Vernissage on Friday, April 6th, 5-8pm.

http://gallery400.uic.edu/exhibitions/on-beyond-zebra-2012-uic-art-mfa-thesis-exhibition-3

March 1, Kansas City
March 23, Chicago

BLACK THORNS IN THE BLACK BOX

curated by Amelia Ishmael and Bryan Wendorf

An experimental screening of moving images that resonate with the heavy, dark, and mystic obscurity of Black Metal music

Black Thorns in the Black Box is a touring screening of experimental film and video by eleven contemporary artists whose work resonates with the heavy, dark, and mystic obscurity of Black Metal music. Its premier in Kansas City on March 1, 2012 coincides with the gallery exhibition Black Thorns in the White Cube—on view through March 3 at Charlotte Street Foundation’s Paragraph Gallery—and will follow the gallery exhibition to Chicago, IL. (Visit www.charlottestreet.org for more information about the exhibition.)

Based throughout Northern America and Europe, the participating artists include Annie Feldmeier Adams for Locrian (Chicago), Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert (Brussels, Belgium), Una Hamilton Helle (London, England), Devin Horan (Brooklyn), Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (Brooklyn), Ruth Jarman & Joe Gerhardt of Semiconductor (Brighton, England), Chris Kennedy (Toronto, Canada), Marianna Milhorat (Chicago), Jimmy Joe Roche (Baltimore), Shazzula for Cultus Sabbati (Brussels, Belgium), and Michaël Sellam (Paris, France). This screening of Black Thorns in the Black Box is organized into three parts—the underground, the earth, and the heavens—according to the three branches of Medieval concepts of music—musica mundana, musica humana, and musica instrumentalis—to explore how Black Metal has permeated all known spheres of creation.

http://blackthornsblackbox.tumblr.com/

Saturday, December 3rd @ 7:30pm
Public Space One, Iowa City

http://publicspaceone.com/

THE ROAD ENDED AT THE BEACH
AND OTHER LEGENDS:
PARSING THE “ESCARPMENT SCHOOL”

The Road Ended at the Beach and Other Legends represents the first critical survey of Canada’s mythic and amorphous “Escarpment School,” a loosely knit band of Ontario-based filmmakers that came together in the late-70s at Sheridan College, under the tutelage of Rick Hancox and Jeffrey Paull. Its assumed “members” include Hancox, Carl Brown, Philip Hoffman, Mike Hoolboom, Richard Kerr, Gary Popovich and Steve Sanguedolce, while Janis Cole, Holly Dale, Marian McMahon, and Mike Cartmell are occasionally linked to the group. A number of other accomplished filmmakers and cultural producers, such as Lorne Marin, Lorraine Segato (of The Parachute Club), and Alan Zweig overlapped with and intersected this circle, through acts of collaboration, social interactions, inspiration, and friendship. The American filmmaker and scholar George Semsel, Hancox’s first teacher and mentor, also deserves mention, as many of the concerns expressed in the films of the “Escarpment School” can be located in Semsel’s own cinematic work.

Paradoxically, what is most noteworthy about the “Escarpment School” today, whether seen as a legitimate art-historical movement or as a PR strategy concocted from within, is its absence from the annals of Canadian cinema, despite the influence and accolades of the aforementioned individuals. Did the “Escarpment School” ever exist, and if so, what did it look like, what might it look like now (with the hindsight of historical perspective), and how do we evaluate its legacy? This four-part series seeks to celebrate the “Escarpment School” as a unique confluence in Canadian film history and to simultaneously expand the frame, by offering an inclusive, inter-generational interpretation of its membership.

Part IV.
Echoes

Thursday, December 1st @ 6:30pm
CinemaSpace- Segal Centre for the Performing Arts
5170 ch. de la Cote-Ste-Catherine
Montréal, QC
Introduced by Brett Kashmere

The final installment of The Road Ended at the Beach and Other Legends focuses on the legacy of the “Escarpment School” through a consideration of its teaching influence. Three of the filmmakers most closely affiliated with the “Escarpment School” – Rick Hancox, Phil Hoffman, and Richard Kerr – have sustained long and distinguished careers in the academy, spreading their insight across a number of institutions and provinces for multiple decades. Others, including Steve Sanguedolce, Mike Hoolboom, and the late Marian McMahon, have also made significant contributions to the cultivation of a Canadian first-person cinema as instructors and mentors, and in Hoolboom’s case, as a profuse and generous writer.
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The youngest filmmaker in this program, Marianna Milhorat, represents the latest generation to be influenced by the “Escarpment School.” Studying under Kerr and some of his former students at Concordia, Milhorat’s work forms a link from George Semsel and ‘60s New American Cinema, to Hancox and the “Escarpment School” filmmakers of the late-70s and early-80s, to their students, surveyed here, of the ‘90s and ‘00s; thereby connecting five generations of educators and pupils. Regardless of whether the “Escarpment School” started as an off-the-cuff joke, or an earnest attempt at self-definition and promotion, the proof of its importance can be found in the thirty-plus years of intensely subjective, formally daring films, films that continue to be made and celebrated to this day.

Full program information can be found here: http://brettkashmere.com/escarpment.html

ANNIVERSARY SHORT FILMS SCREENINGS
MEL HOPPENHEIM SCHOOL OF CINEMA 35TH ANNIVERSARY,
FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINÉMA DE MONTRÉAL 40TH ANNIVERSARY,
AND ESCUELA INTERNACIONAL DE CINE Y TV DE CUBA 25TH ANNIVERSARY

This year, three film institutions that have a long history of collaboration celebrate their anniversaries by presenting a sampling of their work produced and partnership. The programming includes MHSOC and EICTV alumni short films selected by Marielle Nitoslawska (Chair of MHSOC) and Tanya Valette (former Chair of EICTV), as well as the best of films by Concordia alumni featured at the Festival du nouveau cinéma, selected by Philippe Gajan, short films / FNC Lab programmer.

NOVEMBER 18, 2011 | 7 pm to 10:30 pm
De Sève Theatre | Concordia University (SGW campus)
J.W. McConnell Building (Library), LB-125
1400 de Maisonneuve West, Montreal (metro Guy-Concordia)
FREE ENTRANCE

The event is presented by the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, in collaboration with the Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal and the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV de San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Marielle Nitoslawska and Rosanna Maule (MHSOC), as well as Philippe Gajan (FNC), and some of the filmmakers will be in attendance.

http://www.nouveaucinema.ca/nouvelles/en/2011/11/anniversary-short-film-screenings/

L’Intenationale screens @ Counterpath in Denver, CO.
November 4, 2011 from 7:30-9:00pm.

http://counterpathpress.org/

http://www.filmladen.de/dokfest/en/news/blog/

Die Welt des Nichtfassbaren
L’Internationale / Marianna Milhorat
Amohr / Rannvá Káradóttir
Marianna Mørkøre / 3’
I remember my dreams by the colour they are… / Maria Magnusson
Tak to jest / Zuzanna Solakiewicz
The Encounter / Nicholas Pye
To make a Prairie / James Nares
Un luogo a venire (A Place to Come ) / Flatform
Utz Ess und etwas von dem er noch nicht weiß was es ist / Helge Brumme