One Take Super 8

Happening this weekend in Montreal!

Double Negative Collective presents:

THE ONE TAKE SUPER 8 EVENT

November 21st 2009, 20H00
La Brique, 6545 Durocher, # 402 (corner Beaubien)
Doors at 8pm, screening starts at 9pm
Suggested donation of $5
BYOB

No cuts! No Splices! All films shown will be shown as shot. In collaboration with the Double Negative Collective, the One Take Super 8 Event will showcase the work of 33 Montreal filmmakers, established and amateur alike. The participants include:

Hoda Adra / Stéphane Calce / Émile Cantin / Thierry Collins / Xarah Dion / Félix Dufour-Laperrière / Matthew Forbes / Jessica Fortin-Simard / Amber Goodwyn / Alexandra Grimanis / André Habib / Bogdan Karasek / Richard Kerr / Isabelle Kirouac / Marcus von Holtzendorff / Alexandre Larose / Karl Lemieux / Philippe Léonard-Brazeau / Ara Mahrejian / Eduardo Menz / Maude Michaud / Diana Mihalache / Anita Pachulski / Alex Rogalski / Mike Rollo / Daïchi Saïto / Javiera Ovalle Sazie / Suzie Synnott / Malena Szlam / Roger Tellier-Craig / Emir Togrul / Mathieu Tremblay / Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt / Steven Woloshen


The One Take Super 8 Event (OTS8) began in 2000, with 20 filmmakers each shooting a single reel of Super 8 film, which then premiered to an audience without the filmmakers seeing their work beforehand. The popularity of this non-competitive festival has allowed it to return each year in different cities in North America with more filmmakers participating. To date over 600 films have been created for the One Take Super 8 Event!

Double Negative Collective is a Montreal-based group of film, video and installation artists interested in creating, curating and disseminating experimental film. Founded in 2004, the collective seeks "to locate cinema in human experience, in the eye, hand and heartbeat. Through experiments in form, voice and vision, they try to initiate a dialogue long-neglected in the independent artist-based filmmaking community; a benevolent conspiracy of ideas."

For more information:
doublenegatif@gmail.com

Double Negative Collective: doublenegativecollective.blogspot.com
One Take Super 8 Event: onetakesuper8event.blogspot.com

Lillian Schwartz

From wikipedia:

Lillian F. Schwartz (b. 1927), an American artist, is known for some of the first use of computers in computer developed art. Her best-known work is Mona Leo, her morphing of the image of a Leonardo self-portrait with the Mona Lisa.

Schwartz is an artist who has a long history of using computer technology to experiment with ways of creating and manipulating works of art. She has also written extensively about the topic of computer influence in art, and about art produced by computers.

Schwartz made many experiments with computer art during her career. She was one of the first artists to experiment with computer images and computer effects on art. She worked closely with scientists in the 1970s in the early stages of computer development, and developed one of the first rock music videos. She also made one of the first digitized films to be shown as a work of art, her video Pixillation showing diagonal red squares and other shapes such as cones, pyramids on black on white backgrounds. This video is regarded as one of the most important early works of computer film art.

She worked in the early stages of her career with scientists at Bell Laboratories developing mixtures of sound, video and art. Later on, during the 1980s, Schwartz made many experiments with artworks manipulating images using computer technology and creating some artworks of her own.

Pixillation (music by Gershon Kingsley):

UFOs (music by Emmanuel Ghent):

Computer Psychedelia! Absolutely amazing visuals! And the electronic music on both clips is stunning and on a plane of it's own...

Frans Zwartjes

The incomparable Frans Zwartjes is a filmmaker, musician, violin-maker, painter and sculptor. In the late-60s he was one of the first Dutch visual artists to take up film, initially to document his performances and soon after as an independent medium perfectly suited to his way of creating visual art. His mind-bending works caused a furor, with psychological black-and-white imagery of heavily made-up and over-dressed actors from his circle of friends. Focused on sexually-loaded power games, hysteria, psychosis and cruelty, his films are largely edited 'in-camera'. "My own motor system determined the film style", Zwartjes stated in an interview. Zwartjes's oeuvre includes over forty films and his style has left a strong stamp on at least two generations of experimental filmmakers in Holland. You've never seen anything quite like this. - Film Anthology Archive






You can find more of his films at UBUWEB

Please check out Anamnesis and Living, both these films are most certainly worth your time. Fantastic existential surrealism...

Bas Jan Ader

From wikipedia:

Bas Jan Ader (born April 19, 1942 in Winschoten, the Netherlands, lost at sea in 1975 between Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Ireland) was a Dutch conceptual artist, performance artist, photographer and filmmaker. He lived in Los Angeles for the last 10 years of his life. Ader's work was in many instances presented as photographs and film of his performances. He also made performative installations, including Please Don't Leave Me (1969). His work began to experience a surge in popularity in the early 1990s.

Ader's most popular work is his 1970 short film piece entitled "I'm too sad to tell you" that consists of the artist crying in front of a camera after a brief title.[citation needed] While much has been said about the aesthetic and ironical framework of "I'm too sad to tell you", i.e. the emotive or theatrical content, the slapstick comedy present in much of his work also plays an important role. Within this duality Ader thus creates in much of his work and performance a contrived theatricality that creates comedic space in its meta-awareness. This places not only content and aesthetics to the fore, but the idea of reception as well. The interests and concerns in Ader's oeuvre locate him in similar art historical tropes of conceptual and performance artists of the 1970s, such as Chris Burden and Bruce Nauman. Like many conceptual art works of the 1970s, his works were recorded in descriptive notes and statements destined to have flexible and repeated incarnations, forever unfolding with the perception of history itself.

Many myths have spread out about Ader's disappearance at sea, leading to speculations about supposedly lost works resurfacing.

Sometime soon...

Bonjour.

This will soon be a spot for me to explore connections and relations between different kinds of music, film and art...

Creative mixtapes, written impressions, links et beaucoup beaucoup de plus plus...

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