now & future
A round table hosted by The Auteurs and Garage, discussing Clive's 2004 film Trains of Winnipeg - 14 Film Poems, is taking place between December 9 and 23, 2009. Participants include: Chris Gehman (filmmaker, writer, former Toronto International Film Festival "Wavelengths" programmer, and former Artistic Director of Images Festival, i.e. the first Trains of Winnipeg programmer); Brenda Longfellow (filmmaker, writer, film theorist, and Associate Professor in the Department of Film at York University); Dave Barber (Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque programmer for over 25 years); Michael Sicinski (Houston-based teacher and writer in Cinema Scope Magazine, indiewire.com, Cineaste Magazine, and Cargo Magazine); Jason Anderson (novelist and film critic in Eye Weekly, artforum.com, Globe & Mail, Village Voice, and Cinema Scope Magazine); Alex Rogalski (Toronto International Film Festival programmer, and founder of the Take One Super 8 traveling film project); Tobias Morgan (Paris-based film director, and producer of The Auteurs' Garage project engine); Alley Pezanoski-Browne (Palo Alto-based film producer, and Editor of The Auteurs' Scratchpad on-line magazine); and Clive. Trains of Winnipeg - 14 Film Poems is now available for viewing everywhere on The Auteurs, and the first 500 viewings are FREE.
Two new books out in September: Adventures in Perception, by Scott MacDonald (2009, University of California Press), essay + long form interview about Trains of Winnipeg, also chapters on Gina Kim, Claude Nuridsany & Marie Pérennou, David Gatten, and Karen Cooper; and Place – 13 Essays 13 Filmmakers 1 City, edited by Cecilia Araneda (2009, Winnipeg Film Group), chapter by Larissa Fan about both Utopia Suite and Trains of Winnipeg, also essays on WFG directors Norma Bailey, Jeffrey Erbach, Sean Garrity, Noam Gonick, Greg Hanec, Paula Kelly, John Kozak, Guy Maddin, Winston Washington Moxam, John Paizs, Jeff Solylo, and Caelum Vatnsdal.
2 Cameras @ Sea – Unconstructed is premiering at the IDFF Jihlava 2009 (DKO Cinema House, Saturday, October 31, looping from 10 am to 4 pm). This is an expanded version of 2 Cameras @ Sea (the earlier version that screened with live soundtrack performances in Amsterdam at the famous Muziekgebouw, and in Toronto at Images Festival 2009 - Opening Night). This new version repeats the visuals six times (sixty-five minutes total) while the soundtrack is heard in 'unconstructed' form, that is each visual cycle features a different sound selection: cello + violin harmonics; water soundscape + narrator's voice; piano harmonics; alto flute & bass clarinet; entire soundtrack (read more).
U Bend, a short story that's part of a major new Utopia Suite segment planned for 2011/12, is being twittered daily, line by line, between September, 2009 and April, 2010. To follow: http://twitter.com/utopiasuite.
The full-length version of 'Ken Dryden' was web-published for the first time to celebrate the politician and hockey legend Ken Dryden's birthday on August 8, 2009. (Warning: it's not about hockey.)
Clive's working on a collaboration with Mecca Normal (currently on their How Art & Music Can Change the World – 25th Anniversary Tour). Watch for the results in late 2009.
The Leader Series is next, in 2010, the main part of Utopia Suite's Chapter II.
past
Winnipeg, June 2009, WNDX Festival of Film & Video Art at PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts. Utopia Suite Disco with Ken Dryden and Y.O.U. (Your Own Utopia).
Winnipeg, June 6, 2009, Cinematheque. MEAN, shown before the feature-length doc. Examined Life.
Oberhausen, May 3, 2009, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. MEAN, shown with films by Pat Mills, Joel Gibb, Leigh Fisher, Charuvi Agrawal, Karine Silverwoman, Mike Rollo, Kelly Egan, Christina Battle, Maxime Desmons, Scott Miller Berry, Chris Gehman, and Madi Piller.
Chatham-Kent, March 25 to April 26, 2009 at the Thames Art Gallery, co-presented by the Media City International Festival of Film & Video Art. Utopia Suite, featuring Utopia Suite Disco, Ken Dryden, MEAN, Engines of Despair, and launching Y.O.U. (Your Own Utopia).
Oberlin, Ohio, April 8, 2009, Oberlin College. MEAN (and 18,000 Dead in Gordon Head). Curated and introduced by Christina Battle, with work by Christina Battle, Scott Miller-Berry & Adam Segal, Jason Britski, Clive Holden, Sara MacLean, Penny McCann, and John Price.
Toronto, April 2, 2009 (Opening Night), Images Festival. The North American premiere of 2 Cameras @ Sea, a collaboration with Oscar van Dillen.
Brooklyn, January 17, 2009, Light Industry. MEAN, part of a compilation curated by Christina Battle. Also included: Taking Pictures, by Scott Berry and Adam Segal; Lake Ontario (in my head), by Penny McCann; oil wells: sturgeon road & 97th street, by Christina Battle; Wreck/Nation, by John Price; Nation, Défi des étoiles, by Sara MacLean; Shoulders on a Map, Jason Britski; Fore and Aft, by Sara MacLean; and 18,000 Dead in Gordon Head by Clive Holden.
Amsterdam, November 21, 2008, Muziekgebouw. Premiere screening of 2 Cameras @ Sea, a collaboration with Oscar van Dillen. Commissioned by Images Festival. Also screening: Behind the Shadows by Christina Battle; Cultural Hauntings: Strangers in our Midsts by Vera Frankel + Rick Sachs; Glorious by Guy Maddin + Richard Ayres; Leaves Of Axis, Trees of Syntax by Daichi Saito + Malcolm Goldstein.
Jihlava, Czech Republic, October, 2008, Jihlava International Documentary Festival. Ken Dryden.
Toronto, August 15 to September 13, 2008, Stephen Bulger Gallery + Toronto International Film Festival. Utopia Suite (You Are Being Remembered and Ken Dryden).
Lennoxville, January 30 to March 30, 2008, Foreman Art Gallery at Bishop's University. Utopia Suite Disco.
Halifax, May, 2008, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. MEAN, part of Arena: the Art of Hockey.
Victoria, BC, September 20 to October 10, 2007, Deluge Contemporary Art/Antimatter Film Festival. You Are Being Remembered (with MEAN and Engines of Despair).
Durham, ON, August 2, 2007, Durham Art Gallery/Fabulous Fringe Film Festival. Engines of Despair.
Amsterdam, June 21, 2006, co-presented by the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Holland Festival. Utopia Suite European Project Launch, with lecture and dynamic cinema projections.
Toronto, April 15, 2006, Images Festival. Utopia Suite Project Launch, with lecture and dynamic cinema projections.
