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On Thursday night at Ad Hoc, I presented four documentaries on art by Jim Davis. You can watch the whole programme, intro and films, at @artandtrash.bsky.social’s Patreon and YouTube channels. The Dynamic Arts: Documentaries by Jim Davis youtu.be/LrA9if2cthA

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I made this video essay with Bart Testa for the Richard Kerr: Field Trips blu-ray disc available now from Black Zero. Bart also wrote the liner notes for an upcoming disc of ours. More info coming soon.

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Such an honour to share some of my recent work with Ad Hoc. Huge thanks to Stephen Broomer for continuing to program great experimental films in Toronto.

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For those interested in reading a little more about Canadian experimental film we’ll publish a brief extra conversation on Thursday about @stephenbroomer.bsky.social’s two books as writer and co-editor on the subject of Canadian underground cinema #podcast #experimentalfilm #filmartist #filmwriting

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This winter at the Cinema Studies Institute at Innis College - Ad Hoc presents six screenings! Three screenings of classic experimental films in 16mm and three screenings of digital-born works by local artists!

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"This collection is an early front-runner for the best physical media release of 2025." This one means a lot because @severinfilms.bsky.social doesn't get enough film establishment love for our work (imo) and I've been waiting for something I worked on to make it into this column!

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I was very honoured to get a chance to talk with Daniel Adams of H2EEF about Josephine Massarella and her work…

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Cinema on duty!

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New episode out now! Richard Kerr is a giant in Canadian experimental film. This episode takes a broad look at Richard's career, with a particular focus on the "American" trilogy, which has been released on Blu-Ray by Stephen Broomer at Black Zero. #experimentalfilm #podcast #filmartist

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I made Spirits in Season (16mm, 12 mins.) at Lily Dale Assembly, the Spiritualist commune in upstate New York, in fall 2011. Here I am pictured next to the Inspiration Stump with my Bolex. The film features an original soundtrack by the great Nate Wooley.

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On Jane Conger Belson's Odds & Ends and the hipster archetype.

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Beautiful Dreamers, our video essay about Richard Elfman’s Forbidden Zone, was first published in text form in Bright Lights Film Journal.

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My blu-ray publishing company, Black Zero, was written up in today's Globe and Mail!

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Tondal’s Vision (2018)

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2024 year-in-review: huge thanks to all the producers and home video companies that involved me in their releases this year!

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On taboo, anachronism, the reconstruction of evanescent cinema, and the bountiful well of lust...just in time for the holidays.

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Untitled, 1960, by the great calligraphic abstractionist Mark Tobey. Eight years earlier, Robert Gardner made this wonderful film about Tobey: youtu.be/QjggfwjKp40

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An Xmas quartet...

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On Marie Menken's Lights, "a Christmas nocturne: it is akin to those carols and fables that promise charity, peace and the milk of human kindness flowing anonymous under cover of darkness, kindling in the hearth of this one prophetic night." www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-6_...

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Hand-colored 1897 Edison film called CRISSIE SHERIDAN.

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Sure, I remember Reagan getting shot, and the insane United States invasion of Grenada, but I would argue this had a greater impact on my life than any other news story.

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An excerpt from Screams from the Sky: Taking the Scenic Route with The Psychotronic Man, now available at @artandtrash.bsky.social!

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Now available from Black Zero! Our latest release is Rick Hancox’s Home for Christmas, a landmark work of personal documentary filmmaking, in a special limited edition with three bonus films, an hour long interview and a new video essay.

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On Gunvor Nelson's Take Off - "...even amidst all of this revolutionary thought, Take Off ends the striptease with a natural conclusion, revealing it for what it proudly is, an absurd comic pageant."

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Join us at AD HOC at Innis College, room 222, this Wednesday night, for the launch of Black Zero disc no. 8 - Rick Hancox’s Home for Christmas. Rick and his collaborators will be in attendance!

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A video essay on the films and videos of contemporary Canadian experimental media artist Christine Lucy Latimer.

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November is over, long live #noirvember!

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Premiering tonight at @artandtrash.bsky.social - my long-gestating video essay on Robert Montgomery's Lady in the Lake. Here's a little preview!

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Our upcoming release of Rick Hancox's Home for Christmas will also include one of the great Canadian underground films, Wild Sync (1973)! As per Pudovkin, "One must never show on the screen a man and reproduce his words exactly synchronized with the movements of his lips..."

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This was a long and involving project that involved many people, especially @derekbjenkins.bsky.social and the seven commentators who came on board to provide critical context and interpretation for Josephine’s work. My happiest moment as a home video producer to date was seeing this one through.

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Tonight at TMU Image Arts, room 307 - a screening of films made at the Toronto alternative film centre/venue The Funnel (1977-1989), presented by students in the graduate program in Film Preservation under the supervision of Black Zero’s @stephenbroomer.bsky.social. Free to the public!

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As long as #noirvember is in full swing, here’s the video essay I made to kick off my ongoing series Detours - The Stairwell, an illustrated memoir made for @intransition.bsky.social a few years ago, in which I address themes of memory and amnesia in noir…

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What’s a single frame from a film that could hang in an art gallery. #filmsky

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There's an auto-created bot account for Severin Films that sadly many people (including me) followed instead of the official account! Follow the REAL Severin Films at @severinfilms.bsky.social - let's knock that fake account out of the algorithm!

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My latest video essay for the Detours series is now up, on Jennifer (1953), one of the great Hollywood treatments of loneliness and paranoia, starring noir's greatest actress, Ida Lupino.

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From my long-gestating feature The Star Rover. "I could never live out completely one full experience, one point of consciousness in time and space. My dreams, if dreams they may be called, were rhymeless and reasonless." #experimentalfilm #16mm

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Out now! A special episode to coincide with the start of the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the Paris Films Co-op CinéDoc. A series of special screenings are taking place in Paris from the 20th to the 30th of November and the programme will appear online shortly after. Visit CineDoc.org

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I've been writing this critical study on the life and works of Canadian collage filmmaker Arthur Lipsett since 2016. It's now slated for release in May 2025 from Wilfrid Laurier University Press!

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Spirits in Season, shot in fall 2012 at Lily Dale Assembly, a Spiritualist community in upstate New York founded by the Fox Sisters. Music by Nate Wooley.

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One of the ways in which I've tried to develop a sustainable practice over the past year is through Patreon. If you wish to support my efforts in home video publishing, video essaying, and film scholarship, please consider signing up for a membership. It's free to join.

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Next Monday, November 25, my graduate students are putting on a free public screening of films made at the Funnel Film Collective in Toronto in the 1970s and 80s. Featuring work by John Porter, Judith Doyle, Blaine Spiegel, David Anderson, Martha Davis, Annette Mangaard and Midi Onodera!

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Such a great book about the wonderful #ExperimentalFilm maker, Louise Bourque - edited by @stephenbroomer.bsky.social Louise’s work is so deeply personal yet universal and open. There’s also a great two part episode with Louise on the How to Enjoy Experimental Film podcast @h2eef.bsky.social

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One more day for patrons to vote on the next series of Detours - sign up for free and have your voice counted! patreon.com/artandtrash

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