Film and Video: Summer 1998
Video con carne
Swiss Delights from Basel
Sunday, June 7, 7 pm
In Person: Stella Haendler, Thomas Kneubuehler & Philipp Schmid
One hundred minutes of cutting-edge Alpine tape is poised to invade Toronto. Basel-based programmers Thomas Kneubuehler and Stella Haendler have pulled together a teasingly tasty tripartite program of videos from seasoned (but certainly not weathered) Swiss veterans, such as Enrique Fontanilles and Rene Pulver, to punchy upstarts Pipilotti Rist and Philipp Schmid.
The fourteen tapes in this program include many highlights: Renatus Zuercher's trenchant Video japonaise features source images wrenched from the cameras of willing Japanese tourists. Irony and kitsch pervade Muda Mathis and Kaethe Walser's domestic gangsteresque The Knife In the Rhubarb Stew, while Pipilotti Rist pushes the envelope of contingency that surrounds technology in (Exonerations) Pipilotti's Mistakes. Most are Toronto premieres. Definitely not to be missed!
Guest curated by Stella Haendler & Thomas Kneubuehler
splice this! will be a jam-packed weekend of low budget, underground, small gauge films by and for Super 8ers everywhere. The fest features over one hundred films in eight programs, live bands, special guests, installations, performances, a panel discussion, a Super 8 production workshop and more...
the toronto-postpunk-anarcho-industrial-later 80s-early 90s-super 8 thing
Guest curated by Jonathan Pollard
John Porter's Open Screening &
All-Request Film Show
From Saturday, June 13 to Saturday, June 20 Everyday!
Pleasure Dome is honoured to present two events by Toronto filmmaker John Porter. Undoubtably the Don Corleone of Super 8, Porter is well-known to independent film fans throughout North America for his unrelenting celebration of Super 8 and low-tech art. By making evocative, ingenious and mesmerizing films, Porter has followed through on Baudelaire's intrigue with toys: what is the magic of machines? The answer to this and much more begins on June 13th as John Porter's Open Screening & All-Request Film Show opens in the lower level of the Latvian House (491 College
St.) and runs throughout the week. Come and visit John and select your own program from over two hundred of his films and/or bring your own regular 8, Super 8 and 16mm films and let the host project them for you. Kid friendly, non-smoking.
Sunday, June 21, 9:30 pm
@ Ted's Wrecking Yard
A Co-presentation with splice this!
Closing the splice this! Festival, John Porter brings together his best film work completed since his one and only Pleasure Dome show in 1989.
The evening's fare will feature work that has shown in a wide variety of settings and contexts, from open screenings to performance art, and will include 3 Speed Gear, Vac-All, Secret of The Lost Tunnel, Pleading Art and excerpts from Toy Catalogue.
Come see one of the truly remarkable achievements in the art of film. A non-smoking event.
Open Screening Under the Stars!
Friday, July 17, 9 pm
Pleasure Dome invites all film & videomakers to bring their latest work, finished or unfinished, found or stolen, to the annual Open Screening. Held under the summer skies in the courtyard behind Cinecycle, this outdoor screening will present any format (35mm, 16mm, super & regular 8, 3/4, 1/2 & 8mm video) under fifteen min. on a first come, first shown basis. Partcipiants free (please come early), audience by donation. If raining, the screening will be held inside Cinecycle.
Jennifer Reeves Showcase
Friday, July 24, 8 pm
American filmmaker Jennifer Reeves returns to Toronto with a smashing solo exhibition of 16mm films from 1990 to the present. The screening will span earlier works produced when she was a student at Bard College with Peggy Ahwesh and Peter Hutton up to her most recent works produced at California State University in San Diego. Included is the award-winning Chronic which details the life of "Gretchen", a teen outcast who's rituals of self mutilation find perfect expression in the filmmaker's cinematic techniques. The evening will also include the premiere of Jennifer's most recent film, We Are Going Home, rumoured to feature some outstanding local performances. Shot last year in the hot and hazy meadows of Ontario's Mount Forest during the Philip Hoffman summer film retreat, this much anticipated film is reputed to be a Surrealist embarking, employing Felliniesque vignettes of beach-bathing buffoonery alongside a mysterious and ethereal nipple-sucking ghost.
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Friday, June 19, 9 pm
@ Ted's Wrecking Yard,
549 College St.
A Co-presentation with splice this!
The title kind of says it all. This screening presents Toronto no-budget kitchen table edited 8mm productions with titles like Fuckhead Film Cycle, Sexbombs and Skull. From hardcore (punk) inspired work created around infamous Toronto zines, such as Dr. Smith and J.D.'s, to work of bad-ass attitude inspired by the industrial culture and anarchist scenes. The program includes films by Bruce LaBruce (his Slam which was burned by Canada Customs!), Linda Feesey, Candyland Productions, W.A. Davison, Nadia Sistonen and G.B. Jones.
June 13 to 18, 12 noon to 8 pm
June 19 & 20, 12 noon to 5 pm
@ Latvian House (lower level)
491 College St. at Palmerston Ave.
(All screenings non-smoking)
Porter in the Nineties
549 College Street
In Person: John Porter
@ Cinecycle
129 Spadina Ave. (down the alley)
I'll pluck yer figs till the pig fluckers come! 
@ Cinecycle
129 Spadina Ave. (down the alley)
Pleasure Dome is a year-round film and video exhibition group dedicated to the presentation of cutting-edge experimental film and video. Pleasure Dome acknowledges the support of our members, the Ontario Arts Council, The Canada Council for the Arts (Media Arts Office), the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre and V Tape. Special thanks to Stella Händler and Thomas Kneubühler, the Arts Council of Switzerland Pro Helvetia and Kantone Baselland und Basel-Stadt for their support of Video con carne: Swiss Delights from Basel.
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