Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society is pleased to announce the tenure of interdisciplinary artist Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk as its inaugural LAIR (Local Artist in Residence) program during Fall/Winter 2010. Over the course of her residency, Kazymerchyk will transform Cineworks’ Annex space into the Laboratory of Intrinsic Fragility and Inevitable Decay.  An archive of Super-8 film documenting demolished Vancouver landmarks will be hand-processed at the Cineworks Annex, then subjected to various processes of intentional chemical, mechanical and optical decay. Through these processes, the artist will investigate the ephemeral qualities shared by celluloid and the urban environment.  The LAIR Residency at Cineworks will culminate with the exhibition of Kazymerchyk’s findings, as well as a critical publication. Kazymerchyk will be working in the Annex space from Sept.-Dec. 2010.  The laboratory will be open three days a week (Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays) by appointment for public visits.  To make an appointment to view Kazymerchyk’s work with film, please contact Cineworks Programs Manager and Curator Jennifer Cane.

 Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk is a filmmaker and curator.  She is the Events & Exhibitions Coordinator/ Curator at VIVO Media Arts Centre and Programmer of DIM Cinema at the Pacific Cinémathèque. She is currently making a film, To: Hope, From Here, and is engaged in the first LAIR Residency at Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society titled the Laboratory of Intrinsic Fragility and Inevitable Decay. Both of these projects expand on her observations and ideas about identity, belonging and meaning in the post-modern urban landscape, informed by the dramatic transformation of Vancouver in the five years leading up to the 2010 Winter Olympics. 

 The LAIR (Local Artist in Residence) program is supported by Cineworks, The City of Vancouver Artistic Residencies Program and LIFT (Toronto). If you would like more information about upcoming Cineworks events, visit www.cineworks.ca, call Programs Manager and Curator Jennifer Cane at 604.685.3841 or email programs (at) cineworks.ca

Film design is both practical and conceptual. This workshop helps you to develop methodical ways to transpose a screenplay into a game plan for production design.  Using reading skills, analysis and application, we will cover methods and principles that can be used for any scale of project.  Participants may want to use the session as an opportunity for pre-production planning for a project already in development.  The preceding workshops “Pictorial Zones” and “Chroma and Action Mapping” are recommended as complimentary sessions in the Cinematic Stagecraft Series.

In this three hour evening workshop participants learn how to:

* Classify sets, props, costume, special effects with regard to screen direction * Prepare a staging area * Format a budget and crewing plan * Anticipate legal and clearance issues * Put together an expendables kit * Assemble a tool kit

CINEMATIC STAGECRAFT SERIES: CHROMA AND ACTION MAPPING
THURSDAY SEPT. 2^nd

7 pm-10 pm
Cineworks Screening Room[1131 Howe, back lane entrance]

Instructor: LISA CELOTTO is a filmmaker and teacher who has  coached the design and staging of over 300 short dramatic films as a teacher at VFS, Canadian College, and Langara. Lisa has producing, writing, sound mixing, art direction and production design screen credits and has been teaching new filmmakers for 14 years. Working with new filmmakers always offers a unique perspective to the art of filmmaking because each step of the process is invented and discovered as the medium changes.

$80 for members / $120 for non-members

$60 members before Aug. 19^th /$100 non-members before Aug. 19^th

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Tuesday, Aug. 31st

To register, please call 604.685.3841 or contact Leanne at info(at)cineworks.ca

SANS COMIC

FOR SWARM 11 (2010)  

Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society is pleased to present work by local film and video artists Barry Doupe, Julia Feyrer, Sharon Kahanoff, and Stephen Wichuk for the exhibition Sans Comic for SWARM 11 (2010).  The exhibition will be open as a one-night installation at the Cineworks Annex, 235 Alexander St. (Ironworks Building, back entrance).  Sans Comic brings together works that prompts nervous laughter, with moments of seriousness verging on absurdity, inspiring giddiness, even terror.  Through the condition of ‘inappropriate mirth’, the show’s title implies the status of the ‘un-funny’; the works, through their playful and awkward gestures, question the social, ethical and formal conventions surrounding humour and taste.  The exhibition will be open for one night only during SWARM 11 (2010), Friday, Sept. 10, starting at 7 pm.  Refreshments will be available.

FOLLOW ALL THE SWARM EVENTS THROUGH THE TWITTER-POWERED WEBSITE AT http://swarm.paarc.ca/ !

If you would like more information about upcoming Cineworks events, visit www.cineworks.ca, call Programs Manager and Curator Jennifer Cane at 604.685.3841 or email programs (at) cineworks.ca. Image courtesy Barry Doupe.

No Reading After the Internet
September’s Reading: The Tracking Shot in Kapo by Serge Daney

Wednesday September 22 2010

VIVO

1965 Main Street,
Vancouver, BC

7pm,  Salon (Free)
Facilitated by Alex Muir
Co-Presented with VIVO

No Reading After the Internet is a monthly opportunity to gather and read a text aloud in hopes that it might provoke theoretical illumination on particular art works, or the broader scape within which such work exists. This program departs from Cineworks' Thought on Film series, conceived by Cheyanne Turions. Whilst still very interested in cinema, the focus of this incarnation is softened to accommodate the more broad (and ever expanding) scope of media art.

The idea of a reading group isn't new. No Reading nonetheless poses itself as an experimental learning and discussion space. Simply put, we are suspicious of our own reading abilities, and the extent to which our readings are conversant with one another. No Reading means to offer a slow space within which to retrace our steps in the hopes of discovering individual and collective ways through the realms of language and interpretation. The strategies we have at our disposal are twofold: through the yoking of our discussion to a text; and inducing conversation, where possible, between text and specific, local, contemporaneous art discussions and happenings.

Participation in No Reading After the Internet is free and open to everyone, regardless of his or her familiarity with a text or its author. Texts will be handed out at the gathering. No pre-reading or research is required. If you are interested in previewing a text, please contact (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for a digital copy.

September’s Reading
Serge Daney was one of the most reputed French film critics of the modern era. He wrote extensively for the Cahiers du Cinema, Liberation, and Trafic, but has only recently had any of his writings available in English. "The Tracking Shot..." is at once an autobiographical sketch of Daney's coming-of-age as a cinephile and an elaboration of his vision of the history of cruelty and the gaze as it pertains to 'post-war' or 'modern' cinema. The text makes use of Gillo Pontecorvo's Da Kapo, Alain Resnais' Night and Fog, Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu, and Hitchcock's Psycho.

Presented in partnership with Western Front Media Arts~

Please join us for an evening of conversation between Judy Radul and current Media Artist-in-Residence Deirdre Logue. The conversation will take selected works, both new and old from Logue’s performance and video based practice as a point of departure.

Thursday September 23, 2010 | 6.30 PM
Location: Western Front, Luxe Hall, 303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver.

Recent solo exhibitions of Dierdre Logue’s work have taken place at Oakville Galleries, the Images Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, Beyond/In Western New York, Art Star in Ottawa and at articule in Montreal. She was a founding member of Media City in Windsor, the Executive Director of the Images Festival, the Executive Director of the Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre, is currently the Development Director at Vtape and lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Judy Radul was born in Lillooet, British Columbia and lives and works in Vancouver. Her interdisciplinary practice embraces photography, sculpture, performance, video and mixed media installations. In 2000 she received a Master of Visual and Media Arts from Bard College, New York. She has exhibited her work internationally including in Mechelen (Belgium), at Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (Antwerp), Catriona Jeffries Gallery (Vancouver), Oboro (Montreal), Presentation House Gallery (North Vancouver), and The Power Plant (Toronto). Radul teaches at Simon Fraser University and her creative writing and essays on theatre, performance art and visual art have appeared in a variety of publications since 1991.

For more information please contact Sarah Todd at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or visit http://www.front.bc.ca or Cineworks Programs Manager and Curator Jennifer Cane at programs(at)cineworks.ca

//image courtesy Deirdre Logue

That’s a great song/I can visualize how it would look/Where do I go from here?  ‘Seeing’ a song in your head is one thing; producing that vision is another.  This workshop aims to take the mystery out of creating a music video by detailing all the stages of teaming a great song with great visuals.  A music video can range from a literal interpretation of a song to an abstract embodiment of the emotion or themes involved.  Current trends show highly developed narrative elements and seemingly unrelated, wild scenarios. As most filmmakers these days are required to wear many hats, this workshop will cover the full spectrum of creative problem-solving from all angles and for any scale production or budget.  The course will be a jam-packed full-day workshop with time for one-on-one consultation, and covers the following areas:

 -       Manifesting the concept

-       From concept to treatment

-       The treatment’s relationship to cost and production schedule

-       Building your budget (or lack thereof) and team

-       The actual production

-       Post Production

 DATE & TIME:  SATURDAY SEPT. 25,  10 am-4 pm

LOCATION: Cineworks Screening Room (1131 Howe St., Vancouver BC)

COST: $80 for members before Sept. 11

$100 for members/ $140 non-members after Sept. 11

Registration deadline Sept. 22

Fed up with waiting for distributors and film festivals to get your work out there? This workshop is aimed to provide marketing savvy, technical and practical execution, secret tricks, and the inspiration that you need to accomplish anything – when you put your mind to it, and take your film on the road!

 In April 2010, Sean MacPherson embarked on an international film tour, bringing his feature film to the big screen across Canada and the US, screening at venues in Seattle, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, and many others.  The results were promising.  Press was friendly – CBC, CTV, and Calgary Sun to name a few— and at the end a distribution deal was signed.  Currently residing in Toronto, Sean brings his expertise on independent touring and self-releasing to Cineworks, sharing his knowledge on important venues and contacts in Canada, tips on conducting interviews and press/internet marketing campaigns, as well as ways to tap into local audiences and develop buzz surrounding your project.

DATE AND TIME: Sunday Sept. 26, 10 am-4 pm

LOCATION: Cineworks Screening Room (Howe)

COST: $100 members/ $150 non-members

Last day to register:Thursday, Sept. 23