Media City Film Festival

20th Edition Media City Film Festival

Opening Night at MOCAD: Alvin Lucier • Charles Curtis • Bruce McClure

Media City Film Festival & MOCAD present: Music of Alvin Lucier with Charles Curtis 16mm projector performance by Bruce McClure Admission: $US 5 (free for MOCAD members and Media City passholders) Performing will be the American composer Alvin Lucier, who uses electronic devices such as tape recorders and oscillators to explore the characteristics of sound […]

Media City Film Festival’s 20th Anniversary Opening Party!

Meet, mingle and have a drink with fellow festival goers at the Capitol Theatre. This event is FREE, open to the media and general public, with guest filmmakers, curators and critics attending from around the world. Opening remarks from festival founders, an introduction to the 20th anniversary Competition Jury members, and appearances by other special […]

Henry Hills Retrospective: Kino Da!

Henry Hills Retrospective screening with the artist “Henry Hills is a polymath, drawing in ideas from multiple disciplines… the avant-jazz and neo-art music of John Zorn, Elliott Sharp and Zeena Parkins, cut-up audio-workers like John Oswald and Christian Marclay, as well as the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, all of whom share with Hills an obsession with micro-syntax, […]

MCFF International Competition Program 1

Renaissance Center / GM Tower Artist: Nicky Hamlyn Country: England Format: 16mm Duration: 4 min Year: 2012 Made while Hamlyn was artist-in-residence at Media City and the Art Gallery of Windsor in spring, 2012, and first shown at the festival the same year. A time-lapse film shot from the third floor of the AGW, at […]

MCFF Regional Artists Program

Slit Me a River Artist: Christine Negus City: London Format: HD Duration: 5 min Year: 2013 A tale of Bubbly Creek, a section of the Chicago River that was once polluted with animal entrails. To Avoid Falling Artist: Owen Eric Wood City: Windsor Format: HD Duration: 4 min Year: 2013 A unique process of re-projection […]

MCFF International Competition Program 2

Toros Artist: Robert Fenz Country: USA Format: 35mm Duration: 4 min Year: 2014 Shot in Spain in 2013; part of a three-film suite also including Toros – Window (screening in International Program 4). Robert Fenz (Ann Arbor MI 1969). Studies at Bard College and CalArts. 12+ films since 1992; screenings at two Whitney Biennials (New […]

MCFF International Competition Program 3

Blight Artist: John Smith Country: England Format: 16mm > HD Duration: 16 min Year: 1996 The building of the M11 Link Road in East London, using images and sounds of demolition and road building in conjunction with the spoken words of local residents. Made in collaboration with the composer Jocelyn Pook. John Smith (London, England […]

Canadian Artists’ Program

Lunar Almanac Artist: Malena Szlam City: Montréal Format: 16mm Duration: 5 min Year: 2013 Moons in a journey through magnetic spheres, influencing subtle energies on Earth. Malena Szlam (Santiago, Chile 1979). Studies at Universidad de Artes y Ciencias Sociales and Concordia University. 15 films and media installations since 2000; screenings at Jihlava International Documentary Film […]

MCFF International Competition Program 4

NOTICE: Due to scheduling complications, we have been required to switch the placement of International Program 4 (Fri Jun 11, 7:30 pm) and International Program 6 (Sat June 12, 6:00 pm) from their original time-slots listed in the festival printed catalogue. The schedule given here is correct; apologies for any inconvenience. A Study in Natural […]

MCFF International Competition Program 5

Gradual Speed Artist: Els Van Riel Country: Belgium Format: 16mm Duration: 52 min Year: 2013 “Carefully positioned, the camera begins on a single frame, the shutter held open, and then is imperceptibly increased in speed, quickening the frame rate and thus changing the exposure time for each successive frame, which slowly produces a visible moving […]

MCFF International Competition Program 6

Toros – Window Artist: Robert Fenz Country: USA Format: 35mm Duration: 1 min Year: 2014 Shot in Spain in 2013; part of a three-film suite also including Toros (screened in International Program 2). Robert Fenz (Ann Arbor MI 1969). Studies at Bard College and CalArts. 12+ films since 1992; screenings at two Whitney Biennials (New […]

MCFF International Competition Program 7

Narcissi Artist: Shiloh Cinquemani Country: USA Format: 16mm Duration: 3 min Year: 2013 A Berlin spring still life. Shiloh Cinquemani (Boca Raton FL 1985). Studies at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. 13 films since 2009; screenings at the Harvard Film Archive, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Vienna International Film […]

MCFF International Competition Program 8

The Paris Poetry Circle Artist: Friedl vom Gröller Country: Austria Format: 16mm Duration: 8 min Year: 2013 It is because the nightingale Sang all night long; From her sweet noise, In echo and re-echo, The roses have sprung up. — Die Nachtigall, Theodor Storm, 1885 Friedl vom Gröller (London, England 1946). Studies at Graphic Instruction […]

MCFF International Competition Jury

Haden Guest (USA) is a film historian, curator and Director of the Harvard Film Archive, overseeing its cinematheque, collections and preservation program. A specialist in post-war avant-garde cinema, he is curating an expansive Gregory Markopoulos retrospective at the HFA later this year as well as the ongoing “Cinema Dialogues – Harvard at the Gulbenkian” series […]

20th Edition Media City Film Festival Catalogue

International Program 2

Wayward Fronds Artist: Fern Silva Country: USA Format: 16mm Duration: 13 min Year: 2014 Mermaids flip a tale of twin detriments, domiciles cradle morph invaders, crocodile trails swallow two-legged twigs in a fecund mash of nature’s outlaws. Wayward Fronds references a series of historical events that helped shape the Florida Everglades as they are today, while […]