The Dragon in the Frame
Co-presented by the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto
This month we’re pleased to host a screening of the 16mm films of American filmmaker Mary Helena Clark. Clark is in town to work on a new film based on Franco Moretti’s book Signs Taken for Wonders, the title of which could be an apt description of much of Clark’s filmography. Clark’s films place emphasis on fragments and momentary discoveries, whether the physical imprints of rotting textbooks found in a deserted school, as in After Writing, the very material detritus on a well-worn film print of Jean Cocteu’s Orphée, highlighted in Orpheus (outtakes), or the way traveling through an iconic city like San Francisco, featured in The Dragon in the Frame, can capture references to moments gone-by—both universal and personal.
Mary Helena’s work will be shown in the context of three additional films that she has selected as complement, Amy Halpern’s brief and bright Invocation, Scott Stark’s amusing carpetuum mobile Hotel Cartograph, and Stephen Connolly’s multivalent expression on the idea of the Commons, The Whale.
Programme:
Invocations, Amy Halpern, 1982, USA, 16mm, 2 min.
Orpheus (outtakes), Mary Helena Clark, 2012, USA, 16mm, 6 min.
Sound Over Water, Mary Helena Clark, 2009, USA, 16mm, 6 min.
Hotel Cartograph, Scott Stark, 1983, USA, 16mm, 12 min.
After Writing, Mary Helena Clark, 2008, USA, 16mm, 4 min.
The Dragon is the Frame, Mary Helena Clark, 2014, USA, 16mm, 14 min.
The Whale, Stephen Connolly, 2003, UK, 16mm, 9 min.
@ Gladstone Hotel, Ballroom | 1214 Queen St West
Monday February 16, 2014 | 8:00 PM screening | $5-10 suggested donation
Orpheus (Outtakes)
After Writing
Next = EMS #71 = March 16, 2015 = Sixth Anniversary!