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 Workshop Screening and Film Jam – June 2008Tuesday 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 2008Friday 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 2008Saturday 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 |
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LIFT Co-presents TAIS show: Frederic Back – MARCH 2008Saturday 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 2007Thursday 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 |
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Abstracted in Image and Sound: Films by Hangjun LeeWednesday 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 |
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LIFT’s Cinema and Disjunction in VancouverMonday 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: RECOLLECTIONSThursday 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 |
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ROBERTO ARIGANELLO: A Retrospective and TributeFriday 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 |
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LIFT and Cinematheque Ontario: CINEMA AND DISJUNCTIONMonday 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 |