video drive-in

Don’t miss this annual outdoor screening of  contemporary video and film, this year in a new location: 9:30pm on Thursday July 28 at the Sackville Band Stand on Main Street.

Featuring films and videos by:

Jennifer Bélanger
Jon Claytor
Marlene Creates & Elizabeth Zetlin
Ilse Kramer
Valerie LeBlanc
Jenna Marks
Graeme Patterson
Liz Solo
Laura Stewart
Angela Thibodeau
Tara K. Wells

Waiting for Ignacio (2:47)  Graeme Patterson

An experimental stop-motion animation created during a residency/collaboration at the Drake Hotel in Toronto with Uruguayan painter Ignacio Itturia.

We Are Snow (4:11) Jon Claytor

Inspired by a line from Giles Vigneault classic French Canadian song  Mon Pays , “Mon pays ce n’est pas un pays, c’est l’hiver (My country isn’t a country, it’s winter)”  and a fascination with repetition in nature, weather, relationships and thoughts this short video tells the story of two people destined to repeat their actions in the search for something new.  They are snow.   Falling, melting, falling, melting, year after year.

River of Rain (6:44) Marlene Creates & Elizabeth Zetlin

A record-breaking rainstorm inundates the Blast Hole Pond River in Newfoundland and leads environmental artist and poet Marlene Creates to follow the Earth’s water cycle – from the rain to the land to the pond to the river to the sea to the clouds and to the rain again. Along the way we see, hear, and almost smell the torrent. We also learn the artist’s thoughts, including her memories of things other people have said. The video-poem conveys the ability of human consciousness to be in two places at once by interweaving her involuntary thoughts with the perceptual attributes of the river itself. A concluding montage gestures towards the relationship between language and landscape. The human voice – starting with meaning and ending with murmur – replaces the sound of the river.

Paper Moon, Cardboard Sea (1:20) Valerie LeBlanc

What lies beneath is obscured from the eyes and memory but never erased.  The race to find H2O on the moon has less to do with discovery, and more to do with the burn and lay waste policy wiping out this planet’s ecosystems.

Dancing in the Don Valley (:39) Ilse Kramer

although climbing is not normally associated with dancing, this video proves
that the two are not only not mutually exclusive, but entirely congruent. imagine a soundtrack that would be appropriate. would it be a polka? a waltz? a
merengue? a rock song? perhaps the sonic equivalent of a haiku…it was once said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. perhaps this is a response to that; a songless dance. produced with the assistance of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT).

Reforestation (2:01) Laura Stewart

A man, fed up with everyday life ventures into the forest to find something new.

3 Scénarios (10:27) Jennifer Bélanger

They eat garbage. They are loud. They loiter. They are dirty and they don’t pay rent. Jennifer has had enough and decides to do something about it.

Mon contouais (2:49) Angela Thibodeau

Through text and image, a husband and wife debate the importance of thier kitchen counter. Part of the Le Logis series of videos exploring a century old Acadian house in Nova Scotia.

Picture You (3:00) Jenna Marks

“Picture You” is a film I made in order to progress my relationship with my Grandfather. He is 92 and I am just realizing now as I get older that I only know one side of him. I feel disconnected not only from his past but my past as well. This project explores the stories of his history and my struggle to relate to them through my imagination.

Pinocchio & the Cricket (9:30) Tara K. Wells

Pinocchio & the Cricket interweaves four interpretations of the relationship between these two well-known characters into an animated operetta in which the cricket takes on four very different roles, while an often bewildered Pinocchio struggles with his own existence.

Nature (3:12) Liz Solo

“Nature” is one of a series of experimental videos that merge analog and digital video with machinima (machine generated animation). The series explores the retrieval and reclamation of memories from a post apocalyptic landscape. Created and edited by Liz Solo. The song “Nature” by the Lizband from their self titled album, recorded and mixed by Ron Anonsen.