THE LINE AROUND WHAT’S REAL
A collection of six films and videos which blur and distort the line between the real and the simulated. Or maybe there is no line. Maybe it’s a circle. Performance and digital mediation offer insight into the struggle to look and sound human. Spaces, forms and experiences are multiplied. What is this all “really about”? Consider the clone. New work from Canada, Germany and the United States.
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Like This/Like That dir. Tommy Heffron
2017 | US | 3 min | video | Canadian premiere
“letnothingbechangedandallbedifferent” – Robert Bresson via Public Access TV. Edited in real-time (with four exceptions). -TH
Please step out of the frame. dir. Karissa Hahn
2018 | US | 5.5 min | super 8mm on video | Manitoban premiere
from your desk(top), mistrust the manufactured image, distrust the assembled picture, give no credence to the massed account, discredit the aggregate narrative, defame the corporate chronicle, denigrate the collective annals, doubt the constructed copy – consider the clone. -KH
Something in the Way dir. Liz Knox
2015 | CA | 4 min | video | Manitoban premiere
As a popular 90’s rock song plays, text appears on-screen, sourced from fan-writing about what the song is ‘really about’. As lyrics are sung, those lyrics are interpreted. All the text for this work was taken from songmeanings.com. -LK
Flat Pyramid dir. Kevin Doherty
2017 | US/CA | 11.5 min | video | Canadian premiere
Outtakes from a defunct pyramid scheme’s promotional and instructional videos incidentally document its unraveling. -KD
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2017 | CA/US | 7.5 min| 16mm on video | Manitoban premiere
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Void Vision dir. Alexander Stewart
2018 | US | 7.5 min | 16mm | Canadian premiere
In Void Vision the real and the simulated are equally constructions; a space where doubles, twins, duplicates, re-creations, and copies blend into one another. -AS
As Much as Anyone dir. Stefan Ramirez Perez
2017 | DE | 17 min | video | Canadian premiere
As Much As Anyone fuses documentary footage of aspiring and former actresses in Los Angeles with (re)staged scenes appropriated from films about actresses. -SRP
In Association with The Winnipeg Film Group
