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.
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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 |
LIFT Workshop Screening and Film JamTuesday 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 2007Sunday 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 22Sunday 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 PhenomenaFriday 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 LoveSunday 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 |
(LIFT) Film is Dead! Long Live Film! at WSFFSunday 17 June 2007 –FILM IS DEAD! LOVE FILM FILM PROGRAM The Worldwide Short Film Festival will be showcasing 17 films from our 25th Anniversary commissioned program FILM IS DEAD! LONG LIVE FILM! This program originally screened at Cinematheque Ontario in November 2006. FILM IS DEAD! LONG LIVE FILM! celebrates film as a dynamic, expressive medium for arti”… more |