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It’s getting very close to the day, and so we offer you a link to a little classic from Bryan Konefsky (aka Basement Films and Experiments in Cinema Film Festival head honcho) to take you through. In Konefsky’s A Junky’s Christmas, Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life is hijacked by William S. Burroughs’ reading of his story “The Junkie’s Christmas”. The American dream becomes the American nightmare. vimeo.com/13391728

Happy Holidays to all!

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We had a very busy day and night on Saturday with the giant film gear garage sale followed by our Holiday Super 8 Party featuring insanely good cake by @sydney_southam_art and a great roster of films and friends—a lovely farewell to the fieldhouse that has served us so well over the last four years. Thanks Burrard View, we will miss you and the neighbours, all the screening events, workshops, darkroom time, and that crazy view of The Lions. Keep your eyes on the space as VUFFF (https://vufff.org/fieldhouse/) brings it to life in the new year!

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THIS IS IT! Our FINAL PARTY at the Burrard View Fieldhouse as we wrap up our residency and have a well-deserved holiday hangout after the Garage Sale earlier in the day (see earlier listing). 

Feel free to bring along some easy-serve potluck goodies, watch some Super 8 films (yes, we promise to screen the weirdly abridged STAR WARS Super 8 film, it has become a tradition after all) and enjoy some hot apple cider with us.  See you there!

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After four incredible years at the Burrard View Fieldhouse, Iris Film Collective are wrapping up our residency and celebrating with a GIANT FILM GEAR GARAGE SALE on SATURDAY DECEMBER 10th from 10am-2pm, (as well as a party later in the evening of course, see next listing). Come on down and fill your boots with all kinds of film paraphernalia: cameras, projectors, films, cans, cores, splicers, lenses and MORE!

*Free 16mm film with every purchase $5+ while supplies last!*

>>SVP no earlybirds, cash only<<

SEE YOU THERE!

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Celebrating sprocket-driven, artist-made work, the 5th Annual Engauge Experimental Film Festival runs Nov. 2—5, 2022 and celebrates the art of analog experimental filmmaking. Only films that originate on celluloid film are eligible for the festival. This year the festival will screen 73 films from 15 countries, showcasing a wide variety of experimental techniques.

This year’s festival will be in-person only at NWFF’s cinema in Capitol Hill (Seattle) and features work by Iris Film Collective members Alex MacKenzie and Lindsay McIntyre as well as Lisa Marr (EPFCN) and many other friends and fellow analogers near and far. Pop in if you are in Seattle!

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM IRIS FILM COLLECTIVE!

We have two online and FREE recommendations for you to scare it up with after the candy runs out at the door.

Le Cinema Club brings us the online premiere of Nadja, Michael Almereyda’s vampire film executive-produced by David Lynch. A work awaiting cult status like no other, Nadja weaves a dream-like tapestry of images (black-and-white 35mm meets PixelVision) and allusions (Ceaușescu as much as Lugosi) anchored by pitch-perfect turns from Elina Löwensohn, Martin Donovan, Jared Harris, Galaxy Craze, and — animating Dr. Van Helsing in consummate form — Peter Fonda.

www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/nadja/

PLUS: The NFB has put together a collection of films that will definitely spook you!

www.nfb.ca/playlist/films-halloween/

Happy Halloween!

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Nisha Platzer's BACK HOME World Premiere at VIFF! Added screening Saturday October 8th at 1pm.

We are thrilled that Iris Film Collective member NISHA PLATZER's brand new documentary back home has had a huge response for its world premiere at this year's VIFF with two sold out shows, and we are happy to announce that a third has been added, door tickets only at this point! Tickets and more information here: https://viff.org/whats-on/back-home/

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We are very excited that Iris Film Collective member Nisha Platzer’s film ‘back home’ will be having its World Premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

You can read more and grab tickets here: gg.gg/back-home-VIFF

Be sure to explore all the other great local works by friends of Iris Film Collective in the festival program, now available online! viff.org/whats-on/category/canada

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What an amazing afternoon! The Super 8 Superheroes were out in full force last weekend at the Iris Film Collective Fieldhouse at Burrardview Park.

Huge thanks for all who attended and helped out. Keep flying!

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We had a truly beautiful evening of recent experimental films from Mexico presented by filmmaker Elena Pardo at Cineworks, a huge thanks to Elena for bringing them to us, to all the filmmakers, and to Cineworks for hosting!

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AUGUST 28th 3:15pm Alex Mackenzie at CROSSROADS in San Francisco with PINHOLE PARK.

The thirteenth edition of CROSSROADS and the first in-person iteration since 2019 will be taking place in San Francisco August 26–28. with Iris member Alex MacKenzie’s 35mm film PINHOLE PARK featured that Sunday in Program 8 (Divisions of Labor).

More information: sfcinematheque.org/video-programs/crossroads-2022-program-8

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SUNDAY AUGUST 28 1pm-4pm SUPER 8 SUPERHERO Burrardview Fieldhouse - 545 North Slocan Street, Vancouver

WATCH: films made by Pacific Spirit School students* from 2020!

CREATE: magic wands for YOUR inner super hero with the power to make the world a better place

ANIMATE: your idea on how to BE A SUPERHERO

FUN! FREE! ALL AGES! FAMILY FRIENDLY! MASK FRIENDLY!

(*thanks to Artstarts for their support of the Super 8 Superhero project)

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AUGUST 23rd 7pm Elena Pardo IN PERSON from Mexico City with TERRA INCOGNITA, TERRA INDOMITA.

Copresented Iris Film Collective and Cineworks.

This evening presents a selection of experimental films curated by Elena Pardo and Isabel Rojas that explore present and past untamed territories through a speculative gaze that subverts preconceptions about identity, ethnicity and territory.

Featuring many films originally created on 16mm and Super 8, these works hail from Mexico City’s Experimental Film Collective LEC and their friends. The programme is co-presented with Cineworks and takes place at their Black Box Studio, alley entrance 1131 Howe Street - FREE admission!

Films featured are by: Carolina Jaschack, Azucena Losana, Elena Pardo, Marcela Cuevas, Edén Bastida, Jael Jacobo + Ezequiel Guido, Daniel Valdez Puertos, Bruno Varela, and Annalisa Quagliata.

Don’t miss the rare chance to see these works and meet filmmaker and co-curator Elena Pardo. 

PLUS:

Echo Park Film Centre presents a picnic with Elena Pardo & Friends! Sunday, August 28 11am-2pm. Elena will facilitate a relaxed “Expanded Cinema” workshop where attendees can experience the playful wonder of 16mm projection using various gels, filters and lenses to distort analog images. 

Elena is a featured guest at the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival and will be presenting Pulsos Subterráneos, a live expanded cinema work, on September 3rd at the festival.

More tickets and info here: https://www.goelevent.com/VLAFF/e/PulsosSubterraneos

Big thanks to VLAFF for their support with this program.

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AUGUST 17th 7pm LIVE AND EXPANDED Alex MacKenzie & Lindsay McIntyre at DIM Cinema/Cinematheque

To celebrate the Cinematheque’s 50th anniversary, DIM presents a quartet of projector performances by Iris Film Collective members Alex MacKenzie and Lindsay McIntyre with live sound by Clare Kenny and Peter Bussigel. The evening is bookended by experimental works fresh from Oberhausen, commencing with MacKenzie’s The Hollow Mountain, performed with a modified 1920s hand-cranked projector, and closing with McIntyre’s improvised dance across six 16mm projectors, Worth More Standing. In between, MacKenzie’s 16mm light performances Phosphene and Mall Emotions will be featured.

Tickets are limited! More info: thecinematheque.ca/films/2022/live-and-expanded

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Society Visual Music and Echo Park Film Centre are having a dance party and visual installation in Moberly Park AUGUST 12 6-11pm!

Music by Nancy Dru, Shades of Day and Elio Agvaz. Visuals by Mia Glanz. At 9pm they will be screening the Eliobeth music video "Secret World of Girls", output from Mia Glanz' BREATHING ROOM residency with Echo Park Film Centre and Iris Film Collective. @miaaglanz @elio_agvaz #irisfilmcollective #echoparkfilmcenternorth #breathingroom #danceparty #videoinstallation The event is by donation. There will be punch. SHADES OF DAY, USA, Soundscape Undergound https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxQhP4_KJs4Dl5OLvZD1fWQ ELIO AGVAZ, Society Visual Music https://www.youtube.com/c/SocietyVisualMusic NANCY DRU http://nancydru.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/djnancydru https://ra.co/dj/nancydru https://soundcloud.com/nancy_dru

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AUGUST 13th 7-10pm Cheryl Hamilton & lisa g's MOTORBIKE SUPERDYKE

SUM gallery, in partnership with Vancouver Queer Film Festival presents MOTORBIKE/SUPERDYKE, a collaborative multimedia installation by Cheryl Hamilton and Iris Film Collective member lisa g, based on lisa g’s diaries about coming out and sorting through queer stereotypes circa 2000. Illustrations, art prints, an animated film and a zine echo a time and place and reflect upon personal identity politics.

Opening reception: Sat, Aug 13, 7-10pm Installation runs Aug 16-20, 2-6pm

Daily drop-in zine workshops 3-6pm. 425-268 Keefer Street.

More info: sumgallery.ca/motorbike-superdyke

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L to R: Lindsay McIntyre’s Ajjigiingiluktaaqtugut (We Are All Different), Alex MacKenzie’s The Hollow Mountain, Lindsay McIntyre’s Worth More Standing, still from Super 8 Superhero, Cheryl Hamilton & lisa g’s Motorbike/SuperDyke, Elena Pardo’s La luna en mercurio and Azucena Losana’s Feriado from Terra incognita, terra indomita, Alex MacKenzie’s Pinhole Park, still from Super 8 Superhero.

A preview for our followers...

We’ve got a full roster for August, locally and beyond, check it all out below and be sure to mark your calendars. See you all there!

AUGUST 11th 7pm Lindsay McIntyre featured at CCA Montreal as part of TILLITARNIT/MANY HANDS

Ajjigiingiluktaaqtugut (We Are All Different) (2021) an animated documentary about belonging, will be screening at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal along with two other recent films by Iris Film Collective member Lindsay McIntyre, Seeing Her (2020), and If These Walls (2019), as part of this program curated by Asinnaja. It all takes place in the Parc Baile in front of the CCA, with free access for the public as part of a community event around Inuit games, performances, and open-air film screenings. More info: cca.qc.ca

AUGUST 13th 7-10pm Cheryl Hamilton & lisa g's MOTORBIKE SUPERDYKE

SUM gallery, in partnership with Vancouver Queer Film Festival presents MOTORBIKE/SUPERDYKE, a collaborative multimedia installation by Cheryl Hamilton and Iris FIlm Collective member lisa g, based on lisa g’s diaries about coming out and sorting through queer stereotypes circa 2000. Illustrations, art prints, an animated film and a zine echo a time and place and reflect upon personal identity politics.

Opening reception: Sat, Aug 13, 7-10pm Installation runs Aug 16-20, 2-6pm

Daily drop-in zine workshops 3-6pm. 425-268 Keefer Street.

More info: sumgallery.ca/motorbike-superdyke

AUGUST 17th 7pm LIVE AND EXPANDED Alex MacKenzie & Lindsay McIntyre at DIM Cinema/Cinematheque

To celebrate the Cinematheque’s 50th anniversary, DIM presents a quartet of projector performances by Iris Film Collective members Alex MacKenzie and Lindsay McIntyre with live sound by Clare Kenny and Peter Bussigel. The evening is bookended by experimental works fresh from Oberhausen, commencing with MacKenzie’s The Hollow Mountain, performed with a modified 1920s hand-cranked projector, and closing with McIntyre’s improvised dance across six 16mm projectors, Worth More Standing. In between, MacKenzie’s 16mm light performances Phosphene and Mall Emotions will be featured.

Tickets are limited, more info: thecinematheque.ca/films/2022/live-and-expanded

AUGUST 23rd 7pm Elena Pardo IN PERSON from Mexico City with TERRA INCOGNITA, TERRA INDOMITA.

This evening presents a selection of experimental films curated by Elena Pardo and Isabel Rojas that explore present and past untamed territories through a speculative gaze that subverts preconceptions about identity, ethnicity and territory.

All works were originally created on 16mm and Super 8 film and hail from Mexico City’s Experimental Film Collective LEC and their friends. The programme is co-presented with CINEWORKS and takes place at their BLACK BOX space, alley entrance 1131 Howe Street - FREE admission!

More information soon: irisfilmcollective.com

AUGUST 28 1pm-4pm SUPER 8 SUPERHERO Burrardview Fieldhouse - 545 North Slocan Street, Vancouver

WATCH: films made by Pacific Spirit School students* from 2020!

CREATE: magic wands for YOUR inner super hero with the power to make the world a better place

ANIMATE: your idea on how to BE A SUPERHERO

FUN! FREE! ALL AGES! FAMILY FRIENDLY! MASK FRIENDLY!

(*thanks to Artstarts for their support of the Super 8 Superhero project)

AUGUST 28th 3:15pm Alex Mackenzie at CROSSROADS in San Francisco with PINHOLE PARK.

The thirteenth edition of CROSSROADS and the first in-person iteration since 2019 will be taking place in San Francisco August 26–28. with Iris member Alex MacKenzie’s 35mm film PINHOLE PARK featured that Sunday in Program 8 (Divisions of Labor).

More information: sfcinematheque.org/video-programs/crossroads-2022-program-8

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