Long Shadows
Joshua Bonetta / 2009 / 12 min / sound on vinyl record / 35mm
Animating the frames of long lost and decaying home movies of the 1950's in watercolor, Long Shadows re-constructs these moments and gestures into haunted sequences, dreaming back through the seasons of a childhood spent on a northern lake. Radio transmitted tape loops created from site specific hydrophone and field recordings, along with piano, provide the aural accompaniment in a loose recreation of the 1920's Vita-phone system.
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C:won Eyed Jail
Kelly Egan / 2005 / 35mm / 5 min
C: won Eyed Jail is a 35mm film project consisting of two parts: a quilt patterned out of 35mm still negatives and 35mm found motion picture, and a traditional film print of the quilt that is screened through a 35mm motion picture projector. I consider this quilt/film homage to Joyce Wieland, whose artwork called into question the binary oppositions concerning issues of art and craft, personal and public space, content and form, narrative and experimental, as well as commenting on the sociopolitical environment in which we live.
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Refraction Series Chris Gehman / 2008 / 8 min / 35mm
Refraction Series offers an experimental approach to optics, using simple materials and techniques to generate a range of images of pure light and color in motion. The film is inspired by the ideas of early scientists who investigated the nature of light and visual perception, particularly the experiments and writings of the tenth-century Arab mathematician/scientist Ibn al-Haytham and the English mathematician/scientist Isaac Newton.
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Mamori
Karl Lemieux / 2010 / 8min / 35 mm
Lemieux refilmed his original digital photos, one photogram at a time, with a 16-mm camera. He did photochemical tests on expired colour film and kept only the resulting black-and-white images. The final product: a subtle physical sensation that takes shape through the rhythm of the images, sounds and editing.

Ville Marie
Alexandre Larose / 2010 / 12 min/ sound on cassette / 35mm
This film is inspired from a dream during which an individual falls from the top of a high-rise building facing upwards. Images were created by throwing super 8 cameras off of high rise buildings and then optically printing the footage and blowing it up into abstraction.
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Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis
Diachi Saito / 2009 / 10 min / 35mm
The formations of trees and their subtle interrelation with the space around them act as an agent to transform viewer's sensorial perception. Richly colored and entirely hand-processed, “Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis” is a poem of vision and sound that seeks perceptual insight and revelation through a syntactical structure based on patterns, variations and repetition.
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Fore-and-Aft
Sara MacLean / 2007 / 6 minutes / 35mm
Fore-and-Aft” was created by the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada - site of the highest tides in the world. Images of the tides are married with celluloid that was buried in the seabed, and dragged through the ocean behind a boat. Physically exposing film to the motion and light of the sea recorded tactile evidence of the repetition and changes wrought by tide cycles.
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sea series #6 - Landfall at Métis-sur-Mer
John Price / 35mm, 2:31, b&w, silent.
A 100 foot roll shot with the cooperation and creative corroboration of his nephew on a drizzly afternoon on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River.

sea series #5 - Georgian Bay : a survey of littoral recreation
John Price / 35mm, 4:51, b&w, silent.
In-camera experimentation as the sun set in a beautiful part of the world with loved ones close at hand. In this idyllic space, I could not help but wonder about the sustainability of the experience... clean air & fresh water... loving children... film stock for my camera. In this light it became a multi-dimentional anthropology.
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Artist Bios:

Joshua Bonnetta is an artist working primarily with sound and the moving image for theatrical exhibition, performance and installation. He is a member of AKVK. His work has shown in Ireland, Poland, Russia, U.K., South America, U.S., Canada and South Korea. He is the 2009 recipient of The National Film Board of Canada Award to best emerging/mid career filmmaker from The Images Festival. He is an Assistant Professor in the department of Cinema, Photography and Media Arts at Ithaca College.

Kelly Egan holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Mass Communication from Carleton University (2001), a Master of Arts in Communication and Culture from York/Ryerson University (2003) and a Master of Fine Arts in Film/Video from Bard College (2005). Her films have been screened at major festivals across North America, including the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. Kelly is currently working towards a Doctoral degree in the York/Ryerson Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture. In her spare time she enjoys standing at the intersection of visual and musical culture, and listening to the lights change colour.

Chris Gehman is a Toronto-based filmmaker, programmer and writer. He was Artistic Director for the Images Festival of Independent Film and Video from 2001-2004 and recently completed a Master of Fine Arts in the Film & Video program at York University, Toronto.

A native of Kingsey Falls, near Victoriaville, the experimental Montréal filmmaker Karl Lemieux studied cinema at Concordia University. From his first short film, he showed an interest in the relationship between image and sound. Together with Daichi Saito, he co-founded the collective Double Negative dedicated to producing and exhibiting experimental film. He has also participated regularly in concerts and performances in which he projects and manipulates-live-16-mm films. His memorable contribution to the Musée's Friday Nocturnes in 2008, with the group Pas Chic Chic, was one such occasion. He has made many short films, including The Bridge (1998); KI (2001); Mouvement de lumière/Motion of Light (2004), Western Sunburn (2007); Trash and No Star! (2008); and Passage (2008). This last film has garnered several national and international awards, among them the Grand Prize of the Jury/PHI Group.

Alexandre Larose is a french-canadian filmmaker based in Montreal. While completing a bachelor in mechanical engineering, Larose began experimenting with the film medium using the super8mm format. He completed a BFA in cinema at Concordia University in 2006. By incorporating elements of the scientific approach, Alexandre's work expresses and reveals the fragility of the cinematic apparatus through formal treatment of the medium.

Originally from Japan, Daïchi Saïto is a filmmaker working principally on Super-8, 16mm and 35mm formats. After studying philosophy in the US and Hindi and Sanskrit in India, he turned to filmmaking in Montreal, where he currently resides. He is co-founder of the Double Negative Collective, a Montreal-based artist filmmaking group dedicated to the exhibition and production of experimental cinema. Saïto's work explores the relation between the corporeal phenomena of vision and the material nature of the medium, fusing a formal investigation of frame and juxtaposition with sensual and poetic expressions. His films have been exhibited in various venues both in Canada and abroad, including: The New York Film Festival; The International Film Festival Rotterdam; The Images Festival; The Toronto International Film Festival; The London Film Festival; The Hong Kong International Film Festival; Cinematheque Ontario; Anthology Film Archives, among others.

Sara MacLean handles celluloid inappropriately. She pounds heavy-handed cultural symbols into film stock and then exposes it all to sea water, rot, ink-jet printers, earth, fire and untold other abuses. A Montreal native now based in Toronto, Sara holds a MA from the University of Toronto in Drama & Film and a BAH from Queen’s University in Drama & Philosophy.

John Price is an independent filmmaker who has produced experimental documentaries, dance and diary films since 1986. His love of photography led naturally to extensive alchemical experimentation with a wide range of motion picture film emulsions and formats. By shooting on cheap, out-dated stock or with printing films not designed for cinematography, and processing all of it by hand, he achieves textures which would not be possible through the commercial laboratories. John’s work has been produced with support from the National Film Board of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council, and has been exhibited at festivals and galleries internationally. He has also produced film projections for opera and dance and is presently working on a feature-length series of hand-processed, hand-printed 35mm films.