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 co-presents “Redacting Bodies: Local Shorts Program” at Images FestivalThursday 19 April 2018 –Stroke by Wang Weibin LIFT co-presents Redacting Bodies: Local Shorts Program at the 2018 Images Festival Co-presented in partnership with Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), MANO-RAMO and the8fest Curated by Alexandra Gelis If redaction is a process of editing documents, in which the removal of sensitive information is typically r”… more |
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LIFT co-presents “FROM A TO Z ” – Screening and Exhibition in ViennaFriday 20 April 2018 –Poster by Madi Piller and Daniel Browne The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) co-presents FROM A TO Z Film screening and Exhibition in Vienna April 20, 2018 Screening at Blickle Kino at Belvedere21 7pm – 9pm Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Wien April 21, 2018 Exhibit at Setzkasten and Zwischendecke 7pm Hernalser Hauptstraße 29/4 and 31, 117″… more |
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LIFT co-presents “Toronto: Back and Forth” at Society for Cinema and Media StudiesThursday 15 March 2018 –The Big Adventure by Colin Strayer Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ (SCMS) 2018 Conference York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, SCMS’ CinemArts Scholarly Interest Group and Experimental Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group, York University’s Graduate Film Student Association, The City Institute at York Univ”… more |
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LIFT co-presents “It’s All Fun & Games Until Somebody Breaks a Rule” program at the 8 FestFriday 26 January 2018 –Disney Attraction Highlights Nº 1 by Stanley Sunday a.k.a. David Domingo a.k.a. Davidson LIFT co-presents at the 8 Fest 2018 It’s All Fun & Games Until Somebody Breaks a Rule Curated by Cameron Moneo The works in this programme demonstrate the humour that often arises when we play together—and when we don’t abide by the rules. From spontaneous”… more |
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LIFT Debuts Films from Artist Commission: The Madvo CollectionTuesday 23 January 2018 –3 Dreams of Horses by Mike Hoolboom LIFT DEBUTS EIGHT COMMISSIONED FILMS MADE FROM THE MADVO COLLECTION Toronto, January 12, 2018—In 2014, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto received a donation of a 200-reel collection of the films and outtakes of local documentary filmmaker Jacques Madvo. Madvo travelled the world from the 1960s to t”… more |
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Winter 2018 Studio Immersion Program – Presentation with Sally Walker-HudeckiThursday 11 January 2018 –WINTER 2018 STUDIO IMMERSION PROGRAM PRESENTATION WITH SALLY WALKER-HUDECKI Join us for a free public presentation with artist Sally Walker-Hudecki, related to her residency for the LIFT and PIX FILM Winter 2018 Studio Immersion program. Sally will demonstrate her CineVinyl Record-Jector (her protoype record player / Super 8mm film projector), desc”… more |
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LIFT co-presents “German Competition/Deutscher Wettbewerb From the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen”Friday 15 December 2017 –German Competition / Deutscher Wettbewerb from the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Presented by the PIX FILM Gallery, in co-presentation with the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) History, Migration, architecture, the National Socialist Underground: The works from the 2017 German Competition presented in this program,”… more |
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Fall 2017 Studio Immersion Program – 80 seconds in TorontoWednesday 29 November 2017 –FALL 2017 STUDIO IMMERSION PROGRAM EXHIBITION – “80 SECONDS IN TORONTO” Opening reception: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm Open daily: November 30 – December 4, 2017 from 12noon to 7:00pm 80 seconds in Toronto is a studio exhibition by Andreas Wutz, which includes a mixed media installation of 16mm film, 35mm slides, text footage,”… more |
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Fall 2017 Studio Immersion Program – Namuhla yisikhathi esadlulayo / Today is a long time agoWednesday 22 November 2017 –FALL 2017 STUDIO IMMERSION PROGRAM NAMUHLA YISIKHATHI ESADLULAYO / TODAY IS A LONG TIME AGO A talk by Andreas Wutz Join us as Andreas Wutz talks about his recent solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. The project is based on a long-term research in national and private archives in Zimbabwe, field researches on original locations, and”… more |
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LIFT co-presents “Been Here So Long” at Reel AsianFriday 10 November 2017 –Our Origin Is Interconnection by Althea Balmes LIFT co-presents the “Been Here So Long” program at the 2017 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 2017 marks the 150th year of the Confederation of Canada. With funding from the Ontario150 program and in partnership with Vtape, Reel Asian asked various young artists to rework and reimagine ar”… more |