Full program details available here.
Internationally acclaimed Indigenous artist Kent Monkman: Intervening the Image: Screening and Lecture!
Premieres by Winnipeg Artists and ex pats: Stacey Abramson, Milos Mitrovic, Matthew Rankin, Gwen Trutnau, Ryan McKenna, Aaron Zeghers, Scott Fitzpatrick, Indigenous artists Scott Benesiinaabandan, Florene Belmore, Rebecca Belmore.
Films from Nigeria, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and the USA!
Prairie Animation Retrospective – works from over 50 Years. Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan!
The One Take Super 8 Event, Screenings, Artist Talks, Expanded Cinema
Internationally acclaimed Canadian Indigenous artist Kent Monkman has received acclaim for his satirical and controversial works in painting, film/video and installation. Alter ego Miss Chief Share Eagle Testickle appears within his paintings, as well as in his performances and video pieces. Kent will introduce his short works in Intervening the Image at the Winnipeg Art Gallery at 2 pm on Sunday, Oct. 8th with a keynote lecture at 3:30 pm. Now based in Toronto, Kent Monkman is of Cree and Irish ancestry and a member of the Fish River band situated in Northern Manitoba. A special presentation with the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Decolonizing Lens and the Winnipeg Film Group!
The five day WNDX Festival kicks off Wednesday, Oct 4 at 7 pm@ Cinematheque with Picture Plane – an outstanding collection of new shorts including works from Nigeria (Michel Klöfkorn) Portugal (Tânia Dinis) Winnipeg (Jaz Papadopoulos) and new work from acclaimed former Winnipeg director Isiah Medina (idizwadidiz).
Playing throughout the week WNDX presents a riveting selection of several programs of experimental film and video premieres – including premieres of new works from Winnipeg artists Matthew Rankin (The Tesla World Light) Conor Sweeney and Milo Mitrovic (homer_a) – both films just premiered to great acclaim at 2017 Toronto International Film Festival – and filmmakers and artists from around the world.
More Highlights:
• At Pelican Falls (September 8 – October 21st, Platform Gallery)
• Reception: October 4 / 9 – 10 PM in Platform Gallery.
In early July of 2017, artists Scott Benesiinaabandan, Florene Belmore and Rebecca Belmore spent a week together in Sioux Lookout, Ontario where the artist’s extended families are connected to this place and history. Referencing a photo from 1955 by John Macfie from the Ontario Archives they visited the old Pelican Falls residential school grounds to explore the territory and its importance. The resulting works articulate the visit and its significance in the dialogue between the artists.
A special partnership with PLATFORM and URBAN SHAMAN GALLERY.
• The 12th Annual One Take Super 8 Event (Sunday October 8, 7 pm @ The Rachel Browne Theatre, 211 Bannatyne) The ever-popular One Take Super 8 is one of the most exciting film events in the festival. This year for the first time the program includes 50% of new works by women filmmakers. All filmmakers who sign up (over 30 this year) are given a three minute roll of film which they must shoot and send away for processing without seeing or editing the results of their film until the night of the premiere. Many of these films have won awards and screened at festivals around the world.
• Dance Magic Dance (Friday, October 6 @ 9 pm / Cinematheque) An incredible audio visual dance party with new works from Croatia, United Kingdom, Montreal concluding with explosive new projector performances by two of Winnipeg’s finest 16mm projection artists Aaron Zeghers and Scott Fitzpatrick – Everything Turns and Second Star!
• A Night of Very Informative Presentations – on Thursday, October 5, 9 pm @ Cinematheque) – Two of Winnipeg’s finest comedic artists Ray Fenwick and Alex Ateah each present two new comedic audio visual performance art works – Ray Frenwick’s How To Talk With Plants and Comedy What is it ? from comedic genious Alex Ateah.
• Prairie Animation – Saturday, October 7 at 9 pm @ Cinematheque. One of the most ambitious selections of great prairie animation from over 50 years including rare early works by the legendary John Paizs, dancer and video artist Freya Bjorg Olafson, Jackie Traverse, Patrick Lowe, Victoria Prince, Nicole Shimonek, Leslie Supnet, Heidi Phillips, Sobey Art Award winner Daniel Barrow and Sheldon Shindruk!
Tickets and Passes available now!
