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RECENT WORKS COMPLETED WITH ASSISTANCE FROM
THE CSIF
PsYCLE:
Artist: John Driftmier Video 13:00 minutes
A short film about a washing machine repairman whose life is turned upside down when his dream becomes reality, and reality becomes a dream.
Elena Evanoff: Artist: Doug Taplin 35mm
1:00 minute
A lyrical short that examines the process of the artist.
Cities to Mountains: Artist: Craig Langley
16 mm 9:00 minutes
A study of timelapse photography from prairie cities to the mountains.
RITMOSALSA:
Artist: Chris Railescu Cozea Betacam SP 57:00 minutes
A friendly and entertaining introduction to a new expression of Latin American dance. Three dancers – a man and two women - demonstrate the movements and techniques associated with this fabulous form of Carioca/Latino dance.
Zombie Farm:
Artist: Summer Media Arts Camp 16mm 13:00 minutes A Summer Media Arts
Camp film, Written, Directed, Shot and Edited by six young filmmakers
aged 15-18: Allison Hironaka, Sasha Barry, Jeff Pavlopoulos, Aaron Bernakevitch,
Bobby Uppal and John Blitt.
When the young Hero gets a call from the detective who has been searching for his missing girlfriend, the Hero sets out to meet the detective and save his girlfriend. Along the way the Hero discovers that his girlfriend has mysteriously become the queen of a deadly zombie cult. Can the Hero and the Detective release her from the zombies strange hold on her mind or will they too fall victim to the zombies... (Oops I gave away the ending).
Hot Dog: Artist: Keith Murray Super 8mm 3:30 minutes
'Hot Dog' is a short film made through the Fairy Tales Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival Shoot Me Scholarship. This SuperEight film is about a dog involved in the act of auto-fellacio, which proves to be highly symbolic of much deeper desires. 'Hot Dog' was screened at the Fairy Tales Film Festival in Calgary, June 6th, 2003.
Chronoscope: Artist: Joe Kelly 16mm Film
Installation.
Cronoscope is an original projector and film system created and built byJoe Kelly that employs a film disc instead of a film reel like most conventional movie projectors. The film disc has 60 frames and projects at exactly one frame per second and loops indefinitely. The projector is reminiscent of an era at the dawn of cinema when a myriad of inventors and inventions deluged filmmakers and viewers with many devices and formats for making and viewing the moving image.
Ultra sound:
Artist: video installation Joe Kelly Video
Ultra Sound is a video / audio installation. It is meant to create a stage on which information is transmitted through a medium and is changed by that medium, the information of sound, light, and metaphoric narrative. Sound passed through water moves faster and farther than through air, but is altered along its course.
A Problem with Fear : Artist: Gary Burns 35mm 90:00 minutes
Laurie Harding is pretty much afraid of everything; elevators, escalators, crossing the street, spaghetti (or any red sauce meal)... intimacy. This makes him the perfect consumer for Global Safety Inc.’s incredible new product: The Early Warning 2 Safe System”. Through your PDA or a Safe Bracelet the System alerts you to danger and sends for help! The problem is, fear is now running rampant through the city as people are dying fromn the very things Laurie fears most. He’s certain that he’s to blame for the “Fear Storm” gripping the city because he had the prototype System before anyone else. While his girlfriend, Dot tries to force him to commit to their relationship Laurie resolves that he must cross the street to save the world.
Dream of the Dragon:
Artist: Tim Mooney Super 8mm 10:30 minutes
A down on his luck exploration geologist who sniffs gasoline and believes that oil pump jacks are dragons attempts to defeat the dragon.
A Woman of Song :
Artist:Sean Bowie Mini DV 9 minutes
A Woman of Song - a 9 min retrospective on Sherry Kennedy. A local singer who has enjoyed international success. The short film features behnd the scenes documentary footage as well as live performance footage captured to get the real essence of who this dynamic performer is.
The Picnic: Artist: Jasmin Poon Super
8mm 2:40 minutes
Two friends enjoy a picnic in the park while the ducks float by.
Untitled: Artist: Ron Grondin Super 8mm 3:00 minutes
A surreal study of a contemporary family living in the suburbs.
Poppies / Little Clam: Artist: James Morin Super 8mm 8:00 minutes
A colourful animated experience about flowers, a little boy, bananas and a mysterious phone.
Intorductional Note: Artist: Joe Kelly/Internal
Affairs Super 8mm 3:00 minutes
Counter- culture activities in front of the Calgary corporate shark lunch rush downtown.
Duckorama :
Artist: Joe Kelly Super 8mm Loop
Duckorama is a super 8 film installation that was commisssioned by the Sugar Estate Gallery and Museum of Oddities for a group show that ran in conjuction with Art Week 2003
Second Coming in the Second Grade: Artist: Rita and Smita Acharyya 16mm 10:00 minutes
A seven year old hindu girl going to catholic school feels left out when everyone receives the eucharist except her and her bestfriend lisa steals one for her to try and when she tells her older brother he convinces her that the body of christ is literally growing inside of her and that she has to be good at all times.
Omukai: Facing the Window Seat: Artist: Anne Marie Nakagawagi Hi 8 4:45 minutes
Investigates the psychological tension between people inhabiting the same space without speaking.
Unforgivable: Artist: Myrna Valance/Tom
Carey Video 20:00 minutes Comedy/Western
Calgary International Film Festival: Artist: Cam Christenson 16mm blown up to 35mm 2 x 0:30
The creation of two 30 second commercials promoting the Calgary international film festival. The commercials were screened before each movie (38, 000 people viewed) They were also shown on CBC , Shaw , Documentary film channel, and showcase.
Lost in a Book: Artist: Bill Duke Super
8mm 5:00 minutes
As a woman reads a book she is unable to distinguish the difference between reality and fiction as everything that she reads comes true in her world.
Angel Bones: Artist: Melody Jacobson
Super 8mm 5:00 Minutes
Angel Bones blends fiction and fact to surmise what would happen if physical evidence of a spiritual being was found. The short Super 8 b/w / colour film pits Christians against Scientists, and looks at contemporary examples that point to a resurgence of fundamentalism. Soundtrack by Cody Oliver and Melody Jacobson, featuring Eric Hamelin.
Sister What Happened: Artist: Peter Stinson
Super 8mm 14:30
A Red Smarteez tribute to the Coen’s “Brother, Where Art Thou?” Three jailbirds are chased across the Alberta landscape by a tough cop.
Fairytales Film Festival Trailer:
Artist: Stacey Perlin Mini DV 0:30 seconds
A short 30 second piece that encouraged alternative lifestyles to play before each feature film during the 2003 festival.
Chronic: Artist: Joe Kelly 16mm 3:45
minutes Chronic is an experimental 16mm film,
It is a dance film that explores body machine ideas. This film is inspired by the work of Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge and other photographic pioneers who studied motion with photography before the advent of motion picture cameras. The new dance movements that were created for this film have rhythmical parallels to Marey and Muybridge's work. Their studies uncovered truths that had never before been known. The truths they were seeking were scientific in nature, but much more can be gathered from these studies than just measurements and frequencies. Their photographs broke down the most rapid and complicated movements into visible increments and left nothing to be hidden by the limitations of our perception. The visual aspect of the film was made using a photocopier, which creates a high contrast low-res look that, refers to the developing technologies used by the pioneers of the moving image.
The Phone Call:
Artist: JJ Ryan Super 8mm 5:00 minutes
Bunny Rabid: Artist: Jason Webster Super
8mm 5:00 minutes
Comedy dealing with the age old confilict of man vs. bunny.
Colleen Philippi's WUNDERKABINETT: A
Fictional Atuobiography Artist: David Grantham Mini DV 21:00 minutes
Put on the white gloves and dance your hands across a turn of the century ironing-board cabinet festooned with lush oil-painted illustratoins, outfitted with nooks and crannies, drawers within cabinets, windup toys and music boxes to pop out and surprise you. All chronicling the work of Clagary's own Colleen Philippi - or is there something else going on here? Originally commissioned by the artist as an archival record - of a work sold to a major American art collector at the Chicago Art Fair in the Spring of 2003; the piece came together with enough strength to be displayed in Colleen's most recent show, "Islomania" (October 23rd to November 13, 2003) at Calgary's New Zones Gallery.
a fable:
Artist: Keith Murray Super 8mm Completed to Beta 7:00 minutes
A short abstract film produced through the schedule of the CSIF Film as Poetic Imagery workshop. a fable is a po-mo, highly symbolic tale illustrating the transition that takes place when a character moves from a world outside to a world inside.
The Heist:
Artist: Jamie Dixon Super 8mm 1:00 minute
A low rent mobster tries to steal beer for his employer while trying to avoid the authorities.
Sodom City: Artist: Randy Rudland Super
8mm 9:00 minutes
The Red Hot Lovers rock band have a big gig tonight! Charlie, the bass player set up the show with a very rich and powerful promoter and completely forgot about it. With no time to spare he tears around the city in search of his bandmates who up to no good of their own.
The Last Season: Artist: Marty McDonough,
Bryan Kramer 35mm 13:00 minutes
Dude Bomb:
Artist: Pat Downing Super 8mm 3:00 minutes
An avant-garde intorduction to the world of the Dude Bomb - releasing loud and lovely rock music to the unsespecting masses.
Ingestion Affair:
Artist: Josh Whitford Super 8mm 5:00 minutes
A drunkard with no respect gets taught a lesson by the bottles he so ignorantly abuses
No Information available:
Artist: Matthew Provost Super 8mm 3:00 minutes
EL Bocce:
Artist: Sean Bowie mini dv 4 minutes
El Bocce - On a frosty winter morning, two dorks face off against two of the coolest ladies this side of the pacific in a Bocce match to end all bocce matches. A 4 min clash of the titans that goes til dusk attracting a crowd to watch the duel to the death ... or at least for a beer ...
Post Production
Once Upon a Road: Artist: Keith Lawrence Mini DV 93:00 minutes
4 youths band together to escape their pasts and drive on the open road to search for their future as well as themselves (while robbing people along the way to finance their trip)
Rottem Shaolin Zombies: Artist: Blaine Wasylkiw Video 20:00 minutes
Epic tale of two brothers, the best of friends, whose lives are torn asunder by some bad sushi and the resulting death and zombification of on of the brothers. After much carnage and destruction, brother must face brother in a battle to the death, resulting in even more blood and carnage. Complete with action, gore, comedy and singing.
Peculiar Planet: Artist: Trevor Alberts 16mm 17:00 minutes
A whimsical exploration of truth and faith as told throughout a day in the life of an alien from outer space, and a Christ impersonator he meets on a city bus.
Five Minutes Mr. Mosley: Artist: Neil
Gordon, Kelly Eshpeter 16mm 5:00 minutes
The Devil’s Breath: Artist: Steve Hanon Digital Video 47:00 minutes
Documentary that tells the story of the Hillcrest mine explosion which killed 189 men in 1914 in the Crowsnest Pass of southwestern Alberta.
No Information available : Artist:Liz
Nowatshi Super 8mm 3:00 minutes
No Information available: Artist: Katie
Hogan Super 8mm 3:00 minutes
A Shoot Me Film:
Artist: Richard Shaw Super 8mm 3:00 minutes No Description Available
Commedia Moderna: Artist: Dev Singh multiple
original formats 6:00 minutes
Commedia Moderna is a puppet film, a surreal story on memory dream, and film, as seen through the mind of an aging former vaudeville actor. Punch and Judy shows, burlesque and Death all make an appearance in the mind of this elderly vaudevillian.
The Ballad of Pilsner Beer: Artist: Stephen
Reese Super 8mm 2:30 minutes
Ode to country life and beer drinking. A tribute to the farm-dwelling, music-rocking community of Lethbridge.
No Information available: Artist:
Lloyd Clipleff 16mm
In Production
Freshman 16: Artist: Tom Terashima Video
90:00 minutes
Chinchilla: Artist: Keely Bruce Super 8mm 6:00 minutes
Collection of images of filmmakers pet set to music.
Infinite Depth: Artist: Tim Mooney Video, Super 8, 16mm 15:00 minutes
A shy nature photographer discovers a mirror which shows him a different perspective on his inner self.