Regarded in its time as one of the best documentaries of the New Left, Troublemakers, subtitled “a film about organizing people for change,” follows the frustrated efforts of community activists to put theory into practice in an African-American community in Newark, New Jersey, two years prior to the July 1967 uprising there.

Nicky Hamlyn and Simon Payne present a programme of single-screen and expanded films and videos that explore colour field abstraction, grids, lines, shadows, holes and frames-within-frames that are often underpinned by repetitive, almost musical structuring. Payne's digital video works involve elementary transitions and alternating graphic forms that create spatial depths within the screen but also bounce back to affect the environment in which they're shown.

VISIONS, in collaboration with la lumière collective, presents:
PHILLIP WARNELL

Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies (Phillip Warnell & Jean-Luc Nancy, UK, 2009, 35mm to digital, colour, sound, 20min)
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Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air (Phillip Warnell, UK, 2014, Super 16mm, colour, sound, 71min)

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[Filmmaker presen + HD projection]
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20h [doors 19h], la lumière collective
[7080, rue Alexandra, #506, Montréal, QC, H2S 3J5]