Drop by for two hours of delightful short films for children from the National Film Board. Following the theme of Winter, the films explore the fascination, fun and frustrations of the season. Be it the way communities are brought together with an ice rink; the adventure of a new snowfall; or the challenge of wanting to be like our hockey heroes, sweater and all. Come celebrate some of the things we Canadians do so well - make brilliant short films, and sharing the best parts of Winter together.
This event is organized by the Festival of Moving Media as part of the Guelph FAB 5. Saturday, February 4th. 9 - 11am (drop in).
10 Carden Street. Admission is Free.
Surviving Progress
Intelligent, compelling and featuring some of the world’s great contemporary thinkers, the film Surviving Progress is nothing short of a massive taking stock. Inspired by Ronald Wright’s bestselling non-fiction book about societal collapse, Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks’ documentary explores the concept of progress in our modern world and, more specifically, the idea of “progress traps.” Simply put, these are innovations that seem like smart moves forward but inadvertently cause new problems.
Drawing on historical examples, directors Roy and Crooks guide us through a sweeping but detailed survey of the major progress traps facing our civilization in the arenas of technology, economics, consumption and the environment. Along the way, we hear powerful arguments in interviews with modern luminaries such as Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood, David Suzuki, Stephen Hawking and Ronald Wright himself, as well as grassroots activists.
This event is organized by the Festival of Moving Media as part of the Guelph FAB 5.
Saturday, February 4th. 8pm. Co-operators Hall, River Run Centre.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the River Run Box Office.
2011 is an exciting year for the Festival of Moving Media
with content and support provided by our creative partners Ed Video and The Fab 5 .
The dates for the next Festival of Moving Media will be November 3-6, 2011.
We are now part of a large advertising campaign called Guelph FAB Five.
It includes Hillside, Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival, Guelph Jazz Festival,
Eden Mills Writer's Festival and ourselves.
We are pleased to announce that we are expanding our School Outreach project this year. Karyn Bascariol will be leading this project. She is a community leader with experience bringing extra curricular programs to the schools and has a degree in Child Studies. Due to the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council, the Bookshelf Cinema we are able to provide a unique film experience to ten local schools.
We also have a special sponsorship "Dis-a-ray for the dis-advantaged", in which Ray Mitchell, a local business man has provided funding for children who cannot afford the entrance fee.
We are pleased to announce two new staff members.
John Lundy is our new film programmer. John has been involved with FOMM community as a volunteer and member of the FOMM Film Selection Committee for several years. He is an accomplished visual artist/photographer and a devoted student of film history.
Eihab Boraie has taken up the post of Sponsorship Coordinator. Eihab is a passionate supporter and contributor to the local arts community and has been the Sponsorship Coordinator for the Kazoo! concert series and festival for the last four years. For sponsorship inquiries please contact Eihab at 519-835-1909 or sponsorship@festivalofmovingmedia.ca
FOMM at Nuit Blanche
Saturday, September 10th 2011
Guelph Jazz Festival - Nuit Blanche
Late Night Film Session by Festival of Moving Media
The Traditional cinema atmosphere of the Bookshelf is used in these wee hours of the morning to present unique and interesting films. So sit back, relax and explore how music and image come together on the big screen.
The Festival of Moving Media will be hosting a film tent at the upcoming Hillside Festival. Festival goers can take a moment away from live music to sit in the shade and watch fantastic, thought-provoking films. This collaboration between FOMM and Hillside is part of the Guelph FAB 5 project, a collaboration between five great festivals in the Guelph area, check out guelphfab5.ca for more information.
Please join us at Hillside this weekend for fun, sun and cinema!
SCHEDULE
Festival of Moving Media Tent
Hillside Festival, July 22-24, 2011
Guelph Lake Conservation Area, Guelph, Ontario www.hillsidefestival.ca
Friday: 5pm Festival of Moving Media - Shorts Relationships: The Good, The Bad & The Bizarre
6pm Festival of Moving Media - Shorts Journey’s With Sound
Saturday: Noon Hillside Festival presents: The National Parks Project
3pm Festival of Moving Media - Shorts Exploring Community
4pm Festival of Moving Media - Shorts Relationships: The Good, The Bad & The Bizarre
5pm Guelph Jazz Festival presents: Imagine the Sound, a Ron Mann film
Sunday: Noon Festival of Moving Media - Shorts Journey’s with Sound
1pm Hillside Festival presents: The National Parks Project
4pm Guelph Jazz Festival presents: Fly in the Bottle, a Ron Mann film
7pm Festival of Moving Media - Shorts Exploring Community Film Descriptions
Relationships: the Good, the Bad and the Bizarre
A mix of animated and live action film shorts, exploring relationships with our selves, our families and our passions. The filmmakers investigate the unusual and the everyday with equal fascination.
Flawed Canada/NFB Flawedis nothing less than a beautiful gift from Andrea Dorfman’s vivid imagination, a charming little film about very big ideas. Dorfman has the uncanny ability to transform the intensely personal into the wisely universal. In Flawed she deftly traces her encounter with a potential romantic partner, questioning her attraction and the uneasy possibility of love. But, ultimately, Flawed is less about whether girl can get along with boy than whether girl can accept herself, imperfections and all.
Two’s a Crowd USA
The secret to a successful marriage? Separate apartments 20 blocks apart! New York couple Allen and Collette have been happily married for over four years and have never lived together, nor have they ever wanted to. That is, until worry over old age and non-existent savings force them to redefine their union and living arrangement. An hilarious look at romance and real estate.
It’s Just Better Canada/NFB
This short documentary takes us to a farmhouse on Cape Breton Island where Shawn Peter Dwyer, age 10, lives with his mother and 9 brothers and sisters. While the children’s pockets are usually empty, their lives are well filled.
Journeys with Sound
A series of documentary shorts that looks at how music connects people: be it reconnecting to nature, overcoming geographical distance and cultural differences or a coping device for those who are unable to fit easily into society.
Tuned In USA
Stark contrast and a lonely desert backdrop set the tone for this portrait of Steve McGreevy, a collector of natural radio signals. Transmitted by nature through lightning storms or shifts in the earth’s magnetism, these otherworldly transmissions have a strange and ironically synthetic sound. As this beautiful phenomenon is largely unknown, the film is a bittersweet pause for our massive and surprising universe.
Family Band Canada/NFB
In this short documentary about The Tragically Hip, director David Battistella uses a split-screen and acid-etched colours to distil the iconic Canadian band’s essence. After decades together, through hotels, highways, gigs and recording sessions, The Hip’s members have forged a powerful brotherhood. "These guys are my life partners, musically" says bass guitarist Gord Sinclair. The Hip's brand of straight-ahead rock and roll has catapulted the band to international stardom, and ensured them a place in Canadian musical history, but at heart, they remain a bunch of guys from Kingston, Ontario, making music together just for fun. Nodin (Wind) Canada
From the bush to the streets, catch a colourful glimpse of the gritty beats of an Anishinabe reservation b-boy. Emerging director Nodin (Wind) Wawatie dances his way through this cinematic self-portrait of a young man inspired to forge his own path while bridging two worlds.
Life Lessons at the Lulu Lounge Canada/NFB
Ten recent arrivals to Canada, all Cubans in their early to mid-twenties, spend their days learning English and their nights playing and rehearsing their own blend of Cuban salsa music at various downtown clubs. Director Kyle Stone follows the group of nine women and their drummer Gilberto, capturing their constant discussions about the political situation at home and the problems of citizen engagement in both communist Cuba and democratic Canada. Life Lessons at the Lula Lounge is about music, learning, dreaming and above all, the continual quest to improve our lives and the countries we live in. Goodbye Sousa Canada/NFB
The Newmarket Citizens Band, one of Ontario's best, has been playing the rousing marches of John Philip Sousa for over one hundred years. While other small-town bands may be fading, the Newmarket band is still going strong. To this film's toe-tapping rhythms you learn the reasons why.
Exploring Community
A collection of film shorts that look at how and why we build communities. The stories explore a wide range of issues from the virtues of compassionate to political fighting over land rights, what unites these films is the deep rooted human desire for community. Hand To Toe: An Exploration in the Art of Giving Canada
Once a week, Yellowknife’s Salvation Army transforms itself into a makeshift spa, offering pedicures, wool socks and a kind touch to those most in need. As neglected feet are cleaned, massaged and cared for, a greater connection is explored in this empathetic film celebrating the virtues of compassion.
Citizen Z Canada/NFB
Aside from the requisite playground and ice rinks, Toronto's Dufferin Grove Park is home to an organic farmer's market, weekly family dinners, a theatre troupe and numerous cultural activities. It's a comfortable public space where everyone is welcome. But when city inspectors raid the park on Christmas Eve and discover huge puppets, a baking oven and kitchen sharing the park's dedicated Zamboni building, the flourishing neighbourhood group is threatened with evacuation. Cavan Young's Citizen Z is a tongue-in-cheek look at what happens when a small community, including some wily puppets, takes on city hall in a fight to rewrite the rules
Surpriseville UK
Welcome to Surprise, Arizona, a study in irony. Make yourself at home in a master-planned, gated community of strict standards and rigorously maintained bylaws. Finally, a community for people who think the grass is greener on their side of the fence and the rest of the world should keep out.
Ted Baryluk’s Grocery Canada/NFB
Ukrainian-Canadian Ted Baryluk's grocery store has been a fixture in Winnipeg's north end for over twenty years. In this photo study, Ted talks about his store, the customers who have come and gone, and the social changes his multicultural neighborhood has seen. But most of all he wonders what will become of his store after he retires. He hopes his daughter, Helen, will take over, but she wants to move away. The film is a wistful rendering of a shopkeeper's relationship with his daughter and a fascinating portrait of a neighborhood and its inhabitants.
When the Day Breaks CND/NFB
After witnessing the accidental death of a stranger, Ruby seeks affirmation in the city around her, and finds it in surprising places. With deft humor and finely rendered detail, When the Day Breaks illuminates the links which connect our urban lives, while evoking the promise and fragility of a new day. Co-directors Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis use pencil and paint on photocopies to achieve a textured look suggestive of a lithograph or a flickering newsreel. In When the Day Breaks, the ordinary--a lemon, a toaster, a chance collision on a street corner--is endowed with a visceral power. A film without words.
Ron Mann Films presented by the Guelph Jazz Festival: Imagine the Sound
IMAGINE THE SOUND brings together interviews and performances with the prime innovators of the once controversial free jazz movement of the 60s. The first feature documentary by Ron Mann (GRASS, COMICBOOK CONFIDENTIAL) is an eloquent tribute to a group of highly celebrated artists that helped forge the avant-garde jazz of the 1960s. Critic and film historian Jonathan Rosenbaum has said IMAGINE THE SOUND “may be the best documentary on free jazz that we have.” The film features articulate interviews and dramatic performances by pianists Cecil Taylor and Paul Bley, tenor saxophone Archie Shepp, and trumpet player Bill Dixon.
FLY IN A BOTTLE Taking a look into the minds and lives of Medeski Martin & Wood, Billy Martin directed the first feature film in the band’s history entitled Fly in a Bottle. Tirelessly working through footage of MMW in the studio and on the road during the Radiolarians recordings, the film provides an extremely intimate portrait of the band. It highlights the trio’s intricate relationships with each other and with the music they have worked to create over their past 20 years as a band. Unique to the Radiolarians series, the band switched the order of conventional album cycles. Instead of touring to support a new release, MMW used touring as a way to compose and refine their music live, taking the material back to the recording studio. This inverted process allowed them to release Radiolarians I, II, and III in just two years, a feat unheard of by most recording artists.
National Parks Project presented by Hillside Festival
Stunning and inspired, this ambitious omnibus film barely fits the big screen. Fifty-two filmmakers and musicians explore our country’s rugged wilderness, translating the landscape into cinematic form to mark Parks Canada’s centennial.
The National Parks Project is created by Joel McConvey, Geoff Morrison and Ryan Noth, and is produced by FilmCAN NPP Films Inc. and Primitive Entertainment in partnership with Parks Canada, Discovery World HD and the Rogers Cable network Fund.
The festival of Moving Media is presenting a short film entitled Helenka by dancer Karen Rose at the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival Gala. The gala takes place June 3rd at the River Run Centre. FOMM and the GCDF are both part of a promotional collaboration called the Guelph FAB 5, which also includes Hillside, Eden Mills Writer's Festival and the Guelph Jazz Festival and includes cross promotion at each others festivals. Please check out http://www.guelphcontemporarydancefestival.com/onthestage.php for more information about this evenings performances at the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival. Tickets are still available at the River Run Box Office
Helenka Karen Rose's 2008 dance film Helenka offers a glimpse of the intense physicality and poignant emotions which characterize the journeys of five women during the period of the Nazi regime. According to the video's description, this short twelve-minute work is said to be "a testament to women of the war, honouring their solidarity, strength and resilience." The choreography was adapted to from the dance piece Helene, which Rose presented at the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival in 2008.
Rose further explains her artistic vision and approach to dance: "I believe art should make you feel, think, provoke action. My work is always emotionally based, never just steps. My dances flow rather from certain states of being fueled by the extreme physicality of the movement. The emotion drives the movement, emotive gestures and expression. I would say my work is truly Dancetheatre, two forms merged seamlessly into a whole. I look for dancers with individual expression. What moves them is more important to me, then how they move."
Rose not only choreographed, directed and edited the work, she also performed in it, along with Ali English, Kelly Steadman, Yvette Bon and Stephanie Toohill. The film has been screened in Saskatchewan and Ontario, as well as festivals including Dance on Camera (New York), Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (Colorado), dancescreen 2010 at Cinedans (Amsterdam), MADance Screen Salon (Toronto), International Dance Film Festival (Budapest), Punt Multimedia (Barcelona), Sao Carols Videodanca Festival (Brazil) and Reeling Dance on Screen (Edmonton).
WE NEED YOU!
Interested in Volunteering?
Contact our Volunteer Coordinator Wendy Salt
volunteering@festivalofmovingmedia.ca or 519-265-2307.
Interested in sponsoring the Festival?
Please contact our Sponsorship Coordinator, Eihab Boraie sponsorship@festivalofmovingmedia.ca to learn about our exciting array of options.
For more information about the Festival of Moving Media
please contact the Festival Coordinator Carolyn Meili info@festivalofmovingmedia.ca or at 519-836-4993.
