(Update: Sept 28)  Check out Kelly’s slideshow featuring our installation at Visualeyez…

click on image to go to the slide show

(Update Oct 1: Visualeyez animator Cindy Baker’s post about our show.)

Possible Movements
September 7 to October 1, 2010
Vernissage: Thurs., Sept. 9, 5 to 7 p.m.
FOFA Gallery, Concordia University
1515 Ste. Catherine Street W., EV 1-715,  Metro Guy-Concordia Montreal, Quebec
Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Information: http://fofagallery.concordia.ca or  514-848-2424 ext. 7962

Possible Movements proposes innovative  approaches  to the re-presentation of heritage sites by highlighting  ineffable elements such as temporality, simultaneity and  spatial perception. In this iteration, the subject building is the Chapel of the Grey Nuns Motherhouse, soon to become the home of the Fine Arts at Concordia University.  The stereoscopic photographic techniques developed at the same time as the chapel’s construction are able here to transport viewers into virtual and re-imagined time spaces.  The illusion of objectivity provided by photorealism is not the goal, instead it is the layering of archival materials, time lapse and innovative camera movements—along with material and spatial considerations— that allow a virtual flight through time and space, to explore the site’s multiple cultural meanings.

Follow your documentary impulse: visualize what actually happens when you walk inside the Chapel. See time spatially, as a series of simultaneous images or fragments of images— past, present, and future. Add a third dimension to the screen —the mimesis of your body moving through space. Observe how surface and volume explode, how you are drawn into the architecture. Cinema as space art, time travel, and image conflated.
Recall that cinematic movement also results from illusion. Upon seeing his first moving picture in 1896, Maxim Gorky
remarked, “It is not life but its shadow, it is not motion but its soundless spectre.”

Marielle Nitoslawska:  Conception and supervising
Alison Reiko Loader:  Digital animation and stereoscopic imaging
Suzie Synnott:  Compositing
Jane Tingley:  Management and curating
We express our sincere gratitude for their generous support to Sister Cécile Castonguay, Superior of the Mother House, Gabriel Collard, its Administrative Director, and to the entire SGM community.

Grateful thanks also for their contributions to the Grey Nuns project: Nancy Townsend (3D modeling), Jonathan Ng (3D camera animation); Glauco Bermudez, Alanna Cleve, Zoe Constantinides, Marie-Ève Fortin, Katie Jung, Colin Kent, Myriam Magassouba, Klara Polom, Diego Rivera Kohn, Van Royko, Ryan Spence, Zoe Mapp, Catherine Van Der Donckt. To the CDA and to all the Hexagram staff; to Joel Taylor and jake moore for their continuing support.
Funding by:   FQRSC,  Hexagram,  Concordia University.

Nuit Blanche at New City Gas

I’m reinstalling Kappa Garden in collaboration with Margaret Griffin for Nuit Blanche. Come down next Saturday (Feb 27th) between 1pm and 2am to 140-141 Ann Street and check out all the fun!

[v. late update - a few images from Margaret]

Kappa Garden, photo by Factotum

Kappa Garden, photo by Factotum

Recent news: well I’ve been a crazy busy girl (matron?) lately…

Feb 13, 2010 – I curated an awesome program of animated & experimental shorts at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre of Montreal where I was a (relatively inactive) council member. The JCCCM hosted a day of gnoshing and cultural activities to raise money for the Red Cross for Haitian Relief. Very successful (and busy!) event. Showcased in the screening were filmmakers Momoko Allard, Yoshino Aoki, Anne Koizumi, Cindy Mochizuki, Jonathon Ng,  Randall Okita, Jeff Chiba Stearns. Check these guys out! Lots of talent. You can download the poster/pdf for the screening here. I’d like to screen it elsewhere… and perhaps curate some more JC community screenings.

Yesterday, (Saturday Feb 20, 2010) premiered Stereo Norman at the Rendez-vous du Cinema Quebecois in the Abstract Animation program. Link to the festival site here.