notes in origin
This month’s Early Monthly Segment focuses on the work of three filmmakers whose attention to their surroundings harbours a deep sense of presence and concentration. Ellie Epp’s notes in origin, a quiet classic of the Canadian fringe, returns us to Northern Alberta where Epp grew up and presents us with ten shots of the land—shots which resonate with a stillness that places us strongly in relationship to the act of seeing. With burren, Vanessa O’Neill rearticulates the pain of return. By subjecting her super 8 footage of an Irish shoreline to harsh chemical processes, she mirrors the erosive power of wave and wind on rock and the emotional pull of a distant landscape. The two films of Rebecca Meyers draw the natural world in to colour her gaze. night light and leaping treats her cat as her muse, re-envisioning her home from a feline perspective and things we want to see attends to the grand scale of our environment, picturing the larger natural cycles that often only serve as a remote background to the brief path of our own lives.
Programme:
notes in origin, Ellie Epp, 16mm, 1987, Canada, 15 min.
night light and leaping *, Rebecca Meyers, 16mm, 2001, USA, 22 min.
burren *, Vanessa O’Neill, 16mm, 2007, USA, 12.5 min.
things we want to see, Rebecca Meyers, 16mm, 2003-4, USA, 7 min.
*Toronto premieres
@ the Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel | 1214 Queen St West, Toronto
Tuesday June 16, 2009 | 8:00pm screening, $5
burren
things we want to see