March 01 2006

Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society and Spartacus Books are pleased to present

FILM INTERACTIVE: A Cinematic Salon with Flick Harrison Wednesday March 1st, 7:00pm
Spartacus Books (319 West Hastings St.)
Admission by Donation.
Moderated by Camille Baker.

We will be hosting the VANCOUVER PREMIERE of Flick Harrison's award winning short MARIE TYRELL based on the 1974 short story by Vancouver auther D.M. Fraser.

Marie Tyrell is a humanizing portrait of a woman on death row, from inquisitive teen to uncompromising revolutionary leader. Like the 1974 short story by legendary local author D.M Fraser, Harrison’s film weaves multiple perspectives, splintered time and forceful poetic language into a startling examination of the politics of dissent.

Mixing painterly compositions, traditional narrative, and a richly-layered bombardment of symbols and imagery, Marie Tyrell hijacks the aesthetics of high-art and hostage-video, of indymedia and indiewood.

“This film really knocked me out; it’s a great story, and the style is appropriately rad.” - Sam Green, Director, The Weather Underground

Interactive DVD: Buttons in the video can also “interrogate” the narrative, and the politics of the film’s production, by calling up documentary segments: for instance, an interview with Erik Paulsson, who sat on a BC Arts funding jury which rejected Marie Tyrell. Including original footage of Noam Chomsky, Svend Robinson, Larry Campbell, the Woodwards Squat, Arts Council Jurists, and antiwar protests. After screening the video, the Cinematic Salon will see and discuss the interactive elements.

“…Psychedelic polemic… recalls the whole spectrum of 1970s political energy…” - Geist Magazine

Rare Screening: Premiered at Portland’s Northwest Film and Video Fest in November, 2004 – and awarded Best Narrative Film - Marie Tyrell has since been passed hand to hand samizdat-style. In the days since the 2003 closure of micro cinema the Blinding Light, Vancouver has been without a venue to exhibit, and therefore foster, the work of local, non-mainstream film artists.

“Films by Flick promise to provoke a range of reactions, from simple disgust to something as noble as social enlightenment.” - Katherine Monk, Vancouver Sun

Trailer, Stills available at Flick Harrison
Marie Tyrell was produced with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Check out moderator Camille Baker's review of the Film and Interactive DVD: http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=181

Camille Baker
Creative Collaborator + Adventurer
http://www.swampgirl67.net

Also check a review of the film and Salon in April's Discorder magazine http://discorder.ca/2006/04/strut-fret-and-flicker-2/