5/29/12

FILM & TEA SALON


PRESENTS

FILM & TEA SALON
screening and tea salon for winnipeg filmmakers~

NOAM GONICK & GUY MADDIN

june 3rd ~ 5pm


5pm~ tea
6pm- screenings

ANTEBELLUM
1643 N LAS PALMAS AVE
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028
323 856-0667
antebellum@earthlink.net
antebellumgallery.blogspot.com


NO SAFE WORDS:
(2008) experimental 4:20mins

Filmmaker- Noam Gonick was invited by artist/curator Elle Flanders to create a piece for JumboTron during Toronto’s Gay Pride March in 2008 addressing the theme of “Human Rights” as it pertains to the LGBT community. Organizers were hoping for work that exposed the abuse of queers in non-Western nations. At the time Gonick was contemplating the revelations from Abu Ghraib and the torture photographs of prisoners, struck by how erotic many of the crimes were and how sexuality was being used as a form of humiliation in breaking down suspected terrorists. Noam was in Vancouver installing a show at UBC when the commission came through and with the help of the Belkin Gallery was able to work with the UBC Thunderbirds college football team. He was also thinking about stadiums and how these facilities are used in fascist times as the location of mass deportation and murder. The UBC Thunderbirds players were happy to accommodate the request to haze and water board one another. While documenting the JumboTron in-situ during Pride 2008, it became apparent that “Human Rights” was not the story of the day, but rather the police and military presence took centre stage, from RCMP recruiting stations to “out” soldiers and police/fire crews marching alongside squad cars emblazoned in pride flags. 


MY WINNIPEG:
(2007) documentary- 80mins
Filmmaker Guy Maddin was born, raised and has always lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a town where he says everyone sleepwalks through life. He is trying to escape Winnipeg, but isn't sure how as he isn't sure what's kept him there in the first place. Perhaps his parent's month long 65th wedding anniversary celebration (despite his father being dead for some years) where he will reenact his childhood (with actors playing his family, except his mother who plays herself) in the old family home at 800 Ellis Avenue, which was above the family's hair salon business, will provide some answers. He recounts some civic events which have affected him and the life of Winnipegers: the 1919 general strike, the destruction of the Wolseley Elm in 1957, and the replacement of the iconic Eaton's building for the new hockey arena in favor of the old Winnipeg Arena. The latter has an especially close connection to him because of a family tie and the rich history of hockey in the city (discounting what he considers the failure of the NHL experiment). As he is on the train leaving the city, he hopes that the page 3 "Citizen Girl" will be the panacea for all Winnipeg's issues.


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