The Free Screen - Fall 2012

The Free Screen - Fall 2012

The Free Screen - Fall 2012

The Free Screen - Fall 2012

The Free Screen - Fall 2012

TIFF Cinematheque - Free Screen

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This season, our ongoing series devoted to avant-garde and experimental film and video works pays tribute to three giants of avant-garde cinema — Jordan Belson, Gregory Markopoulos and Robert Beavers — as well as spotlighting contemporary French multimedia artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and presenting Philippe Grandrieux's poetic portrait of Japanese radical filmmaker Masao Adachi.

Films in The Free Screen - Fall 2012

    • Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane
    • The visually stunning works of this avant-garde cinema pioneer explore states of spiritual transcendence that are translated into a beautifully abstract visual music.

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    • It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve: Masao Adachi
    • Il se peut que la beauté ait renforcé notre résolution — Masao Adachi
    • Philippe Grandieux
    • Filled with gorgeously underlit, nearly narcotic images of a twilit Tokyo, Philippe Grandrieux's portrait of Japanese radical filmmaker Masao Adachi is a hypnotic rumination on the interconnections of art and revolution.

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    • Gregory J. Markopoulos: Through A Lens Brightly
    • This programme of early films by one of the most important figures of the New American Cinema movement shows the development of his increasingly fragmented visual style and unique form of film portraiture.

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    • Robert Beavers: My Hand Outstretched...
    • Recently rediscovered after being out of circulation for decades, the lyrical films of Robert Beavers offer a fascinating dialogue with and counterpoint to the works of his partner and mentor Gregory Markopoulos.

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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 to exploring connections to other art forms. The series juxtaposes work that is both contemporary and historical, local and international, in order to continue asking that fundamental question: "What is Cinema?"

—Chris Kennedy

The Free Screen is always free.

Tickets are available at the Gupta Box Office on day of screening.

We wish to thank the following for making this edition of The Free Screen possible: Aram Siu Wai Collier, Reel Asian Film Festival; Ben Donoghue, LIFT; Cindy Keefer, Center for Visual Music; Kate MacKay, Images Festival; Claire Le Masne, Consulat Général de France à Toronto; Madi Piller, Toronto Animated Images Society; Lisa Steele, Vtape; Cheyanne Turions, No Reading After the Internet; Christophe Wiesner, Esther Schipper Gallery; Chi-hui Yang.