trapline
We’re extremely excited to be able to host filmmaker Ellie Epp in person to present her films. These four films are classic touchstones of Canadian filmmaking, with a formal beauty that enhances their sense of landscape, vision and place. From trapline, her stunning portrait of an indoor swimming pool (inspired in part by her own immersion in the London Experimental Film Congress of 1972) to bright and dark, an alchemical look at her trip south to San Diego where she now lives, her films resonate with an exacting elegance.
“…Close attention is intensely active. Receiving a touch is as active as giving it – sometimes more active, more skilled and more consequential. Erotic attention isn’t an empty bowl touch is poured or pushed into; it is more like a living antenna with a million fibers actively searching the space of the touch for its shape and meaning.” – Ellie Epp
Programme:
trapline, Ellie Epp, 16mm, 1976, Canada, 18 min.
current, Ellie Epp, 16mm, 1986, Canada, 3 min.
notes in origin, Ellie Epp, 16mm, 1987, Canada, 15 min.
bright and dark, Ellie Epp, 16mm, 1996, Canada/USA, 3 min.
@ the Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel | 1214 Queen St West
Monday April 12, 2010 8:00pm screening, $5
notes in origin
bright and dark
current