A DANCE FILM WORKSHOP WITH DANIEL CONRAD - REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 21st!

Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society and the Dance Centre present a full-day workshop for filmmakers, choreographers, and dancers who want to make dance film; and for any artists who want to exercise their visual imaginations.

Most dance films try to film dance choreographed for stage. This usually fails, since dance has vastly different needs than film. Film cuts the world into angles, while dance is conceived as a continuum from a single angle. Also, time and space become more compressed on film than on stage. To make true dance film, choreographers must understand film composition and directors must understand the nature and rhythms of dance. Going from stage to screen starts with choreographing and lighting shot-by-shot, with “sticky ends,” and it continues with non-stage locations, camera angles, camera movement, and kinetic montage. We will study these core methods, watch films and film clips which use them well, and then practice extensively with camera, lights and a dancer.

Instructor DANIEL CONRAD’s ten dance films have screened at Locarno, Montréal World, London Int'l, Valladolid, Seattle Int. (Best of Fest Shorts), New York Dance on Camera (2 Silver Awards), Golden Prague (Dagmar & Vaclav Havel Prize), Toronto Moving Pictures (Audience Choice Award), Dance Camera West (L.A.), Vancouver Int., Northwest Film & Video (Judge’s selection); sold to PBS, CBC, ZDF, TVE, ARTV, & Bravo; featured at the Portland Art Museum's series: Icons, Rebels and Visionaries; and purchased by the National Gallery of Art, Wash., D.C.

BODIES IN MOTION, BODIES AT REST
co-sponsored by the Dance Centre
Saturday, 22 May 2010, 10am-6pm
Cineworks [1131 Howe] and the Scotiabank Dance Centre [677 Davie]
$85 Cineworks members, $125 non-members

Registration: Please contact Leanne at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 604.685.3841.

WITH SIGNAL AND NOISE MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2010 AND DIM CINEMA

 Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society is excited to co-present 3 short films by London, UK-based artists The Pil + Galia Kollectiv for the VIVO Signal and Noise Festival, May 27-30^th 2010.

 In November 2005, IKEA announced a new store opening in Edmonton, London to be accompanied by an offer of a significant price reduction on leather sofas. When 6000 people arrived to compete for the discount, a riot ensued, injuring 16 shoppers. The Future Trilogy takes this event as the starting point for a speculative history of a fictional future. The Future for Less (2006) imagines the consumer riot as the foundation of a new totalitarian state religion imposing the tenets of modernism on the masses. In Better Future, Wolf-Shaped (2008), a rural cult perverts this official creed through pagan rituals of architectural worship performed at Celtic burial sites in Cornwall. The final installment, The Future is Now (2009), similarly shot on 16mm colour film, stages the triumphant conquest of the industrial wasteland surrounding IKEA Edmonton, London as a popular uprising, revisiting the original riot as a future reenactment. 

A screening of The Future Trilogy will be preceded by the vocal performance of Lief Hall, titled AXIX XS.  This event will take place at the Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe St., Sunday May 30^th, at 7:30 p.m. as part of DIM Cinema.

This month’s Thought on Film (XXVII), Cineworks’ monthly reading group, will focus on The Future Trilogy in conjunction with Paolo Virno’s  essay “Virtuosity and Revolution”.  For more information, check under Thought on Film.

MONTHLY READING + DISCUSSION GROUP EXPLORING CINEMA + CINEMATIC PRACTICE THROUGH WRITTEN WORDS

A monthly reading + discussion group, Thought on Film aims to promote critical thought around film product and practice through community-based discussion. Open to the public, Thought on Film fosters the close reading of texts confronting issues in contemporary, cutting-edge cinematic practice and philosophy.

Provoked by the presentation of British artists Pil and Galia’s The Future Trilogy, part of Cineworks’s contribution to the Signal and Noise festival, May’s meeting will feature Paolo Virno’s essay “Virtuosity and Revolution.”

The Pil and Galia Kollectiv are London based artists, writers and curators working in collaboration. Their work addresses the legacy of modernism and explores avant garde discourses of the twentieth century and the way they operate in the context of a changing landscape of creative work and instrumentalized leisure. They are interested in the relationship between art and politics and the role irony plays in its current articulation and often use choreographed movement and ritual as both an aesthetic and a thematic dimension, juxtaposing consumer rites and religious ceremonies. They are contributing editors at Art Papers and have written for many publications including Art Monthly and Mute. They have presented live work at the 2nd Herzliya Biennial, the 5th Berlin Biennial and the 5th Montreal Biennial, as well as at Late at Tate Britain. They have had solo shows at The Showroom, London and S1 Artspace, Sheffield, and their work has been exhibited in Apocatopia, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester and Roll it to Me, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh. They work as lecturers in Fine Art at the University of Kent.

Experimenting with the form of reading groups and their discussions, this month’s selection will be read out loud by participants. No pre-reading required!

If you have any questions about Thought on Film, please do not hesitate to contact Programs Manager + Curator Jennifer Cane at programs [at] cineworks [dot] ca

THOUGHT ON FILM XXVII
Paolo Virno, "Virtuosity and Revolution"
Cineworks [1131 Howe, back lane entrance]
31 May 2010, 6pm
Free