Media City Film Festival

CHRYSALIS FELLOW BEN RIVERS’ FILM “NOW, AT LAST” ONLINE AT LIGHT INDUSTRY. IN CONVERSATION WITH LAIDA LERTXUNDI

Ben Rivers’s Now, at Last! is screening online at Light Industry April 24 – April 30, 2020 Listen to a conversation between filmmakers Ben Rivers and Laida Lertxund. Link here >> For one week, Light Industry will be streaming Now, at Last! on its Vimeo channel. The screening and discussion are free and more accessible at […]

Sky Hopinka’s MCFF Chrysalis supported film “maɬni” to open the 2020 Images Festival

Sky Hopinka’s Chrysalis Fellowship supported feature film maɬni — towards the ocean, towards the shore will open the 2020 Images Festival. The news headlined today’s programming announcement released by Images. Hopinka’s hybrid documentary recently screened to great acclaimed at Sundance. Read a review about the film’s premiere at Sundance in January 2020 (below). Małni – towards the ocean, […]

Chrysalis Fellow Nazli Dinçel screens with MCFF alumni VALIE EXPORT & Barbara Hammer in Madrid

Chrysalis Fellow Nazli Dinçel screens her film Solitary Acts #4 with MCFF alumni VALIE EXPORT, Barbara Hammer and British artist Sarah Pucill February 27, 2020 in Madrid at Cine Estudio, Círculo de Bellas Artes, as part of programming at LAV (Laboratorio AudioVisual de Creación Y Practica Contemporánea). Syntagma- Valie Export (1983) Milk and glass- Sarah […]

CHRYSALIS SHOWCASE: SOLO SCREENING SCHEDULE. FEBRUARY 14–16, 2020

MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL’S CHRYSALIS SHOWCASE All screenings & events at Mackenzie Hall Cultural Centre: 3277 Sandwich Street. Windsor, Ontario, Canada. February 14-16, 2020. ADMISSION: Pay What You Like / By donation / FREE THERE FOR A WHILE THEN GONE: FILMS OF CHRISTOPHER MCNAMARA • Friday, February 14 at 7 pm: Main Gallery, Mackenzie Hall. […]

DESISTFILM REVIEWS APIYEMIYEKI? BY ANA VAZ

IFFR 2020: APIYEMIYEKI? BY ANA VAZ By Jessica McGoff A river runs through Ana Vaz’s latest work in the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Ammodo Tiger Short Competition. Apiyemiyekî? was commissioned as part of a project designed to act as a space of reflection on the Brazilian military dictatorship that spanned 1964-1985. Vaz’s previous work has been interested […]

SKY HOPINKA & BASMA ALSHARIF AT MOMA

Media City Film Festival Award Winners (and multi-festival alumni) Sky Hopinka (2014) and Basma AlSharif (2013) co-present an evening of their films at MoMA: February 17, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. Details here: https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6404 “For the first time in their flourishing careers as artists and filmmakers, Basma alSharif (Palestinian, resides in Egypt) and Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk […]

Ben Rivers’ new film Look Then Below screen’s as part of IFF Rotterdam’s 2020 Ammodo Tiger Competition

MCFF Chrysalis Fellow, Ben Rivers’ new film Look Then Below screens as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Ammodo Tiger Competition in January and February 2020. Ben Rivers’ films study the otherworldly, looking for places and stories outside the daily conventions of reality. Look Then Below was filmed in a Somerset transformed into a coloured, mist-enveloped […]

2019-2020 CHRYSALIS SHOWCASE

Media City Film Festival is proud to launch the 2019-2020 CHRYSALIS SHOWCASE, presented in partnership with Common Ground Art Gallery and a host of additional grass-roots collaborators in Windsor-Detroit. The CHRYSALIS SHOWCASE takes place February 14, 15, 16, 2020 at Mackenzie Hall Cultural Centre 3277 Sandwich Street in Windsor, ON. The event will feature more […]

SKY HOPINKA: MAŁNI AT TATE MODERN

Preview the artist’s debut feature (and Chrysalis Fellowship supported film) at Tate Modern, January 8, 2020. Artist Sky Hopinka presents a special sneak preview of his soon-to-be-completed feature film małni – towards the ocean, towards the shore. This lyrical film guides viewers along parallel journeys with two protagonists, Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier, as they share […]

Ana Vaz’s Apiyemiyekî? screens at IFF Rotterdam as part of the 2020 Ammodo Tiger Competition.

MCFF Chrysalis Fellow, Ana Vaz’s new film Apiyemiyekî? will screen as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Ammodo Tiger Competition in January and February 2020. Apiyemiyekî? is sewn together from a series of drawings made by the Waimiri-Atroari, an autochthonous people native to the Brazilian Amazon, who were submitted to a number of violent […]

MEDIA CITY LAUNCHES 2019-2020 CHRYSALIS FELLOWSHIP

Media City Film Festival proudly announces the launch of its inaugural Chrysalis Fellowship. The Chrysalis Fellowship is a platform designed to support artists in the production of new films and related experimental forms, supporting adventurous moving image artists from across Canada and around the world. This new program will focus on commission and creation projects, […]