Congratulations to the following members whose work has been screened or accepted at screening events and festivals in Canada and Europe:

Phil Caron, "The Hate Machine": Niagara Indiefest (St. Catherines) and Nickel Film Festival (St. John's, Nfld)

Nena Toth, "Blindness": 52nd Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, and Belgrade International Film Festival (in official competition)

Izabel Barsive, "L'Eau": Ontario Arts Council Mobile Media Tour, and Reel Dance On The Road - this Saturday at the Canadian Film Institute (see upcoming screenings)

Penny McCann, "Away for Christmas": Ontario Arts Council Mobile Media Tour, and the Canadian Film Institute

Adrian Mehes, "The Truth Hurts": Finalist, Exposé Anti-Smoking Campaign

Coming up:

My Culture Includes My Scene

Be sure to check out the Ottawa Art Gallery exhibition, My Culture Includes My Scene, June 25th - Aug. 21st, featuring the work of SAW folks: Firuz Daud and Tiffany Beaudin, Jason St. Laurent, Stefan St-Laurent, and Ryan Stec. Opening party is Friday, June 24 - 8:30 pm - Midnight . For more info: check out www.ottawaartgallery.ca.

and

Premiere broadcast of x(trace) by Phil Rose on TVO!

TVO and the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) are once again showcasing the work of Ontario film and video artists. Masterworks, TVO's popular arts documentary series, will air the second instalment of Exposures: The Art of Film and Video, on June 30 and July 7, at 10 p.m. One of the eight works selected is Phil Rose's video x(trace), studies for a self-portrait. The other featured artists are Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Zachary Longboy, Janet Csontos, Carolyn Wong, Katherine Knight, Philip Barker, and Ross Turnbull.

Congratulations to you all!

DISTRIBUTION WORKSHOP 
with Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Vtape (Toronto) & Deirdre Logue, CFMDC (Toronto) 
Thursday, June 23, 2005 2-5 pm 
Club SAW, 
67 Nicholas St. 
Free admission

Info: 
call SAW Video at 238-7648     
www.sawvideo.com 

Looking for information on how to distribute your independent video or film? Then attend this insightful information session by representatives of Canada’s two largest distributors of media art, Vtape and CFMDC.

Founded in 1980, V tape (www.vtape.org) is an international distribution, exhibition and resource centre with an emphasis on the contemporary media arts. As a centre for over 900 artists, V tape carries over 5,000 video titles. Executive Director Kim Tomczak and Creative Director Lisa Steele will talk about the kinds of work that Vtape distributes.

Based in Toronto, the Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre ( CFMDC/www.cfmdc.org) was founded in 1967, and is Canada's foremost non-commercial distributor and resource for independently produced film. They represent 550 filmmakers worldwide and 2,600 film titles, including some of Canada's most original and well-respected works of art. Executive director Deirdre Logue will be present to discuss the work that CFMDC acquires. www.cfmdc.org 

Thanks to the Available Light Screening Collective for making this workshop possible.

THEN ATTEND: 
A video screening curated by Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak:

DESERTED STREETS AT MIDDAY. 
UNREST, NOT YET VISIBLE. 
presented by the Available Light Screening Collective 
Thursday, June 23rd 
7:30pm, CLUB SAW, 67 Nicholas St. 
Admission: $3 students, unwaged/$5 general

Featuring the work of Jeremy Bailey, Cooper Battersby, Emily Chhangur, Daniel Cockburn, Deirdre Logue, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsey, Jennifer Norton, Leslie Peters, and Steve Reinke.

Intro to MiniDV Video Production
Instructor: Ray Hagel
Saturday June 25th, 2005 
11:00am - 5:00pm
$50 Saw Video Members/$75 non-members (Saw Video basic membership included in price)

This one-day workshop teaches the basics of camera, audio and lighting through hands on training.

Participants will receive basic instruction on all three of SAW Video's prime 3-chip MiniDV cameras -- the Canon XL1, Panasonic AG-DVX100 and the Sony PD-150. The workshop is an excellent opportunity to compare the features and capabilities of these cameras before going out on your first shoot!

Participants will be introduced to three point lighting and dealing with power on location. A variety of mics will be used and their applications will be discussed.

http://sawvideo.com/sawvideo/workshop_eventx.php?id=28

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Introduction to AVID Xpress DV
Instructor: Jacob Hanna
Sunday June 26th 2005
12:00pm - 5:00pm
$60 Members/$85 non-members (Saw Video basic membership included in price)

AVID Xpress DV is the ideal solution for anyone looking to edit DV on the desktop while maintaining many of the same features and the same interface as the more powerful dedicated AVID editing systems. The course will cover all steps of the process from setting up and capturing from a DV device, using the timeline based interface, and outputting back to DV or exporting for the web.

http://sawvideo.com/sawvideo/quick.php?url=workshop_event.php?id=16

The Available Light Screening Collective is seeking submissions for the second edition of its Fringe From the Hill program, highlighting new experimental film and video works produced by artists from the Ottawa/Gatineau Region. Fringe From the Hill I was presented in Ottawa and Guelph (Ed Media) in 2002. Building on the success of the first edition, Available Light hopes to tour this program to venues in Ontario and nationally.

Submissions must not exceed 30 minutes in length and must have been completed after January 1, 2003. There is no entry fee for submission. The deadline for submissions is Thurs. June 30th, 5pm. VHS or DVD preview copies of works can be sent to: Available Light Screening Collective, Arts Court, 2 Daly Ave. Ottawa, ON K1N 6E2 or left in our mail box. NO MASTERS PLEASE.

Please provide the following information for each work submitted: title; running time; date completed; previous screenings; and, artist contact information (phone and email).

As with the initial Fringe From the Hill program, the second edition will be collectively programmed by the seven members of Available Light and will be presented in early fall (date to be confirmed) at Club SAW. Selected artists will be contacted the first week of August. Artist fees will be paid. All preview material will be available for pick-up after this date.

Available Light is an Ottawa-based artists' collective committed to the presentation and curation of experimental film, video and new media art. Support for our activities is received from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Ottawa.

For further information please contact Phil Rose at ctronic@cyberus.ca 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 
"Art and Activism" YYZ 
Deadline: June 30, 2005

YYZ ARTISTS' OUTLET invites contemporary artists, architects, designers, and writers to propose projects in any media for participation in an exhibition and related critical projects that explore, expand, contradict or otherwise address artistic and activist practices. The exhibition, organized by Kym Pruesse, will be presented at YYZ from 14 January 2006 through 25 February 2006.

PREMISE:

This exhibition will look at the role and nature of contemporary artistic practices as activist practices. Through example and sample, the show will provide a specific framework for artists to define their relationship to activism via individual and collective cultural production. Art as Activism and Activism as Art finds its way into the everyday life of the street, the media, our institutions, politics, galleries, and the market. These interventions exemplify the fact that culture is a process, not a product; that art reflects and defines the social, economic, political and cultural conditions of its making. We invite all submissions that address this dense territory through experience, reflection or debate.

Writers, critics, curators, and designers are also encouraged to submit proposals for potential publication in a catalogue, a book on this topic as it relates to Canadian art practice, the YYZine, the web, or as a submission/exploration of the topic in a form/forum appropriate to the context of the issues.

Please submit proposals and relevant support material as outlined in the proposal guidelines at www.yyzartistsoutlet.org/submission.asp to ´YYZ: ACTIVISMª by 30 June 2005. This will be a group exhibition so space will be limited.

YYZ Artists' Outlet is an artist-run centre that supports the work of local, national and international contemporary artists in all media by providing a dedicated venue and supportive programming infrastructure for the public exhibition of contemporary art.

YYZ ARTISTS' OUTLET
401 RICHMOND ST. WEST SUITE
140 TORONTO, ON CANADA
M5V 3A8
T: 416.598.4546 
F: 416.598.2282 
E program@yyzartistsoutlet.org 
W: www.yyzartistsoutlet.org 

Artengine is currently seeking submissions for a projectable media arts series titled Urban Projections. With our recent move to the heart of the city, Ottawa's Byward Market, Artengine is looking for works that survey its new surroundings. Works exhibited in Urban Projections will question and explore the city as a subject: its architecture, its people, and/or the ways in which it is inhabited. We will gladly accept works that employ live streaming, PureData, Max/MSP patches and video. Artworks will be projected onto the 2nd storey windows of the Artengine lab during the evening (on the corner of York and Byward). The audience will be artists, art lovers and the masses of unsuspecting locals, tourists and nightlife seekers who pass by our central location every evening. Works will also be presented on small monitors in the stairwell of the Mercury Lounge (downtown down lounge).

Deadline for submissions: June 20th 
Submissions should include:

• Artist statement 
• Documentation of project 
• technical specs

Please keep in mind that we will not be able to accommodate any sound components for this series. Please communicate any heavy technical requirements prior to deadline. Works will be exhibited every night at sundown from July 1st to September 30th.

Please contact Darsha Hewitt at the Artengine Lab 
562-7923 
Darsha.h@gmail.com  
www.artengine.ca 

Artengine is an artist-run organization for visual and media artists. Federally incorporated and not-for-profit, Artengine is devoted to the propagation of art on the internet and the artistic exploration of new technologies. The goal of Artengine is to increase artists' presence on the World Wide Web and to initiate and participate in the artistic applications of digital media. Artengine is committed to promoting professional standards for artists, curators and cultural workers.

The Seagate Foyle Film Festival is now inviting submissions for selection to the annual LIM (Light in Motion) awards, which have become the 2005 Stella Artois Film Awards, and Digital Out- Of-Competition film strand.

This year Stella Artois, renowned for its film associations, will be developing its relationship with the Festival primarily through the competition section. The new Stella Artois Film Award categories include: Best Irish Short, Best International Short, Best Animation, Best Feature, and Best Documentary.

To be considered eligible for the Stella Artois Film Awards, Short Film duration must be between 5 and 40 mins. There is no duration limit for the other categories (Feature, Animation and Documentary).

Formats accepted for the selection process includes VHS, NTSC, and DVD. 35mm is the ONLY accepted format for selected shorts, animations and features screening in COMPETITION.

Documentaries screening in competition will be accepted on 35 mm and digital format (excluding Digibeta, Beta SP NTSC & DVCam Pro).

Nicola Trainor, Stella Artois Brand Manager, says "Annually the Festival attracts quality film entries from right across the globe, so naturally, as a brand that is known for its commitment to film, we're delighted to be involved in a competition of this scale. It's incredibly satisfying to encourage creative minds to pursue their dreams within the film industry and have therefore added value to the prize package this year in the hope we will attract even more imaginative ideas in the future."

In addition to the competition for Stella Artois Film Awards the festival is dedicating programme space to the best digital films selected for the expanding 'Out- of -Competition' strand.

This gives digital short film and feature filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their talents alongside directors who work in, or transfer, to 35mm film print.

Digital (Out-of-Competition) categories include Short Live Action and Feature. The duration for Digital Short Films must be between 5 - 10 mins. The minimum duration for Digital Features must be 40 minutes.

The Formats accepted for the Selection Process include VHS, NTSC, and DVD. All selected entries are accepted on most digital formats (excluding Digibeta, & DVCam Pro).

The deadline date for entry submission is 5 September 2005. Early Bird Entry by 20 July 2005 is free of charge. Thereafter fees of £5.00 will be charged if screening copies arrive by the 23 August 2005 and £10.00 if it arrives by 5 September 2005.

There is an extended and final deadline of 6 September 2005, where a fee of £20 will be charged. No entries will be accepted after this extended deadline date.

Winners will receive: the Stella Artois Film Award which includes cash; automatic qualification to be considered for an Academy Award in the Short film and Animation categories; a specially crafted trophy designed by Stella Artois; a bursary to attend a week long creative retreat at the Tyrone Gutherie Centre in County Monaghan; plus other technical prizes TBC.

For enquiries on Call For Entry contact Shauna Kelpie, Festival Director on T: 028 7126 7432 or email: s.kelpie@nerve-centre.org.uk 

Notes To The Editor

In its 18th Year - the Seagate Foyle Film Festival is one of the main cultural events in Northern Ireland and has become firmly established as one of Ireland's leading International film festivals.

Previous winners at the festival have gone on to win nominations and to win an Oscar® at the Academy Awards. The winning short film at SFFF 2004 Two Cars One Night, directed by Taiki Waititi went on to win an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short.

Andrea Arnold's short live action film Wasp (highly recommended at SFFF in 2004) won an Oscar® in 2005. Adam Elliot's animation Harvie Krumpet in 2003, Eric Armstrong's animation Chubbchubbs in 2002 and other notable winners include Fernando Merilles, director of City of God.

The festival takes place from 11 - 20 November 2005 in venues throughout the beautiful historic City of Derry. Audiences come from all over Ireland, the UK, Europe and North America. These include actively engaged film lovers, filmmakers, actors, programmers, distributors, industry representatives and journalists.

The programme for 2005 promises to be equally exciting, leaving cinema goers spoilt for choice, with the best in Irish, European, International and Contemporary films including classics, foreign language, documentaries, shorts and animation.

For those more interested in the creative process of filmmaking the festival offers cutting-edge masterclasses and seminars in special effects animation and industry focused events from acting to directing and composing to filmmaking.

In addition to this the festival creates a cutting edge curriculum based education programme. This is a unique strand which offers tailor made presentations and workshops for schools and colleges throughout Northern Ireland.

Now accepting entries for consideration for the 2005 Stella Artois Film Awards, this is your opportunity to have your film selected to be screened at this highly regarded Irish and internationally recognised Film Festival.

ENTRY DEADLINE: 5 September 2005

The application forms and rules and regulations for the competition are available to down load from the Seagate Foyle Film Festival website: www.foylefilmfestival.com or www.foylefilmfestival.org 

Alternatively a hard copy can be sent on request:
Email: s.kelpie@nerve-centre.org.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 28 71 267432
Fax: +44 (0) 28 71 371738

Presented by: Available Light Screening 
Collective Curated by Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak (Toronto) 
Thursday, June 23rd at 7:30PM 
$5 general/$3 students or under-employed

Originally curated by Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak for Champ libre (Montréal), this group of video works rumbles with disoriented energy and seethes with visual violence - never explicit, always embedded, lying harmless until some key unlocks the meaning. Menace lurks in DESERTED STREETS AT MIDDAYŠ as each work reveals the unreliable nature of time itself - as only time-based works can. These artists attest to the basic law that all must be risked to achieve a full report. No question is irrelevant.

Program 
beautiful lies by Leslie Peters, 12:00, 2004 
Stupid Coalescing Becomers by Daniel Cockburn, 2:31, 2004 
Strongest Man by Jeremy Bailey, 4:33, 2003 
THAT BEAUTY by Deirdre Logue, 1:28, 2003 
Excess by Jennifer Norton, 1:20, 2002 
Anthology of American Folk Songs by Steve Reinke, 27:45, 2004 
Untitled by Benny Nemerofsky Ramsey and Cooper Battersby, 10:00, 2004 
Quenched by Emily Chhangur, 6:00, 2003

Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak have worked in collaboration since 1983, producing videotapes, performances, photographs, films and installations. They are the co-founders of the media arts and distribution centre Vtape and currently teach in the Visual Studies programme at the University of Toronto. This spring, they were awarded a Governor General's Award for Excellence in Visual and Media Arts.

Lisa Steele, Kim Tomczak, Deirdre Logue & Emily Chhangur will be in attendance!

GALLERY 101 PROUDLY PRESENTS: TWO EXTERNAL WALL INSTALLATIONS, PANEL PRESENTATION & PARTY

Jean, ALTHEA THAUBERGER - Front façade Nightfall, PAO QUANG YEH & WILL AITKEN - West wall

JUNE 16, 2005 at 6:00pm 
Admission is free and open to the public 
Cash Bar, BBQ and snacks by Ristorante Fioriís

Raising awareness of our public presence is key in our audience development efforts. To enhance our physical presence and bring art to the public sphere, two art projects have been installed on the external walls of the gallery. The idea behind these two ambitious projects was inspired by public mural projects that represent local histories and community visions. These projects also highlight vital connections between politics and art, public and art.

Jean Augustine & Althea Thauberger

"Jean" is a portrait of the Honourable Madame Jean Augustine. It references the genre of official portraiture, yet offers a new perspective on visual representation and photography. The portraitís intimate, documentary aesthetic, its massive scale, and its out-door location, signal an unconventional approach to the traditional portrait of a public figure. As the outcome of collaboration between Jean Augustine and the artist Althea Thauberger, this image records and celebrates Augustineís contribution as community organizer, role model, educator, friend, and mother. Moreover, this image raises complex issues concerning representation and monumentality in Canada, and signals to a new approach to portraiture and public art.

Althea Thauberger completed a MFA from the University of Victoria in British Columbia in 2002. She has presented her video installations in solo exhibitions at La Centrale, Montreal, QC; White Columns, New York, NY; Berkeley Art Museum, CA; and Presentation House Gallery in Vancouver, BC. Thauberger has presented community projects at Open Space in Victoria, BC, the Saidye Bronfman Centre in Montreal, QC, and The Richmond Art Gallery in BC. Thaubergerís group exhibitions include: ìI Wanna be a Pop Starî, Loop ñ raum f¸r aktuelle kunst, Berlin, Germany; motion Pictures, Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgium; Baja to Vancouver, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; ìsoundtracksî, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB. Althea Thauberger has had work represented by Tracey Lawrence Gallery in Vancouver, BC and Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto, ON. Thauberger was short listed for the Sobey Art Award, the pre-eminent prize for a young Canadian artist, in 2004.

The Honourable Jean Augustine, P.C.,M.P. Etobicoke-Lakeshore, was born in Grenada. Before entering politics, she was an Elementary School Principal with the Toronto District Catholic School Board. She has served on numerous Boards, including the Board of Governors of York University, the Board of Trustees for The Hospital for Sick Children, the Board of Directors of the Donwood Institute, and the Board of Harbourfront Corporation, and as Chair of the Metro Toronto Housing Authority. She was also National President of the Congress of Black Women of Canada. She is the recipient of the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, the Kaye Livingstone Award, the Ontario Volunteer Award, the Pride Newspaper Achievement Award, the Rubena Willis Special Recognition Award, and the Toronto Lions' Club Onyx Award. As the first black woman elected to Parliament in 1993, Augustine was Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister from 1994-1996; Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and the Status of Women from 2002-2004. Jean is founder of the Canadian Association of Parliamentarians on Population and Development and played an instrumental role in the establishment of the Canada-Africa Parliamentary Group. These groups are the first of their kind to be established at the House of Commons. Jean initiated two important Motions in the Parliament of Canada which give recognition to the contributions of Canadian women and Blacks to Canadian society. As a result of her commitment to equality February was declared nationally as Black History Month and the Famous Five Statue has a home on Parliament Hill. Ms. Augustine is the mother of two daughters.

Pao Quang Yeh & Will Aitken

As collaborating artists Yeh & Aitken, produced a project that involves visual and literary arts. The texts style is mandarin and iterative, its content a mixture of the familiar and the strange. Text surrounds the horse, which provides a still point --a simple, almost storybook image. The positioning of the text, like a dialogue balloon in a comic book, encourages viewers to read the words as the horses thoughts. But that assumption leads to ambiguity and elusiveness. Who was Minnie the Mooch? What was her relationship to the nameless horse? How did she die? What carried her aloft in the first place? The text and the image, then, are constructed to encourage viewers to continue the narrative, to fill in the back-story and imagine what will follow upon this tragic fall. The artistsí intent was to draw viewers in, to slow them down--make them stay longer than they might usually do with a work of art; the piece also responds discreetly to the presence of the funeral home across the parking lot from Gallery 101.

Pao Quang Yeh is a graduate of the Fine Arts program at the University of Ottawa and Concordia University. He is a contemporary emerging artist who has exhibited in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto. His work deals with issues of displacement and environment using various mediums from photography to textiles to installations. Active in the local community, Yeh worked from 2000-2004 for the City of Ottawa's Community Arts Program developing creative multidisciplinary arts programs for children, youth, adults and people with special needs.

Will Aitken is a Montreal novelist and journalist. His novels include Realia (Random House Canada, 2000), A Visit Home (Simon & Schuster, 1993) and Terre Haute (Doubleday, 1989). As a writer/broadcaster covering film, visual arts, architecture and design he has worked for the CBC, the BBC and NPR. His arts journalism and essays have appeared in the Globe & Mail, the National Post, MacLean's, the Paris Review, the Threepenny Review and many other publications in North America and Europe. In collaboration with Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson, he has directed productions of her spoken-word opera, "Decreation", in Montreal, London and Berlin. Aitken is a Maclean Hunter arts fellow. This project is Aitkin's third collaboration with Pao Quang Yeh.

Gallery 101 is located at 236 Nepean Street, between Bank and Kent. Opening hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 10am-5pm.

For more information, please contact 613.230.2799 or info@gallery101.org. or visit www.gallery101.org.

Canadian Film Institute 
Sat./sam. June 18 juin, 21:15

Presented in collaboration with the touring programme of the Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video and the Canada Dance Festival, the CFI is pleased to present this international selection of moving images and moving bodies. The programme of eight works includes:

MOVING PICTURES TRAILER (Director: Gregory Nixon; choreographer/performer: Jesse Van Rooi); HASTA LA PROXIMA (Canada 2003, 5 min.), Directed by Mark Adam and choreographed by Victor Quijda (Rubberbandance Group). An office skyscraper is the setting for this dance film about love, loss and the psychic connection between lovers; ZUMMEL (Canada 1999, 7 min.) Directed by Mark Adam and Allen Kaeja. A memoir to the lost family of Allen Kaeja’s father, whose entire family perished during the Holocaust; CRUTCHMASTER (USA 2004, 9 min.) Directed by Nicolas Jenkins, and choreographed by Bill Shannon, whose work stems from philosophy as well as physical necessity, as he lives with a degenerative hip condition; L’EAU (Canada, 2004, 1 min.) Directed by Izabel Barsive and choreographed by Isabelle Tibi; CANTIQUE NO. 1 (Canada 2003, 15 min.) Directed by Marie Chouinard, and performed by: Benoît Lachambre and Carole Prieur: Emerging from the depths of a black space, a man and a woman choose to meet. A dialogue of their breath and tongues; TONGUE BULLY (Canada 2004, 5 min.) Directed by Annie Bradley. Choreographed and performed by Learie McNicolls. This spoken word art film captures the powerful poetic performance and original music of two-time Dora award winner Learie McNicolls; and THE COST OF LIVING (UK 2003, 35 min.) Directed and choreographed by Lloyd Newson (DV8 Physical Theatre) David and Eddie are street performers struggling to get by n a seaside town. COST follows them as they work, argue, fail at romance and fall out with old friends; part dance film, part drama, wholly entertaining.

More info:

http://www.cfi-icf.ca/reeldance.html 

Hello all!

Victor Pilon and Michel Lemieux are directing the next Cirque du Soleil show and they are looking for filmmakers/visual artists to create visual material. The show will be divided in many scenes or tableaux, each with a slightly different theme. They need people to create either segments for a specific scene or longer ones (multiple continuous or discontinuous scenes).

If you are interested or you know anyone (talented students or professional filmmakers) who could be interested, please send samples of work to the emails below. They are mostly looking for dynamic images, but fell free to also include still images as portfolio. Please send your material before June 22, 2005. If you do not have an electronic portfolio, please contact them to make arrangements.

Victor Pilon: v.p@sympatico.ca
Michel Lemieux: michel@4DArt.com 

Thank you for your help, and feel free to email them if you have more questions.

Sylvain