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Faucet Media Arts Centre & Struts Gallery are thrilled to present Sites for Seeing: Out of the Cineplex and Into the Marshland -- a series of four outdoor experimental film screenings in the Tantramar marshes. Four internationally acknowledged filmmakers and curators have chosen a delicious selection of films for viewing under the stars, and will be attending the screenings in person. They will also visit with local artists' studios during their visit to New Brunswick.

Coming to Sackville are four established curators who maintain dynamic professional practices with a history of publication: Kika Thorne from Berlin, Gerda Cammaer from Toronto, Mike Hoolboom from Toronto, and Solomon Nagler from Halifax. A major component of the Sites for Seeing project is bringing these artists to Sackville to engage with the local community. During their visit, they will meet with local artists and residents at a reception before the screening, as well as through individual studio visits the day after the screening.

The screenings will mark the launch of Sift; a new cultural broadsheet devoted to critical writing, interviews, and images about contemporary art. Each curator has been asked to write an essay about the films they are presenting. The essays, along with interviews will be printed in the inaugural issues of Sift as well as published on our website. We asked the programmers to consider accessibility and innovation in their approach by encouraging non-traditional forms of writing.

These screenings provide an exciting opportunity to see unique experimental film and video work outside of the institutional walls of the gallery. This opens the project up to wider New Brunswick audiences who might not normally cross the threshold of artist run centres. It also removes the work from the realm of normal expectations and places it into an environment where anything is possible.

Sites for Seeing is made possible through the support of a dissemination grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. Sites for Seeing also acknowledges the support of the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative. For more information on this project, contact amanda (at) strutsgallery (dot) ca or phone 506-536-1211

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by Marina Roy
image courtesy of the artist