Festival Launch
16:00–18:00
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SAT 27 FEB
SUN 28 FEB
Sat 27 February, 12:00–12:45
DCA Cinema 2
Entry: Day or Festival Pass
Sharon Hayes, 2003, USA, 10 mins
Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
Super-interesting young, feminist, activist and collectivist American artist.
Ask 22 people to watch an infamous 10-minute speech by Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff from the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Video their reaction, see what happens. Present that to another audience (you) and ask you to watch the process of watching.
A comment upon the collective nature of viewing (film/ video), and of doing almost nothing except illicit unpredictable reactions from others, of collective (rather than individual) experience.
Joyce Wieland, 1972, Canada, 35 mins
One of the great structural filmmakers, explorer of female existence, applier of keen wit with an impressive grasp of time and space.
Catch as much as can be caught in single shots to explore the fleetingness of viewership in real time.
An instant investigation, a cut across something infinitely dense. What can be filmed? What can’t be captured? Vallières was the intellectual leader of the Front de Libération du Québec and for Wieland “he delivered three essays, without stopping: 1) Mont Laurier; 2) Quebec history and race; 3) women's liberation. Everything which happened is recorded on film.”
Huge thanks to all involved in helping create this festival.