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25/01/2010 |
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 Double Negative's One Take Super 8 screening was packed to the gills and got some glowing reviews, including this one (en français) at Panorama. Patrick Friel ponders the course of avant-garde cinema over the past decade and writes about 2009's Views from the Avant-Garde in the current issue of Senses of Cinema, and Parallax gets a mention: Time Will Tell: The 13th Annual Views From the Avant-Garde and the Walking Picture Palace.For the program notes for his film Parallax, Christopher Becks provides three dictionary definitions of the term – all of which centre on the notion of displacement. A conceit, certainly, but an apt one for this visually jarring travel film shot over three continents. Becks’ seemingly disjointed editing creates unexpected, confounding and constantly shifting rhythms that gain meaning through accumulation. Where most travel films aim for creating pictorial beauty or a “sense of a place”, Becks seems interested in conveying the feeling of disorientation or lack of sync with one’s surroundings that travellers can have. Stranger in a strange land might be too obvious: Becks does allow for moments of respite and recognition between headlong rushes forward. Finally, though, it’s a masterful take on being out of place. |
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05/11/2009 |
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Double Negative will be hosting the One Take Super 8 festival in Montréal on the 21st of November. Most DN members will be taking part along with plenty of other Montréal filmmakers.  About the festival: The One Take Super 8 Event (OTS8) began in 2000, with 20 filmmakers each shooting a single reel of Super 8 film, which then premiered to an audience without the filmmakers seeing their work beforehand. All the films were shown as shot. No cuts. No splices. The popularity of this non-competitive festival has allowed it to return each year with more filmmakers participating. To date over 600 films have been created for the One Take Super 8 Event! |
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15/09/2009 |
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| Double Negative's program of members' work will show at the Pacific Cinematheque in Victoria, B.C. on September 28 and be presented by the Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa on November 4. A screening of new works planned for April of 2010 in Montreal. Parallax will screen at the New York Film Festival's View's from the Avant-Garde on the 4th. |
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01/07/2009 |
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| Double Negative is hosting Bruce McClure this Sunday as a part of a weekend of music and film performance in collaboration with Cinéma Abattoir. Check the website for details. You cannot miss Bruce McClure. Excited to be showing at 25FPS in Zagreb again. Parallax in September. |
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02/03/2009 |
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| Parallax will screen at The Austrian Film Museum in Vienna, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Chicago's Onion City film festival as well as Hallwalls gallery of Buffalo, NY through the month of April. Double Negative's loop show went really well and had a review in esse n°65. I hope to be a part of it again in 2009. Just a little more on the collective. I found an interview by Brett Kashmere with founding members Daichi Saito and Karl Lemieux. It's a nice piece on how and why the group started. |
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01/11/2008 |
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| Double
Negative's program (with Parallax
and Pan of the Landscape) will screen at L’Ecole nationale
supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris on Tuesday, December 2.
Thanks go to André Habib and Le Silo
for organizing this.
Pan of the Landscape as well as films from fellow Double
Negative'ers Daichi Saito and Karl Lemieux will be showing in a
retrospective program of Quebecois experimental film (I'm Quebecois now?) at the Siena
International Short Film Festival. |
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30/09/2008 |
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| Parallax was completed a
couple months ago and will enjoy a few screenings before the year comes
to a close. This
Fall, Double Negative is showing our
program of films and videos at EXiS, Antimatter,
Silo (Paris), and in Toronto as a part of the Loop Collective's Lighthouse
Series. Also--like last year--a group installation of film loops will be on display at Ctrllab in Montréal on Oct. 3. |
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01/09/2008 |
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| Light Cone
of Paris has decided to distribute my films. Yay. Also added to their catalogue this year are a couple fellow artists and friends from Double Negative, Daichi Saito and Mike Rollo--glad to be in good company. |
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06/08/2008 |
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| Montréal,
August 7 @ 9pm: Ex-Centris |
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05/06/2008 |
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15/02/2008 |
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| The
screening will be at Ex-Centris in Montréal on the 20th of
March. Details at the theatre's website in the Now Playing
section. |
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05/01/2008 |
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| Pan
is showing at La Nuit du Cinéma à Percé, an outdoor
program of recent Canadian films. Updated (14/02): CBC radio (Radio-Canada) did a piece on the event. Find it here by scrolling to January 14. It's in French. |
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02/09/2007 |
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| The
poster and flyer are out. Thanks to Ithamar Silver for the design. poster / backside of flyer For program notes, festival passes, and everything else: www.experimentalcinema.com TIE 2007 continues November 21-24 in Montevideo, Uruguay. |
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01/09/2007 |
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| For Le
Mois de la Photo I just finished working with artist Josée
Pedneault to realize her video installation in a church,
where it will reside for the next six weeks (that's more than "un
mois," but don't tell the Québécois). Using Max/MSP, I made randomized, cross-faded video sequences (shot by Josée) for projection onto the walled surfaces where stained glass windows would normally reside. The show is called Mur-mur (literally "wall-wall" in French ) and opens September 6. Update. Photos: 1,,
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31/08/2007 |
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| Pan
of the Landscape keeps on keepin' on with a couple of
screenings this fall: In September, a program at the Ross Media Arts Center in Nebraska, curated by Chris May of TIE. In October, a program with some fellow Double Negative members in Winnipeg, focusing on work by "Canadian Collective Celluloid Practitioners". |
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16/06/2007 |
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| The Double Negative film
collective of Montréal will be presenting a set of 16mm loops,
projected, reflected and refracted onto the surfaces of Ctrllab
on the 15th of June. More information on the cryptic flyer,
with its front-side
adorned by a poem. Coming later this month, also courtesy of Double Negative, British filmmaker Nicky Hamlyn will be presenting his work at Le Cinéma Parallelè (Ex-Centris) in Montréal on the 28th. |
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10/06/2007 |
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The Double Negative film collective of Montréal will be
presenting a set of 16mm loops, projected, reflected and refracted onto
the surfaces of Ctrl lab on the 15th of June. More information on the
cryptic flyer,
with its front-side
adorned by a poem. Coming later this
month, also courtesy of Double Negative, British filmmaker Nicky Hamlyn
will be presenting his work at Le Cinéma Parallelè (Ex-Centris)
in Montréal on the 28th. |
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31/01/2007 |
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| Things have been
shifting and changing a bit. The film section is done. I just noticed that
I get two domains with this webhost, so I moved from chrisbecks.com to
christopherbecks.com, and email to cb@christopherbecks.com. |
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27/01/2007 |
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| Pan of the Landscape is
screening at the San Francisco Cinematheque as part of a show curated
by Christopher May. February 4th and 9th. More info here (with a nice Borges quote). |
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26/01/2007 |
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| The
site is almost there despite a few glaring holes. Still to do: info,
photo and sound sections. Let
me know if you have problems browsing. The rest will be up
soon. |
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