Double Negative Collective Screenings

The Double Negative Collective will have a very busy fall in 2008. We are proud to announce the following screenings in September:

EXiS 2008 Experimental Film and Video Festival, Seoul KOREA (September 04 - 10)

www.ex-is.org

The screening will take place at Space Cell and features the following films:

ALL THAT RISES by Daïchi Saïto
PARALLAX by Christopher Becks
PAPER NAUTILUS by Amber Goodwyn
FRACAS by Eduardo Menz
UNTITLED by Lucia Fezzuoglio
LAS MUJERES DE PINOCHET (PINOCHET’S WOMEN) by Eduardo Menz
THE NERVOUS LOOPS by Julien Idrac
MOTION OF LIGHT (MOUVEMENT DE LUMIÈRE) by Karl Lemieux
LOLA by Mike Rollo
THOUGH SHE NEVER SPOKE, THIS IS WHERE HER VOICE WOULD HAVE BEEN by
Lindsay McIntyre
ARTIFACTS by Steven Ladouceur
THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS (EL JARDIN DE SENDEROS QUE SE BIFURCAN)
by Malena Szlam
WESTERN SUNBURN by Karl Lemieux
GHOSTS AND GRAVEL ROADS by Mike Rollo

The collective will also screen work at the Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria CANADA in a special program entitled "Images in Back of the Head" on September 20th.

From the Antimatter Film Festival:
Dedicated to the exhibition and nurturing of film and video as art, Antimatter has grown into the premier showcase of experimental cinema in the west. Encompassing screenings, installations, performances and media hybrids, Antimatter provides a noncompetitive festival setting in Victoria, British Columbia, free from commercial and industry agendas.

To view the program click HERE

SAMI VAN INGEN: THREE 35MM FILM WORKS

The Sequent Of Hanna Ave (2006)

SAMI VAN INGEN: THREE 35MM FILM WORKS

AUGUST 7 (Thu.) 9:00 p.m.

Cinéma Parallèle (Ex-Centris)
3536, boul. St-Laurent, Montreal

Ticket $7.50

Info: 514-847-2206 (box-office)
www.ex-centris.com

PROGRAM
The Sequent of Hanna Ave.
(5 min., 35mm, Cinemascope, Dolby Digital sound, 2006)
Deep Six
(7 min., 35mm, Cinemascope, Dolby Digital sound, 2007)
Fokus
(40 min., 35mm, 1/1.85, Dolby Digital sound, 2004)

Artist in attendance

“The Sequent of Hanna Ave. is the result of my enquiries into the phenomena of the movement-illusionism in the film form. By combining found footage, hand- processing and hi-end digital technology, I propose to elevate a few mundane gestures to a new perceptible wholeness, and give some small fingers and a c-cassette tape all th attention, grace and drama they somehow deserve. Deep Six has three starting points: a little narrative re-edited from a Hollywood B-film (The Rage, 1998), an attempt to use the colour photocopy as a cinematic aesthetic and to explore the frame line as a dynamic visual element. The 512 original frames that Fokus is made from are from my grandmothers 1950´s home movie. By deconstructing and re-constructing these scenes, my aim was to enhance meanings that are already present in the original material, but easily escape the spectator's attention.” (Sami van Ingen)

BIOGRAPHY
For more than two decedes, Sami van Ingen (b. 1964) has made experimental films and installations based on the moving image. One of the main characteristics of his work is an examination of the cinematic apparatus itself and the boundaries within it. His works have been screened in many national and international festivals and venues over the years. Collaborators include filmmakers Philip Hoffman and Bruce Baillie, as well as composer Petri Kuljuntausta.

ARTHUR LIPSETT: ABOUT TIME

21-87 (1964)

Fluxes (1968)

THE DOUBLE NEGATIVE COLLECTIVE
PRESENTS
ARTHUR LIPSETT: ABOUT TIME, A FILM RETROSPECTIVE
CURATED BY BRETT KASHMERE

Double Negative Collective:
Arthur Lipsett: About Time, A Film Retrospective
June 4th, 5th, 6th, 12th
Cinémathèque québécoise
335, boul. De Maisonneuve Est, Metro Berri-Uqam
Price - Adult 7$ Student (13-30) 6$

The Double Negative Collective, in collaboration with the Cinémathèque québécoise, is pleased to invite curator Brett Kashmere to present a film retrospective from Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett. The exhibition takes place at the Cinémathèque québécoise June 4th, 5th and 6th. Eric Gaucher’s documentary on Arthur Lipsett screens on June 12th at 7pm.

Propelled to international attention through an Oscar nomination at the age of 25, the legendary National Film Board artist Arthur Lipsett remains an anomaly within avant-garde film histories. Uneasily oscillating between a personal, artisanal tradition and the NFB’s institutional mandate “to interpret Canada for Canadians,” he was a popular experimental filmmaker whose eccentric, satirical collage films were renowned around the world. Lipsett’s films were admired by diverse film patriarchs such as Stanley Kubrick, Stan Brakhage, and George Lucas. The exhibition Arthur Lipsett: About Time presents an overdue retrospective of Lipsett’s concise but influential career, re-assembling his dazzling collage work alongside correlative Canadian media artists from the past half-century. - Brett Kashmere

About Brett Kashmere:
Brett Kashmere is a filmmaker, curator, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Oberlin College in Ohio, USA. Kashmere has organized programs for the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Strasbourg, Light Cone, Cinematheque Quebecoise, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Cinema Project, Vtape, and Cinematheque Ontario.

For more information:
www.brettkashmere.com/arthur_lipsett.html
www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/04/lipsett.html
www.cinematheque.qc.ca

Double Negative Collective Screening

Poster Design: Marie-Hélène Houpert

(still)
Pan of the Landscape - Chris Becks

DOUBLE NEGATIVE COLLECTIVE SCREEN OWN WORK AT EX-CENTRIS

The Double Negative Collective, a dedicated group of Montréal-based filmmakers and curators of cinema, plan to screen an evening of new, original work Thursday, March 20th at 9:30pm at Cinéma Parallel (Ex-Centris, 3536 St. Laurent). After curating several successful avant-garde film and video programs and exhibiting an exciting group installation show at CTRL LAB (June 2007), the Double Negative Collective have returned to the black box this time with a program of their own experimental film and video, for the first time in three years. Collective members whose work will be included are Christopher Becks, Lucia Fezzuoglio, Amber Goodwyn, Steven Ladouceur, Karl Lemieux, Lindsay McIntyre, Eduardo Menz, Mike Rollo, Daichi Saito and Malena Szlam.

The past couple of years have been an exciting time indeed for the Double Negative Collective. In January they screened Jack Chambers’ Hart Of London to a sold out room at The Cinémathèque québécoise and hosted the Canadian part of TIE (The International Cinema Exposition) in November 2007. Other recent programs of note include screenings of work by Vincent Grenier (Québec), Nicky Hamlyn (London, UK), Guy Sherwin (London, UK) and the ETNA Collective (France).

Double Negative Collective – An Evening of Experimental Film and Video
Thursday, March 20th at 9:30PM
Ex-Centris (Cinéma Parallel)
3536 Boul. St. Laurent
Montreal, QC

For reference purposes:
www.ex-centris.com
doublenegatif@gmail.com

Le Collectif Double Négatif, un groupe basé à Montréal, dédié à la création et la présentation de cinéma, planifie une soirée de projection de nouvelles oeuvres originales le jeudi 20 mars à 21:30 au Cinéma Parallèle (Ex-Centris, 3536 boul. Saint-Laurent). Après avoir présenté plusieurs programmes de films et de vidéos d’avant-garde et avoir exposé une excitante installation de groupe au CTRL LAB (juin 2007), le Collectif Double Négatif est de retour à la boîte noire, cette fois avec un programme de leurs propres films et vidéos expérimentaux pour la première fois en trois ans. Les membres du collectif pour qui le travail sera présenté sont, Christopher Becks, Lucia Fezzuoglio, Amber Goodwyn, Steven Ladouceur, Karl Lemieux, Lindsay McIntyre, Eduardo Menz, Mike Rollo, Daichi Saito et Malena Szlam.

En effet, les deux dernières années ont été un temps excitant pour le Collectif Double Négatif. En janvier le collectif a présenté Hart Of London de Jack Chambers pour une salle comble à la Cinémathèque Québécoise et il a été l’hôte du volet canadien de TIE (The International Cinema Exposition) en novembre 2007. Parmi d’autres programmations récentes, il y a eu notamment la projection d’oeuvres de Vincent Grenier (Québec), de Nicky Hamlyn (Londres, G-B), de Guy Sherwin Londres, G-B) et celle du collectif ETNA (France).

Collectif Double Négatif - Une soirée de films et de vidéos expérimentaux
Le jeudi 20 Mars à 21:30
Ex-Centris (Cinéma Parallèle)
3536 boul. Saint-Laurent
Montréal, QC

À titre de référence:
www.ex-centris.com
doublenegatif@gmail.com

The Hart of London

Wednesday, January 16 2008

630pm
Cinémathèque Québécoise (335, boul. De Maisonneuve Est, Métro Berri-UQAM)

The Hart of London [Can., 1970, 79 min]
Director: Jack Chambers

"The Hart of London is a sprawling, ambitious film that combines newsreel footage of disasters, urban and nature imagery, and footage evoking the cycles of life and death. It is on of those rare films that succeed precisely because of its sprawl; raw and open-ended almost to the point of anticipating the postmodern rejection of "master narratives," it cannot be reduced to a simple summary, and changes on you from one viewing to the next." (Fred Camper)

INTRODUCTION BY FILMMAKER RICHARD KERR

ABOUT JACK CHAMBERS -

"Jack Chambers is one of Canada's most famous and greatest living painters. Why then have his films been as neglected as they have been? I feel that it is because his films do not arise as an adjunct to his painting (as is true in the case of most other painter film-makers) but that, rather, Jack Chambers has realized the almost opposed aesthetics of paint and film and has created a body of moving pictures so crucially unique as to fright paint buffery: thus his films have inherited a social position kin to that of the films of Joseph Cornell in this country. The fact is that four films of Jack Chambers have changed the whole history of film, despite their neglect, in a way that isn't possible within the field of painting. There are no 'masters' of film in any significant sense whatsoever. There are only 'makers' of film in the original, or at least medieval, sense of the word. Jack Chambers is a true 'maker' of films. He needs no stance, or standing, for he dances attendance upon the coming-into-being of something recognizably new: (and as all is new, always, one must question the veracity of all works, whatever medium, which beseem everything but that truth)." -- Stan Brakhage

TIE 2007 in Montreal flyer

TIE, THE INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA EXPOSITION, November 2-4th

MONTRÉAL, CANADATO HOST THE 2007 EDITION OF TIE, THE INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA EXPOSITION TIE: November 2-4, Montreal Quebec, various locations.

Since its creation in 2000, The International Experimental Cinema Exposition, or TIE, has been a festival concerned with the preservation and continued exhibition of avant-garde film, as well as presenting new and innovative experimental cinema. It has grown impressively in stature and in scope and is widely considered to be the most important film exhibition of its kind. Major avant-garde film figures such as the late Stan Brakhage, Bernardo Vorobow, Standish Lawder, M. M. Serra, and Peter Tscherkassky have sat on its board. In addition to the multi-day festival featuring films and filmmakers from around the globe, it hosts new curatorial research, film exhibitions, restoration projects, archival studies and scholarly presentations. TIE's selection of works is organized around what its mission describes as the "film language": works that illuminate the medium of film and what it is. TIE was founded as a means to present thoughtfully-programmed and diverse experimental cinema while at the same time creating a vital gathering of creative minds for the medium.

Organized by the Double Negative Film Collective of Montréal,the festival is held November 2-4, 2007. A Super-8 screening and reception kick the event off on Friday night, while the majority of the film screenings take place on Saturdayat Concordia University J.A. de Sève Cinema. Sunday features an intimate round-table discussion with the visiting filmmakers lead by TIE curator, Christopher May.The full schedule, program notes as well as tickets and passes will be available online at the TIE website: http://www.experimentalcinema.org

TIE-2007 includes over thirty films. Filmmakers will be in person to discuss their film in person including Jeanne Liotta, Michael Robinson, Robert Todd, Daichi Saito(Montreal resident), and Jonathan Schwartz, among others and will feature work by Luther Price, Jonathan Schwartz, Michael Robinson continues in Montevideo, Uruguay, November 21-24, 2007 with a thirty-plus film line-up that includes the first retrospective of Brazilian experimental cinema appearing outside of Brazil and a first-time retrospective dedicated to the films of Albert Sackl, among other programs and films.at Concordia University's J.A. de Sève Cinema. Sunday features an intimate round-table discussion with the visiting filmmakers lead by TIE curator, Christopher May. The full schedule, program notes as well as tickets and passes will be available online at the TIE website.