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Friday, July 22, 9 PM
Strain Andromeda The
Anne McGuire's Video-in-Reverse
“With Strain Andromeda The, video artist Anne McGuire has created an awesome and spellbinding film that throws everything from story structure to character motivation into question. Put simply, McGuire has taken Robert Wise's entire 1971 virus from outer space classic The Andromeda Strain and re-edited it shot by shot precisely in reverse, so that the last shot appears first and the first last, though nothing is actually running backwards. As the film unfolds (or reverts?), more and more information about how the characters and their surroundings came about is revealed to us…" Michael Sippings, Brighton Cinematheque
Pleasure Dome is pleased to present this outdoor screening of McGuire’s Strain Andromeda The. Best known for short performance-based tapes such as All Smiles and Sadness, When I Was a Monster and I Am Crazy and You’re Not Wrong, she has crafted a confounding, mesmerizing and surprisingly entertaining conceptual found-footage feature. The narrative drive of Michael Crichton's sci-fi thriller ends up being even more suspenseful and engrossing when McGuire puts effect before cause. Perhaps the greatest effect of her intervention is the way the narrative seems to expand as we move from resolution to crisis to development to stasis. Even though you watch the dramatic climax within the first few minutes, you cannot help but feel that a world of pure potential is opened up when Wise’s opening credits roll at the end of McGuire’s tape.
Opening the evening we will feature Les LeVeque’s Strained Andromeda Strain, a frame by frame re-edit of Robert Wise's 131-minute sci-fi biological thriller into a 7-minute anxious oscillation transforming the film into a visual psychedelia.
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Pleasure Dome is a year-round film and video exhibition group dedicated to the presentation of experimental film and video. The 2005/2006 Programming Collective is: Scott Berry, Daniel Cockburn, Jon Davies, Claire Eckert, Firoza Elavia, Linda Feesey, Graham Hollings, Jean-Paul Kelly, Chris Kennedy, Jacob Korczynski, Ben Portis and Michèle Stanley. Tom Taylor is the Program Coordinator. Pleasure Dome acknowledges the support of our members, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.
Pleasure Dome does not submit any of its film and video
programming for prior approval by any censoring bodies.
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