From: 8 Fest (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2008 - 06:55:42 PST
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= the 8 fest = A NEW FESTIVAL FOR SMALL-GAUGE FILMS IN TORONTO
no-budget films by artists, activists and outsiders
short diaries, documentaries and essays on film
live performance and music mixed with film
cut-ups and found footage films
films from everyday culture: home movies, loops
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 22
7 PM SUPER 8 SOUND FILMS BY SAUL LEVINE
Co-presented by the Images Festival
Raps And Chants, Parts I & II 1981, super 8, color, sound, 26 min
"Raps And Chants' first part is a man's monologue about a grueling LSD
adventure and the second is the portrait of a woman, gleefully milking
cacophony from a tape recorder by rapidly playing with the buttons." P.
Adams Sitney, Village Voice
Notes of an Early Fall 1976, super 8, color, sound, 33 min
Notes was mostly made in Binghamton in 1976 - a warped record constructed
out of visits to the zoo, relatives and various locations. "Levine's first
talkie, Notes of an Early
9 PM CounterNarratives
There's more to cheesy old educational films than meets the eye! Armed with
his trusty Technicolor Super 8 Cartridge projector and a passel of vintage
classroom loops, "the 8 fest's" Jonathan Culp invites PERFORMERS of widely
varying stripes TO 'NARRATE' these silent artifacts to their own
satisfaction. What will a room full of aesthetes make of such titles as
"Lemming Migration", "Movement in the City", "Desert Tortoise Courtship
Ritual" and "Snacks"? This will probably be your only chance to find out!
FEATURING: Mohammad Ali Aumeer, Rose Bianchini, Lora Bozabalian, Stacey
Case, Heather Childs, Suzanne Farkas, Graham Hollings, Luis Jacob, Ryan
Kamstra, Boonaa Mohammed, Dwayne Morgan, Andrew Paterson, Matthew Trafford,
Jane Walker, Jessica Westhead, Greg Woods
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23
7 PM ORPHAN FILMS & BRING YOUR HOME MOVIES
( Home Movie Repair Clinic 6 PM )
Homemade Movies home movie history project presents
ORPHAN FILMS
A screening of long lost "orphaned" films. Local collectors Grant Heaps &
Ian Phillips are on a quest to find, preserve and re-present all the
forgotten home movies that end washed-up on the shores of goodwills,
auctions and dumpsters. From: impromptu wrestling at a 'cognac party', to a
man saving a chair from a gas station fire, to the set (in Barrie) of "The
Littlest Hobo", to cottage life on the Toronto Islands in 1934, we offer
strangely compelling portraits of everyday life from the 1930's to 70's!
followed by . . .
BRING YOUR HOME MOVIES
The second part of our screening is your chance to bring your home movies to
show (8mm, super 8). Dig through your parent's attic or grab that orphaned
reel you found at the thrift shop. AND If you no longer have a working
projector, come early to our HOME MOVIE REPAIR CLINIC starting at 6 PM. Let
us help you one-on-one to look through your home movie collection again and
give advice on preserving your films.
9 PM BAGEROO the art of simply super 8
"BAGEROO - the art of simply super 8" brings to the big screen a selection
of RECENT WORK and a few older pieces. JOHN PORTER (aka the "Godfather of
Super 8" to many) delights with a new condensed ritual in a small bowling
alley; TANYA READ premieres a new work hot from the lab; and archival gems
from ADRIAN GφLLNER, CLIFFORD CAINES and others will be brought to you for
your viewing pleasure!
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SUGGESTED DONATION $5 PER SCREENING
Co-presented by TRASH PALACE "Toronto's Classiest Cinema"
Sponsored by HOMEMADE MOVIES home movie history project
= the 8 fest = is organized by Benny Zenga, Milada Kovacova, Jonathan Culp
& Scott Berry.
Thanks to: Stacey Case, Laura Cowell, Tim Dallett, David Fingrut, Dan
Lovranski, Jim Munroe, John Porter, Alex Rogalski, Jason St Laurent, Roger D
Wilson,
Canyon Cinema, the Images Festival, LIFT, New York Filmmakers Cooperative,
Pleasure Dome & Trinity Square Video.
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= the 8 fest = a little festival for small films
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