les lucioles, les panthères roses, ccred, lezzies on x, pinkbloque, la famille digitale
Awards
-Special MUFF Award for 4 films by the Volatile Works collective: 'Ikuma Siku,' 'Kuleshov's Paradox,' 'Lust,' and 'Uncanny.' At the Second Montreal Underground Film Festival (MUFF), Montreal, Quebec,Canada:05/2007
-Special flEXiff Award for 5 films by the Volatile Works collective: 'House,' 'Kuleshov's Cabinet,' 'NatoNosferatu,' 'Resettlement [floating home],' and 'Zombie Business.' At The First and Last Experimental International Film Festival (flEXiff), West Sydney, Australia: 09/2005
Festivals
Over 150 festival screenings in 30 countries over the last 3 years, plus tons of community screenings and events, and various indy compilations...
volatile works's Interests
Heroes
diamanda galas, werner herzog, andrei tarkovsky, herschell gordon lewis, carolee schneeman, mario bava, brothers quay, radley metzger, julie dash, wong kar wai, pp pasolini, jacques tourneur, george romero, charlie parker, polystyrene, holly woodlawn, jayne county, angela bowie, the slits, the residents, luís buñuel, patti smith, billie holiday
About me:
Volatile Works is a five member film/video/media arts collective that has been active in Montreal, Quebec, since 2003. Our works embrace a range of mediums, genres, and spaces of intervention (from protests to screenings), with a marked affinity for lo-fi/DIY tactical forms of production and engagement. They have appeared in numerous cinema/new media arts festivals (about 150) in over 30 countries around the world. We organize regular screenings and events, and have collaborated with other collectives and bands on community-based screenings, workshops in activist video, and music videos. Practices include digital video, super-8, 16mm, animation, web art, sound, installations, DIY of all kinds.
Website: http://www.volatileworks.org
CINEPHOBIA (cinephobia) n. 1. An incapacitating fear of seeing.
2. The dark force that through the cathode ray tube drives the compulsion to consume and conform.
4. The desperate act of sticking one's head up one's own arse to find a better view.
5. A radio show on CKLN hosted by Stuart Feedback Andrews and his gaggle of Cinephobiacs that irresponsibly plunders the culture of film and television with interviews, reviews, discussions, contests, giveaways and the occasional Gilbert and Sullivan inspired song and dance number.
CINEPHOBIA: Friday afternoons at 2 p.m. EST on CKLN 88.1 FM in Toronto.
...and Christopher Plummer plunges to his death from the top of the CN Tower while a fiesty Brenda Vaccaro despatches greasy perverts with merciless abandon.
These are just a few of the tantalising visions we contemplated on the show last week when Toronto filmmaker and VHS fetishist Jonathan Culp (from the Liason of Independant Filmmakers of Toronto) came by to discuss the films produced during the notorious Canadian Tax Shelter Era.
We picked FIVE representative VHS masterpieces that collectively chart a weird, alternate history of Canadian produced cinema from the early 70's to the mid 80's.
So if you're feeling brave, plunge into this dizzying world of flesh eating rodents and horny firefighters:
Last week, I had a little chat with Howard Kaylan, lead singer from THE TURTLES (Happy Together) shortly before his arrival in Toronto for the premiere of MY DINNER WITH JIMI, the Kaylan-penned bio-pic which depicts The Turtles' first trip to London, England in 1967.
The fateful voyage saw the impressionable amphibians coming face to face with the likes of Brian Jones, Graham Nash, Donovan and Jimi Hendrix for the first time. But perhaps their most memorable encounter (and certainly the most traumatic one for the young, Beatles-wannabe Turtles) was a harrowing run-in with the acid-tongued John Lennon at the legendary London Speakeasy Club.
And despite having very little prior knowledge of THE TURTLES, this turned into one of the most enjoyable interviews I've ever done. I was completely mesmerised by Kaylan's stories and surprised by his unabashed honesty.
Also, this is the first of a series of specific ONLINE versions of CINEPHOBIA.
Thanks to the technical ingenuity, pure generosity and moral support from CKLN's David Bachner (host of Sunday's overnight experimental music show: Idio Audio - http://www.idioaudio.com ), CINEPHOBIA has finally entered the 21st century and is now available ON DEMAND.
That means I'll occasionally be uploading some the shows - not all of them - just the good ones.
They'll either cleaned up versions of what gets aired or, in the case of this Howard Kaylan piece, a pre-recorded segment specifically designed for the internet.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy listening to Kaylan as much a
*** It was wonderful to see you at the show! I also had a fantastic time at your screening at the Cinématheque. Looking forward to more incredible and happy entertainment!***xoox
The Montreal Anarchist Film Festival....Under the Moon!
Thursday, May 24th
9pm, 2035 St-Laurent (metro St-Laurent)
Free!
(Rain date: May 31st, same time and place)
Join us for a lovely outdoor film screening as part of Montreal’s Festival
of Anarchy. Bring a blanket, a sweater, your friends, and come learn about
anarchist, anti-authoritarian struggles for freedom in Montreal and abroad!
For more information, visit www.myspace.com/filmsanarchistesmtl
Featuring (in order of appearance):
"La Rage Vivante... Panic a la Manic" by Maude Prud'homme and
Julien Boisvert
10 minutes (fr)
Les coupes forestières sont rendues au nord du Nord, dans le
réservoir de la Manicouagan, sur l'ile René-Levasseur. L'oeil du Québec a
cependant inspiré une résistance fertile...
"Raise the Rates" by Neil Cavalier and Liisa Schofield
25 mins (en with subtitles in fr)
Following the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty's (OCAP) campaign to raise
social assistance rates in Ontario in 2005-2006, this documentary features
first-hand accounts of 5 women involved in the campaign as well as footage
from special diet clinics, demonstrations, and occupations. From powerful
voices of people directly affected by the welfare system comes a demand to
raise the rates, and a determination to fight back.
---"Roads Through Palestine" by Brett Story, with musical piano score by
Stefan Christoff.
A cinematic journey through the roads of occupation and resistance in the
West Bank of Palestine.
---"Deportation Canada" by Apatrides Anonymes
5 minutes (en/fr)
Every year, approximately 10,000 people are removed from Canada towards
countries where their physical well-being is threatened. If you find
yourself on a flight with one such person, you can help stop a
deportation. A video by the Apartrides Anonymes.
It's not just a profound dislike of - or a perverse fascination with - the neverending onslaught of horrible cinema.
It's the dreadful state of being overwhelmed by the infernal tapestry of lies which conspire to rip out our eyes and then reproach us for our blindness.
It's the dark force that through the cathode ray tube drives the pathological compulsion to consume and conform.
It's the desperate act of sticking one's head up one's own arse to find a preferable view.
But more than anything, it's the overpowering and paralysing fear of seeing.
So if you suffer from this terrible affliction or you're trying your best to avoid this contagious condition, then join host Stuart Feedback Andrews and his gaggle of miscreant Cinephobiacs as they irresponsibly plunder the culture of film and television with interviews, reviews, discussions, contests, giveaways and the occasional Gilbert and Sullivan inspired song and dance number.
CINEPHOBIA airs every Friday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. on CKLN 88.1 FM in Toronto.
Listeners outside of the GTA can tune in via the internet at:
Regular contributors include Tim May (CKLN program director), Chris Alexander (Rue Morgue Magazine's Schizoid Cinephile) and the indestructable Kayvon "Superfan" Zahedi (MTV, J.R. Digs show).
Volatile Works!!! Thank you so much for a most fabulously satisfying and joyous evening last night!
so festive! such lovely folks! basically, good times...good times...
Word!
Yes, i plan on coming (warming up the old vocal cords); i keep forgetting to reply cuz i keep forgetting what day it is. No big. see you then! we have tales to swap!
Thanks for the Top Friends status - and for regularly keeping an ear on the show.
I'm taking off to Florida in a couple of days for the holidays - so in the meantime, happy holidays to you, Tamara, Alan and everyone at Volatile Works - and all the best for 2007!
:- Stuart Feedback Andrews
(p.s. Cast and crew interviews from the set of Romero's Diary of the Dead are currently playing on the current episode of RUE MORGUE RADIO.)
