The Gallery Director
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. XV, no. 4, p. 28, September/October 2004: The Artist – The Cultural Worker Series Three Interventions: October…
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Results filed under: documentary
Xenakis – Charisma X Screening
A screening of the Efi Xirou directed documentary in tandem with the VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC productions: RANDOM ELEMENTS – A Celebration of Iannis Xenakis and the XENAKIS FESTIVAL, celebrating the life…
Stories from Places and Times Distantly Close
Cinema Suitcase and Will Kwan: Stories from Places and Times Distantly Close. Curated by Liz Park Will Kwan Artist Talk Thursday, November 19th, 2009 7PM, Luxe Hall…
Between Departure and Arrival
The installation utilized archival footage of Chinese and Japanese Canadians and documentary footage of Canadian involvement in the Korean War, as well as large projected…
Die Laughing: A Commedietta
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. V, no. 5, p. 8, Spring/Summer 1994: This exhibition by D.I.R.T., entitled Commedietta, will be a video/installation/propaganda piece dealing…
Big Fat Slenderella
Special video production. The Big Fat Short is a first step in the editing of collected video material for a larger project, The Big Fat Feature.…
Ordinary Shadows, Chinese Shade
Vancouver premiere, video screening. Documentary of seemingly ordinary events and people in China. Co-sponsored by On Edge.
War in Flowerland
Screening. A personal video documentary on the armed struggle for independence of the Karen people of Burma with photographer Marlin Oliveros.
Series of Film Screenings: 1985
Curated by Maria Insell. Al Razutis, Randy Rotheisler, Lorne Martin (Canada), Films About Trains 02/21/85 Cineworks, Political Documentary 03/24/85 Films from Poland Judith Doyle (Canada), Eye…
Larry Dubin
Special production. A memorial documentary of performances by this extraordinary drummer, collected from four performances of the Canadian Creative Music Collective.
A Postcard from Victoria
Artists-in-residence. Special production. A portrait of a lady, reconstructing her first day of work as a guide in Ann Hathaway’s Cottage in Victoria. It is…
Cornucopia
Special production. Video by General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal). An image constellation of peeing poodles, crescent moons and spilled cocktails is drawn…
Paradise Lost
Artist-in residence. Special production. A tape about relationships, documenting a decade of history. Ideologies develop and dissolve. Value systems shift focus. It is shown from…
How We Lived, Andrew J. Paterson, How We Lived, Hank Bull
Artist-in-residence. Special production. Hank Bull: an observational portrait during the complete day of April 28, 1980, taped in and around his home. Andrew James Paterson:…
Sur Dos, Trabajando Dos
Two in a series of film studies of the movements of people working, made during a trip through Central and South America. Music: A Trombone Piece,…
Warsaw, City of Song
Artist-in-residence. “Warsaw, City of Song” documents the artist’s recent visit to Vienna and Warsaw. “Smokers’ Nosebleeds” starring David Byrne.
Dr. Brute
Video production. A compilation of performances by The Brute Saxes, 1973-1976, edited by Clive Robertson.
My Five Years in a Nutshell
Byron Black, Vincent Trasov (Canada), My Five Years in a Nutshell 01/01/75 - Video production. Produced by Byron Black as a special edition of his cable television show…
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