Screenings and Exhibitions
LIFT presents occasional screenings and exhibitions of work in Toronto and beyond. We also regularly co-present screenings and exhibitions with other organizations to support an engaged and rigorous media-arts ecology. We can assist hundreds of films each year but without venues and distributors to help them reach the public this work doesn’t have the life it deserves. We our fortunate to live in a city with over 100 film festivals each year, numerous year round programmers and dozens of galleries showing media arts.
For inquiries regarding presentation and co-presentation opportunities please contact us.
LIFT and Images Festival 2010 Co-presentation: ONE TAKE SUPER 8Wednesday 7 April 2010 –The Images Festival is proud to host the first Toronto edition of the One Take Super 8 Event (OTS8)! Founded by Alex Rogalski in Regina, Saskatchewan in 2000, OTS8 promotes small gauge film production and exhibition across Canada and the United States. Having spawned over 500 films to date, the event continues to grow each year. The Images Festival”… more |
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Strategies of the Medium V: GO BIG OR GO HOME – Screening and Panel DiscussionSaturday 27 February 2010 –This installment of the “Strategies of the Medium” series is dedicated to artist film in 35mm. Often perceived as an inaccessible format and/or one geared towards industry uses, there is a growing circle of DIY filmmakers from around the world using 35mm in affordable, creative and unexpected ways. This screening explores the diversity of their pra”… more |
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John F. Phillips Memorial Screening February 2010Tuesday 9 February 2010 –A film screening in memory of photographer and cinematographer John F.Phillips (1945-2010). John donated his darkroom photography materials to LIFT before his passing and he was the father of LIFT member Bennett Jones-Phillips. In the late 1960’s John taught photography and filmmaking at a free school for urban high school dropouts called Point Bla”… more |
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LIFT Co-presentation “Sense of Wonder” and Best Film Award at Reel Asian 2009 FestivalFriday 13 November 2009 –LIFT and Fujifilm are happy to co-present the LIFT and Fuji best Film Award at the 2009 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival: All films made by GTA-based artists are eligible. $280 in LIFT membership dues and services. $500 credit towards LIFT workshops and/or equipment. 2,400 feet of Fuji 16mm 64D film. Check out http://www.reelasia”… more |
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Strategies of the Medium IV: 27 Seconds – The BolexSaturday 21 November 2009 –This fourth installment of the Strategies of the Medium series will focus on international works that use the limitations and flexibility of the spring wound Bolex camera as a structural element of composition. The Bolex cameras are perhaps the most accessible and flexible 16mm and Super 16 production tools. Both locally and internatio”… more |
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LIFT Co-presentation at imagineNATIVE 2009 – NON COMPLIANCEThursday 15 October 2009 –Co-presented with LIFT and the Images FestivalFeaturing: Soldier Toys – 2008, Canada, 1 min, Beta SP, World PremiereDirector: Christiana LathamDrumming out a poignant message, this film’s painterly construction leaves the viewer with traces of imagery that lingers not only in the cornea but also in the mind. Co-presented wit”… more |
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NIGHT EQUALS DAY, 2008/2009 at Nuit BlancheSaturday 3 October 2009 –Originated as part of LIFT’s “Cinema and Disjunction” commissioned project by Adrian Blackwell Film InstallationFilmed in Regent Park from sunrise to sunset on October fourth 2008, “Night Equals Day” is being projected in City Hall’s council chambers from sunset to sunrise one year later. Originated as part of LIFT’s “Cinema and Disjunct”… more |
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LIFT and Toronto Palestine Film Festival co-present: Shorts ProgrammeWednesday 30 September 2009 –Toronto Palestine Film Festival – Non-Stereotypical Cinema from Palestine – TPFF WSFF and LIFT presents a programme of shorts: ARAFAT & I – Mahdi Fleifel | 2008 | 15 min | Fiction | UK | Canadian PremiereA comedy about Marwan, a Palestinian in love, and Lisa, the girl he’s going to marry. He thinks everything about her is perfect -“… more |
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LIFT Cinema and Disjunction at EXIS2009 Festival in Seoul, KoreaSaturday 12 September 2009 –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” are being screened in Korea as part of EXiS2009 (Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul). These two silent 35mm architectural films form the initial parts of the”… more |
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Strategies of the Medium III: In The Dark – Alex MacKenzie in PersonSaturday 10 October 2009 –PERFOMATIVE SCREENING: IN THE DARK – “the wooden lightbox: a secret art of seeing”Cinematic live performance by Alex MacKenzie – Co-presented with Pleasure DomeIn this performative screening, LIFT continues with its medium-specific programming series to explore work produced through chemical manipulation in the lab. Alex MacKenzie’s “the wood”… more |