Clive Holden
:: Filmography, Exhibition, and Publishing History ::
UTOPIA SUITE project (2006 to 2020)
(Short stories and essays, films, immersive cinema-based art works, film + photo-based media murals, and experiments in web & community outreach:)
MEAN. Film + essay. 2007. Screenings + exhibition: Ontario Cinematheque (Toronto); Antimatter Film Festival/Deluge Contemporary Arts (Victoria); Light Industry (Brooklyn); Oberlin College; International Short Film Festival Oberhausen; Thames Art Gallery (Chatham-Kent); Winnipeg Cinematheque. 2:55, 35mm/Blu-ray/DVD/Web.
Engines of Despair. 2007. Film + essay. Screenings + exhibition: Antimatter Film Festival/Deluge Contemporary Arts (Victoria); Durham Art Gallery/Fabulous Fringe Film Festival; Thames Art Gallery. 1:40, 35mm/Blu-ray/DVD/Web.
You Are Being Remembered. 2007. Twin wide-screen installation + short story + photo series. Exhibition: Antimatter Film Festival/Deluge Contemporary Arts (Victoria); Toronto International Film Festival/Stephen Bulger Gallery. 25:07 + 25:17, Blu-ray.
Utopia Disco. 2008. Immersive four screen installation + short fiction/personal essay. Exhibition: Foreman Art Gallery at Bishop's University; Thames Art Gallery; WNDX Festival of Film & Video Art/PLATFORM centre for photographic and digital arts. 28 min. x 4 screens + audio, Blu-ray/DVD + mp3, cedar 2x4s, rear screen projection material.
Ken Dryden. 2008. Media tile computer-based projection + radio interview soundscape + essay. Screenings + exhibition: Toronto International Film Festival/Stephen Bulger Gallery; Jihlava International Documentary Festival; Thames Art Gallery; WNDX Festival of Film & Video Art/PLATFORM centre for photographic and digital arts. 7 min. continuously re-mixing, html/javascript.
Ken Dryden in the Box. 2009. See above, but installed in douglas fir veneer box. 7 min. continuously re-mixing, html/javascript.
2 Cameras @ Sea. 2008. Film + live performed soundtrack with interview/soundscape + essay. Screenings + exhibition: Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam); Images Festival (Toronto, Opening Night). 11 min., 35mm/Blu-ray projection, 6 piece ensemble + computer-based audio.
2 Cameras @ Sea – Unconstructed. 2009. See above, but as installation with six soundtrack mix variations, looping. Exhibition: Jihlava International Documentary Festival. 66 min., Blu-ray/DVD.
Y.O.U. (Your Own Utopia). 2009. Community outreach project with questionnaire and social media components. Exhibitions: Thames Art Gallery; Media City International Festival of Film & Video Art; WNDX Festival of Film & Video Art/PLATFORM centre for photographic and digital arts.
U Bend, 2009, short story + social media experiment (twittered line-by-line from September, 2009, to April, 2010). Part of immersive cinema installation scheduled for 2012.
Leader Series. In development 2010 thru 2012. Film & photo-based media murals + short fictions.
(U Suite project continues until 2020.)
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TRAINS OF WINNIPEG project (2001 - 2006)
(Feature-length film cycle, CD, poetry collection, website, multimedia lecture series:)
Film Cycle:
Trains of Winnipeg – 14 Film Poems (the feature-length cycle), 2004, 89 min., 35mm/DVD/web. Screenings + exhibition: Images Festival (Toronto); Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria); International Film Festival Rotterdam; transmediale (Berlin); Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; CPH:DOX Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival (winner of the New Vision Award); Stephen Bulger Gallery/Camera (Toronto); Send + Receive - a Festival of Sound (Winnipeg); Danish Film Institute (Copenhagen); Deutsches Filmmuseum (Frankfurt); Kinemathek Karlsruhe; Kino 46 (Bremen); European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück); Anthology Film Archives (New York); Kino Arsenal (Berlin); Pacific Cinematheque (Vancouver); Cinema Svetozoron (Prague); Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto); Hamilton College (Utica); Arizona Film Festival (Tucson); Calgary International Film Festival; Commonwealth Film Festival (Manchester); Kosmopolis Festa Internacional de la Literatura (Barcelona); International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava; Concordia University; Short Film Festival Hamburg; Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (Poughkeepsie); Cinecenta Cinema (Victoria); La Filmoteca Espanola (Madrid); L'Institut Valencia de Cinematografia (Madrid); Festival International du Film sur l’Art (Montreal); London Canadian Film Festival.
Love in the White City, 7:08, 2004, 35mm/DVD. Solo screenings: Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale); Durham Art Gallery/Fabulous Fringe Film Festival; Winnipeg Writers Festival. Also screened as part of the Trains of Winnipeg cycle.
Active Pass, 6:09, 2004, 35mm/DVD. Solo screenings: Deutsch-Amerikanische Institut (Heidelberg). Also screened as part of the Trains of Winnipeg cycle.
Nanaimo Station, 3:20, 2004, 35mm/DVD. Solo screenings: Reel Madness Film Festival (Victoria); Deutsch-Amerikanische Institut (Heidelberg). Also screened as part of the Trains of Winnipeg cycle.
18,000 Dead in Gordon Head, 12:55, 2003, 35mm/DVD/Web. Solo screenings: Ann Arbor Film Festival; Durham Art Gallery/Fabulous Fringe Film Festival; Melbourne International Film Festival; European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück); Eksperimento Film Festival (Manila); Geografias Suaves (Merida & Oaxaca); VideoFest 2K4 (Mexicali & Ensenada); VideoFest (Tijuana); Chroma Festival de Arte Audiovisual (Guadalajara); Cinecenta Cinema (Victoria); NSI Filmexchange (Winnipeg); le Festival du Court Metrage de Clermont-Ferrand; Chicago Underground Film Festival; Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria); Noir IN Festival (Rome); Worldwide Short Film Festival (Toronto); BRNO 16 (Brno); Optic Nerve Moving Media Festival (Peterborough); Pacific Cinematheque (Vancouver); Annapolis Reel Cinema Festival. Also screened as part of the Trains of Winnipeg cycle.
The Jew & the Irishman, 3:29, 2004, 35mm/DVD. Solo screenings: Black Maria Film Festival. Also screened as part of the Trains of Winnipeg cycle.
Hitler! (Revisited), 12:48, 2004, 35mm/DVD/Web. Solo screenings: Durham Art Gallery/Fabulous Fringe Film Festival; International Festival Signes de Nuit (Paris); Goethe Institute (Rome); Deutsches Filmmuseum (Frankfurt); Beirut Film Festival; d/Art/2006 media arts festival (Sydney). Also screened as part of the Trains of Winnipeg cycle.
Neighbours Walk Softly, 3:29, 2003, 35mm/DVD. Solo screenings: ZEBRA Poetry Film Awards (Berlin); Deutsch-Amerikanische Institut (Heidelberg); Blinding Light Cinema (Vancouver). Also screened as part of the Trains of Winnipeg cycle.
F Movie, 1:16, 2004, 35mm/DVD/Web. Solo screenings: Winnipeg Writers Festival (part of spoken word performance). Also screened as part of the Trains of Winnipeg cycle.
Bus North to Thompson With Les at the Wheel, 2:41, 2004, 35mm/DVD. Solo screenings: Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, Illinois); Winnipeg Writers Festival. Also screened as part of the Trains of Winnipeg cycle.
Unbreakable Bones, 2:37, 2004, 35mm/DVD. Solo screenings: Deutsch-Amerikanische Institut (Heidelberg). Also screened as part of the Trains of Winnipeg cycle.
Trains of Winnipeg (the short), 16:57, 2004, 35mm/DVD/Web. Solo screenings: Ann Arbor Film Festival; Bienal Internacional del Cartel en México. Also screened as part of the Trains of Winnipeg cycle.
Note: samples of the above films are available for free thru the project's website.
CD:
Trains of Winnipeg, (2001, Endearing Records, poetry + music); made with Christine Fellows, and John K. Samson and Jason Tait (of The Weakerthans). The CD received heavy rotation at college stations across Canada and the U.S.A., reaching top ten for several weeks in Toronto and Vancouver, and number one in Winnipeg. It appeared on several critics 'top ten for 2001' lists.
Note: the CD is available for free in mp3 format on the project's website.
Book:
Trains of Winnipeg, poetry collection (2003, DC Books, trade paperback); short-listed for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book of the Year Award, and the Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher Award.
Note: the book is available for free in .pdf format on the project's website.
Website:
www.trainsofwinnipeg.com at it's peak it received over 450,000 hits annually, and contains a variety of materials relating to the project, including critical writing and articles.
Lectures:
Clive's given multimedia lectures about the Trains of Winnipeg project in many locations as part of lecture series in universities and galleries, at film and art festivals, and in a tour in the summer of 2006 that included stops in Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Bremen and Berlin.
DVD+:
The Trains of Winnipeg DVD+ is the whole project collected in a signed 35mm film can, including: the feature-length film cycle on archival quality DVD; the website (from March, 2006), audio CD (as mp3s), and book (trade paperback design as .pdf), collected on archival quality CD-ROM; a print-out of the poem Love in the White City; and four strips of 35mm film cut out of the film cycle. Available through the Stephen Bulger Gallery, email: info@bulgergallery.com.
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Fury - Fictions & Films (1998, Arbeiter Ring Publishing, trade paperback)
A collection including a novella, short stories, film transcripts, graphic poetry and several 16mm film strip 'flip book' animations (reviews).
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Earlier Films:
Hitler! (11 min., 1994, 16mm). London International Film Festival (UK); Festival du Nouveau Media de Montreal; Reel Madness Film Festival (Victoria); Pacific Cinematheque (Vancouver); Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival (Toronto); Cinecenta Cinema (Victoria).
Gordon's Head (28 min., 1993, 16mm). Cinecenta Cinema (Victoria); Reel Madness Film Festival (Victoria); Pacific Cinematheque (Vancouver).
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CYCLOPS REVIEW 02 (2002)
Literary anthology + an on-line 'Extended Edition' featuring a wide variety of multimedia literary experiments. Co-editor.
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CYCLOPS PRESS (1993 +)
New media, literary fiction, multimedia micro-publishing, spoken word poetry, film production, web-based art, websites for artists. Co-founder and editor.