FEVER DREAMS + REVERIES
Night draws and temperatures rise. A collection of ten films and videos invoking somnambulistic perspectives, cascading into fantasy, humour and delirium. Voices from the past and voices from the future lead us away from our selves. What’s that song? I can’t place it. It’s getting so hard to place any of this. New work from Canada, Ghana, The United Kingdom and the United States.
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Some Cities dir. Francesco Gagliardi
2017 | CA | 2 min | 16mm | Manitoban premiere
A miniature film performance about the night. -FG
3 Peonies dir. Stephanie Barber
2017 | CA | 3 min | 16mm on video | Manitoban premiere
A brief, poetic 16mm film on a simple sculptural action. What becomes apparent is the humor possible in material interactions and the tender and sometimes melodramatic symbolism of cut flowers. -SB
Mahogany Too dir. Akosua Adoma Owusu
2018 | CA | 3 min | super 8mm on video | Manitoban premiere
The spirit of Tracy Chambers, the struggling fashion design student played by Diana Ross in the 1975 Motown film Mahogany, is invocated and re-imagined by the Nigerian actress Esosa E. -AAO
i’ve been waiting to smile for a long time dir. Christine Negus
2017 | CA | 4.5 min | super 8mm on video | Manitoban premiere
i’ve been waiting to smile for a long time moves between an approximate (and absurd) Greco-Roman reconstruction and the filmmaker’s sister trying to remake a ceramic childhood homage project, all the while bringing it under the melancholy umbrella of Billy Corgan’s serenade. -CN
Zablah dirs. Ryan Betschart + Rachel Nakawatase
2018 | US | 3.5 min 16mm on video | Canadian premiere
A fever dream of anti-boomer angst told through disjointed and aggressive sound, picture and edit; Zablah demon baby boomer seeks to convince a millennial that eating at Applebee’s is a worthwhile experience. Shot on some dirty agfachrome 16mm. -RB
Mammaries dir. Monica Panzarino
2016 | US | 4 min | video | Canadian premiere
This performance of Barbra Streisand’s 1973 hit single, “The Way We Were”, pairs a play on the word “memories” with real-time audiovisual processing. Panzarino’s voice is processed by “The Nipulator 2.0”, a wireless bra custom-built by the artist. -MP
Tap Water dir. Lilli Carré
2017 | US | 4.5 min | video | Manitoban premiere
Everything leaks at least a little. -LC
Fever Freaks dir. Frédéric Moffet
2017 | CA/US | 8.5 min | video | Manitoban premiere
A detective is hired to find the original copy of a lost ancient book. The book recounts the tale of a plague. A form of radiation, unknown at the present time, activates a virus. The virus affects the sexual and fears centers in the brain and nervous system, fear is converted into sexual frenzies which are reconverted back into fear, the feedback leading in many cases to a fatal conclusion. -FM
Empty Nightclub dir. Benjamin Edelberg
2017 | CA/US | 8.5 min | video | Manitoban premiere
Empty Nightclub is a maze of urban streets, dark corridors and dance floors. Are we looking for the party or are we desperately searching for the exit? -BE
Northern Lights dir. Chris Paul Daniels
2017 | UK | 13.5 min | super 8mm on video | Canadian premiere
An inquisitive voice from the far future, misinterprets imagery of the Blackpool Illuminations; an English seaside attraction. The Visitor confuses regional vernacular & traditions against the shifting lexicon surrounding Britain’s political future. -CPD
In Association with the Winnipeg Film Group
