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FOCUS!
on video art and short film
December 7-8
6:30pm
Malmaison // 3401 Water St, NW
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FOCUS! delves into the disciplinary overlaps of video art and short film. The two-day series of screenings and discussions will examine the ways in which cinematographers and short film makers are increasingly distorting the boundaries between the two genres, incorporating art forms such as sculpture, architecture, digital art, and electronic music into their work.
Displays and panelists will explore the dismissal of conventional methods as artists in the two industries repeatedly choose to use languages, codes and methods that are rarely associated with the so called Seventh Art.
The discussion will include speakers Philippe Gajan, director of the “Lab” selection of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal) and Ian Buckwalter, Film Columnist for Washingtonian Magazine and Film Critic for NPR and The Atlantic.
After the Saturday night screenings, French DJ collective Green Monkeys will take over the pop art space with their warm and progressive tracks.  Opening from Washington DJ Yacine Allaoua of Indecent Exposure.
Green Monkeys are made up of three DJs from the south of France: JB, aka Baxter Baxter, Alexis Benedettini, and Stella Bellamy. Their latest album, All Around: The Remixes, from Scander Records has achieved wide acclaim in France. Similarly, each of the artists have been individually recognized for their achievements in the genre of electronic music, with distinctive styles that complement the others. As the closing act to a night of breaking video art technology, Green Monkeys are sure to continue to push the envelope (and the walls!) into unexplored territories.
Program
All films were made in Québec and are appropriate for French-speaking and English-speaking viewers.
 
December 7 // FRONTIERE (Border)
Des explorations formelles de frontières : entre l’ombre, qui dissimule, et la lumière, qui sculpte, (Felix Dufour-Laperrière ) mais aussi, surtout, des frontières mouvantes, qui transgressent le temps (Pierre Hébert avec deux films de la série Lieux et monuments).
Formal explorations of borders: between the shadows that conceal and the light that sculpts (Felix Dufour-Laperrière), but above all the moving borders, which transgress time (two films from Pierre Hébert's series "Places and Monuments").
Parallèle nord, Felix Dufour-Laperrière, 2012
Rivière au tonnerre, Pierre Hébert, 2011
I Was Here, Philippe Leonard, 2012
Ces femmes qui marchent, Yoakim Bélanger, 2012
Place Carnot-Lyon, Pierre Hébert, 2011
Expose, Li Alin, Cécile Martin, 2012
Dynamique de la pénombre, Felix Dufour-Laperrière et Frédéric Dallaire, 2012
December 8 // PAYSAGE (Landscape)
Des paysages comme territoires, ceux de l'adolescence (Anne Émond) ou de la dépression (Sophie Goyette), des rêveries (Étienne de Massy). Des paysages comme idée, comme abstraction.
Landscapes as territories of adolescence (Anne Émond), of depression (Sophie Goyette), of dreams (Étienne de Msasy), as ideas, as abstraction.
Tous les espoirs sont permis, Anne Émond, 2012
House Arrest, Richard Kerr, 2012
Le Rocher, Étienne de Massy, 2010
Somnia_3, Étienne de Massy, 2008
Le Futur proche, Sophie Goyette, 2011
 
The Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal is an 11-day festival dedicated to the diffusion and development of new technology in cinematography. The festival features over 300 films (both long and short) from Quebecois, Canadian, and foreign directors. In addition, visitors have access to a number of installations, performances, multimedia projects, cocktail parties, soirées, conferences and various meetings. Next year's festival will take place from October 9-20, 2013 in Montreal.
Le Festival du nouveau cinéma est voué à la diffusion et au développement des nouvelles pratiques dans le domaine du cinéma et des nouvelles technologies. Il constitue un tremplin pour faire connaître des œuvres originales et inédites, favorisant le développement du cinéma d’auteur et de la création numérique. La prochaine édition aura lieu du 9 au 20 octobre 2013 à Montréal.
Where: Malmaison // 3401 Water St, NW
Price: $5 AFDC members. $10 General Admission
This event is in a new space and there is no possibility to pay for drinks by credit card
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Co-curated by Philippe Gajan and the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal). Project made possible thanks to the support of the Quebec Government Office in New York and the Quebec Government Office in Washington, DC.
 
Image: Monitor 1, Steve Partridge, 1975
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