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A program curated and presented by:
Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt, Institute for the Coordination and Propagation of Exploratory Cinemas, (ICPCE), Montreal
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The architecture of bodies and matter explode into pieces and parts. Under the grace of vertigo and euphoria, cinema is dismantled and devastated in ashes… – in that way the curator and artist Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt describes a program of movies from the year 1968 to 2010, presenting the important part of the history and presence of Canadian experimental cinema and its makers.
The selection includes visual experiments on the celluloid film tape next to multilayerd collages of images, meanings and temporal spans, avantgarde interventions into the narrative structure of the cinematic medium as well as found footage materials and subversive recordings of the cinema of resistance taken during the Paris upheavals of 1968.
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Screening is a part of the European
Of Vertigo and Ruins screening is part of a Via Cultura program, organized by the City of Wrocław to celebrate the official nomination Wrocław as the European Capital of Culture 2016.
Film program / filmmakers
Karl Lemieux, Trains, 2010, Canada, 5:00, 16 mm, transferred to DVD
Karl Lemieux (born 1980), a graduate of Concordia University, is creator of experimental short films screened internationally. His work is inspired by the dialogue that occurs between film and sound art, his process is centered on inner sensations. He has also been a regular participant in concerts and performances in which he projects and manipulates 16mm films live. His works have been presented internationally in underground music venues, cinematheques, museums, galleries and film festivals. His most recent work, Mamori (2010, 8:00, 35 mm), produced by the National Film Board of Canada with sound design by Francisco Lopez, was presented as a solo exhibit at the Montreal Contemporary Arts Museum and was awarded the Grand Prize at the 25th International Experimental Film Festival in Zagreb. Lemieux is also the co-founder of Double Negative, a collective of Montreal film and video artists dedicated to the production and exhibition of experimental film.
Étienne O’Leary, Chromo Sud, 1968, France–Canada, 21:00, 16 mm, transferred to DVD
Étienne O’Leary (1944-2011), pillar of the underground and initiator of a new film language, managed to produce three films during his short career in Paris between 1966 and 1968: Day Tripper, Homeo (aka Homeo: Minor Death: Coming Back from Going Home) and Chromo Sud. It’s a cinema of resistance: brutally personal and subversive films form a personal diary, chronicling day-to-day life, with friends, girls and events portrayed as an intimate pathway into an era of great social changes. O’Leary is also a musician and composer, his techniques appear to be strongly intuitive, hinting towards improvisation. Manipulating tapes and sound sources, he explored the use of Musique Concrète in film music and found a way for abstraction to make sense.
Jean-Claude Labrecque, Essai à la mille, 1970, Canada, 7:00, 16 mm, transferred to DVD
Jean-Claude Labrecque (born 1971) is a director and cinematographer who learned the basics of filmmaking at the Quebec Film Office and the National Film Board of Canada. His 1965 documentary short ’60 Cycles’ won 22 major international awards and earned an BAFTA Award nomination. He has lectured on filmmaking at Université du Québec à Montréal, and his credits in both the feature and documentary forms include À tout prendre, La nuit de la poésie, La vie heureuse de Léopold Z, Le chat dans le sac, Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail, The Ernie Game, De mère en fille, Le temps et le lieu, La femme qui boit, La neuvaine, Mariages and Contre toute espérance.
“Here’s a special film in Jean-Claude Labrecque’s impressive body of work! Hallucinatory poem on a music score by Pierre Henry and text of the Apocalypse of St-Jean, the film has mystic’s vibrations and exert an undeniable fascination on the viewer. Working with a extremely narrow-angle lens (1000 mm) to film the sun and visual effects of heat on a landscape.” Marcel Jean, revue24images.com
Solomon Nagler, perhaps/We, 2003, Poland-Canada, 11:00, 16mm, transferred to DVD
Solomon Nagler lives in Halifax where he is a professor of film production at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. His films have been presented across Canada, in the U.S., Europe and Asia at venues such the Centre Pompidou (Paris), L’Université Paris Panthéon Sorbonne and Lincoln Center in New York. His work has been featured at the Winnipeg Cinematheque (2004), the Excentris Cinema in Montreal (2007), the Festival De Le Cinéma Different in Paris (2005, 2007), the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers and The Canadian Film Institute (2009).
“Like a world seen in sleep – a paradox of wakefulness and delirium, part lucid dream, part sunshine through sleep-heavy lids – the treated footage in Solomon Nagler’s perhaps/We (…) Found sounds and field recordings join scratched records to create a soundtrack as plaintive as Nagler’s manipulated film stock, a lone voice introducing and concluding the film: I float/ Above the world/ In my sleep/ In my dreams / And every time I dream, I loose half my body. (…)” Adam Pugh, Aurora Film Festival, Norwich England.
Serge de Cotret, La prière génitale, 2009, Canada, 7:00, video
Serge de Cotret (born 1956), painter and photographer, Serge de Cotret figurative work dwells its inspiration mainly in religious thematics, iconography and in the shadowy corners of the Eros.
Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt, La nuit obscure, 2011, Canada, 29:00, super-8 mm, transferred to DVD
Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt born in Montreal, filmmaker and active in experimental pedagogue organizations. He works toward the dislocation of projections spaces and operations aiming to catalyse and short-circuit; his films and installations works exhale ballistic liturgy of burning horizons Presentations in numerous places around the world, such as Museum of Contemporary Art of Zagreb, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki and many subterranean kinos, churches, abattoirs, casinos, bunkers and offline networks in the world.
Alexandre Larose, Ville Marie, 2006-2010, Canada, 12:00, 16 mm, transferred to DVD
Alexandre Larose (born 1978) is a French-Canadian filmmaker based in Montreal. While completing a bachelor in mechanical engineering, Larose began experimenting with the film medium using the super8mm format. He completed a BFA in cinema at Concordia University in 2006. By incorporating elements of the scientific approach, Alexandre’s work expresses and reveals the fragility of the cinematic apparatus through formal treatment of the medium.