Broken Altar /
Dramatis Personae
Antimatter [Media Art] Tour Screenings
December 3, 2015
Antimatter’s 2014/15 tour project brought Canadian experimental films and expanded cinema performance to venues in France, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico and the United States. The touring programs return to Victoria for a final free screening at Deluge.
Broken Altar
With Broken Altar, sociopolitical geography is traversed to reveal the surmountable and insurmountable distance between things. What unites us? What divides us? Filmic landscapes, notional and actual, are subjected to a series of interventions under the tyranny of time. Oblique colonizations, strange disappearances, conscious abandonment—ruinations and obsolescence both natural and economic—occur under cinematic ideas of alien surveillance, conflicted responses, social infections and manipulated perception in a search for the off-centre: specious reclamations of destruction and resurrection.
Vertical Hold | Sara MacLean | 4 min
Crashing Skies | Penny McCann | 5 min
where she stood in the first place | Lindsay McIntyre | 10 min
when the smog-filled wind began to howl | Christina Battle | 5 min
The Pit: A Study in Horror | Lauren Marsden & Karen Lam | 8 min
Modern Island | Eva Kolcze | 5 min
Legacies | John Woods | 3 min
Last Light Breaking | Leslie Supnet | 8 min
Gephyrophobia | Caroline Monnet | 2 min
The Broken Altar | Mike Rollo | 20 min
Dramatis Personae
The films in this program reveal a hybridity between the analogue and digital: multivalent reconfigurations of the purported obsolete reveal a newly relevant sonic and visual language. Through techniques such as contact printing on 16mm, hand-tinting and toning and the virtual destruction of the celluloid itself, narratives and characters—whole, abstracted and implied—arise from the emulsion, driven by assembled sound tracks. The hallowed conventions of narrative filmmaking are upended in the reconsideration of archival source materials—repositories of histories and spectacle—in the creation of unholy collisions of repurposed sound and image, reinvention arising from the depredations of time itself on the machinery used in its making.
((in stasis)) | Aaron Zeghers | 3 min
Dramatis Personae | Stephen Andrews | 6 min
In My Room | Chance Taylor | 2 min
a little prayer (H-E-L-P) | Louise Bourque | 8 min
Woodcarver | Ehren BEARwitness Thomas & A Tribe Called Red | 6 min
The Magik Iffektor | Christine Lucy Latimer | 5 min
Separate Vacations | Cameron Moneo | 10 min
Forsaken | Heidi Phillips | 5 min
Postface | Frédéric Moffet | 8 min
J. Werier | Rhayne Vermette | 4 min
happy | Daniel McIntyre | 8 min
Up | Scott Fitzpatrick | 5 min