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POMPEJI

Angela Christlieb | 2023 | Austria | 6 min | Cdn Premiere

With this hybrid composed of documentary and performance video in split-screen format, Christlieb guides the audience on a spherical journey through perfectly composed image collages that open up painterly insight into the ambivalences of artistic attitudes and the methods of contemporary music production. (Diagonale 2023)

Angela Christlieb moved from Germany to New York in 1997 and began working as an independent filmmaker, producing several shorts, followed by freelance work as theater manager and research assistant for Anthology Film Archives and Filmmakers Cooperative.

Das feine Zirpen einer Dunkelziffer [Silent Chirping of Invisible Digits]

Vera Sebert | 2023 | Germany/Austria | 10 min | Cdn Premiere

Like a single film frame, insects flash for the fraction of a second, only to immediately withdraw from the field of vision. In between their flickering body fragments, the film shows undefinable voids. What can be seen when familiar filters of vision and the narratives associated with them are missing?

Vera Sebert works at the intersection of visual media, language, film and computer programming. Sebert holds a degree in Fine Arts from University of Fine Arts Braunschweig and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and a degree in Language Arts from University of Applied Arts Vienna. In 2017, she was Artist in Residence at Künstlerdorf Schöppingen. She is the recipient of the 2018 Hannsmann-Poethen Grant for Literature and was the 2019 Subnet Artist-in-Residence, Salzburg.

Prototipo

Tina Frank, General Magic | 2022 | Austria | 4 min | W Cdn Premiere

Exploding with saturated light, colour, movement and synaesthetic sound, ’Prototipo is a perception shifting audiovisual work based on two live recordings by General Magic and Tina Frank in Vienna and London.

General Magic and Tina Frank are an audio-visual syndicate since 1995. General Magic—once described as "perhaps the strangest, least stylistically constrained project on the Mego label's roster”—is a duo consisting of Andi Pieper and Ramon Bauer. The duo was most active between 1995 and 2005, however, just recently Andi and Ramon restarted digging into the general magic of new sonic manoeuvres. Tina Frank is a visual artist, designer and professor who has working with audio artists and labels since the early 1990s. Her collaborations yielded numerous record covers, audio-visual performances and installations. Tina’s visualizations are characterized by an abstract formal language and an intense colourfulness that playfully explores the limits of perception.

Of Americans

Christof Migone | 2021 | Canada | 20 min | World Premiere

The video takes the appearance of words referencing colours in Gertrude Stein’s mammoth tome (294 occurrences over the span of 925 pages) as its main structural device. The longer vertical lines denote chapter breaks. The smaller vertical lines move through the book from left to right of the frame. Part two of a two-part set of videos which are based on Stein’s The Making of Americans. Part 1 is titled The Hyphenation.

Christof Migone is an artist, teacher, curator and writer. He often works with language, voice, bodies, performance, intimacy, complicity and endurance. He co-edited the anthologies Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (Errant Bodies Press, 2001) and Volumes (Blackwood Gallery, 2015). His writings have been published in Aural Cultures, S:ON, Experimental Sound & Radio, Musicworks, Radio Rethink, Semiotext(e), Angelaki, Esse, Inter, Performance Research, The Oxford Handbook of Sound Art, Sound Art (ZKM/MIT), etc. He obtained an MFA from NSCAD in 1996 and a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University in 2007. He has released numerous solo and collaborative audio cds on various labels. He has curated a number of exhibitions and events: Touch that Dial (1990), Radio Contortions (1991), Rappel (1994), Double Site (1998), stuttermouthface (2002), Disquiet (2005), START (2007), STOP.(2008) and Should I Stay or Should I Go (Nuit Blanche 2010). He was the Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery between 2008 and 2013. He has performed at Beyond Music Sound Festival, kaaistudios, Resonance FM, Ménagerie de Verre, Experimental Intermedia, Méduse, Images Festival, Send+Receive, Kill Your Timid Notion, Liquid Architecture, Mutek, Victoriaville Festival, Casa del Popolo, Théâtre La Chapelle, CAFKA, Museum Leuven, Whitney Museum, Apologies in Advance, DE PLAYER, LUFF, Cave 12, Ftarri, Borderline, Irtijal, etc. His installations have been exhibited at the Banff Center, Rotterdam Film Festival, Gallery 101, Art Lab, eyelevelgallery, Forest City Gallery, Studio 5 Beekman, Mercer Union, CCS Bard, Optica, Oboro, Museum London, etc. He has collaborated with Lynda Gaudreau, Sam Shalabi, Martin Tétreault, Alexandre St-Onge, Michel F. Côté, Gregory Whitehead, Set Fire to Flames, l’Oreille à Vincent and Fly Pan Am. A monograph on his work, Sound Voice Perform, was published in 2005. In 2006, the Galerie de l’UQAM in Montreal presented a mid-career survey of his work accompanied by a catalog and a DVD entitled Trou. A book compiling his writings on sound art, Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body was published in 2012 by Errant Bodies Press. He has been the recipient of commissions from the Tate Modern, Dazibao, Kunstradio, Centre for Art Tapes, New Adventures in Sound Art, Radio Canada, New American Radio. He is a founding member of Avatar (Québec City). With Alexandre St-Onge he runs Squint Press. He recently was a recipient of the Glenfiddich Artist Residency with Marla Hlady. He is currently curating a 12-year event titled You And I Are Water Earth Fire Air of Life and Death. He lives in Toronto and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University in London, Ontario.

SPELL

Khalil Charif | 2023 | Brazil | 6 min | Cdn Premiere

A spell is cast on the dance floor, and it transforms the atmosphere. An experimental combination of elements, made with archival footage from Rio de Janeiro in the 70s and 80s.

Khalil Charif is an artist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the late 90s, he studied at the Parsons School of Design and New York University. He later attended the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, in his hometown, and obtained a postgraduate degree in Art History at PUC-Rio. He was one of the recipients of the awards: “Prêmio Interações Florestais” (Brazil, 2011), “ExperimentoBIO” (Spain, 2013), Special Prize in the "Arte Laguna Prize" (Italy, 2017 and 2020). He has been exhibited in the Triennale of Contemporary Art (Czech Rep., 2008), the Dublin Biennial (Ireland, 2014), Bienal de Cerveira (Portugal, 2017 and 2020), BIENALSUR (Argentina, 2019 and 2021) and the Media Art Biennale WRO (Poland, 2021).

2cent / 10coil

Monteith McCollum | 2022 | USA | 10 min | Cdn Premiere

Part science, part history, 2cent / 10coil is an exploration into the physical properties of a postage stamp and the anomalies it presents when subjected to the beam of an electron microscope. Integrated within are the philosophical musings and speeches of a man in his last weeks of life on a quest entitled “The Voyage of Understanding.”

Monteith McCollum is an interdisciplinary artist working across film, sound, performance and sculpture, with a fascination with topics encompassing ecology, agriculture, urban mobility and technology in sound. Both his experimental shorts and feature essay documentaries have frequently blended nonfiction and fiction moving between character and subject-driven concepts. Parallel with creating his own work he often has been commissioned to compose soundtracks for experimental and independent filmmakers. His live audio-visual performances and fixed media sound compositions interweave environmental field recordings with musical assemblages incorporating strings and modular synthesis. Feature documentaries and shorts have been exhibited and broadcast on PBS’ “POV” series as well as presented in museums such as MOMA’s New Directors / New Films, Wexner Center for the Arts and The Hirschhorn. Film festivals have included South by Southwest, Slamdance, Hot Docs, IDFA, Osnabruck Intermedia Film Festival, The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and San Francisco International Film Festival. In addition to screenings his work has received generous financial support from the New York Foundation for the Arts, NYSCA, Kodak, The Rockefeller Foundation, The National Endowment on the Arts, Iowa Arts Council, POV and the Jerome Foundation. He received an IFC Independent Spirit Award for his feature Hybrid in 2002. Along with being an educator at Binghamton University, he has enjoyed leading sound workshops at UnionDocs on film sound design.