March 24 2007

Ben Russel is an itinerant photographer, curator, and experimental film/videomaker whose works have screened in spaces ranging from 14th Century Belgian monasteries to 17th Century East India Trading Co. buildings, police station basements to outdoor punk squats, Japanese cinematheques to Parisian storefronts, and the Sundance Film Festival to the Museum of Modern Art. Ben began the Magic Lantern screening series in Providence, Rhode Island, and he has made films about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the exploration of Easter Island, and the end of the world. He is currently teaching at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Steeped in American folklore, psychiatric techniques of the early 20th century, chaos theory, mask rituals, and techniques of synaesthesia, these five 16mm films propose an alternate mythos for the world in which we reside. Ben Russel has brought with him Creation Myths and First Contact Myths, Giant Stone Head Myths and Eternally Bloody Cowboy Myths, as well as what may very well be the only 16mm structural Western ever made...

FEATURING:
Black and White Trypps Number One (6:30, 16mm, silent, 2005)
Daume (7:00, 16mm, 2000)
Terra Incognita (10:00, 16mm, 2002)
Black and White Trypps Number Two (8:30, 16mm, silent, 2006)
The Twenty-One Lives of Billy the Kid (55:00, 16mm, 2005)

TRT 87:00

Ben Donoghue moderates the question ad answer period following the screening

Time: 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Saturday, March 24th, 2007
Cost: Free
Location: Cineworks Studio, 1131 Howe Street; back lane entrance

For more information, please consult www.cineworks.ca or contact Colleen Langford at: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) OR 604.685.3841

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