Double Negative Collective Screening

Poster Design: Marie-Hélène Houpert

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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.

DOUBLE NEGATIVE at the WNDX Festival Oct. 4-07

RADIANCE: New Works from Canadian Collective Celluloid Practitioners
Saturday, October 4 at 7 PM | Cinematheque – Introduced by the Loop Collective's Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof

SPECIAL DOUBLE PROGAM with an intermission between 8:30 PM and 9 PM

"As the impracticality of Celluloid as an instrument of image taking pushes it into the realm of craft, collectives of craftsphttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifeople have sprung up, working in unison to create work etched in alchemy, and burnt with light. These collectives often work together as both practitioners of Celluloid arts, and exhibitors of work from across the globe to their communities. Two such collectives are creating work in Eastern Canada. They are the Double Negative Collective in Montreal, and the Loop Collective in Toronto. Dedicated to producing work that explores film as craft, these artists inspire each other to create films that develop regional characteristics. With this, experimental work gains a new sense of familiarity as it radiates the creative energies that emanate from collective inspiration."

- Sol Nagler

For more details and to view the film program please visit the program page on the WNDX website.

Screening: Vincent Grenier in person at Ex-Centris Sept. 27

LE COLLECTIF DOUBLE NÉGATIF PRÉSENTE:

Dimensions de la lumière : l'oeuvre de Vincent Grenier

jeudi le 27 septembre
21h15
Cinéma Parallèle (Ex-Centris)
Tarif spécial : 7.50$

Après 16 ans d'absence, l'artiste québécois Vincent Grenier revient présenter un programme de courts-métrages expérimentaux comprenant ses premiers films 16mm ainsi que ses plus récentes oeuvres sur vidéo (projetées pour la première fois à Montréal). Profitez de cette occasion unique pour observer le parcours du formaliste rigoureux, de ses explorations phénoménologique de la lumière jusqu'à ses représentations cinématographiques uniques d'éléments culturels. Vincent Grenier enseigne le cinéma à l'Université de Binghamton dans l'état de New-York. Il se déplacera à Montréal pour l'occasion.

First time in 16 years, Quebecois artist Vincent Grenier makes his long-awaited return with a solo programme that includes his early 16mm films and recent digital video works not previously shown in Montreal. At this rare occasion, witness the passage the rigorous formalist has taken, moving through the phenomenological exploration of light and reaching unique cinematic expressions of cultural dimension. Grenier lives and works in the U.S. where he teaches cinema at Binghamton University, NY. Artist in attendance.


PROGRAMME :

Puits de lumière / Light Shaft (16mm, 8min., n/b, muet, 1975)
Closer Outside (16mm, 10min., couleur, muet, 1981)
Intérieur Interiors (To A.K.) (16mm, 15min., n/b, muet, 1978)
World in Focus (16mm, 20min., couleur, muet, 1976)
This, and This (DV, 10:30min., couleur, stéréo, 2006)
Surface Tension II (16mm, 4min., couleur, mono, 1995)
North Sourthernly (DV, 6min., couleur, stéréo, 2005)
Time's Wake (Once Removed) (16mm, 14min., n/b & couleur, muet, 1987)

Durée totale : 87min.30sec .

Biographie de l'artiste:
Né à Québec, Vincent Grenier à vécu aux Etats-Unis, principalement à New York. Il contribua grandement à la scène artistique Montréalaise durant les années 70 et 80. Il a réalisé plus d'une vingtaine de films depuis les années 70 et actuellement sa démarche s'oriente vers la vidéo. Son oeuvre a été présenté dans de nombreuses villes aux Etats-Unis, au Canada et en Europe, et exposé au Whitney Museum of American Art et au Museum of Modern Art à New York.

Biography of the Artist :
Born in Québec City, Vincent Grenier has lived largely in the U.S., mostly in New York City. He was, however, a frequent contributor to the Montreal art scenes of the 70's and 80's. He has made over two dozen films since the 70's and more recently videos. His work has been shown widely in the U.S., Canada and Europe and showcased at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, among many others.


Info:
Le Collectif double négatif / Double Negative Collective
Tél.: 514 270 1699
Courriel: doublenegatif@gmail.com

Upcoming Events for Double Negative + Karl Lemieux

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20 - 23 SEPTEMBRE 2007 / VERNISSAGE JEUDI 20 SEPTEMBRE - 7h PM

@ CTRL LAB, 3634 Boulevard St-Laurent, Montréal, Canada

SCOTT SATHERLEY (New-Zeland / Nouvelle-Zélande)

commissaire / curator : Karl Lemieux

L’exposition : “Funtions and Disorders of the Reproductive System”

William Acton, a respected English physician, described the diagnosis
and treatment of male sexual diseases in The Functions and Disorders of
the Reproductive Organs in 1857.This show explores and celebrates the
excess, complications and uncertainty of reproducing in the 21st
Century. –S.S.


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JEUDI 27 SEPTEMBRE 2007 - 9h15 PM – 7.50$

@ Cinéma Parallèle (Ex-centris), 3536 Boulevard St-Laurent, Montréal,
Canada

Le Collectif Double Négatif Présente / Double Negative Collective
Presente :
Dimensions de la lumière : l’oeuvre de Vincent Grenier (en présence du
réalisateur)

Après 16 ans d'absence, l'artiste québécois Vincent Grenier revient
présenter un programme de courts-métrages expérimentaux comprenant ses
premiers films 16mm ainsi que ses plus récentes oeuvres sur vidéo
(projetées pour la première fois à Montréal). Profitez de cette occasion unique
pour observer le parcours du formaliste rigoureux, de ses
explorations phénoménologique de la lumière jusqu'à ses représentations
cinématographiques uniques d'éléments culturels. Vincent Grenier enseigne le
cinéma à l'Université de Binghamton dans l'état de New-York.

First time in 16 years, Quebecois artist Vincent Grenier makes his
long-awaited return with a solo programme that includes his early 16mm
films and recent digital video works not previously shown in Montreal. At
this rare occasion, witness the passage the rigorous formalist has
taken, moving through the phenomenological exploration of light and reaching
unique cinematic expressions of cultural dimension. Grenier lives and
works in the U.S. where he teaches cinema at Binghamton University, NY.

PROGRAMME :

Puits de lumière / Light Shaft (16mm, 8min., n/b, muet, 1975)
Closer Outside (16mm, 10min., couleur, muet, 1981)
Intérieur Interiors (To A.K.) (16mm, 15min., n/b, muet, 1978)
World in Focus (16mm, 20min., couleur, muet, 1976)
This, and This (DV, 10:30min., couleur, stéréo, 2006)
Surface Tension II (16mm, 4min., couleur, mono, 1995)
North Sourthernly (DV, 6min., couleur, stéréo, 2005)
Time's Wake (Once Removed) (16mm, 14min., n/b & couleur, muet, 1987)

Durée totale : 87min.30sec .

www.ex-centris.com


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21– 29 SEPTEMBRE / 25 SEPTEMBRE 2007 – 7h PM

@ 25fps Internacionalni Festival Eksperimentalnog Filma / Videa,
Zagreb, Croatia

Short film program “Contemporary Canadian experimental scene” : curated
by jury member Marcel Jean. (in attendance / en presence du
réalisateur)

«Western Sunburn»
(2007/ experimental/ 16 mm to mini DV/ b & w, color/ 10 min.)
producer and director : Karl Lemieux
music : Radwan Moumneh (Jerusalem in my heart)
editor Daichi Saito

«Mouvement de Lumière/ Motion of Light »
( 2004/ experimental-animation/ 16 mm/ b & w, color/ 8 min.)
producer, director and editor : Karl Lemieux
music: Olivier Borzeix (Ste. Sophie)

www.25fps.hr


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4 OCTOBRE 2007 – 9h PM

@Arts & Crafts Night, 5390 St-Laurent, Main Hall, Montréal, Canada

Anthony Seck / Sam Shalabi
with a multiple 16mm film projection performance by Karl Lemieux

The Stills

Young Galaxie

The Most Serene Republic


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6 OCTOBRE 2007 – 7h PM

@ WNDX, Experimental Film Festival, Winnipeg Cinematheque, Winnipeg,
Canada

Short film program “Radiance : new works from Canadian collective
celluloid practitioners”, split program with the Loop Collective (Toronto)
and the Double Negative Collective (Montreal) curated by Solomon Nagler

www.wndx.org/radiance


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9 OCTOBRE 2007 – 9h PM

@ Sala Rossa, 4873 Boulevard St-Laurent, Montréal, Canada

Shalabi Effect - with a multiple 16mm film projection performance by
Karl Lemieux

Ste. Sophie

Les Momies de Palerme

www.casadelpopolo.com


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10-21 OCTOBRE 2007

@ 36e Festival International du Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal, Canada

Short film program - première mondial – en compétition

«Passage»
(2007/ experimental-fiction/ s-16mm/ b & w/ 15 min.)
producer : Karl Lemieux, Nicolas Comeau and Rodrigue Jean
writer and director : Karl Lemieux
cinematography : Mathieu Laverdiere
editor : Mathieu Bouchard-Malo
music : David Bryant (Set Fire to flame, Godspeed you ! black emperor)
cast : Brigitte Pogonat, Francis Ducharme, Genevive Ouellon and Mathieu
Bourguet

www.nouveaucinema.ca


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22 – 26 OCTOBRE 2007

@ 26th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden

Short film program

«Mouvement de Lumière/ Motion of Light »
( 2004/ experimental-animation/ 16 mm/ b & w, color/ 8 min.)
producer, director and editor : Karl Lemieux
music: Olivier Borzeix (Ste. Sophie)

www.shortfilmfestival.com


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25 OCTOBRE 2007

@ Cinema Abattoir / Cinema Du Parc, 3575 Avenue Du Parc, Montréal,
Canada

Olivier Borzeix - with a multiple 16mm film projection performance by
Karl Lemieux

CABINA OBSCURA

www.cinema-abattoir.com