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LIFT announces Vancouver Filmmaker Alex MacKenzie
LIFT ANNOUNCES VANCOUVER-BASED FILMMAKER ALEX MACKENZIEToronto, April 30, 2013—The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) announces that Vancouver-based filmmaker Alex MacKenzie will be coming to Toronto to present his most recent film performance and teach two workshops on Expanded Cinema and Handmade Film Emulsion. He will be in town from May 31 to June 2. Mackenzie’s unique work...
LIFT co-presents Mixed-Shorts: Local Heroes program at Inside Out
LIFT co-presents at the 2013 Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival.Inside Out's annual sold-out celebration of the homo heroes of Hogtown features an eclectic and entertaining mix of emerging and established talent that exemplifies why Toronto the Good remains great when it comes to queer art.Supa Natural by Michael VenusBreaking and Entering by Andrew HullShawn by Mark ZaninLiar by Adam Garnet...
LIFT Office and Store Closed for Victoria Day - May 20
The LIFT office and store will be closed for Victoria Day on Monday, May 20th, 2013. LIFT will reopen on Tuesday, May 21st at 10:00AM.
Expanded Cinema workshop with Alex MacKenzie
Expanded Cinema:Apparatus and MethodologyWorkshop with Alex MacKenzie Enrolment limit: 10 Pre-registration is required.Register by phone with a credit card (416.588.6444) or in person with cash/debit/credit at LIFT during office hours (Monday - Friday, 10am - 6pm). In this workshop, media artist Alex MacKenzie will present a closer look at the original engine of...
Handmade Emulsion workshop with Alex MacKenzie
Handmade Emulsion: Creating Black and White Film Stock From ScratchWorkshop with Alex MacKenzie Enrolment limit: 5 Pre-registration is required.Register by phone with a credit card (416.588.6444) or in person with cash/debit/credit at LIFT during office hours (Monday - Friday, 10am - 6pm). The alchemical nature and serendipity of the handmade image are explored in this...
LIFT and Pleasure Dome co-presents "Intertidal" by Alex MacKenzie
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and Pleasure Domeare pleased to co-present Intertidal: A Film Performance by Alex MacKenzieIn attendance from VancouverPleasure Dome and LIFT are pleased to present Alex MacKenzie’s most recent expanded cinema work Intertidal (55 min., 2012), a 16mm analytic projector performance inspired both by Ed Ricketts, the American...
"Decolonial Aesthetics From The Americas" - NRATI
In conjunction with an upcoming symposium this fall entitled Decolonial Aesthetics From The Americas, a multidisciplinary and collaborative symposium for artists and scholars of the Americas and the Caribbean, this salon will feature texts related to the general framework of the symposium, as selected by the symposium organizers e-fagia and FUSE Magazine, and salon hosts Unpack Studio...
LIFT co-presents "Fighting Cuts" program at Mayworks
LIFT co-presents the Fighting Cuts programat the 2013 Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts Mayworks Festival presents a joint screening of two documentaries that honour artists, activists, and the working poor who oppose government cuts. Q&A will follow with the filmmakers and producers.The Harris ProjectDirected by Marcos Arriaga and Jeff SterneCanada / 15...
LIFT and Images Present the 2013 Tom Berner Award to Deirdre Logue
Sponsored by the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and presented at the Images Festival, the Tom Berner Award commemorates the late Tom Berner, who for many years supported and nurtured Canadian filmmakers. The Tom Berner Award was created in 2002 to honour Tom Berner, who was an extraordinary supporter of independent filmmaking in Toronto and throughout Canada...
LIFT co-presents "Softening" at Hot Docs
LIFT co-presents Softeningat the 2013 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary FestivalFeature film, SofteningDir. Kelly O'Brien Screening with short, Just As I RememberDir. Andrew Moir Saturday April 27 @ 7:30 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 4Monday April 29 @ 4:00 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 When Kelly O’Brien’s second child was born in 2007, she was told he’d
contracted a virus in...
