May 05 2009

Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society presents Cinematic Cartographies, an exploration of the places where our personal lives intersect the abstract maps of global capitalism. Comprised of two parts, the screening will feature works produced in Canada and from around the world that engage in locating an individual life on the increasingly complex, networked and yet disconnected stage of our modern world. The second part will showcase the works produced through the corresponding Cinematic Cartographies workshop.

An accompaying critical, curatorial essay can be found HERE.

This screening will be the inaugural exhibition at Cineworks’s new annex space at the historic Ironworks building.

Co-curated by visiting foreign artist Roger Beebe and Cineworks’s cheyanne turions, works will include the following:

Bill Brown’s Confederation Park. Making reference to “the secret languages of exile,” this reflective, even somber film presents a pastiche of places across Canada where the artist has lived, while its real subject is the limits of knowledge.

Jorge Furtado’s Isle of Flowers. A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. Ends? No. Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.

Jacqueline Goss’s There There Square. The desire to own and name land, and the pleasures of seeing from a distance colour this personal survey of the history of mapmaking in the New World. There There Square takes a close look at the gestures of travelers, mapmakers, and saboteurs that determine how the lines that define the United States are read and lived within.

Nelson Henricks’s Legend. A series of related segments which convey a non-linear narrative that functions as a list of the factors that contribute to the formation of one's identity, such as nationalism, the family, society, memory and mass media and so on.

Projections’s Wish List. An exploration of issues relating to the Carrall Street Greenway and the possible roles that video can play in participatory research/planning processes.

Steve Reinke’s Treehouse. How can one map themselves onto other things?

Also featuring new works by Hari Alluri, Chris Brabant, Che Campbell, Randy Lee Cutler + Mark Penner.

Thank-you to VIVO Media Arts Centre + W2 for their support of this workshop + screening.

CINEMATIC CARTOGRPAHIES SCREENING
05 May, 7:30pm
Cineworks Annex [235 Alexander Street, lower back entrance]
FREE

Image courtesy of Bill Brown's Confederation Park.