Wednesday, October 2 - Sunday, October 6
The 2019 WNDX Festival of Moving Image takes place this October 2-6 at the WFG Cinematheque, and is loaded with highlights and do-not-miss screenings! This year WNDX will present more than 100 films, videos and performances from Manitoba and around the world. Highlights among these are a retrospective screening of short video work and a performance by Thirza Jean Cuthand, who joins us from Toronto. Also visiting this year for a retrospective screening is Turkish-American filmmaker Nazlı Dinçel, who also leads a hands-on film manipulation workshop at the WFG. Winnipeg-based artist Davis Plett will present Études for Keyboard, their incredible “performance for typist and laptop keyboard,” winner of this year’s WNDX prize for Best Prairie Work. Curator Guillaume Lafleur joins from Montreal to present a survey of underground Quebecois films from 1948-1989, and Montreal-based filmmaker Ryan McKenna will open the festival with the Manitoban premiere of his Winnipeg city symphony Cranks. In addition to these (and many other) highlights, WNDX will present 8 short film programs curated from our international open call for submissions, which includes the Manitoban premiere of Aaron Zeghers and Lewis Bennett’s found-footage documentary Danny, the Canadian premiere of Hazel Katz and Je’Jae Daniels’ Bubby & Them (winner of our award for Best International Work), the World premiere of Nicolás Superby’s Andino, new films by Manitoban artists Heidi Phillips, The Ephemerals, Chanelle Lajoie, Cecilia Araneda, Alison Davis, Trinity Linklater and much, much more.
Check out the entire program now at www.wndx.org – there’s lots to see – then pick up a pass and bring all yr friends!
