A simple inadvertent sequence of a few unassuming moments ends up feeling somehow sad and somehow beautiful. How this happens is hard to say. It has something to do with the interplay between what we can and cannot see, the incidental tensions underlying each small moment, the figures forming and reforming on the side.
Filter Films
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On Thanksgiving of 2001, Daniel set her video camera to run while she and her family got ready to pose for a photograph. One year later, she turns the footage, together with notes from the same time, into a portrait of all that is no longer there. “Daniel explores loss as something sensed, felt and lived with in this poetic portrait of the absences we feel in the moments we capture on film.” – Images Festival 2003
This Time Last Year
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A short experimental film, “Discrete Moments” offers some paradoxical thoughts on the mathematics of “forever and ever.” While a big jet plane crawls across the tarmac, a love held back, goes unnoticed. “Discrete Moments” was produced for the 1994 Cineworks omnibus film Breaking Up in 3 Minutes. Six Vancouver filmmakers were each given 200 feet of film, restricted to one day of shooting, three edits, one track of sound, and asked to make a three minute film about the break-up of a personal relationship.
Discrete Moments
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Four passengers trace a circular journey connecting Seattle, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Chicago, and back to Seattle again. The action in Connecting Lines takes place in the bar cars of these moving trains, where changing landscapes fill a single moving-picture window, as an eclectic mix of passengers come and go in the foreground. These passengers do the things people on trains usually do: smoke, drink, and tell stories. As characters appear, wander off, and reappear at random, their tales are reinvented and adapted to suit new audiences. All the while, the passing landscape is being shaped into patterns by the train’s steady movement through it.
Connecting Lines
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Available for purchase in the CFMDC Shop: https://www.cfmdc.org/shop. Roberto Ariganello was a passionate believer in the importance of independent film. Working in a variety of styles and genres, he experimented with narrative and documentary form, playfully exploring the use of appropriated imagery and the relationship between sound and picture. His solo and collaborative films offer humorous and thoughtful alternatives to the conventions of mainstream media and consumer culture. Study guide includes an essay by James Missen. 1) Yesterday’s Wine 2) Shelter 3) Non-Zymase Pentathlon 4) Contrafacta 5) Loteria 6) Gesture
Artist Spotlight Series: Roberto Ariganello
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Available for purchase in the CFMDC Shop: https://www.cfmdc.org/shop. Steven Woloshen has mastered the art of direct animation in a series of explosively creative films. Straddling the terrain between the joyfully entertaining and conceptually rigourous, Woloshen’s virtuouso play with film’s most basic elements re-imagines the relationship between colour, sound and the moving image. Study guide includes an essay by Chris Gehman, independent writer & programmer. 1) Son of Dada (1982/Col/Snd/2.5 minutes) 2) Didre Novo (1983/Col/Snd/2.5 minutes) 3) Pepper Steak (1984/Col/Snd/3 minutes) 4) Get Happy (1999/Col/Snd/3.5 minutes) 5) MeMeMaMa (2000/Col/Snd/2 minutes) 6) Ditty Dot Comma (2001/Col/Snd/3 minutes) 7) The Babble on Palms (2001/Col/Snd/4 minutes) 8) Bru Ha Ha! (2002/Col/Snd/2 minutes) 9) Cameras Take Five (2002/Col/Snd/3 minutes) 10) Minuet (2003/Col/Snd/1 minute) 11) Two Eastern Hairlines (2004/Col/Snd/4 minutes) 12) Snip (2004/Col/Snd/2 minutes) 13) The Curse of the Voodoo Child (2005/Col/Snd/3 minutes) 14) Rebuttal (2005/Col/Snd/2 minutes) 15) Changing Evan (2006/Col/Snd/1 minute) 16) Phont Cycle (2006/Col/Snd/4 minutes)
Artist Spotlight Series: Steven Woloshen
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Available for purchase in the CFMDC Shop: https://www.cfmdc.org/shop. In her lush, intricately constructed works, Gariné Torossian explores film form, hybrid film and video technologies, and themes of belonging, identity and the body. “Mining a rich palette of colours and textures, superimpositions and dissolves, mixing formats of Super 8, 35mm and video, [she] creates films that bridge the gaps between visual art, sound art, cinema and the rock video” (Lux Distribution). Study guide includes an essay by Ian Balfour, York University. CLICK HERE to download study guide. 1) Visions 2) Girl from Moush 3) Drowning in Flames 4) Pomegranate Tree 5) Sparklehorse 6) Babies on the Sun 7) Shadowy Encounters 8) Hypnotize/Mezmerize – System of a Down Torossian’s style of filmmaking draws attention to the most basic component of her work, the strip of film, the celluloid on which images are laid to be projected. She alters the photographed images, transforming them into other objects; she juxtaposes them; and she makes them move outside the original photographed movement in ways that create a kind of rich collage, suggesting another dimension to the moving images with which she began… This Spotlight compilation is highly recommended for academic areas dealing with women in art and film as well as art history and film studies.” – Oksana Dykyj, Educational Media Reviews Online Full review: http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/emro/emroDetail.asp?Number=3786
Artist Spotlight Series: Gariné Torossian
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A cinematic tribute to William Bentley, a Vermont dairy farmer who pioneered the “art” of snowflake photography for forty-six winters (1885-1931), proving that no two of his 5381 specimens were identical. This film contains about 1500 examples (fewer than the average snowball), showing the incredible variation of design in nature, while producing the effect of an “organic” hexagonal mandala in a state of continual metamorphosis.
Crystals
