Artist in Residence
Roberto Santaguida (Montreal)

Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre are pleased to announce the arrival of filmmaker Roberto Santaguida from Montreal. Rob will be participating in the Open Studio Artist in Residence program, which is made possible by the New Brunswick Arts Board.

Rob has created many successful works and has been involved in several collaborations, working as a producer, director, screenwriter, editor, researcher and distributor. Rob’s film Miraslava, was screened at forty-seven international film festivals. Rob describes the film as “an experimental documentary about a man, his life in tatters, who tries to seek redemption by fleeing the city.”

Currently Rob is producing a documentary entitled The Avenuers, a feature-length documentary about the avenues of Verdun, in south central Montreal and will work on the fine cut of this documentary during his residency.

The Living is Easy
Johanna Van Waarden (Hunter River

If I Were...

Petunia and the Minimalist Jugband
8pm

Sewing Bee and Pattern Drafting Workshop:
Wednesday September 10th at seven pm,

come down to Struts Gallery (7 Lorne street)
to learn how to make your own clothes or to work
on any project that you have in mind. The pattern drafting
workshop will start right at seven, but feel free to drop in any time
if you are planning on just working away at something.
there will be snacks, and it will be fun.
free for struts members, or ten dollars.
if you have any questions, email me at ajftx@mta.ca.
see you there!
amanda.

Farheen HaQ
Exhibition

Opening Reception:
Friday September 12, 9:00pm
in conjunction with the gallery crawl

Closing Reception:
Friday September 26, 8:00pm
in conjunction with The Body is Now

No Commercial Value
Screening: 7pm, 7 Lorne Street, Free of Charge

Independent short and experimental films from Montreal, Lisbon and Berlin
Curated by visiting artist Roberto Santaguida and Kevin Kirchenbauer

Flummox Your Father!
Personal Documentary Workshop
Instructed by visiting artist Roberto Santaguida
7pm, 7 Lorne Street, $5 for members, $10 for non-members

The Personal Documentary Production workshop provides the opportunity for participants to write, shoot and edit their own short documentary and subsequently screen it at Struts on Wednesday, October 1. The introductory session will take place at Struts on Tuesday, September 16, participants will then have three weeks to develop their idea and produce a finished piece for the screening.

A Casual Evening of Scriptwriting Talk
Questions and Answers about Scriptwriting and Independent Filmmaking
with visiting artist Roberto Santaguida
7pm, 7 Lorne Street, Free of Charge

The screenwriting workshop will be an informal Q&A, addressing the basic techniques of writing a memorable script. Insisting that screenwriting is much more than a formula-based, foolproof, get-rich-quick-scheme, Rob hopes to show how story structure can serve as an extraordinary form of self-expression.

The Body is Now
Roundtable Panel
with Farheen HaQ, Diana Burgoyne, and Paul Coulliard
moderated by Linda Rae Dornan
web essayist Jayne Wark

Saturday September 27, 7:30pm. Reception to follow.

Presence & Absence: The Body Now
The human body’s presence generates connections both symbolic and physical within every area of our social system. From the political to the spiritual the body is discussed, controlled, manipulated, fought over and abused (be that the female or the male). Current discourse on technological promises and possibilities, virtual space interaction, body enhancements, and robotic workers for example, all have as their basis the human endeavour to understand and explore the body’s possibilities, sometimes with the desire to exist non-organically.

The body has become a contested site. Questions about moral issues, and social and corporate control are raised in fields such as reproductive technology, disease, bionics and prostheses as well in the arts. Who owns the human body? The lines between the organic and non-organic, the natural and unnatural, and the self and other are increasingly undefined in our present realities.

The panel will be moderated by Linda Rae Dornan, and an essay will be written for the website by Jayne Wark.

The artists invited to participate in our panel approach the subject matter of body in their art practices from both similar and opposite perspectives.

Paul Couillard’s performances focus on the body’s presence as vessels of experience, knowledge and spirit in the search for a language to convey personal history, and cultural/social specificity. His solo practice is particularly concerned with duration and the effects of time.

Fareen Haq does videos and video installations about the body as a site of struggle in opposition to closed and rigid systems. Her practice is informed by gender and ritual as well as formal and aesthetic properties.

Diane Burgoyne has been a visual artist working with technology since 1982. She is particularly interested in juxtaposing the body in performance with technology to discuss society, technology and environment.

Recommended Reading for the Panel:
"The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet" by Margaret Wertheim

Intro to Video Cameras
ITechnical Tuesdays Workshop (6-10pm)
Instructed by Amanda Dawn Christie
$5 for members, $10 for non-members

A brief history of video art and a practical hands on introduction to our video cameras, the TRV-11 and the TRV-950

Pam Hall & Margaret Dragu (St. John's and Vancouver)
Open Studio artists in residence

Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre are pleased to announce the arrival of Pam Hall from St. John's Newfoundland, and Margaret Dragu from Vancouver, British Columbia. These two artists will be participating in the Open Studio Artist in Residence program, which is made possible by the New Brunswick Arts Board.

Marginalia is about creating discourse: both between the two artists who have undertaken this committed correspondence, and between audiences who experience the work both virtually and in real-time. Our process engages new technologies and old manual practices to explore the ground between art and life, between one coast and another, between two strangers deciding to "make a relationship". We are, like most Canadians, exploring how it might be possible to forge deep connection, mutual understanding, and complicity across great distance.

Intro to Audio Recording
Technical Tuesdays Workshop (6-10pm)
Instructed by Amanda Dawn Christie
$5 for members, $10 for non-members

Acoustic Principles, types of microphones, recording techniques for both analogue and digital mediums.

Intro to Audio Output and Audio Jam
Technical Tuesdays Workshop (6-10pm)
Instructed by Amanda Dawn Christie
$5 for members, $10 for non-members

2 hour technical workshop on PA systems, mixers, home made contact mics and speakers. followed by a jam with contact mics, and laptops come for the whole evening, or just for the jam

You Even Called Me Friend
13th Annual Symposium of Art
co-organized with the Owens Art Gallery

including artists Pam Hall, Margaret Dragu, and more.
for a more detailed schedule, with larger, more legible print.... click HERE !!!

ReGeneration
Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre 40th Anniversary Screening Tour
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre - 8 PM
Free

To mark their 40th anniversary last year, the CFMDC (Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre) commissioned seven artists to make works inspired by films that are significant to them as image-makers. New works meet classics from the Canadian avant-garde in this unique evening that pairs new films with their influential companion pieces. What better way to celebrate a big birthday than by throwing a party and ensuring some great gifts? This is an exciting opportunity for Sackville to view such a program of rare, significant and innovative moving pictures. Hosting the screening will be Larissa Fan, currently Educational Sales and Outreach Coordinator at the CFMDC.

The CFMDC is Canada's foremost non-commercial distributor and resource for independently produced film. They represent approximately 550 filmmakers worldwide and 2,600 film titles, including some of Canada's most original and well-respected works of art. The CFMDC's collection is diverse, ranging from the 1950s to the present, and continues to grow steadily. The ReGeneration Tour affords the CFMDC an opportunity to commemorate this anniversary milestone by occasioning a look backward at our history as an organization in a way that also captures the excitement and vitality of our future.

The Program

Breakfast (Table Top Dolly) by Michael Snow (Canada 1976 15 min. 16mm)
Rostrum Press: Materials Testing by Chris Gehman (Canada 2008 3:30 min. 16mm silent)
Frank’s Cock by Mike Hoolboom (Canada 1993 8 min. 16mm)
Secret Weapons by Adam Garnet Jones (Canada 2008 7 min. 16mm)
Fissures by Louise Bourque (Canada 1999 2:30 min. 16mm)
La vie en pellicule by Lise Beaudry (Canada 2008 4:30 min. 16mm)
Tree by Shelley Niro (Canada 2006 5:40 min. Video)
Shelley by Jerry Thevent (Canada 2008 3:42 min. 16mm)
Christ Mass Sex Dance by Stan Brakhage (U.S.A. 1991 5:30 min. 16mm)
The Garden of Earthly Delights by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof (Canada 2008 8 min. 16mm silent)
The Basement Girl by Midi Onodera (Canada 2000 11:40 min. 16mm)
Crushed by Susan Justin (Canada 2008 2:10 min. 16mm)
Rat Life and Diet in North America by Joyce Wieland (Canada 1968 16 min. 16mm)
Afghanimation by Allyson Mitchell (Canada 2008 6 min. 35mm)

Distribution Workshop
Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre - 1 PM
Free

An informal workshop on distribution with Larissa Fan, Saturday Afternoon, 1pm at Struts Gallery. This workshop will cover distribution possibilities for short films; the benefits of having your work in distribution; the difference between commercial and non-commercial distribution; and what you need to put your films into distribution. This is great opportunity for local filmmakers and artists interested in getting works screened around the world.

Larissa is a Toronto-based filmmaker, writer, and arts administrator who recently completed a Master of Fine Arts in Film Production at York University.

Intro to Photoshop
Technical Tuesdays Workshop (6-10pm)
Instructed by Amanda Dawn Christie
$5 for members, $10 for non-members

basic digital imaging techniques including image capture, file management, color management, image size, resolution, working with layers, and prepping images for the lab or the printer.

THE BURNING HELL
WITH JILL STAVELEY + ROCKENSPIEL

Perhaps you saw this 9 piece ensemble blow the roof off the tent at SappyFest this summer?
NOT TO BE MISSED.

http://www.myspace.com/mathiaskom
http://www.wearetheburninghell.com/

Soft Turns
Sarah Jane Gorlitz and Wojciech Olejnik
Exhibition

Opening Reception:
Friday November 14, 5-7 PM

Animated video installations by Toronto/Berlin duo Soft Turns. Sarah Jane Gorlitz and Wojciech Olejnik have been collaborating as Soft Turns since 2006, building miniature detailed models of abandoned social spaces and filming processes within them. As the viewer indulges in the details of their construction, priority is given to the space itself, and so these spaces begin to almost perform - building their own narratives out of the materials at hand.

www.softturns.com