January 29 2009

Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society celebrates our presentation of the interactive cinematic installation The Soft Revolution with a discussion with its makers.

Are artists still defined by their chosen medium? How does the movement toward an interdisciplinary approach to creation affect artistic product and practice? Focusing on inventive uses of film in practices that are not film-centric, and given the proliferation of artist films in galleries, this salon will explore the future of film outside of the theatre. This moderated discussion will feature excerpts of The Soft Revolution to guide a dialogue that will take place in an intimate and informal atmosphere where audience members will be encouraged to join the exchange.

BRIAN JOHNSON’s current field of work challenges the traditional parameters of filmmaking by inviting immediacy and improvisation into the cinematic experience. He is a member of the Truth Channel–an ongoing collective of artists working in the emerging forms of multimedia and performed cinema.

ANTHONY ROBERTS is a writer/director, composer and teacher. He has worked on a number of groundbreaking film and multimedia projects whose concerns range from interactivity to improvisation to surrealist collage. In 1990 he formed The Truth Channel with filmmaker Bill Mullan–an experimental multimedia group that has co-produced over two-dozen installations/performances.

Through his artistic practise, moderator DEMIAN PETRYSHYN focuses on those devalued aspects of popular culture, which are generally consumed by young men including video games, model kits, junk food and sci-fi movies. Rooted in the tradition of interdisciplinary and conceptually based practises, his current and recent work is characterized both by the sincerity of his involvement in each activity and the humour engendered by their failures.

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTISTS IN THE CINEMATIC CONTINUUM
29 January 2009, 7pm
Interurban Gallery [1 East Hastings]
Free