Media City Film Festival

Opening Night at MOCAD

Matana Roberts presents Coin Coin Chapter Three Malcolm Le Grice: 16mm projector performances + rhythms on records with DJ Ephraim Asili Admission: $US 5 (free for MOCAD members and Media City passholders) Matana Roberts (New York) is an internationally renowned composer, band leader, saxophonist and sound experimentalist. She visits MOCAD for Media City’s opening night […]

Opening Reception

MEDIA CITY 21 OPENING PARTY Meet, mingle and have a drink and hors d’oeuvres with fellow festival-goers at the Capitol Theatre. This event is FREE, open to the media and public, with guest filmmakers, curators and critics attending from around the world. Opening remarks from festival organizers and others and an introduction to the 21st […]

Where Did Our Love Go? Films of Warren Sonbert

Where Did Our Love Go? Films of Warren Sonbert The US filmmaker Warren Sonbert (1947-1995) has been called “the supreme Romantic diarist of the cinema” (Wheeler Winston Dixon). Twenty years after his untimely passing, this program re-introduces four of Sonbert’s films made between 1966 and 1992, curated with and introduced by Jeremy Rossen, Assistant Curator […]

International Program 1

Occidente Artist: Ana Vaz Country: Brazil Format: 16mm Duration: 15 min Year: 2014 Antiques become reproducible dinner sets, exotic birds become luxury currency, exploration becomes extreme-sport tourism, monuments become geodata. A film-poem of an ecology of signs tracing a colonial history repeating itself: objects and fetishes, roots and branches, celebration and power relations in a struggle to […]

Regional Artists Program

You Are Now Wearing a Ship’s Shadow Artist: Jason Sudak City: Hamtramck Format: HD Duration: 5 min Year: 2015 * You now utilize the unlimited powers of your mind to enhance your creative ability. * Feel the elation, the wonderful feeling of having accomplished your goal. Rush Artist: Matt Rossoni City: London Format: HD Duration: 10 min Year: […]

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 […]

International Program 3

Embargo Artist: Johann Lurf Country: Austria Format: HD Duration: 10 min Year: 2014 “Industrial containers and façades, bathed in floodlights and displaying bits of writing here and there, are turned into uncanny spaces carrying enigmatic inscriptions. Embargo’s montage arranges its views in an all-encompassing play of forces that problematize movement. An image to be read in […]

International Program 4

A Set of Miniatures Artist: Jonathan Schwartz Country: USA Format: 16mm Duration: 9 min Year: 2014 A suite of three short films: A Kind of Quiet is a place between ascending and descending. You make it hard to land and when this happens something else might disappear. An Aging Process is located in the peonies and in […]

International Program 5

Three Quarters Artist: Kevin J. Everson Country: USA Format: 16mm > HD Duration: 4 min Year: 2015 Two magicians practice their sleight-of-hand tricks with cards, cotton and coins. Kevin J. Everson (Mansfield OH 1965). Studies at University of Akron and Ohio University. 80+ films since 1997; screenings at Centre Pompidou (Paris), Museum of Modern Art (New York), […]

Malcolm Le Grice: In the Cinema

Malcolm Le Grice: In the Cinema The English filmmaker Malcolm Le Grice is known for an extensive and influential filmography of single- and multiple-projection films and performed cinema dating to the mid-1960s . His practical and theoretical contributions to British avant-garde film are major, both through his role in forming the London Filmmaker’s Co-op and through his critical writing in books such […]

International Program 6

Haircut (No. 1) Artist: Andy Warhol Country: USA Format: 16mm Duration: 27 min Year: 1963 “The opening frames present three men… In the middle distance is a dark young man with dark hair… Nearer the camera is another man with a faintly more WASP look. Nearest the camera is a very nasty looking type posing without […]

International Program 7

Things Artist: Ben Rivers Country: England Format: 16mm Duration: 21 min Year: 2014 A travelogue in which the filmmaker leads the viewer through a tour of the four seasons — without ever once setting foot across his doorstep. Focusing on unexplored things inside his own four walls, the film is a year-long journey through domestic surroundings, and […]

Jury and Awards

COMPETITION JURY Lauren Howes (Canada) is Executive Director of CFMDC in Toronto. She was previously Distribution Manager of Video Out in Vancouver. She is on the Board of Directors at the Toronto Arts Council and was the founding Chairperson on the Board of the Media Arts Network of Ontario. She has curated and presented […]