Eve Sussman | Rufus Corporation: whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir
Eve Sussman | Rufus Corporation: whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir (2009-2011) Eve Sussman | Rufus Corporation’s much-celebrated work utilizes iconic images and ideas from art history as a starting point. Theirwhiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir, shot mostly in post-Soviet Central Asia, reinvents the…
David Lamelas: Time as Activity
David Lamelas: Time as Activity (Buenos Aires) (2010) International Premiere Pioneering ’60s conceptualist David Lamelas began, tellingly, as a sculptor. His explorations of time and space through film emerge from his desire “to produce…
Duane Hopkins: Sunday
Duane Hopkins: Sunday (2009) North American Premiere UK director Duane Hopkins’ full-scale installation project, Sunday, is both an extension of his previous films and a haunting, elegiac projection-based work in its own right. Consisting of a…
Ben Rivers: Slow Action
Ben Rivers: Slow Action (2010) Toronto Premiere Ben Rivers’ four-part film, Slow Action, is a heady mix of lingering, mysterious beauty and charmingly offbeat humour, transforming four real locales into wholly imagined futuristic communities. Referencing classic-documentary…
Gregory Crewdson: Sanctuary
Gregory Crewdson: Sanctuary (2009) Canadian Premiere With La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini broke with the neorealist tradition of filming on location, and moved to Cinecittà Studios, where he built a near-exact replica of Rome’s famed Via…
Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky: Road Movie
Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky: Road Movie (2011) World Premiere Presented on six double-sided walls and comprised of a series of short films, Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky’s powerful and beautifully nuanced installation, Road Movie, examines…
David Rokeby: Plot Against Time
David Rokeby: Plot Against Time (2007-2011) World Premiere Throughout his distinguished career, Governor General’s Award-winning artist David Rokeby has experimented prolifically with a variety of new media. Unifying all his work is an insatiable fascination…
Mr. Brainwash in Toronto
Mr. Brainwash: Mr. Brainwash in Toronto (2011) World Premiere Made famous by the film Exit through the Gift Shop as legendary street-artist Banksy‘s alter ego, Thierry Guetta , a.k.a. Mr. Brainwash, has continued to produce provocative and…
Memories of Idaho
James Franco and Gus Van Sant: Memories of Idaho (1991; 2010 and 2011) World Premiere (elements*) In 1991, Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho and its central performance by River Phoenix had an enormous cultural impact,…
Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board
Nicholas and Sheila Pye: Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board (2011) – World Premiere Collaborative Canadian artists Nicholas and Sheila Pye’s latest exhibition refers to the levitation game children often play at slumber…
