Screenings and Exhibitions

LIFT Monthly Viewing: February 2009 Screening Sunday 22 February 2009 – The LIFT monthly viewing is a new social event intended to get LIFT members talking about diverse approaches to filmmaking. During the workshop season, the last Sunday of each month will be devoted to screening and discussing a selection of work from the library of the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) and elsewhere. This is an excell”… more

LIFT Co-Presentation at Reel Asian: Recollections Thursday 13 November 2008 – RECOLLECTIONSReel Asian Youth ProgrammePresenting Sponsor: Canwest, Community Partner: LIFT Youth Shorts PresentationThursday, November 13, 20081:00 PMNFB Cinema, 150 John Street (at Richmond St W) Focusing on lovely familiar moments as well as personal hardships, four  filmmakers explore the uncertainties of memory using tangible “a”… more

LIFT Co-Presentation at Regent Park “Night Equals Day” November 2008 Wednesday 5 November 2008 – Regent Park Film and Video Festival – OUTDOOR PROJECTIONSOutdoor night film and video installations projected on Regent Park buildings by Jason J. Brown and Adrian Blackwell will be on display throughout the festival.  Regent Park Film and Video Festival – OUTDOOR PROJECTIONSOutdoor night film and video installations projected on Regent Park b”… more

LIFT Co-Presentation at imagineNATIVE: Into The Look Glass – Experimental Shorts Program Thursday 16 October 2008 –  Into The Look Glass – Experimental Shorts ProgramCo-Presented by LIFT Name that Movie, Jenny Fraser (DigiBeta, 10 min, 2007, Australia)Based on cues and excerpts from popular films, this interactive trivia game invites the audience to “name that movie”, while deconstructing nine colonization techniques through the lens of mainstream cinema.”… more

LIFT’s Ward’s Island 2008 BBQ and Screening – July 2008 Saturday 12 July 2008 – LIFT’S ANNUAL WARD’S ISLAND SCREENING & PICNIC Top up your tan in good company! Don’t miss LIFT’s Annual Ward’s Island Picnic and Screening! LIFT’S ANNUAL WARD’S ISLAND SCREENING & PICNIC Top up your tan in good company! Don’t miss LIFT’s Annual Ward’s Island Picnic and Screening!IMPORTANT emergency community meeting to organize f”… more

LIFT Workshop Screening and Film Jam – June 2008 Tuesday 10 June 2008 – As LIFT’s Spring-Summer workshop calendar gets underway, here’s your chance to see what the Fall and Winter classes got up to.   As LIFT’s Spring-Summer workshop calendar gets underway, here’s your chance to see what the Fall and Winter classes got up to.   For the first time ever, LIFT gathers all our recent completed workshop films for”… more

LIFT Co-Presentation at Inside Out: DEREK – May 2008 Friday 23 May 2008 –  Inside Out Toronto Lesbian And Gay Film And Video Festival PresentsDEREK – Co-Presented with LIFT (Isaac Julien, 2008, England) Toronto Premiere  Inside Out Toronto Lesbian And Gay Film And Video Festival PresentsDEREK – Co-Presented with LIFT (Isaac Julien, 2008, England) Toronto PremiereAt the core of this documentary portrait of Derek”… more

LIFT Co-Presentation at Images: Ruptures Restructured – April 2008 Saturday 5 April 2008 – INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM II“RUPTURES RESTRUCTURED”Co-presented with LIFTLight Work Mood Disorder, Jennifer Reeves (16mm, 28 min, 2007, USA) INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM II“RUPTURES RESTRUCTURED”Co-presented with LIFTLight Work Mood Disorder, Jennifer Reeves (16mm, 28 min, 2007, USA)Made in collaboration with musician Anthony Burr, Light Work Mo”… more

LIFT Co-presents TAIS show: Frederic Back – MARCH 2008 Saturday 15 March 2008 –    The Toronto Animated Image Society is proud to present: Frederic Back: Drawing Life Master animator, Oscar-winner, environmental activist.  TAIS will be presenting a program of 80 minutes of 35mm film prints: All Nothing Crac! The Mighty River The Man Who Planted Trees   Also for the first time in Toronto, an exhibit of Frede”… more

Co-Presentation with Reel Asian: POWER PLAY, November 2007 Thursday 15 November 2007 – Toronto REEL ASIAN International Film Festival Trinity Square Video and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of  Toronto co-present:   POWER PLAY Toronto REEL ASIAN International Film Festival Trinity Square Video and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of  Toronto co-present:   POWER PLAY Canadian Presentation Thursday, Nove”… more

Abstracted in Image and Sound: Films by Hangjun Lee Wednesday 17 November 2010 –   “The films of Lee Hangjun challenge the viewer to materialize a concept rather than conceptualize material.”   “The films of Lee Hangjun challenge the viewer to materialize a concept rather than conceptualize material.” —Kim Gok (South Korean filmmaker)  Coming near the end of his month-long production residency at the Li”… more

LIFT’s Cinema and Disjunction in Vancouver Monday 9 February 2009 –        This Vancouver premiere screening of Adrian Blackwell’s Night Equals Day and Daniel Young and Christian Giroux’s Every Building, Or Site, That a Building Permit Has Been Issued for a New Building in Toronto in 2006 bring two recent structural approaches to urban development in Toronto to the West. These two new silent 35m”… more

LIFT Co-Presentation at Reel Asian: RECOLLECTIONS Thursday 13 November 2008 – (LIFT) Co-Presentation at Reel Asian: RECOLLECTIONS RECOLLECTIONS Reel Asian Youth Programme Presenting Sponsor: Canwest Community Partner: LIFT Youth Shorts Presentation   (LIFT) Co-Presentation at Reel Asian: RECOLLECTIONS RECOLLECTIONS Reel Asian Youth Programme Presenting Sponsor: Canwest Community Partner: LIFT Youth Shorts Presentation”… more

ROBERTO ARIGANELLO: A Retrospective and Tribute Friday 7 November 2008 –   Presented by Available Light Screening CollectiveLONG LIVE THE SHORT FILMS OF ROBERTO ARIGANELLO: A Retrospective & Tribute    Presented by Available Light Screening CollectiveLONG LIVE THE SHORT FILMS OF ROBERTO ARIGANELLO: A Retrospective & Tribute  Curated by James Missen for the Available Light Screening”… more

LIFT and Cinematheque Ontario: CINEMA AND DISJUNCTION Monday 27 October 2008 –  The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and Cinematheque Ontario are pleased to present Adrian Blackwell’s Night Equals Day and Daniel Young and Christian Giroux’s Every Building, Or Site, That a Building Permit Has Been Issued for a New Building in Toronto in 2006. These two new 35mm architectural films form the initial parts”… more

LIFT Workshop Screening and Film Jam Tuesday 10 June 2008 – LIFT WORKSHOP SCREENING AND FILM JAM Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Door at 8:00PM The Cameron House, Back Room 408 Queen Street West (just West of Spadina Avenue)  As LIFT’s Spring-Summer workshop calendar gets underway, here’s your chance to see what the Fall and Winter classes got up to. For the first time ever, LIFT gathers all our recent complete”… more

14th Annual National Salon Des Refuses 2007 Sunday 9 September 2007 – The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents The 14th Annual National Salon des Refuses   The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents The 14th Annual National Salon des Refuses  Until 1863 the French Academie des Beaux Arts decided which artists received public exhibition. Any work, that strayed fr”… more

(LIFT) LIFT Island Screening and Picnic – July 22 Sunday 22 July 2007 – Please join us on JULY 22, 2007 for LIFT’S ANNUAL WARD’S ISLAND SCREENING & PICNIC  Top up your tan in good company! Don’t miss LIFT’s Annual Ward’s Island Picnic and Screening! Featuring games, food, suds, and good times in good company.  This is also a great opportunity to meet LIFT’s incoming Director of Operations, Ben Donoghue, w”… more

(LIFT) Artist-in-Residence Screening: Nicky Hamlyn Films and Phenomena Friday 27 July 2007 – LIFT and Pleasure Dome Present:Nicky Hamlyn Films and PhenomenaArtist in attendance  LIFT and Pleasure Dome Present:Nicky Hamlyn Films and PhenomenaArtist in attendance Witness an evening of films by British avant-garde filmmaker and LIFT artist in residence Nicky Hamlyn. Hamlyn’s mostly silent films are concentrated, focused on the relat”… more

Generations: True Patriot Love Sunday 1 July 2007 – GENERATIONS: TRUE PATRIOT LOVE is a two-part programme of films and videos that celebrates Canada’s 140th birthday. This programme illustrates the history of Canadian independent cinema and its legacy taken up in works of the present and the future generations of Canadian filmmakers and media artists. GENERATIONS: TRUE PATRIOT LOVE is a two-part pr”… more