In partnership with QUAD and the University of Derby, Animate Projects presents the Silent Signal Symposium to accompany the exhibition of Silent Signal, six new experimental animations produced through collaborations between artists and scientists.

Taking Silent Signal as a departure point for a broader look at collaboration at the intersection of art, science and technology, the day will feature a keynote address by curator Hannah Redler, plus presentations from the Silent Signal artist/scientist collaborators, and panel discussions with those from the fields of both art and science including bioethicist Dr Silvia Camporesi, Kings’s College London, curator Dr Sarah Cook, University of Dundee, sociologist Dr Gill Haddow, University of Edinburgh and artists boredomresearch and Eric Schockmel.

The Film and Media Studies Program and the Visual Studies Workshop welcome the Ann Arbor travelling film festival tour for the first time in Rochester with Program Director, David Dinnell in person. 

The 16mm program includes 13 new films from Austria, the UK, Canada, and the United States including Things, the most recent work by Ben Rivers; The Peacock by Andrew Kim; Mark Toscano’s The Song Remains the Same; Accent Grave on Ananas by Vancouver artist Tamara Henderson (with sound by Dan Riley) and three works receiving the 53rd AAFF Best Cinematography Award - vindmøller by Margaret Rorison, A Symptom by Ben Balcom, and Blue Loop, July by Mike Gibisser. Other works include new films by Friedl vom Gröller, Mary Helena Clark, Robert Todd, Jennifer Reeves, Jonathan Schwartz, and Sarah Christman.

Lucie Lambert was born on the Côte-Nord where she spent her childhood between the river and the forest. She is particularly interested in documentary that confounds all rules and categories. Paysage sous le paupières, Avant le jour and Le père de Gracile, her three major films, form a trilogy that weaves together territory and the imaginary.

GU Tao (China) was born in Wenchuan, in the Sichuan Province. From 2004 to 2007 he studied at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University in Montreal. After going to Canada his cinematic work shifted towards experimental filmmaking. He also worked as editor for The Vanishing Spring Light (2011) by his fellow countryman Xun Yu.

The Loop Collective is pleased to celebrate our 20th anniversary this year with a series of events designed to highlight our collective's history and development. Since our inception in 1996 with four members, Loop has contributed a significant role to Toronto's experimental filmmaking community through many programming endeavours and touring events from our 30+ cumulative members over the course of the past two decades.
 
We invite you to join us on Thursday February 4, 2016, at Innis Town Hall, for the launch of a newly self-published monograph, featuring essays by Kelly Egan, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, R. Bruce Elder, Kathryn Elder, and a chart by John Porter, alongside posters, photographs and artist pages. This limited edition publication will be available with our recent DVD, Selected Works by the Loop Collective, distributed via CFMDC and Re:Voir.