22nd – Media City Film Festival

22nd Edition Media City Film Festival

Opening Night at Detroit Institute of Arts in the Detroit Film Theatre

THE FILMS OF YOKO ONO MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN LIVE PERFORMANCE Celebrate Media City Film Festival’s Opening Night in Detroit with a screening of films by legendary artist Yoko Ono. The program will include selected work from the Fluxfilm catalogue, and Ono’s pioneering films Fly and Freedom (1971). The evening will also include a series of live […]

Free Opening Night Party (Windsor): Kelly Theatre

MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL: OPENING NIGHT PARTY Meet, mingle & 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, and professionals attending from around the world. Opening remarks from announcer Ralph McKay, Christopher McNamara, Arts Council Windsor & Region, […]

The Circle of Time: A Tribute to Artavazd Péléchian

The Circle of Time: A Tribute to Artavazd Péléchian “The films of Armenian-born Artavazd Péléchian are amongst the most stunning documentaries of the postwar Soviet era. Trained in the classrooms of Moscow’s storied cinematography school VGIK, Péléchian began to develop a singular style from his very first films. Unlike many of his more political peers, […]

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 1

Aerial Artist: Margaret Tait Country: Scotland Format: 16mm Duration: 4 min Year: 1974 “The kind of cinema I care about is at the level of poetry—in fact, it has been my life’s work making film poems.” – Margaret Tait Drawing from Tait’s interest in scientific matters, Aerial touches on elemental images: air, water (and snow), […]

REGIONAL ARTISTS’ PROGRAM

Sinter Artist: Gerald McKay City: Detroit Format: S8mm Duration: 3 min Year: 2017 Crystals fall into shifting landscapes while sunlight dances dizzy lines into our eyes. Watch Tower (Parts 1-7) Artist: Charlie Egleston City: London Format: digital Duration: 23 min Year: 2017 Structured in seven parts, each segment considers the impact a transmission beacon relays […]

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2

Há Terra! Artist: Ana Vaz Country: Brazil Format: 16mm > digital Duration: 13 min Year: 2016 “Há Terra! stages a hunt and subverts ethnographic tendencies in order to exhume a history of survival and political resistance in the Brazilian badlands.” – Andréa Picard “Cannibalism. Absorption of the sacred enemy to transform him into a totem. […]

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3

Old Hat Artist: Zach Iannazzi Country: USA Format: 16mm Duration: 9 min Year: 2016 “Fireworks, low sky, open road: the subjects are indeed ‘old hat’, suggesting a filmmaker contemplating both his materials and his influences. Each image seems to offer a door into a different kind of film, but then of course this air of […]

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 4

350 MYA Artist: Terra Long Country: Canada Format: 16mm Duration: 5 min Year: 2016 The Tafilalt region in the Sahara Desert was once the Rheic Ocean. 350 MYA conjures the ocean’s presence in the landscape, deep time in the folds of space. Terra Long (Calgary AB, 1983). Studies at Concordia, and York Universities. Works in […]

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 5

For Christian Artist: Luke Fowler Country: Scotland Format: 16mm Duration: 7 min Year: 2016 For Christian features short extracts from a longer interview which covered a variety of Wolff’s compositional strategies from writing text scores for non-musicians to indeterminacy, cueing and his turn in the 1970s to writing pieces with a consciously progressive content. The […]

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6

BLACK PLUS X Artist: Aldo Tambellini Country: USA / Italy Format: 16mm Duration: 9 min Year: 1966 Tambellini here focuses on contemporary life in a black community. The “X” of Black Plus X, is a filmic device by which a black person is instantaneously turned white by the mere projection of the negative image. The […]

International Competition Jury & Award Ceremony

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY Christina Battle (Canada) is an artist, curator, filmmaker, and organizer. She holds a B.Sc. from the University of Alberta, with specialization in Environmental Biology, and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her films have screened at venues including EXiS (Seoul), Musée d’art moderne André Malraux (Le Havre), Kino Arsenal […]