Cineworks recommends PRIMER, presented as part of Safe Assembly 2010.

You are invited to attend a screening of five short video works drawn from the Satellite Video Exchange Society/Video Out archive.

The works, all drawn from the early 1980s, provide varying sightlines into histories of Vancouver, politicized aesthetic practices, and other issues that haunt and inform the ongoing dialogues to be had in this current scene. This screening is our first act in February aimed to host and sustain such conversation. It is also meant to foreground and make use of the recent, lengthy efforts made to sustain and consolidate this archive–a wealth of material relevant to Vancouver's own creative and political history.

VIVO is greatly indebted to Crista Dahl and the many volunteers she has worked with for years to maintain the archive, and make it a resource accessible to the community. She will be in attendance to speak about the archive.

C.A.D.A. - Ay Sudamerica [4:00]
Ken Kuramoto - Persons Unknown [7:00]
Byron Black - B-84: Leaving the Ground [17:00]
Andreas Nieman - Our Noblest Aspirations [13:00]
Kim Tomczak - Vancouver Canada or They Chant Fed Up [23:00]

PRIMER
Thursday, 04 February, 7:30pm
VIVO [1965 Main Street]
Free