ÉVÉNEMENT SPÉCIALE | SPECIAL EVENT
SILVER MOON X
(English text follows)
Lancement montréalais de l'album de Stefan Christoff et Julia E. Dyck sur Aural Canyon records, avec projections de Guillaume Vallée. Performances solo supplémentaires de Liew Niyomkarn and Anna Luisa Petrisko.
19 mai, 2024
Casa del Popolo, 4873 St. Laurent
Portes 20h, don suggéré $15
Montréal, Québec
Cet événement inclura un programme de 30 minutes de films expérimentaux sur un thème de sci-fi-magie-chill, programmé par le Festival de films underground de Montréal en collaboration avec Guillaume Vallée.
Une performance live de Stefan Christoff et Julia E. Dyck présentant leur œuvre collaborative SILVER MOON X live en duo pour la première fois à Montréal avec des projections de Guillaume Vallée. Cet événement comprendra également des performances de Liew Niyomkarn et d'Anna Luisa Petrisko. Joignez-vous à nous!
19 mai, 2024
Casa del Popolo, 4873 St. Laurent
Portes 20h, don suggéré $15
Montréal, Québec
Cet événement inclura un programme de 30 minutes de films expérimentaux sur un thème de sci-fi-magie-chill, programmé par le Festival de films underground de Montréal en collaboration avec Guillaume Vallée.
Une performance live de Stefan Christoff et Julia E. Dyck présentant leur œuvre collaborative SILVER MOON X live en duo pour la première fois à Montréal avec des projections de Guillaume Vallée. Cet événement comprendra également des performances de Liew Niyomkarn et d'Anna Luisa Petrisko. Joignez-vous à nous!
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Montreal launch for Stefan Christoff and Julia E. Dyck's album out on Aural Canyon records, with projections by Guillaume Vallée. Additional solo performances by both Liew Niyomkarn and Anna Luisa Petrisko.
May 19, 2024
Casa del Popolo, 4873 St. Laurent
Doors 20h, suggested donation $15
Montreal, Quebec
This event will include a sci-fi-magic-chill 30 minute programme of experimental films curated by the Montréal Underground Film Festival (MUFF) in collaboration with Guillaume Vallée.
A live performance by Stefan Christoff and Julia E. Dyck presenting their collaborative work SILVER MOON X live in duet for the first time in Montreal with projections by Guillaume Vallée. This event will also include performances by both Liew Niyomkarn and Anna Luisa Petrisko. Join us!
May 19, 2024
Casa del Popolo, 4873 St. Laurent
Doors 20h, suggested donation $15
Montreal, Quebec
This event will include a sci-fi-magic-chill 30 minute programme of experimental films curated by the Montréal Underground Film Festival (MUFF) in collaboration with Guillaume Vallée.
A live performance by Stefan Christoff and Julia E. Dyck presenting their collaborative work SILVER MOON X live in duet for the first time in Montreal with projections by Guillaume Vallée. This event will also include performances by both Liew Niyomkarn and Anna Luisa Petrisko. Join us!
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MUFF Programme MUFF |
CONFESSIONS ON A TRANSMISSION LINE
Monica Duncan & Senem Pirler, 06:14, 2022, USA/Turkey
Confessions on a Transmission Line uses real-time signal processing tools and improvisational strategies. Through setting up a performance space where they interact with a discarded megaphone, the artist duo explores the audiovisual process of feedback as a spiritual practice in relation to camp and queer potentiality. By re-using this object as a tool and instrument to both project and receive transmission frequencies, they are searching for a way to communicate with our queer ancestors and those yet to be born.
ASANAS
Matt Soar, 04:54, 2019, Montréal, QC
ASANASA aka Lost Leaders #21 (2019) is a trippy trip through the boys-own histories of rocketry and space flight, a wry commentary on gendered fantasies of off-world exploration. The film comprises found footage specially sourced from a 16mm counter-archive, combined with meticulously hand-woven 35mm leaders and eccentric countdowns. The original score was composed and performed by Jackie Gallant, Soar's longtime collaborator (and drummer for Montreal band Lesbians on Ecstasy). ASANASA has been selected for ATA/OtherCinema (San Francisco CA), Media Monsters 5, Fantasia Fillm Festival (Montreal QC), Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria BC), Engauge Experimental Film Festival (Seattle WA), SF IndieFest (San Francisco CA), Dreamers of Dreams Film Festival (London UK), and the Montreal Underground Film Festival. In January 2021, ASANASA streamed on Tënk and MAtv.
THE SHEPHERD
Kim Kölle Valentine, 06:08, 2018, Montréal, QC
The Shepherd is derived from research into the work of Marianne Fritz, who spent most of her life working on a cycle of dense and complex novels she called “The Fortress”. Part of the video cycle Whose Language You Don’t Understand, this work questions the limits of language and fiction in favour of a reading that sustains a reality.
SOMNIUM LAPIDUM
Emily Pelstring, 03:18, 2016, Kingston, ON
This stop-motion 16mm film offers an audiovisual meditation on the material animation of stones. The concept is inspired by Camillo Leonardi's "Speculum Lapidum", published in 1533, which describes the magical healing virtues of a variety of stones, categorized by colour. The character-based animated vignettes are inspired by the woodcuts in “De Hortus Sanitatis”, a natural history encyclopedia published in 1485, which details various methods of harnessing the power of gems. It was believed at the time that a given gem's powers could be absorbed through focused viewing. Proposing an analogy between this belief and attraction to cinema, this film offers audiences an opportunity to absorb the depicted stones’ energies by viewing their images. The title, Somnium Lapidum, or Dream Stones, is a reference to the imaginative content of the “Speculum Lapidum” and the dreamlike experience of cinematic viewership. Sounds by Katherine Kline. Supported by the Queen's University Fund for Scholarly Research and Creative Work, 2016.
UNCLE CLUCK
Allan Brown, 04:30, 2007, Montréal, QC
“Chickens are good for two things… layin’ eggs and barbeques!” Uncle Cluck. A fairy tale embalmed within the obscurity and imagination of memory as the narrator’s uncle transforms into his worst nightmare.
SKY ROOM
Marianna Milhorat, 05:55, 2017, USA
Someone is missing. Plants grow, but at what cost? Technology threatens and seduces as humans attempt to solve a mystery through telepathy and mirrors. Stainless steel and broken glass strewn about an intergalactic discotheque. Commissioned by the Chicago Film Archives and made in collaboration with sound artist Brian Kirkbride, with footage and sound from the archive chopped, manipulated and arpeggiated into a fertile mix of anthem and narrative.
Monica Duncan & Senem Pirler, 06:14, 2022, USA/Turkey
Confessions on a Transmission Line uses real-time signal processing tools and improvisational strategies. Through setting up a performance space where they interact with a discarded megaphone, the artist duo explores the audiovisual process of feedback as a spiritual practice in relation to camp and queer potentiality. By re-using this object as a tool and instrument to both project and receive transmission frequencies, they are searching for a way to communicate with our queer ancestors and those yet to be born.
ASANAS
Matt Soar, 04:54, 2019, Montréal, QC
ASANASA aka Lost Leaders #21 (2019) is a trippy trip through the boys-own histories of rocketry and space flight, a wry commentary on gendered fantasies of off-world exploration. The film comprises found footage specially sourced from a 16mm counter-archive, combined with meticulously hand-woven 35mm leaders and eccentric countdowns. The original score was composed and performed by Jackie Gallant, Soar's longtime collaborator (and drummer for Montreal band Lesbians on Ecstasy). ASANASA has been selected for ATA/OtherCinema (San Francisco CA), Media Monsters 5, Fantasia Fillm Festival (Montreal QC), Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria BC), Engauge Experimental Film Festival (Seattle WA), SF IndieFest (San Francisco CA), Dreamers of Dreams Film Festival (London UK), and the Montreal Underground Film Festival. In January 2021, ASANASA streamed on Tënk and MAtv.
THE SHEPHERD
Kim Kölle Valentine, 06:08, 2018, Montréal, QC
The Shepherd is derived from research into the work of Marianne Fritz, who spent most of her life working on a cycle of dense and complex novels she called “The Fortress”. Part of the video cycle Whose Language You Don’t Understand, this work questions the limits of language and fiction in favour of a reading that sustains a reality.
SOMNIUM LAPIDUM
Emily Pelstring, 03:18, 2016, Kingston, ON
This stop-motion 16mm film offers an audiovisual meditation on the material animation of stones. The concept is inspired by Camillo Leonardi's "Speculum Lapidum", published in 1533, which describes the magical healing virtues of a variety of stones, categorized by colour. The character-based animated vignettes are inspired by the woodcuts in “De Hortus Sanitatis”, a natural history encyclopedia published in 1485, which details various methods of harnessing the power of gems. It was believed at the time that a given gem's powers could be absorbed through focused viewing. Proposing an analogy between this belief and attraction to cinema, this film offers audiences an opportunity to absorb the depicted stones’ energies by viewing their images. The title, Somnium Lapidum, or Dream Stones, is a reference to the imaginative content of the “Speculum Lapidum” and the dreamlike experience of cinematic viewership. Sounds by Katherine Kline. Supported by the Queen's University Fund for Scholarly Research and Creative Work, 2016.
UNCLE CLUCK
Allan Brown, 04:30, 2007, Montréal, QC
“Chickens are good for two things… layin’ eggs and barbeques!” Uncle Cluck. A fairy tale embalmed within the obscurity and imagination of memory as the narrator’s uncle transforms into his worst nightmare.
SKY ROOM
Marianna Milhorat, 05:55, 2017, USA
Someone is missing. Plants grow, but at what cost? Technology threatens and seduces as humans attempt to solve a mystery through telepathy and mirrors. Stainless steel and broken glass strewn about an intergalactic discotheque. Commissioned by the Chicago Film Archives and made in collaboration with sound artist Brian Kirkbride, with footage and sound from the archive chopped, manipulated and arpeggiated into a fertile mix of anthem and narrative.
