From: Flick Harrison (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Mar 10 2009 - 13:49:17 PDT
From: VIVO Media Arts <email suppressed>
Date: March 10, 2009 1:15:21 PM PDT (CA)
To: VIVO Members <email suppressed>
Subject: [VIVO MEMBERS] [Fwd: Pacific Cinémathèque presents *Decadent
Resistance: Vancouver Video Practice, 1967-2008*]
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March 09 2009
For Immediate Release
*MEDIA ARTISTS ALI LOHAN AND MOIRA SIMPSON IN ATTENDANCE*
DIM SCREENING PROGRAM
Decadent Resistance:
The Aesthetics of Politics (and Politics of Aesthetics) in Vancouver
Video Practice, 1967-2008
Programmed by Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk & Michael Lithgow
Sunday, March 22 — 7:30pm
Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver
VANCOUVER — Pacific Cinémathèque and the DIM screening program present
Decadent Resistance: The Aesthetics of Politics (and Politics of
Aesthetics) in Vancouver Video Practice, an exploration of the
dynamics between aesthetics and activism evidenced in West Coast video
art. Decadent Resistance is a community-curated media art program that
invites programmers and directors of historical and contemporary media
arts centres such as the Access to Media Education Society,VIVO Media
Arts, and ISIS Women in Film to submit video works that exemplify an
approach that touches on the tension between aesthetics and politics.
Taking its name from an essay written by Michael Lithgow for Alex
Mackenzie and Oliver Hockenhull’s publication DAMP: Contemporary
Vancouver Media Arts, this event recalls the successful booklaunch for
the volume we held last year in May. Lithgow is back for Decadent
Resistance, helping regular curator Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk to program.
"The urge to make and share video at the hyperlocal level with
instrumental intent is strong in Vancouver, and has always been so,"
says Lithgow. "Video artists in Vancouver have been reimagining
gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality from the
outset. [Our video art has attempted] to encourage, facilitate, even
broker the reimagining of self by citizens, by the people who live in
the communities that make up the spaces where we live."
Vancouver video artists have long attracted national and international
attention for their innovative work. Decadent Resistance, with its
focus on local product, acts as an impressive survey of what it is
that makes our artists stand out above the rest.
Video artwork will be introduced and contextualized by their curator,
including Ali Lohan and filmmaker Moira Simpson. A panel discussion
between all representatives will follow the screening.
For more information visit our new website: www.cinematheque.bc.ca/dim
ABOUT DIM: DIM is a monthly evening of contemporary short-form moving
images and cinematic collaborations. It creates an accessible, stable
space for experimental film, video, new media and cinematic
performance art — work that is only shown sporadically in film
festivals, underground art spaces or galleries.
ABOUT THE CURATOR: Amy Lynn Kazymerchyck, a film curator and film
artist interested in the tactile and interactive aspects of
experimental filmmaking. She is currently making personal essay Super
8 films that document her relationship to landscape, home and travel.
She resides in Toronto andVancouver, where she is discovering her love
of film culture, programming, throwing parties, and collaborating with
artists on film adventures.
ABOUT PACIFIC CINEMATHEQUE: Pacific Cinémathèque is a society and
centre dedicated to the understanding of film and moving images in
both the Canadian and international contexts. Through screenings and
the provision of educational services and resources, Pacific
Cinémathèque fosters critical media literacy and advances cinema as
art and a vital means of communication in British Columbia and Canada.
Since its incorporation in 1972, Pacific Cinémathèque has presented
more foreign, Canadian, independent, art-house, classic, experimental,
short and documentary films than any other theatre inVancouver.
—— VIDEOS PRESENTED BY ———————————
AMES (Access to Media Education Society)
desmedia
Fearless TV
ICTV (Independent Community Television)
ISIS Women in Film
Metro Media
Projections
VIVO
Working TV
—— MEDIA RESOURCES ——————
Interview with programmers Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk and Michael Lithgow
Interview with select artists and curators
—— SCREENINGS —————————
SUNDAY MARCH 22 — 7:30PM
$9.50 Adult Single Bill
$3 membership required
24hr Film Infoline: 604 688 FILM
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MEDIA CONTACT
Jessica Parsons | Marketing + Operations | email suppressed
| 604.688.8202 x 226
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