El canadiense Media City Festival alcanza su decimosexta edición el próximo 25 de Mayo, presentando más de 75 filmes y vídeos de todo el mundo, a lo largo de sus cinco días de duración. En sus programas Canadian Film and Video y Regional Artists presentará las obras de artistas locales y nacionales como Daichi Saito, John Price o Chris Kennedy, mientras que en los seis programas internacionales ofrecerá la posibilidad de visionar las últimas obras de veteranos como Ute Aurand, Julie Murray y Vincent Grenier o de nuevos talentos como Mati Diop, Arnaud Gerber y Alexandra Cuesta. La edición de este año ofrecerá además dos retrospectivas parciales dedicadas a Johan van der Keuken y Friedl Kubelka, incluyendo una charla y muestra fotográfica de la segunda. Podéis acceder al catálogo del festival aquí.

Tuesday May 25, Burton Theatre (3420 Cass Ave, Detroit), 20:00h
Kevin Jerome Everson's Erie
- Erie (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA, 16mm on video, 81 min, 2009)

Wednesday May 26, Capitol Theatre, 18:00h
Opening Party
Meet, mingle and have a drink with your fellow festivalists in the Capitol's Joy Theatre. Windsor artist Chris Bissonnette sets the mood with a short series of video vignettes, accompanied by audio arrangements of field recordings and live instrumentation.

Wednesday May 26, Capitol Theatre, 19:30h
Johan van der Keuken, selected films 1960-2000
- Blind Child (Johan van der Keuken, Netherlands, 16mm, 24 min, 1964)
- Four Walls (Johan van der Keuken, Netherlands, 16mm, 22 min, 1965)
- Herman Slobbe/Blind Child 2 (Johan van der Keuken, Netherlands, 16Zm, 29 min, 1966)
- A Moment's Silence (Johan van der Keuken, Netherlands, 16mm, 10 min, 1960-63)
- Temps/Travail (Johan van der Keuken, Netherlands, 16mm on video, 11 min, 2000)

Wednesday May 26, Capitol Theatre, 21:30h
International Program 1
- Lullaby (Robert Todd, USA, 16mm, 9 min, 2009)
- Rihla (Gerbrand Burger, Netherlands, video, 11 min, 2009)
- Distance (Julie Murray, USA, 16mm, 12 min, 2010)
- Oral History (Volko Kamensky, Germany, 35 mm, 22 min, 2009)
- One Bright Day (Jem Cohen, USA, video, 18 min, 2008)

Thursday May 27, Capitol Theatre, 18:00h
Regional Artists Program
- The Use of Movement (Christopher McNamara, Windsor/Ann Arbor, video, 15 min, 2009)
- Sprawl (Allegra Pitera, Detroit, video, 1.5 min, 2010)
- Rebel (Ted Kennedy, Ann Arbor, video, 3 min, 2009)
- Everything to Live For (Scott Northrup, Dearborn, video, 5 min, 2008)
- Sleeping Bear (Jack Cronin, Detroit, S8mm on video, 10.5 min, 2010)
- See/Saw (Charlie Egleston, London, 16mm, 5 min, 2010)
- Ice/Figure (Michelle Tarailo, Windsor, video, 4.5 min, 2008)
- The Men and Wrestling with My Father (Charles Fairbanks, Ann Arbor, video, 3 and 4.5 min, 2009)
- Controller (Ed Janzen, Kingsville, video, 2 min, 2010)

Thursday May 27, Capitol Theatre, 19:30h
International Program 2
- Sea Front (Stuart Moore, England, S8mm on video, 5.5 min, 2009)
- Four Little Films (Nick Collins, England, 16mm, 10 min, 2009)
- Hanging upside down in the branches (Ute Aurand, Germany, 16mm, 15 min, 2009)
- Toads (Milena Gierke, Germany, S8 to 35mm enlargement, 6 min, 1997/2008)
- Groundplay (Robert Todd, USA, 16mm, 12 min, 2009)
- Frontier (Harriet McDougall, England, video, 13 min, 2008)

Thursday May 27, Capitol Theatre, 21:30h
International Program 3
- Atlantiques (Mati Diop, Senegal/France, video, 15 min, 2009)
- So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come (David Gatten, USA, 16mm, 9 min, 2010)
- Present Participle (Shirin Sabahi, Iran/Sweden, R8mm on video, 25 min, 2009)
- Aliki (Richard Wiebe, USA, video, 5 min, 2009)
- Through Some Trick of Nature It Appears (Bruce McClure, USA, 3 x 16mm, 16 min, 2010)

Friday May 28, Art Gallery of Windsor, 15:00h
Year Portraits: Discussion with Friedl vom Groeller (Kubelka)
at the Art Gallery of Windsor, (401 Riverside Dr W)
Organized by Media City to coincide with a retrospective of her films, the three series of Year Portraits (1977-78, 1997-98 and 2002-03) exhibited at the AGW represent a small fraction of the artist's ongoing photographic practice that spans nearly forty years. Friedl vom Groeller (Kubelka) has taken a self-portrait every day since 1972, organizing the photos into calendrical sequences. The result is a body of work including thousands of precisely arranged photographs documenting the passage of time. In one sense, the photos could be seen as a film, running at a rate of one frame per day.

Along with the Year Portraits, also on view at the AGW is vom Groeller's photograph Venzone (1975) and a selection of photo books and monographs about the artist.

Friday May 28, Capitol Theatre, 19:30h
Friedl vom Groeller (Kubelka) Films 1968-2009
- Erwin, Toni, Ilse (35mm, 9 min, 1968/69)
- Graf Zokan (Franz West) (35mm, 3 min, 1969)
- Neuffer's Gegenstaende (16mm, 6 min, 1971)
- Ohne Titel (35mm, 5 min, 1981)
- Secret Identities of a Psychoanalyst (16mm, 6 min, 1995-2005)
- Eugen Bavcar (16mm, 3 min, 1999)
- Spucken (35mm, 2 min, 2000)
- Le Barometre (35mm, 3 min, 2004)
- Paris June 2009 (16mm, 3 min, 2009)
- Boston Steamer (16mm, 3 min, 2009)
- Passage Briare (16mm, 3 min, 2009)
- Delphine de Olivera (16mm, 3 min, 2009)
- Hen-Night (16mm, 3 min, 2009)
- Wedding (16mm, 3 min, 2009)
- Der Fototermin (16mm, 3 min, 2009)

Friday May 28, Capitol Theatre, 21:30h
International Program 4
- Loutron (Barbara Meter, Netherlands, video, 17 min, 2009)
- Summer Grass 2/10 (Mie Kurihara, Japan, S8mm, 10 min, 2008)
- Prolegomena (Cedric Gaul-Berrard, France, 16mm, 11 min, 2008)
- Burning Bush (Vincent Grenier, Canada/USA, video, 9.5 min, 2010)
- Daylight and the Sun (Karen Johannesen, USA, S8mm, 5 min, 2009)
- Point Line Plane (for PP) (Simon Payne, England, video, 8 min, 2010)

Saturday May 29, Capitol Theatre, 18:00h
Canadian Film & Video
- Strips (Felix Dufour-Laperriere, Montreal, 35mm, 5.5 min, 2010)
- Sometime. Somewhere. (Zohar Kfir, Montreal (Israel), S8mm on video, 6.5 min, 2009)
- Refraction Series (Chris Gehman, Toronto, 35mm, 8 min, 2008)
- Sea Series #7 (John Price, Toronto, 35mm, 3.5 min, 2010)
- Sea Series #5 (John Price, Toronto, 35mm, 5 min, 2010)
- Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daichi Saito, Montreal, 35mm, 10 min, 2009)
- The Wheel (Pixie Cram, Ottawa, 16mm on video, 3 min, 2009)
- j. (Solomon Nagler & Alexandre Larose, Halifax/Montreal, 16mm, 6.5 min, 2009)
- Simultaneous Contrast (Chris Kennedy, Toronto, 16mm, 5.5 min, 2008)
- Puccini Conservato (Michael Snow, Toronto, video, 10 min, 2008)

Saturday May 29, Capitol Theatre, 19:30h
International Program 5
- Gregor Alexis (Jana Debus, Germany, 16mm on video, 20 min, 2009)
- Dissonant (Manon de Boer, Netherlands/Belgium, 16mm on video, 11 min, 2010)
- Piensa en Mi (Alexandra Cuesta, Ecuador/USA, 16mm, 15 min, 2009)
- Lumphini 2552 (Tomonari Nishikawa, Japan, 35mm, 3 min, 2009)
- In the Park and A Walk (Ute Aurand, Germany, 16mm, 6 and 4.5 min, 2008)

Saturday May 29, Capitol Theatre, 21:30h
International Program 6
- I Know Where I'm Going (Ben Rivers, England, 16mm, 30 min, 2009)
- Vampire(s) (Arnaud Gerber, France, 16mm on video, 29 min, 2008)
- Dining Cars (Arianne Olthaar, Netherlands, S8 to 35mm enlargement, 15.5 min, 2009)