The Free Screen - Summer 2012

The Free Screen - Summer 2012

The Free Screen - Summer 2012

The Free Screen - Summer 2012

The Free Screen - Summer 2012

The Free Screen - Summer 2012

The Free Screen - Summer 2012

The Free Screen - Summer 2012

The Free Screen - Summer 2012

The Free Screen - Summer 2012

The Free Screen - Summer 2012

The Free Screen - Summer 2012

The Free Screen - Summer 2012

The Free Screen - Summer 2012

The Free Screen - Summer 2012

The Free Screen - Summer 2012

The Free Screen - Summer 2012

TIFF Cinematheque - Free Screen

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TIFF Cinematheque's popular, long-running free showcase of experimental film and video art presents four fascinating programmes of both pioneering avant-garde classics and new works by emerging artists.

Films in The Free Screen - Summer 2012

    • Bruce Baillie's Quixote
    • Avant-garde visionary Bruce Baillie's cross-country canvas of 1960s America anchors this programme of films that examine traditional ways of life vanishing in the frenzy of a tumultuous present.

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    • Liquid Metal
    • The morphing villain of Terminator 2: Judgment Day provides inspiration for this programme of works which explore new digital effects technologies and the range of sensory (and sensual) textures they can create.

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    • Fractured Movement / Constituent Parts
    • Recently restored prints of films by the overlooked 1970s Los Angeles avant-gardist Gary Beydler bookend this programme of films that explore cinema's ability to fracture and re-stitch time.

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    • Jonathan Schwartz: The Skies Can't Keep Their Secrets
    • Six films by the young American experimental filmmaker, who has created a body of short, lyrical 16mm works in the tradition of classic anthropological cinema and such avant-garde forebears as Warren Sonbert and Mark LaPore.

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The Free Screen is a monthly series committed to bringing experimental film and video art, hybrid documentaries, essay films and other personal expressions to a curious and engaged audience. Always "free"-in all senses of the term-it is devoted to supporting work that opens up the possibilities of the cinematic form and exploring its connections to other art forms, juxtaposing work that is both contemporary and historical, local and international, in order to continue asking that fundamental question: "What is Cinema?"

— Chris Kennedy

We wish to thank the following for making this edition of The Free Screen possible: David Dinnell, Ann Arbor Film Festival; Mark Toscano, Academy Film Archive; Jon Davies, The Power Plant.