Off Screen - Special Events

Sunday, October 11 | Friday, October 16 | Saturday, October 17
4 to 6pm at Deluge Contemporary Art

Filmmakers Lounge

Filmmakers Lounge is an open forum for information exchange, critical discourse and social interaction. Join visiting and local filmmakers for informal discussions, artist talks and refreshments in a casual environment.





Friday, October 9
9pm at Open Space

Small World

WARNING: Small World is a sweetly twisted E-ticket musical excursion through the heart of The Omnipresent Mouse. This ride includes smoke machines, nostalgia, tinfoil, corporate iconography, pretty lights and performances by:

Natasha Enquist
Walrus
Rad Juli
Wes Borg
Chelsea Chenery
The Pine Family
Lindsay Coulton
Jody Franklin
Slut Revolver
Run Chico Run
Grayson Walker
J McLaughlin
plus Special Guests

To experience Small World, you should be in good health, free from high blood pressure, back or neck probelms, motion sickness, heart conditions, fatigue, or any other physical limitations that could be aggravated by this attraction. This attraction is not available to children under the age of 19.

Thank you and enjoy your visit to small world.





October 9 to 16

Circadia
Performative documents shaped by fractured time and circumstance disorder notions of “reality.”

Visual Arts Building, Main Concourse
University of Victoria
Mon to Fri, 9am to 5pm

Waterish
Zeljko Jancic Zec | DV | 2007 | Croatia/Austria | 3:04 | N American Premiere
The documentation of Zec’s eponymous live-performance in an abandoned building, Waterish tells the story of a traveller in a foreign city. The scene leads into an unoccupied house: a squat, which he has chosen as a refuge.

No One Will Ever Love You Until You Love Yourself – After Arthur Penn’s Bonnie & Clyde
Saskia Takens-Milne | DV | 2008 | UK | 1:20 | N American Premiere
The quasi psychology of daytime talk shows is married to a re-enactment of an unlikely romantic moment in the movie Bonnie & Clyde to examine modes of loving and being loved.

Circadia
A.D. Christie, E. Hearte, N. Collins | DV | 2009 | Canada | 5:00 | W Can Premiere
Circadia considers the possibility of walking through waking life asleep; exploring the effects of chronic fatigue caused by disrupted circadian rhythms. It also considers the notion of sleeping wakefulness—making one’s way through waking life while oblivious to the world around us.






October 9 to 17

1859

Window Project
1407 Government St
Daily, 4 to 10pm

Fred Worden | DV | 2008 | USA | 11:00 | Can Premiere
“The political or cultural aspects of history are the mere surface of history; that in preference to, and deeper than these, the reality of history lies in biological power, in pure vitality, in what is in man of cosmic energy, not identical with, but related to, the energy which agitates the sea, fecundates the beast, causes the tree to flower and the star to shine.” Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses, 1930

“Built from a thirty frame clip of a lens flare. LSD is legal, 1859 is not.” – FW






October 10 to 17

Cloud Cuckoo Land
Erik Moskowitz & Amanda Trager

Deluge Contemporary Art
636 Yates Street
Daily, 12 to 5pm

DV | 2008 | US/Canada | 16:40 | Can Premiere

A collaboration between Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager, the title of this piece is taken from Aristophanes’ play The Birds. In the 4th Century BC, the notion of utopia was already in play—and already in doubt. The film’s narrative encompasses a family’s move to a contemporary commune. Although these “intentional communities” are usually progressive in outlook, they are in other ways disturbingly like gated ones. The central character, after years of fantasizing about the ideal way to raise her child, with fixed, romantic notions of the “best” way to live, is confronted by her own intolerance and inability to integrate into the community.

Cloud Cuckoo Land explores the limits of the utopian ideal of a Lacanian, pre-mirror identity—where a fluidity of boundaries proposes a “You” that cannot easily be distinguished from an “I.” The prescribed boundary between art space and cinema space functions as a model of the larger issue whereby artificial and arbitrary boundaries are used to define conventions of personal and societal comfort and safety.



also at Deluge (stairwell video installation):

KHAN
Daniel Martinico | DV | 2008 | USA | 15:00 | W Can Premiere
A single channel video installation that appropriates and reworks William Shatner’s iconic scream from Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan. Martinico’s KHAN playfully transforms a four second clip into an oscillating series of hypnotic loops, constructing an extended and tensely focused meditation on filmic performance and digital gesture.

In 2002, Antimatter introduced an international touring component. Foreign Matter has toured nine different curated progams of film and video to 12 countries.

We are currently developing new touring programs and welcome inquiries from microcinemas, festivals and screening series worldwide.