian began to develop a singular style from his very first films. Unlike many of his more political peers, Péléchian explored humanist themes on a universal scale, using beautifully photographed observations of people, animals and nature to comment on time and the human condition. Key to his filmmaking is his theory of distance montage, in which thematic links are made over the course of a film rather than across direct cuts; as he explained the concept, ‘Eisenstein’s montage was linear, like a chain. Distance montage creates a magnetic field around the film. It’s like when a light is turned on and light is generated around the lamp. In distance montage, when the two ends are excited, the whole thing glows.’ This technique is similar to the editing style of Nathaniel Dorsky, although Péléchian strives towards circularity, symmetry and a more absolute sense of time.
This programme comprises three of Péléchian’s most important films, including his masterpiece The Seasons, made in collaboration with cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov (a long-time ally of the great Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov). With stunning shots of shepherds herding sheep through winter snow and springtime rapids, farmers directing hay bales down steep inclines, and the celebratory rituals of a village wedding, The Seasons is Péléchian’s supreme celebration of the interrelationship of humanity and the natural world.” – Chris Kennedy Introduction by Marguerite Vappereau, co-editor of the new book Artavazd Péléchian: une symphonie du monde. Co-presented and organized with Toronto International Film Festival’s Wavelength Series. Special thanks to Chris Kennedy and Samuel La France.
The Inhabitants (Obitateli) Artavazd Péléchian, 35mm, 8 min, 1970
We (My)
Artavazd Péléchian, 35mm, 26 min, 1969
The Seasons (Vremena Goda) Artavazd Péléchian, 35mm, 30 min, 1975
ARTAVAZD ASHOTI PÉLÉCHIAN (Leninakan, Armenia 1938). Studies at Moscow’s Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). 12+ films since 1964; screenings and exhibitions at ZKM | Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe), Berlin, Melbourne, Venice, Jihlava, Oberhausen Film Festivals, Foundation Cartier (Paris), MoMA (New York), and Whitechapel (London), etc. Author of theoretical texts, including Moyo Kino (1998). Frequent collaborator with cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov and director Sergei Parajanov. Named Renowned Master of the Armenian SSR Arts (1979). First appearance at Media City. Lives in Moscow, Russia. MARGUERITE VAPPEREAU (Pithiviers, France 1980). Studies at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Curator of exhibitions at Museum national d’histoire naturelle (Paris) and La Comedie de Caen (Normandy). Author of Les Histoires de René Allio (2013), André François fait son cinéma (2015), Artavazd Péléchian: une symphonie du monde (2016), and René Allio: le mouvement de la création (2017). She is Assistant Professor at Bordeaux-Montaigne University. First appearance at Media City. Lives in Paris, France.
THURSDAY AUGUST 3 9:30PM
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 1 MARGARET TAIT CAULEEN SMITH BRIGID MCCAFFREY JENNIFER SAPARZADEH PABLO MAZZOLO ROSA BARBA SKY HOPINKA
THE CAPITOL THEATRE
PRESENTING PARTNER: ARTCITE INC. & MAYWORKS WINDSOR
AERIAL
Margaret Tait, Scotland, 16mm, 4 min, 1974 “The kind of cinema I care about is at the level of poetry—in fact, it has been my life’s work making film poems.” – Margaret Tait Drawing from Tait’s interest in scientific matters, Aerial touches on elemental images: air, water (and snow), earth, fire (and smoke).
MARGARET TAIT (Kirkwall, Scotland 1918–1999). Studies Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and Film at Centro Sperimentale di Photographia. 30+ films since 1952; screenings at National Film Theatre (London), Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw), EXPRMNTL (Knokke le Zoute), etc. Established Ancona Films (1956), and published three books of poetry, origins and elements, The Hen and the Bees, and Subjects and Sequences. Died 1999 in the Orkney Islands, Scotland.
LESSONS IN SEMAPHORE
Cauleen Smith, USA, 16mm > digital, 16 min, 2016 “…Dancer Taisha Paggett dipping herself into a vibrant green pond of tall grasses that is an abandoned lot in urban Chicago. With two red and blue flags she signals the plenitude of her breathing life to a young boy, who mimes for her in semaphore.” – Noura Wedell
CAULEEN SMITH (Riverside CA, 1967) Serves as faculty for the Vermont College of Fine Arts. 30+ films and digital artworks since 1989; screenings and exhibitions at New Museum, Whitney Museum, Studio Museum of Harlem, and Flaherty Film Seminar (New York), Kunsthaus Bregenz (Austria), D21 Leipzig (Germany). Rockefeller Fellowship (1994), Creative Capital Grant (2009), Herb Alpert Award (2016). First appearance at Media City. Lives in Chicago, Illinois.
BAD MAMA, WHO CARES
Brigid McCaffrey, USA, 16mm > 35mm, 12 min, 2016 Geologist Ren Lallatin has moved into a small housing complex located between a rail yard and the interstate. Desert vistas are replaced with an arsenal of tactile pursuits, while the situation of the house becomes unstable. Free falling from a fixed point, the perimeter is ornamented for security. Desert winds animate aluminum mobiles and seismic vibrations serenade the home. BRIGID MCCAFFREY (Washington DC, 1978). Studies at Bard College and California Institute of the Arts. 6+ films since 2006; screenings and exhibitions at Kinodot (St. Petersburg), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), International Film Festival Rotterdam, Torino International Film Festival, Harvard Film Archive (Cambridge), “Projections� at NYFF, etc. Marian McMahon Award winner (2014), featured artist Flaherty Seminar (2016). First appearance at Media City. Lives in Los Angeles, California.
NU DEM
Jennifer Saparzadeh, Iran/USA, 16mm, 9 min, 2017 Nu Dem traces the freshly closed borders of the Balkan Route in Spring 2016, arriving at an anarchist camp in Idomeni, Greece, where a vision of freedom and the fact of its denial confront each other. The film is recorded at the border of Greece and Macedonia where those who have escaped war and inhumanity wait with hopes of reaching Western Europe.
JENNIFER SAPARZADEH (Los Angeles CA, 1989) Studies at École Cantonale d’art de Lausanne. Works in film since 2007; exhibitions and screenings at Cinema Sao Jorge (Lisboa), Das Weisse Haus (Vienna),12Gates Video Art Festival (Philadelphia), etc. First appearance at Media City. Lives in Los Angeles, California.
NN
Pablo Mazzolo, Argentina, S8mm, 2.5 min, 2017 NN reanimates archival news footage from the Argentine coup d’état (1976). The film reflects on anonymity of subject, and the specter of thousands of disappeared civilians during the dictatorship.
PABLO MAZZOLO (Buenos Aires, Argentina 1976). Studies Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires. 10+ films since 1998; screenings at VideoEx (Zürich), International Film Festival Rotterdam, BAFICI (Buenos Aires), Hamburg Short Film Festival, “Views from the Avant-Garde” at the NYFF, etc. Third appearance at Media City, Grand Prize Winner (2014). Lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
BENDING TO EARTH
Rosa Barba, Italy/Germany, 35mm, 15 min, 2015 Bending to Earth is an investigation into inscriptions and transformations of society, manifest in the landscape. The camera circles several radioactive fields from the vantage point of a helicopter, while a voice-over offers meditations on order, systems and landscape archives. “It is a whole language, a kind of alphabet of an image engineered in the earth. I am an observer of this document. I suppose I am interested in what a document is, how it relates to reality.” – Rosa Barba ROSA BARBA (Sicily, Italy 1972). Studies Fine Arts at the Malmö Art Academy. 70+ films and artworks since 2000; screenings and exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Liverpool Biennial, TATE Modern (London), Hangar Biccoca (Milan), National Art Museum of China (Beijing), International Film Festival Rotterdam, etc. Second appearance at Media City. Lives in Berlin, Germany.
DISLOCATION BLUES
Sky Hopinka, Ho-Chunk Nation, digital, 17 min, 2017 An incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock.
SKY HOPINKA (Bellingham WA, 1984). Studies at Portland State University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 9+ films since 2010; screenings at TIFF, Courtisane (Ghent), imagineNATIVE (Toronto), “Projections” at NYFF, Whitney Biennial (2017), etc. Media City Prize Winner (2015). Lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
FRIDAY AUGUST 4 6:00PM
REGIONAL ARTISTS’ PROGRAM GERALD MCKAY CHARLIE EGLESTON DAVID GAZDOWICZ WILLIAM HUMPHREY ALANA BARTOL RACHEL DEBOLSKI
LEAH MCGRAIL STEVE WOOD MATT ROSSONI WILLIAM SPENCER JOSH PENNINGTON KEATON FOX
THE CAPITOL THEATRE
PRESENTING PARTNER: WEA & CITY OF WINDSOR
SINTER
Gerald McKay, Detroit, S8mm, 3 min, 2017 Crystals fall into shifting landscapes while sunlight dances dizzy lines into our eyes.
WATCH TOWER (PARTS 1-7)
Charlie Egleston, London, digital, 23 min, 2017 Structured in seven parts, each segment considers the impact a transmission beacon relays into its surrounding environment. Watch Tower acknowledges the act of watching through an acute awareness of how form influences perception while also observing the communications and timekeeping properties of the subject.
FLR
David Gadowicz, Wyandotte, digital 3.5 min, 2017 Looking at the world through the eyes of a visitor, this film focuses on the feeling of being displaced and alone. Finding moments of recognition becomes the goal.
CINEPORTRAIT 3
William Humphrey, Windsor, digital, 4 min, 2016 Two friends conquer their fear of heights at the local carnival.
A WOMAN WALKING (THE CITY LIMITS), NORTH OF THE BOW
Alana Bartol, Windsor, digital, 6 min, 2016 In 2016, I attempted to walk the city limits of Calgary (174 km+), tracing the walk through collected objects, photographs, and video.
SHADOWS IN BLUE
Rachel Debolski, Livonia, digital, 2 mins, 2017 Shadows in Blue is an experimental piece that explores subjectivity through imagery of abstracted shadow and light.
BIRTHDAY BLUES
Leah McGrail, Shelby Township, digital, 2 min, 2015 Birthday Blues is a short film generated with video collage meant to develop a nontraditional experience of time.
LULLABY OPTIC
Steve Wood, Detroit, digital, 8 min, 2015 Lullaby Optic features abstractions generated by moving light through multiple video feedback loops. The result is a catalog of transient electronic forms. Scored with sounds from NASA’s archive and circuit-bent toys.
SHUTTER UTTER
Matt Rossoni, London, digital, 6 min, 2015 An empty 16mm film projector is photographed and brought into the digital domain. Video acts as a kind of microscope revealing hidden pleasures.
DECAY
William Spencer, Detroit, digital, 4 min, 2017 Decay is an abstract film portraying the decay of the human mind through hardships.
EKPYROSIS
Josh Pennington, Detroit, digital, 2 min, 2016 Man vs. Nature.
PROOFS
Keaton Fox, Detroit, digital, 2.5 min, 2015 An investigation into how image presentation and preservation affect basic human perception in the digital age.Â
FRIDAY AUGUST 4 7:30PM
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2 ANA VAZ ESTHER URLUS ABIGAIL CHILD FERN SILVA RAJEE SAMARASINGHE KEVIN JEROME EVERSON
THE CAPITOL THEATRE
PRESENTING PARTNER: COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES & MOTHLIGHT MICROCINEMA
HÁ TERRA!
Ana Vaz, Brazil, 16mm > digital, 13 min, 2016 “Há Terra! stages a hunt and subverts ethnographic tendencies in order to exhume a history of survival and political resistance in the Brazilian badlands.” – Andréa Picard “Cannibalism. Absorption of the sacred enemy to transform him into a totem. The human adventure. The earthly goal.” – Charlotte Garson ANA VAZ (Brasilia, Brazil 1986). Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing). Ten+ films since 2008; screenings at Curtas Vila do Conde, Visions du Réel (Nyon), “Views from the Avant-garde” and “Projections” at the NYFF, etc. Third appearance at Media City. Film Society of Lincoln Centre’s Kazuko Trust Award, Media City and Fronteira Festival (Goiânia) Grand Prizes (2015).
ELLI
Esther Urlus, Netherlands, 16mm, 8 min, 2015 Elli was a Greek protected cruiser named for a naval battle of the First Balkan War in which Greece was victorious. The Italian submarine Delfino sank her during peacetime, August 15, 1940, while she rode at anchor near the island of Tinos celebrating the Feast of Dormition of the Theotokos. Filmed from a fixed vantage point overlooking the sea, at the exact location that marked Greece’s entrance into World War II, Elli examines 16mm optical colour mixing, and various flicker effects. ESTHER URLUS (Rotterdam, Netherlands 1966). Cofounder and leader of Filmwerkplaats (Rotterdam). 10+ films since 2001; screenings at 25FPS Festival (Zagreb), VideoEx Festival (Zürich), Ann Arbor Film Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Sonic Acts, and Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), TIFF, etc. First appearance at Media City. Lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
MUTINY (IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR? PART 2) Abigail Child, USA, 16mm, 10 min, 1983
Mutiny employs a panoply of expression, gesture, and repeated movement. Its central images are of women: at home, on the street, at the workplace, at school, talking, singing, jumping on trampolines, playing the violin. The syntax of the film reflects the possibilities and limitations of speech, while “politically, physically, and realistically” flirting with the language of opposition.
ABIGAIL CHILD (Newark NJ, 1948). Studies at Radcliffe College, Harvard University and Yale University School of Art. 40+ films since 1970; screenings at all major venues for artists’ film worldwide; in permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), etc. Fulbright (1993) and Guggenheim (1996) Fellowships; Rome Prize (2010). Six volumes of poetry since 1983. Fifth appearance at Media City. Lives in New York, NY.
THE WATCHMEN
Fern Silva, Portugal / USA, 16mm > 35mm, 10 min, 2017 Pulsating orbs, panopticons, roadside rest stops, and subterranean labyrinths confront the scope of human consequences and the entanglement of our seeking bodies. Regressions in missing time, caught in the act of captivity, confined to the carceral and perpetuated by movie sets, television sets, and alien encounters at bay. The corporeal cycle of control revolves as steadily as the sight of those who watch from above.
FERN SILVA (Hartford CT, 1982). Studies at the Massachusetts College of Art and Bard College. 10+ films since 2007; screenings at Cinema du Réel (Paris), International Film Festival Rotterdam, Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus), New Museum (New York); etc. Fifth appearance at Media City; 2014 Mobile Frames Filmmaker in Residence. Lives in New York, NY.
THE SPECTRE WATCHES OVER HER
Rajee Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka / USA, 16mm > digital, 14 min, 2016 A reaction to the seminal text by Swiss anthropologist Paul Wirz entitled Exorcism and the Art of Healing in Ceylon, this high contrast hand processed film considers a history of colonialism and ethnographic practices in South Asia. At my mother’s village, I restaged an exorcism once performed on her in the early 1960s when she was a little girl. Possessed by the lecherous entity known as the Kalu Kumara, the Sanni Yakuma healing ritual was performed over a 12-hour period. RAJEE SAMARASINGHE (Colombo, Sri Lanka 1988). Studies at University of California San Diego and California Institute of the Arts. 8+ films since 2012; screenings at FIDMarseille, San Francisco International Film Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, etc. First appearance at Media City. Lives in Irvine, California.
EASON
Kevin Jerome Everson, USA, 16mm > digital, 15 min, 2016 Eason is a film about migration and the death of James Walker Hood Eason, leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) of Philadelphia. J.W.H. Eason, born in North Carolina in 1886, migrated to Philadelphia in 1915. A brilliant orator and preacher, Eason joined the UNIA at its inception and was elected to the post of Leader of American Negroes at the first annual convention in 1920. He was shot after giving a sermon on New Year’s Eve and it was believed that Eason was silenced because he might testify against Marcus Garvey. Using historical information and new footage, Everson tells this forgotten fable of the Great Migration. KEVIN J. EVERSON (Mansfield OH, 1965). Studies at University of Akron and Ohio University. 80+ films since 1997; screenings at Centre Pompidou (Paris), Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum (New York), etc. Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), Rome Prize (2001). Seventh appearance at Media City; 2014 Mobile Frames Filmmaker in Residence. Lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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FRIDAY AUGUST 4 9:30PM
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3 ZACH IANNAZZI SAUL LEVINE FRIEDL VOM GRÖLLER HELENA GIRÓN & SAMUEL DELGADO ALEXANDRE LAROSE ELS VAN RIEL
THE CAPITOL THEATRE
PRESENTING PARTNER: MEDIA ARTS NETWORK OF ONTARIO & LIFT
OLD HAT
Zach Iannazzi, USA, 16mm, 9 min, 2016 “Fireworks, low sky, open road: the subjects are indeed ‘old hat’, suggesting a filmmaker contemplating both his materials and his influences. Each image seems to offer a door into a different kind of film, but then of course this air of indecision is an illusion since we are after all watching a finished film. As if to mirror this recognition, Old Hat abruptly tips into a free-fall of emulsion, colour, and image-traces: whatever the difficulty of finding a way forward, film does nothing but.” – Max Goldberg ZACH IANNAZZI (Boston MA, 1986). Studies at Hampshire College. Works in 16mm film since 2008; exhibitions and screenings at Austrian Film Museum (Vienna), EXiS (Seoul), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), “Projections” at NYFF, Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), San Francisco Cinematheque, etc. First appearance at Media City. Lives in Oakland, California.
LIGHT LICK: AMEN
Saul Levine, USA, S8mm > 16mm, 5.5 min, 2017 A stark portrait of my father at daily morning prayers to which I respond, AMEN. Light Licks are a series of films I began in 1999. The films are made frame by frame, often by flooding the camera with enough light to spill beyond the gate into the frame left unexposed. Light Licks are ecstatic flicker films inspired by jazz and mystic visionary practice, and extend my interest in the ways film can be a medium of visual improvisation. SAUL LEVINE (New Haven CT, 1943). 85+ films since 1964; screenings at numerous venues worldwide including recent retrospectives at (S8) Mostra de Cinema Perifério (A Coruña), L’Âge d’Or (Brussels), MoMA (New York), The Nightingale (Chicago), Harvard Film Archive (Cambridge), etc. Fourth appearance at Media City including retrospective screening (2013). Former editor of New Left Notes; programmer of MassArt Film society for 40+ years. Stan Brakhage Vision Award (2016). Lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
DURCH NACHT ZUM LICHT
Friedl vom Gröller, Austria, 16mm, 3 min, 2016 “The film welcomes us with an image of an ‘ideal place’: a toy world built by a child. This idyllic scene is a question of perspective. The city is lifeless, the figures frozen. Without animating human hands, everything is dead here…” – Judith Zdesar
FRIEDL VOM GRÖLLER (London, England 1946). Studies at Graphic Instruction and Research Institute Vienna. 40+ films since 1968; screenings and exhibitions at Austrian Filmmuseum (Vienna), Centre Pompidou (Paris), etc. Founder of School for Artistic Photography and School for Independent Film (Vienna). Austrian State Prize for Photography (2005) and Film (2016). Sixth appearance at Media City including retrospective screening and exhibition in 2010. Lives in Vienna, Austria.
MONTANAS AROIENTES QUE VOMITAN FUEGO
Helena Girón & Samuel M. Delgado, Spain, 16mm > digital, 13 min, 2016 Adopted by the resistance during the war, La Corona is one of the longest volcanic tunnels in Europe, and the site of an unsettled political past. Montanas Aroientes Que Vomitan Fuego touches on scientific theories of Athanasius Kircher, and piracy in the Canary Islands while journeying the depths of volcanic caves in Lanzarote. “We’ve taken the time to write with the hope that others would take the time to read. Writing is a vanity, unless it’s for the friend. Including the friend one doesn’t know yet.In the coming years, we’ll be wherever the fires are lit.” – The Invisible Committee SAMUEL DELGADO (Tenerife, Spain 1987). HELENA GIRÓN (Santiago de Compostela, Spain 1988). Study at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Exhibitions and screenings at Curtas Vila do Conde, International Film Festival Rotterdam, TIFF, etc. Second appearance at Media City. Living in Madrid, Spain.
SAINT BATHANS REPETITIONS
Alexandre Larose, Canada, 16mm, 20 min, 2016 Saint Bathans Repetitions is a cinematic portrait of Jacques Larose shot in the former gold mining town of Saint Bathans, deep in the heart of New Zealand’s Maniototo Plain. By avoiding perfect synchronization of sequences, the capturing process produces imagery that gradually unfolds and disintegrates under temporal displacement. While this method makes visible traces of individual layers, the resulting footage also reveals alternate visions and narratives based on the accumulation and amplification of material, suggesting slippages in time and space. ALEXANDRE LAROSE (Lebel-sur-Quévillon QC, 1978). Studies at Concordia University. 10+ films since 2014; screenings and exhibitions at Centre Pompidou (Paris), 25FPS (Zagreb), Palacio de La Moneda (Santiago), Austrian Film Museum (Vienna), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), etc. Fourth appearance at Media City. Lives in Montréal, Québec.
FUGUE: A LIGHT’S TRAVELOGUE Els Van Riel, Belgium, 16mm, 27 min, 2017
The physical paths of light were first traced by Ibn Al-Haytham, born in Iraq a thousand years ago. Ever since his Book of Optics opened, the “eye emanating light” has been closed. Thomas Young first saw the energy of particles of light behave like waves. His “double slit experiment” revealed the interference of two beams of light producing a pattern of dark and bright. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin established that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of the stars and accordingly, the most abundant element in the universe. While watching hydrogen fuse into helium she saw light escape. Since light’s substance still remains unseen, it is fair to say that light flows freely in impermeable, measurable quanta: carriers of electromagnetic energy, endlessly mixing and splitting, mixing and splitting matter into countless composite combinations. ELS VAN RIEL (Gierle, Belgium 1965). Studies at National Radio and Film Technical Institute (Brussels). 20+ films and installations since 2000; screenings at Courtisane (Ghent), Los Angeles Film Forum, etc. Lives in Brussels, Belgium.
SATURDAY AUGUST 5 6:00PM
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 4 TERRA LONG BEN RIVERS ANA VAZ DAÏCHI SAÏTO ROBERT TODD EPHRAIM ASILI
THE CAPITOL THEATRE
PRESENTING PARTNER: MOMENTUM FILM & VIDEO COLLECTIVE & CORKTOWN CINEMA
350 MYA
Terra Long, Canada, 16mm, 5 min, 2016 The Tafilalt region in the Sahara Desert was once the Rheic Ocean. 350 MYA conjures the ocean’s presence in the landscape, deep time in the folds of space.
TERRA LONG (Calgary AB, 1983). Studies at Concordia, and York Universities. Works in film since 2011; screenings and exhibition at Edinburgh International Film Festival, IDFA (Amsterdam), CPH DOX (Copenhagen), Anthology Film Archives (New York), International Film Festival Rotterdam, TIFF, etc. 2016 Mobile Frames filmmaker-in-residence. Lives in Toronto, Ontario.
MOHAMMED MRABET
Ben Rivers, UK, 16mm, 18 min, 2015 The Moroccan author, artist, and storyteller recounts two tales for the camera. “When I tell a story I don’t know where or why it began, how it will continue or when it will end. A story is like the sea, it has no beginning and no end, it is always the same and still it keeps always changing. When the ears want to hear, a voice begins to speak. Today the ears don’t want to hear but the eyes want to see. And when the pen forms words the story becomes a rock and rocks never change.” – Mohammed Mrabet BEN RIVERS (Somerset, England 1972). Studies at Falmouth School of Art. 20+ films since 2003; screenings and exhibitions at International Film Festival Rotterdam, ICA (London), Courtisane (Ghent), Image Forum (Tokyo), etc. 68th Venice Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize (2011), Robert Gardner Film Award (2012), IFFR Tiger Award for Short Film (2014). Sixth appearance at Media City. Lives in London, England.
AMÉRIKA: BAHÍA DE LAS FLECHAS Ana Vaz, Brazil, 16mm > digital, 9 min, 2016
It is said that in the year 1492 the first European ship led by Christopher Columbus disembarked on the coast of Samaná, present-day Dominican Republic, and was received by a rain of arrows carefully plotted by the Caribbean Taíno. Presently, a saline lake named after Taíno Chief Enriquillo witnesses profound eco-systemic changes leading to species migration, forced evacuation and an expanding coral desert revealing the lake’s geologic past. Taking the camera itself as an arrow, a foreign body, Amérika: Bahía de las Flechas looks for ways in which to animate, to awaken, to make vibrate again this gesture in the present –arrows against a perpetual “falling sky.” ANA VAZ (Brasilia, Brazil 1986). Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing). Ten+ films since 2008; screenings at Curtas Vila do Conde, Visions du Réel (Nyon), “Views from the Avant-garde” and “Projections” at the NYFF, etc. Third appearance at Media City. Film Society of Lincoln Centre’s Kazuko Trust Award, Media City and Fronteira Festival (Goiânia) Grand Prizes (2015).
ENGRAM OF RETURNING
Daïchi Saïto, Japan/Canada, 35mm Cinemascope, 18.5 min, 2015 “The figure of the jig-saw / that is of picture, / the representation of a world as ours / in a complex patterning of color in light and shadows, / masses with hints of densities and distances, / cut across by a second, discrete pattern / in which we perceive on qualities of fitting and not fitting / and suggestions of rhyme / in ways of fitting and not fitting— / this jig-saw conformation of patterns / of different orders, / of a pattern of apparent reality / in which the picture we are working to bring out appears / and of a pattern of loss and of finding / that so compels us that we are entirely engrossed in working it out, / this picture that must be put together / takes over mere seeing.” – Robert Duncan DAÏCHI SAÏTO (Tokyo, Japan 1970). Studies at Concordia University. 10+ films and installations since 2003; screenings and exhibitions at Image Forum (Tokyo), Anthology Film Archives (New York), BAFICI (Buenos Aires), Tate Modern (London), etc. 2014 Mobile Frames Filmmaker in Residence, and 2015 Underground Mines Commission Artist. Co-founder of Double Negative Collective. Media City Grand Prize in 2010. Lives in Montréal, Québec and Ithaca, New York.
TUMBLE
Robert Todd, USA, 16mm, 7 min, 2016 Tumbling between the US and Canada, a dance echoing a certain instability. Sound from a single continuous recording made at the base of Mont Royale, Montréal, Quebec.
ROBERT TODD (Boston MA, 1963). Studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (Boston). 150+ films since 1993; screenings and exhibitions at Harvard Film Archive (Cambridge), “Views from the Avant Garde” at NYFF, Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), Cinematheque Ontario (Toronto), etc. Thirteenth consecutive appearance at Media City. Lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
FLUID FRONTIERS
Ephraim Asili, USA, 16mm, 23 min, 2017 Filmed between Windsor-Detroit in summer 2016, Fluid Frontiers traces history and presence along pathways of the Underground Railroad and other significant landmarks including the Heidelberg Project. Animating texts from Detroit’s storied Broadside Press, publisher of many leading African American poets, including Alice Walker, Sonia Sanchez, Audre Lorde, Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, and Ethridge Knight, Fluid Frontiers engages chance encounter in the Detroit River borderlands. EPHRAIM ASILI (Philadelphia PA, 1979). Studies at Temple University and Bard College. Working in film since 2007; screenings and exhibitions at TIFF, MoMA (New York), Milan Film Festival, “Projections” at NYFF, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Film-Makers’ Cooperative (New York), etc. Second appearance at Media City. 2016 Mobile Frames Filmmaker in Residence. Lives in Hudson, New York.
SATURDAY AUGUST 5 7:30PM
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 5 LUKE FOWLER GEORGE CLARK PETER HUTTON HELGA FANDERL ROBERT BEAVERS UTE AURAND
THE CAPITOL THEATRE
PRESENTING PARTNER: COMMON GROUND GALLERY
FOR CHRISTIAN
Luke Fowler, Scotland, 16mm, 7 min, 2016 For Christian features short extracts from a longer interview which covered a variety of Wolff’s compositional strategies from writing text scores for non-musicians to indeterminacy, cueing and his turn in the 1970s to writing pieces with a consciously progressive content. The film is bookended by two of his dedication pieces–one for Alvin Lucier and the other for David Tudor.
LUKE FOWLER (Glasgow, Scotland 1978) Studies at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. 20+ films since 2001; exhibitions and screenings at White Chapel Gallery, ICA, Tate Modern (London), White Columns and MoMA (New York), Muzeum Sztuki (Łódź), Witte de With (Rotterdam), Courtisane Festival (Ghent), Austrian Film Museum (Vienna), etc. Derek Jarman award winner (2008), shortlisted for the Turner Prize (2012). Lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
SEA OF CLOUDS / 雲海
George Clark, England / Taiwan, 16mm > digital, 16 min, 2016 Sea of Clouds / 雲海 reflects on the relationship between images and their possible narration. Shot on the island of Taiwan, the film is structured around an interview with contemporary artist Chen Chieh-Jen (陳界仁). The work explores the relationship between film, landscape and rural life and the layered histories of these sites as potential places of self-organization. Built around the question of translation and the relationship of what we hear to what we see, the film follows Chen’s retelling of the farmer’s tradition of using film screenings as a means of covert political assembly during the Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan. GEORGE CLARK (Huddersfield, England 1982) Studies at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. Working in film since 2012; exhibitions, screenings and talks at Jihlava Film Festival, Image Forum (Tokyo), Kuanda Museum of Fine Arts (Taipei), Images Festival (Toronto), Light Industry (New York), etc. Curatorial projects include Throwing Shadows: Japanese Expanded Cinema in the time of Pop (2016), and L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (2015), etc. First appearance at Media City.
ŁÓDŹ SYMPHONY
Peter Hutton, USA, 16mm, 20 min, 1993 A portrait of Łódź, Poland that exists in a time warp of sad memory. Hutton creates an empty world evoking the 19th century industrial atmosphere that is populated with the ghosts of Poland’s tragic past.
PETER HUTTON (Detroit MI, 1944 – Hudson NY, 2016). Studies at San Francisco Art Institute. 20+ films since 1970; screenings at all major venues for artist’s film worldwide including full retrospective at MoMA (2008), and four editions of Whitney Biennial (New York). Guggenheim Fellow (1989). Fifth appearance at Media City, including retrospective and Grand Prize for World Premiere of At Sea (2006). Greatly missed.
DER AUGENBLICK IST MEIN
Helga Fanderl, France/ Germany, S8mm, 15 min, 2017 Recent Super 8 films selected for Media City by Helga Fanderl, including a short tribute to Peter Hutton. Karussell (Carousel) Wasserpflanzen (Water Plants) Blätter auf dem Glasdach (Leaves on a Glass Roof) Gespiegelt (Mirrored)
Blütenbaum (Blossom Tree) Imkerschule (Beekeeping School) Pleinair Fotos (Plein-air Photos) Mimosen im Wind (Mimosa in the Wind)
FÜR P. S8mm>16mm, 2 min, 2017 HELGA FANDERL (Ingolstadt, Germany 1947). Studies at the Städelschule (Frankfurt) and Cooper Union (New York). Nearly one thousand S8mm films since 1980s; screenings at Deutsches Filmmuseum (Frankfurt), Austrian Filmmuseum (Vienna), Centre Pompidou (Paris), no.w.here (London), Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt), Auditorium du Louvre (Paris), etc. Eighth appearance at Media City, including retrospective (2006), and Prize Winner (2009). Lives in Berlin, Germany.
AMONG THE EUCALYPTUSES
Robert Beavers, USA/Germany, 16mm, 4 min, 2017 Late afternoon quiet and a silent figure seated on a bench; the old factories and machinery, warehouses and train lines are part of a Greece, now disappearing.
ROBERT BEAVERS (Brookline MA 1949, lives in Europe since 1967). 20+ films since 1966; screenings at all major venues for artist’s film worldwide including EXPRMNTL (Knokke-le-Zoute), the Whitney Museum’s American Century film series, the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and solo presentations at MoMA (New York) and Austrian Film Museum (Vienna). Guggenheim Fellowship (1972), Media City Grand Prize (2014). Founder of The Temenos, an archive and screening series in Zürich and Greece dedicated to the films of Gregory Markopolous. Currently lives in Berlin, Germany.
FOUR DIAMONDS
Ute Aurand, Germany, 16mm, 4 min, 2016 A group of elderly ladies playing bridge followed by the stormy coast at Cape Cod while listening to Etienne Grenier’s music.
UTE AURAND (Frankfurt a.M., [West] Germany 1957). Studies at Deutschen Film und Fernsehakademie (Berlin). 40+ films since 1980; screenings and exhibitions at Anthology Film Archives (New York), Museum of Modern Art Yokohama, “Forum Expanded” program at Berlinale, etc. Seventh appearance at Media City, Grand Prize (2010). Lives in Berlin, Germany.
SATURDAY AUGUST 5 9:30PM
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6 ALDO TAMBELLINI JOSEPH CORNELL & JORDAN LAWRENCE KEVIN JEROME EVERSON & CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD PHILIPP FLEISCHMANN MANUELA DE LABORDE ANTOINETTE ZWIRCHMAYR CAMILO RESTREPO BRUCE MCCLURE
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BLACK PLUS X
Aldo Tambellini, USA / Italy, 16mm, 9 min, 1966 “Tambellini here focuses on contemporary life in a black community. The ‘X’ of Black Plus X, is a filmic device by which a black person is instantaneously turned white by the mere projection of the negative image. The time is summer, and the place is an oceanside amusement park where black children are playing in the surf and enjoying the rides, quite oblivious to Tambellini’s tongue-in-cheek ‘solution’ to the race problem.” – Grove Press Film Catalog ALDO TAMBELLINI (Syracuse NY, 1930). Studies at University of Syracuse, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1000+ artworks, films and poems since 1960; screenings and exhibitions at Tate Modern (London), Venice Biennale, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Whitney Museum (New York), ZKM | Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe), etc. Oberhausen Film Festival Grand Prix (1969); Lifetime Achievement Award, Syracuse Film Festival (2007); Gold Medal, Lucchesi Nel Mondo (2010), etc. Lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
THE MIDNIGHT PARTY
Jospeh Cornell, USA, 16mm, 4 min, 1938–1968 The Midnight Party belongs to a series of films left unfinished by Cornell, and completed by Lawrence Jordan in the late 1960s. “Minimal, incoherent fragments: / The opposite of History, creator of ruins, / out of your ruins you have made creations. / Theatre of spirits: / objects putting the laws / of identity through hoops.” – Octavio Paz JOSEPH CORNELL (Nyack NY, 1903 – Queens NY, 1972). Studies at Phillips Academy. Making films since 1936; exhibitions at the Guggenheim (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Royal Academy of Arts (London), and Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), etc. LAWRENCE JORDAN (Denver CO, 1934). Studies at Harvard University. Working in film since 1952; screenings at Cannes, etc. Second appearance at Media City. Lives in San Francisco, California.
70KG
Kevin J. Everson & Claudrena N. Harold, USA, 16mm > digital, 2.5 min, 2017 Two University of Virginia grapplers taking instructions. KEVIN J. EVERSON (Mansfield OH, 1965). Studies at University of Akron and Ohio University. 80+ films since 1997; screenings at Centre Pompidou (Paris), MoMA, Whitney Museum (New York), etc. Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), Rome Prize (2001), Media City Second Prize (2014). Seventh appearance at Media City; 2014 Mobile Frames Filmmaker in Residence. *For artist’s portrait, please see Eason (International Competition 2). CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD (Jacksonville FL, 1976). Associate professor of African American and African studies and history at University of Virginia (Charlottesville); specializes in African American history, black cultural politics, and labor history. Collaborates with Kevin J. Everson on films, Sugarcoated Arsenic (2013); We Demand (2016); Fastest Man in the State. Author of The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South (2007), and New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South (2016).
UNTITLED (GENERALI FOUNDATION VIENNA) Philipp Fleischmann, Austria, 16mm, 0.5 min, 2015
Fleischmann develops camera apparatus designed to expose relations between the film material and the object of the recording. The Generali Foundation was established in 1988 as an exhibiting and collecting organization, specializing in conceptual and performance art, rooted in the tradition of institutional critique. In 2014, the Foundation announced it would close its exhibition space and transfer its collection to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, on loan until 2039. This move threatens the site-specific topicality of the Generali‘s collection. Drawing from the foundation’s history of artistic intervention, Fleischmann conceived of this work to call attention to the gaze of the art object itself. PHILIPP FLEISCHMANN (Hollabrunn, Austria 1985). Studies at Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien and Die Schule für unabhängiger Film Friedl Kubelka (Vienna). 8+ films since 2006; screenings at Berlinale, Anthology Film Archives (New York), Vienna Secession, etc. Third appearance at Media City. Lives in Vienna, Austria.
AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN
Manuela De Laborde, Mexico / USA / UK, 16mm, 25 min, 2016 “Abstractions might seem evasive to some people, but to me they’re a way of achieving simplicity or frankness. They’re very liberating. My problem was that I realized that with many abstractions I could still pick up on their sources; I could still distinguish the reality they came from, and so I was seeing two things—the separation from reality and the reality itself—and I wanted to see if I could make something where I could only see the former, where only the abstracting process itself was visible.” – Manuela De Laborde MANUELA DE LABORDE (Mexico City, Mexico 1989). Studies at Edinburgh College of Art and California Institute of Arts. Working in film and video since 2013; screenings and exhibitions at TIFF, 25FPS Festival (Zagreb), International Film Festival Rotterdam, MoMA (New York), and VideoBrasil (São Paulo), etc. Lives in Mexico City.
VENUS DELTA
Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Austria, 16mm, 4 min, 2016 “Set in an otherworldly layered landscape of rock formations by a pristine mountain spring, an atmosphere of eerie femininity pervades the images.” – Julia Dossi
ANTOINETTE ZWIRCHMAYR (Salzburg, Austria 1989). Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. 9+ films since 2012; screenings and exhibitions at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Indielisboa (Lisbon), CPH: DOX (Copenhagen), etc. Best Innovative Film Award, Diagonale (Graz), Kodak Cinematic Vision Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival (2016). Second appearance at Media City. Lives in Vienna, Austria.
CILAOS
Camilo Restrepo, Colombia / France, 16mm > digital, 13 min, 2016 To keep a promise she made to her dying mother, a young woman goes off in search of her father, a womanizer she has never met. Along the way, she soon learns that he is dead, but continues on the journey to find him. Carried by the spellbinding rhythm of the maloya, a ritual chant from Reunion Island, Cilaos explores the deep, murky ties that bind the dead and the living. Cilaos is a village on Reunion Island where runaway slaves found freedom in the uninhabited mountains in the island’s interior. The word Cilaos comes from the Malagasy expression “tsy laozana,” which means “the place that you don’t leave.” CAMILO RESTREPO (Medellín, Colombia 1975). Studies at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, California Institute of Arts. 5+ films since 2011; screenings at Cannes, Courtisane Festival (Ghent), TIFF, etc. Winner Silver Pardino, Locarno International Film Festival (2016). Member of L’Abominable (Paris). First appearance at Media City. Lives in Paris, France.
ROTORATTLER #3
Bruce McClure, USA, 2 x 16mm, 12 min, 2017 There are many metaphors recurrent in discourse on the nature of consciousness. Written for the 1967 International Experimental Film Festival at Knokke-le-Zoute and quoted by Annette Michelson in Artforum, June 1971, Michael Snow’s description of his film Wavelength bestirs subterfuge. 1) In which way is the film experimental? “It is new.” was Snow’s response. 2) Real life views or animation? “Real life.” he said.
Pain of Salvation–Let me seek the answer that I need to know, let me find a way, let me walk away through the undertow . . . please let me go.
BRUCE McCLURE (Washington DC, 1959). Studies architecture at Virginia Tech. 30+ projector performances since 1995; screenings at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus), two editions of the Whitney Biennial (New York), etc; Guggenheim Fellowship (2011). 15th consecutive appearance at Media City. Lives in Brooklyn, New York.
BLACK PLUS X, Aldo Tambellini, 16mm, 1966. Courtesy Harvard Film Archive and the Aldo Tambellini Estate
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22nd MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL / AUGUST 2–5, 2017 / WINDSOR–DETROIT
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Media City Film Festival is a co-presentation of the House of Toast Film & Video Collective, Arts Council Windsor & Region, and Allied Media (Detroit). The 22nd edition is presented with support from the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the City of Windsor’s Arts Culture and Heritage Fund. Additional sponsorship and in-kind support from Full Aperture Systems (Chicago), Toronto International Film Festival’s Wavelengths Series, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Film Theatre, Media Arts Network of Ontario, Common Ground Gallery and the Travelodge Hotel (Windsor). Additional thanks to our members, donors, sponsors, presenting partner organizations, and volunteers.
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CATALOGUE NOTES The opening night screening of Yoko Ono’s films, all films of Artavadz Péléchian, Aerial (Margaret Tait), Mutiny (Abigail Child), Łódź Symphony (Peter Hutton), Black Plus X (Aldo Tambellini), The Midnight Party (Joseph Cornell & Lawrence Jordan) * are exhibited out of competition. All prints and digital materials are provided by the artists except: all films of Yoko Ono provided by Studio One, New York. Artavadz Péléchian’s Menq (We), Vremena Goda (The Seasons) courtesy Les Films sans Frontières (Paris), and Obitateli (The Inhabitants) courtesy of International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany. Aerial (Margaret Tait), For Christian (Luke Fowler), and Mohammed Mrabet courtesy LUX, London; Mutiny (Abigail Child), The Midnight Party (Joseph Cornell & Lawrence Jordan), and Łódź Symphony (Peter Hutton) courtesy Canyon Cinema; Black Plus X (Aldo Tambellini) courtesy Harvard Film Archive; Engram of Returning (Daïchi Saïto) and 350 MYA (Terra Long) courtesy CFMDC; Venus Delta (Antoinette Zwirchmayr) courtesy Light Cone, Paris. • Durations are rounded to the nearest minute • Descriptions are provided by the artists unless another source is cited • Exhibition formats are those presented at Media City; others may exist