“The children of the post-war baby boom are now in their early to late twenties. As is now apparent on a global scale, the economic system is poorly equipped to cope with their demographic tidal wave. They subsist in an age of specific depression with values maladaptive to most of the job market. As one woman said: ‘A few years ago we talked about being green and now we talk about being poor.’” – Jeff Solway, Secretary of State, Canadian Alternatives, 1075 This documentary follows the people who live in these conditions in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Through stories, still photographs and songs, individuals relate experiences from their lives in 1976 that have taken place all over the world. Allegorical but direct, with an occasional dash of humour.
Filter Films
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Halls, doorways, and walls in a room are shot in such a way (employing focus changes, reframing, introducing outside objects) as to confound and puzzle the viewer about the represented space. “‘Interieur Interiors (To A.K.)’ creates a cinematic space that remains separate from representation, severed from the profilmic but nevertheless presenting an illusion of space. It is a film that hovers between conceiving the interrupted projection beam as an image… and conceiving it as a non-image, a mere illumination of the surface on which it falls. The gap between these extremes is posed by Grenier’s film as the raw data of cinema, the interval in which structural aspects of the medium’s depiction of space are revealed.” – Grahame Weinbren and Christine Noll Brinkmann, Millennium Film Journal, 1981
Interieur Interiors (To A. K.)
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“Interference” continues the filmmaker’s experimentation with time and stillness. A woman sits at her desk typing. Outside, the Canadian winter holds the land in its grip. Snow flurries drift past the window. The woman makes coffee, waits for the mail to arrive, sits in thought. We wait for the disaster to strike. At the end of the day, another woman enters the apartment and asks how the day went. The end. The accumulation of non-events gradually strips us of all the clichés of dramatic action, and we are made aware that our actual lives are always like this. Selected screenings: Montreal International Women’s Film Festival, Montreal, QC,1991; Canadian Film Celebration, Calgary, AB, 1991; Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto, ON, 1991.
Interference
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In her film “An Intelligent Woman”, Derko continues the concerns of her impressive debut film “The Scientific Girl.” Her new film is a complex, layered narrative set within the labyrinths of psychoanalysis. “This is a deeply intelligent, beautiful film, governed by the allusive structure of dreams.” – Toronto Festival of Festivals 1991
Intelligent Woman, An
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Joanna, a woman who decides to separate herself physically from the stress of the outside world, confines herself within her apartment. Her life inside is increasingly attractive in its calmness, balance, and stability. She maintains a mediated interaction with the external world through technology (a computer, answering machine and video camera). When a relationship that she has developed through her video camera demands an important moral decision, she finds she has to broaden her new way of being to encompass an engagement with the social, the real.
Inside/Out
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This series of films, each extraordinarily unique from every other (except “0 + 10” going together) is inspired and governed by strata of the mind’s moving-visual-thinking different from that of the “Roman Numeral Series” or perhaps one should say that the Arabic Numerals come to fruition thru some tree-of nerves separate from that which gave birth to the Romans (as it is physiologically deceptive to think of thought as existing in “layers”). The Arabics range in length from approximately 5 min. to 32 min. and may be projected at 24 fps as well as 18, tho’ the latter speed seems preferable for starts. I think each film’s integrity of rhythm would allow viewing at a greater variety of speeds, were there the 16mm projectors to allow that exercise. So far as I can tell, they defy verbal interpretation (even more than their Roman equivalents) and would, thus, seem to be closer to Music than any previous work given me to do; but if that be true, it is (as composer James Tenney put it to me) that they relate to that relatively small area of musical composition which resists Song and Dance and exists more purely in terms of Sound Events in Time/Space. Finally, then, the inspiration of all those modern (and a few ancient) composers I’ve most loved since my teens overwhelms the easier, and comfortably lovely, habits of jig and do-re-mi AND creates a visual correlative OF music’s eventuality – i.e. each Arabic is formed by the intrinsic grammar of the most inner (perhaps pre-natal) structure of thought itself.
Arabic Numeral Series – Arabic 16
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“The Inside File” investigates the biases and methodology used but not always admitted to in television journalism. David Watson, the host of the television news show “The Inside File” is featuring a story on the mysterious disappearance of Karen Kotterdam, a popular television newswoman who went missing after a rumoured personal conversation with Jesus Christ. As David Watson’s story progresses, it is revealed that Karen Kotterdam was his professional and political mentor. The “hatchet job” he attempts on her character turns to frustration when he can’t rationally explain her enigmatic decision to leave journalism, and he is forced to confront his own beliefs.
Inside File, The
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The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry (also known as the Berger Inquiry) was a precedent-shattering examination of Native rights and economic development in Canada’s North. The contentious issues brought out by the Inquiry are very much alive today as Southern Canada still seeks to exploit the resources of the North. “The Inquiry Film” documents and reveals the process of the Inquiry and humanizes a complex political and national issue. Awards: Best Documentary, Canadian Film Awards; Golden Athena Award (Best Feature Film)
Inquiry Film, The
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A warmly amusing look at a bus-full of American tourists on a whirlwind tour of Europe. The eclectic soundtrack includes Mozart, Bob Dylan, Sandy Denny, Jonathan Richman, and others.
Innocents Abroad
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“Originating in the lens of a discreet hand-crank Bolex camera, ‘Incantation’ is a delirious hand-processed weave of urban protest and contact dance that evokes the powerful spirit of personal and political resistance.” – Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto, 1997 “‘Incantation’ combines images from last autumn’s anti-Harris protest in Toronto with a dancer, creating a brilliant combination that illuminates the spirit and energy evident in the marches.” – Take One Magazine, Fall 1997
Incantation
