still from "for the lucky and the strong" by Kim Sheppard
Clint Enns - The Death of Natural Language
The Death of Natural Language is an ascii animation of a plane crashing. The abstracted image mediated by ascii text parallels modern human communication; meaning is often lost or misinterpreted by the process. The music is 'miko' by the beans.
Clint Enns resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba and is currently a masters student in mathematics at the University of Manitoba. His interests include cinema, model theory of rings and modules, natural language as a biological phenomenon and the logical vocabulary of natural language. Clint has been an avid cinephile for many years, and has only recently started making films. He is currently a member of the Winnipeg Film Group and Video Pool.
Clint on vimeo
Kevin Hainey - Alluvium; Dwight Leaves
Kevin Hainey is an independent artist living in Toronto who expresses himself in the mediums of film, literature, music and visual art. He has worked as a professional freelance journalist for magazines such as Eye Weekly, Skyscraper and Exclaim. In 2004, at the age of 24, Hainey self-published his first novel, Thought Preserve, which featured artwork by cartoonist Chester Brown. In 2005 he co-founded the noise-rock band Disguises and started the Inyrdisk micro-label. In 2006 Hainey helped organize Toronto’s massive Bummer In The Summer festival, producing, directing and editing a grass-roots feature-length film to commemorate the event. That year, he also co-founded the psychedelic noise-rock band Cave Dudes. Over time he has written a number of works for stage and screen, recorded with scores of musicians, and directed some short Super 8mm films.
www.kevinhainey.net houses everything you need to know about Kevin Hainey.
Jesse Harris - NO TITLE
Jesse Harris is an artist from Toronto. His work primarily deals with popular language and counterculture.
His video was recorded by bonfire at a country club in Guelph, Ontario. Sound by Karl Skene and the artist.
Matt King - Mountains
Matt King can you please direct me to the lyceum? If I do this, then i can do that. Over here, over there kind of thing. In Toronto, his wallows be gone for time itself. dd/mm/yyyy fingers his butt on sax. Where I am, you can see it in synthetic landscapes constructing ideas to obey. He went grocery shopping and made this video. He other also makes a wooden cloud of dollar stores if kaleidoscopes or brownies until postcards and conventionally convenient...the video. A bookwork of Matts is in the collection of the Toronto Public Library.
Matt's art on blogspot
still from "The Death of Natural Language" by Clint Enns
Sarah Lipstate - Interior Variations
Sarah Lipstate is a Brooklyn-based sound artist and filmmaker. She has performed in Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Army, and as a member of Glenn Branca’s 100 guitar ensemble. In March 2008, Lipstate joined Parts & Labor as their new guitarist.
Last year, Lipstate performed as part of the Underground at the Abrons performance series at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In December, she played at the Un Son Par Là, Music of Today festival in Nîmes, France. She recently performed in the revival of Rhys Chatham and Karole Armitage's Drastic-Classicism as part of the Think Punk! program at The Kitchen in NYC.
Her short films have screened for two consecutive years at SXSW, and earned Lipstate the "Diamond in the Rough Cut" award for exceptional emerging filmmaker at Cinematexas 2006. Her short, "Memory Scars," screened at the Reel Venus Film Festival at Anthology Film Archives in NYC in October 2008.
Sarah's website
Ian MacTilstra - Portrait of the Artist as a Feedback Loop; Tits n Math
Ian MacTilstra has been incorrectly described as "Co-founder and leader of the DUP, Member of Parliament for North Antrim, founder of the Free Presbyterian Church. Controversial and charismatic Protestant leader in Northern Ireland for four decades. Rabidly anti-Catholic." At numerous institutions, he has studied psychology, philosophy, computer science and visual arts. In 2007, he founded The Dustbin, a provisional autonomous territory in Vancouver's Commercial Drive neighbourhood, serving as a mostly unscheduled, nonjuried venue for alternative and emerging work. His art has been shown in North America, the U.K., Europe, Russia, Australia, and Japan.
Jesse Frank Matthews - EMF
From microwaves to cell phones, the invisible and intense charge of electric energy and the field it produces blankets our peripheral environment. EMF addresses this phenomenon through audio (fridge motor) and visual (found footage) manipulation, conveying a sense of awareness of our own insular environments, and then being robbed of that.
Jesse Frank Matthews makes art; sometimes visible, sometimes audible often together and sometimes neither. Graduated from NSCAD in 2007 and showing work periodically while making work constantly.
Jesse on blogspot
and myspace!
Zeesy Powers - X
X was commissioned for a series of short films on the alphabet. It is composed of 192 individual paintings, and is about sex.
Zeesy Powers is an interdisciplinary artist who works with the body, spectacle and theatre. Her work combines painting, animation, puppets, dance and whatever else happens to be at hand, including other people.
Zeesy's site
and on Youtube!
still from "X" by Zeesy Powers
Françoise Provencher - sous le microscope
The images of this animated short were acquired via polarized light microscopy, while the music was elaborated from laboratory sounds, spectroscopic data sonification and instrumental samples. The images were not treated in any way to show the raw beauty of nature that scientists are sometimes confronted with.
Françoise Provencher, Masters of Science in experimental condensed matter physics, is currently studying in Digital Music at Université de Montréal. Her works focus mainly on the interplay of science and art. The soundtrack of Sous le micropscope is a collaboration with the Montreal based French post-rock artist .cut and the pianist Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay.
sous le microscope myspace
Tobias Rochman - The Cosmic Serpent
The Cosmic Serpent is a self-portrait set in space and explores veiled Occult symbolism through the use of iconic images such as golden retrievers, burgers, ak47s, denim and black roses. It was shot on a green screen at Concordia University this past February and features an original instrumental synthesizer score entitled 'SATURN' by Grand Trine.
Kim Sheppard - for the lucky and the strong; I Can't Keep Up
I Can't Keep Up has been gathered from footage and audio found on YouTube. The video moves through a landscape of child performers and over saturated scenery, examining family relationships and the ways in which they hold us and alienate us. Building a document of personal history from the documentation of other people's families the refrain "I can't keep up" seems more a declaration of separateness than a call to slow down. At once voyeuristic and introspective I Can't Keep Up is part two of a video tryptich made from Youtube-sourced footage that also includes All of What You Have, and Here We Are.
For the Lucky and the Strong is a chorus of nine separate women singing one song into their webcams.
Kim Sheppard, born 1982 Woodville, Nova Scotia, graduated, 2006 from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, BFA Interdisciplinary Studies. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally, most recently as part of ArtCity festival, Calgary and at the Hamburg international Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany. She now lives in Toronto.
Leslie Supnet - The Animated Heavy Metal Parking Lot
An animated tribute to Jeff Krulike and John Heyn's 1986 video documentary classic, Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Remaining faithful to no-budget film making, Supnet reconstructs her favourite scenes using cut-out characters made out of aged paper, glue and ink.
Leslie Supnet is a visual artist from Winnipeg, MB Canada. Leslie recreates vestiges of personal history, incorporating a healthy dose of melancholy, nostalgia, and humour.
Leslie is on The Internet
