The WNDX Festival of Avant-garde and Underground Film holds its second edition this October 4-7th in Winnipeg, Canada. The WNDX festival, brainchild of filmmakers Cecilia Araneda , Jaimz Asmundson, Walter Forsberg, Solomon Nagler and Carole O'Brien features during its four-day run several curated programs of short films and master classes by filmmakers.
More details at WNDX.org .
October 4 at 7 PM
New Prairie Cinema Showcase
Program I: The Personal Image
- une femme n'est pas une île (Eve Mazjels ,3 mins, 2006)
- Moving (Leslie Supnet ,1 min, 2007)
- Retreat (Adam Budd ,5 mins, 2005)
- Sorrow (Finlay Harper ,3 mins, 2006)
- Complications (Murray Toews ,1.5 mins, 2007)
- Adam and Steve (Doug Melnyk ,4.5 mins, 2006)
- Artist Seeks (Evan Tapper ,1.5 mins, 2006)
- On Light, or the Ingression of Forms (Clint Enns ,2 mins, 2007)
- Isolating Landscapes (Heidi Phillips ,5 mins, 2007)
- I'm BoHUNKy-dory With It (My Nose) (Sandee Moore ,2.5 mins, 2007)
- Maine (Pat Aylesworth ,3.5 mins, 2006)
- Artist Statement (Daniel Barrow ,5.5 mins, 2007)
October 4 at 9 PM
TIME, SPACE & LIGHT: The Photographic Memories of Jason Britski and Ian Toews
- Transfixed (Jason Britski ,2 mins, 2001, 16 mm, optical sound)
- Ripples in the Snow (Jason Britski ,8 mins, 1999, 16 mm, optical sound)
- Four Corners (Ian Toews ,6 mins, 1998, 16 mm, optical sound)
- Japan: Kesei Line Single Take (Ian Toews ,5 mins, 2001, DV)
- Negation (Jason Britski ,3 mins, 1996, Beta SP)
- Shoulders on a Map (Jason Britski ,4.5 mins, 2004, 16 mm, optical sound)
- You would make a good lawyer (Jason Britski ,4.5 mins, 1999, 16 mm, optical sound)
- Hot Under the Collar (Jason Britski ,3 mins, 2007, Beta SP)
- Fragile (Jason Britski ,4 mins, 1997, Beta SP)
- Opening of Japan (Ian Toews ,18 mins, 2006, 16 mm, optical sound)
October 5 at 1 PM
Master Class on constructing personal narrative with found footage in video, lead (Steve Reinke)
October 5 at 7 PM
SURFACE GAZING: A Canadian Perspective of Performance-Based Film and Video Made by Women
- Seven (Wendy Geller, 12 mins, 1987)
- A Day in the Life of a Bull Dyke (Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, 11 mins, 1995)
- Rockstar (Nicole Shimonek, 3 mins, 2002)
- Winged Victory (Victoria Prince, 8 mins, 2006)
- Tree of Consumption (Dana Claxton, 12 mins, 1993)
- Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes (Deirdre Logue, 33 mins, 2005)
October 5 at 9 PM
FINDING HIMSELF: Found Footage in the Work of Steve Reinke
- The Mendi (Steve Reinke, 9 mins, 2006)
- Why I Stopped Going to Foreign Films (Steve Reinke, 5 mins, 1991)
- Ask the Insects (Steve Reinke, 8 mins, 2005)
- Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp) (Steve Reinke, 4 mins, 2006)
- Lonely Boy (Steve Reinke, 8.5 mins, 1993)
- Falling (Steve Reinke, 2.5 mins, 1996)
- Anthology of American Folk Song (Steve Reinke. 27 mins, 2004)
October 6, 11 AM
Master Class on cameraless motion picture photography, lead (Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof)
October 6, 7 PM
RADIANCE: New Works from Canadian Collective Celluloid Practitioners
- c: won eyed jail (Kelly Egan, 4.5 mins, 2005, colour, 35 mm)
- Parícutin (Erika Loic, 15 mins, 2007, colour, 35 mm)
- Shapes Eat Shapes (Angela Joosse, 3.5 mins, 2007, colour, miniDV)
- Uncrumpling...As Moths From Cocoons (Tyler Tekatch, 4 mins, 2007, colour, silent, miniDV)
- untitled (waterfilm) (Dan Browne, 6.5 mins, 2007, colour, 16 mm)
- Pulsions (Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, 9.5 mins, 2007, colour, 16 mm)
- Outside Sarajevo (Ajla Odobasic, 2 mins, 2007, B&W, silent, miniDV)
- Thaw (Shana MacDonald, 8 mins, 2006, colour, 16 mm, silent)
- Ode, Ilana Gutman, 2.5 mins, 2005, colour, miniDV)
- Conversations with Maya Deren (Vicky Chainey Gagnon, 5 mins, 2003)
- Fracas (Eduardo Menz, 5 mins, 2007, Beta SP)
- Pan of the Landscape (Christopher Becks, 11 mins, 2005 ,16 mm, silent)
- All That Rises (Daïchi Saïto, 7 mins, 2007, 16 mm)
- Western Sunburn (Karl Lemieux, 9 mins, 2007, DigiBeta)
- El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (The Garden of Forking Paths) (Malena Szlam, 5 mins, 2007, 35 mm, silent)
- Paper Nautilus (Amber Goodwyn, 4.5 mins, 2005, 16 mm, silent)
- Light (Passing) (Michael Rollo, 3 mins, 2007, 16 mm, silent)
October 7, 11 AM
Master Class on colour hand cross-processing, lead (Sol Nagler)
October 7, 7 PM
New Prairie Cinema Showcase
Program II: The Fantastical Image
- Photosynthesis (J. Scott Portingale, 5.5 mins, 2006)
- The Ratspectacla (Clark Ferguson, 10.5 mins, 2007)
- Trafiiik (Robert Pasternak, 1.5 mins, 2006)
- The Robert Vilar Workbooks Vol I (Matthew Rankin and Alek Rzeszowksi, 1 min, 2006)
- Evolution (John Osborne, 2.5 mins, 2007)
- Devil on the Canvas (Terryll Loffler, 3 mins, 2006)
- Destiny Green (Erica Eyres, 7.5 mins, 2006)
- Get Up and Dust Yourself Off (Collin Zipp, 3 mins, 2007)
- Foundation (Rick Fisher and Don Rice, 7 mins, 2007)
October 7, 9 PM
The One Take Super 8 Event