The Winnipeg Underground Film Festival is an annual showcase for contemporary experimental film + video and is a not-for-profit collectively run, artist run organization.
All of the funding and proceeds go directly to paying artist fees. WUFF is completely volunteer run and is co-directed by Scott Fitzpatrick & Aaron Zeghers, and includes members-at-large Steph Berrington, Madeline Bogoch, Alyssa Bornn, Meganelizabeth Diamond, Ryan Simmons and Sara Wilson. Full program details at www.winnipeguff.com
CHANNEL SURFING
As seen on TV: four videos engaged with televisual tropes unearth room for seemingly endless self-improvement and empowerment through video. Are you ready? Call now. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Hurry, your better self is waiting. New work from Canada.
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All Persons Fictitious dir. Liz Knox
2018 | CA | 2.5 | video | Manitoban premiere
This work compiles the disclaimers used in the Law & Order TV show from seasons 1, 10 & 20. The variations of the text fade into one another, in and out of legibility, providing a small rumination on the complex relationship between fact and fiction. -LK
2-Spirit Special Introductory Offer $19.99 dir. Thirza Cuthand
2015 | CA | 5 | video | Manitoban premiere
New to the 2 Spirit lifestyle? Want to talk to someone in the Spirit and the Flesh instead of reading The Spirit and the Flesh? Call now and for only 19.99 a month you can get instant unlimited telephone access to traditional knowledge and support. -TC
HOT-HOT-HOTT dir. Alex Ateah
2018 | CA | 3 | super 8mm on video
A late 20 something seductress yearns for that special someone in a hotline television commercial. -AA
Basic Steps for Beginners dirs. Henning Frederik Malz + Leslie Supnet
2017 | CA | 44 | video | Manitoban premiere!
Basic Steps for Beginners uses tapes sourced from second hand stores, discarded corporate/residential trash and garage sales. It aims to showcase lost or forgotten pre-internet video content meant for home viewing such as independently produced instructional videos, meditation videos, corporate employee videos and other rarities, some of which are regionally specific and not available on the internet. These tapes are mixed with other more recognizable content such as motivational, exercise and other “how-to” tapes, so popular during this era, forming a narrative of seemingly endless self-improvement and empowerment through video. Basic Steps for Beginners taps into our collective memory of the unique, mesmerizing and time-specific aesthetics of the home video format. – Leslie Supnet
In Association with the Winnipeg Film Group
