Guest Programs
Winnipeg Film Group
40th Anniversary Screening
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Friday, November 27, 2015 / 5 pm
Maisons des Étudiants
Canadiens
Cité Universitaire de Paris
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Winnipeg Film Group
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Celebrated internationally, the Winnipeg Film Group produces some of Canada's most original cinema. This year the Winnipeg Film Group celebrates its 40th anniversary. To commemorate this, Solomon Nagler was commissioned to assemble an anthology of work produced over four decades. Transgressive, abstract and surreal, these artists explore the manic energy and melancholic reflections from a frozen city that dreams a remarkable cinema.
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Rapture
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Gord Wilding
Canada
1997 | 0:12:00
Rapture is a short film about one man's fixation on an ideal and his ineffective attempts at replicating this ideal in his own disturbed and polluted mind. Rapture's quiet visuals are complemented by an inventive and disquieting sound treatment.
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38 Jansky Units
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Jon Krocker
Canada
1982 | 0:03:00
This early new wave classic references the unit of luminous flux used by radio astronomers in measuring electromagnetic raìdiation from space, named for Karl Jansky, the first person to detect radio frequency energy from the Milky Way.
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Music |
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Greg Hanec
Canada
1983 | 0:06:00
A group of infants with electric guitars compose a shocking violent punk rock song which surprises, saddens and offends their mothers.
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OkeeDoke
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Leon Johnson
Canada
1973 | 0:03:00
A portrait of the filmmakers former brother-in-law, Steve Jackson, with psychedelic photograph animation synchronized to music performed by Chuck Aliamo.
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5 cents a Copy
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Ed Ackerman, Gregory Zbitnew
Canada
1980 | 0:05:30
An innovative experimental animated film that makes moving images with a photocopy machine. Through bizarre images and a pulsing electronic musical score, the filmmakers have created a mind expanding work that will long remain in your memory.
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Sackvill Music Hall
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Solomon Nagler & Alexandre Larose
Canada
2014 | 0:03:25
Is the second Part of a three part film series that were originally conceived and exhibited as installations housed within experimental architecture. The second film is a phantasmal documentation of remnants light projections in a vaudeville theatre that has fallen to ruins, due in part to the failed appropriation of the space by the parasitic architecture of cinematic projection.
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The Pieced Quilt |
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Scott Fitzpatrick
Canada
2013 | 0:04:00
Ink is lifted directly from the page in a physical adaptation of the Bullfinch Press book of the same title. Two folk/design traditions converge in this cameraless animation on recycled 16mm film.
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Mynarski: Death Plummet |
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Matthew Rankin
Canada
2014 | 0:08:00
A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes of Winnipeg’s doomed Second World War hero, Andrew Mynarski. Combining aviation agitprop and abstract animation, Mynarski: Death Plummet is a psychedelic, photo-chemical war picture on the theme of self-sacrifice, infinity and jellyfish.
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Time Away |
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Carole O'Brien
Canada
2007 | 0:07:00
A meditation on finding your place in the world when your reality is more like floating in space.
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Tudor Village: a one shot deal |
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Rhayne Vermette
Canada
2012 | 0:05:15
In pursuit of an eclipse, the citizens of Winnipeg flee the city. Meanwhile, stranded in Tudor Village, the caretaker does his best to interrupt their trajectory & entice everyone to return.
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Isolating Landscapes |
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Heidi Phillips
Canada
2007 | 0:05:00
A first exploration of narrative, Isolating Landscapes hints at relationship woes by mixing both spare and lush hand-crafted imagery with confessional text. Beautifully minimal scenes give way to denser moments, as when an ice-sculpture of an anatomical heart is hung, lantern-like, over a darkening street.
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What Comes Between |
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Cecilia Araneda
Canada
2009 | 0:05:30
What Comes Between is an examination of personal memory and loss rooted in the filmmakers birth place Chile and her departure from that country long ago. The work is a collage film created with found footage from personal and historic sources, and original hand printed and tinted footage.
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Gains + Losses |
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Leslie Supnet
Canada
2011 | 0:03:25
Through situational vignettes, gains + losses illustrates Supnet’s thoughts on death and other personal, day-to-day anxieties. Made as a goodbye letter to a deceased beloved, the work touches on internal grief, tempered with a playful sense of humour and lo-fidelity charm.
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Hospital Fragment |
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Guy Maddin
Canada
1999 | 0:04:00
The attempts of a young man to consummate his love for a young woman are thwarted by a fish monger. The woman's beloved cuts bark fish.
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Knout |
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Deco Dawson
Canada
1999 | 0:10:00
Film (knout) concentrates on a young woman who sets down to the task of tying rope. Meanwhile she has the same idea, and a confrontation of self endures.
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The Yodeling Farmer
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John Scoles & Mike Maryniuk
Canada
2011 | 0:06:10
The Yodeling Farmer explores the life and music of Manitoba cowboy yodeling legend Stew Clayton. This playful, animated documentary portrays the charming, yodeling farmer with humour and wit and looks the way yodeling sounds.
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