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 Monthly Viewing: February 2009 ScreeningSunday 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: RecollectionsThursday 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 2008Wednesday 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 ProgramThursday 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 2008Saturday 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 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 |