Early Monthly Segments

About EMS

Early Monthly Segments is a monthly film series named after an early film by Robert Beavers, and is inspired by the immediacy, vibrancy and experimentation found in that film. Programmed by Scott Berry, Chris Kennedy, and Kate MacKay this series features historical and contemporary avant-garde 16mm films in a salon-like setting at the Gladstone Art Bar in Toronto, Canada. In this relaxed context with refreshing beverages and food available, we hope to encourage a convivial atmosphere for engaged viewing and post-screening dialogue. We do not receive public funding for our programs. We pay artists from admissions.

Reviews
Jason Anderson teases out a bit more of our ethos in his eye weekly article here.
Thomas Barker reviews Allison Cameron’s live soundtrack to our presentation of Eisenstein’s Strike here.

The Gladstone Hotel is located at 1214 Queen St West. The Art Bar is the eastern-most door of the Hotel.

Thanks to everyone at The Gladstone Hotel and the artists who make the work we show.

For more info, or to join our email list, email earlymonthlysegments (@) gmail.com.

#27 = 5/16/11 = To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong?

And We All Shine On

Co-presented with The Power Plant

Now in the Gladstone Ballroom!

Asked by The Power Plant’s Assistant Curator Jon Davies to respond to the exhibition he has curated, To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong?, we assembled a program of 16mm films (old and new) that reinterpret the geometry of landscape and mediate the natural world in distinctive ways. Processing and refracting their surroundings, these filmmakers evoke specters of land, sea and sky through a variety of techniques including hand processing, animation, found-footage montage and dazzling experiments with light and colour. Dynamically poised between representation and abstraction, these landscapes of the imagination chart topographies both external and internal.

More information on the exhibition here.

 

Programme:
Radio Dynamics, Oskar Fischinger, 1943, 16mm, USA, 4 min.
Hotel Cartograph, Scott Stark, 1983, 16mm, USA, 12 min.
Untitled (Objects 3), Sophie Michael, 2008, 16mm, UK, 3 min.
And We All Shine On, Michael Robinson, 2006, 16mm, USA, 7 min.
Circa 1960, Chris Curreri, 2005, 16mm, Canada, 6 min.
Fuji, Robert Breer, 1974, 16mm, USA, 8.5 min.
Moment Musical, Bruce Checefsky, 2008, 16mm, USA, 6 min.
Calculated Movements, Larry Cuba, 1985, 16mm, USA, 6 min.
The Zone of the Total Eclipse, Mika Taanila, 2006, double 16mm, Finland, 2006, 6 min.

@ Gladstone Hotel, Ballroom! | 1214 Queen St West
Monday, May 16, 2011 | 8:00 PM screening, $5 suggested donation

Untitled (Objects 3)

Circa 1960

Hotel Cartograph

Thanks to Canyon Cinema, Light Cone, Chicago Filmmakers and The Gladstone Hotel.

 

#28 = Monday 6/6/11 = Jaap Pieters in person!