July 31 2007

Cineworks is proud to host FAR AND WIDE, an evening of Canadian shorts selected from Medianet’s Edges Independent Media Arts Festival in Victoria, and the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP) in Halifax. Far and Wide will be Monday, July 31, at 7:30 pm, at the Pacific Cinémathèque. Special guest filmmakers will be in attendance for post-film discussion and reception. Analyze the Rosarch Test style of Terry Haines’ Skin for Life, perceive the palindrome in Samuel Kiehoon Lee’s Hannah, snigger with Gilliamesque humour in James MacSwain’s Pitfall, observe sound via an eidophone in Nelson Henricks’ Satellite, enter altered states in Jeff Barnaby’s From Cherry English, hear a father’s silence in Shandi Mitchell’s Tell Me, ring the bell of love in Andrea Dorfman’s There’s A Flower In My Pedal. 18 shorts will be in presented in this body of work. Programmer Elaine McChesney explains, “Canadian filmmakers are exploring the nature of identity and transforming their findings through the artistic process. I’d like to open discussion of that process and how it relates to the creative community in which it takes place.” From Far and Wide, come participate in the experiment.