|
|
|
Private Events |
|  schedule
| | CAMERA bar is owned and operated by Stephen Bulger Gallery, which hosts free Saturday afternoon screenings and also makes the space available for private rentals. Please contact Stefanie Rudd, CAMERA Manager (416-530-0011) to inquire about availability. |
| 
|
| Citadel: Atom Egoyan (93 min) | May 6th, 13th, 20th, & 27th, 2006 @ 1 PM FREE | schedule | | A family vacation to Lebanon and a new Mini DV camera prompt filmmaker Atom Egoyan to create a playful, provocative journal hinging on his relationship with actress Arsinée Khanjian, but with curious diversions into literature, politics, history and the nature of 'documentary' itself. |
|
|
| Isaac Singer's Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko's Beard (28 Mins) *** Dir. Bruce Davidson | FREE Saturday Screenings *** July 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th @ 3 PM | schedule | | A fictional tale based on one of Mr. Singer's writings. It won first prize in the fiction category at the American Film Festival in 1973 and was shown on Public Television. |
|
|
| Please inquire: 416 504-0575 |
| schedule | |
|
|
| Temple Bates' film PEEKER |
| schedule | |
|
|
| Pleasure Dome presenting 'Interkosmos' | October 7th, 2006 | schedule | | Director Jim Finn
“Finn has made a name for himself in recent years as a short film maker, thanks to his feeling for irony and his capacity to shape something new from propaganda, news and other historic images. Not to forget his very dry sense of humour. Two years ago, he was given a grant for a short musical film about a secret space project in the early 1970s involving an attempt by East German cosmonauts and their allies to establish socialist colonies on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. As Finn got on with building his models and the shooting days approached, his project started to grow. He couldn’t complete it alone, however, so he received help from various different quarters (Steve Reinke amongst others). The result is his first full-length film, filled with conspiracy theories, guinea pigs and beautiful miniature sets, unique visual and above all sound material: hip choreographed musical numbers in which you can see that the makers have wrestled their way through the entire oeuvre of Busby Berkeley, with retro 1970s music that makes it difficult to stop tapping your feet. There are also moments of tranquility in the almost abstract scenes about the infinity and banality of German-language space travel.” (International Film Festival Rotterdam) |
|
|
| Mr. Nobody 1998 – 2005 | October 21st, 2006 | schedule | | Super 8 animation and video
Tanya Read
1. Nobody's Mantra, super 8 w/sound, 1:46 min, 1998
2. Juggernaut, super 8 silent, 2 min, 2003
3. In the Hole, super 8 w/sound, 3:20 min, 2004
4. Hitting Rock Bottom, super 8 silent, 1:45 min, 2001
5. S.O.S., silent, super 8 2 min, 2005
6. The Procession, digital video w/sound, 5 min, 2001
7. Nexus, digital video w/sound, 7:42 min, 2005
|
|
|
| 5 Short Films by Nicholas & Sheila Pye | May 19th 2007 | schedule | | “A Life of Errors”
2006, 14:00
In a decrepit three-room house two lovers, played by the filmmakers, fall out of each other’s graces and turn bitter enemies without exchanging words. In the theatrical dream world of their sleep, they endeavor to harm each other though a series of childish games, which inevitably go too far. Growing increasingly distrustful of one another, these somnambulists become finely skilled at the unmaking of love.
THE ARSONIST
2005, 14:00,
On an isolated farm, Nicole, age 8, wakes up during the summer, in her bed. In those early moments between waking and rising she remembers an encounter from last winter with an elderly woman in a snowstorm. Her thoughts, imagination and boredom are satisfied through fire.
The Paper Wall
2004, 10 min.
Boxed into twin rooms yet separated by a thin wall, a brother and sister communicate their desires. Stunning, provocative and perplexing, the pair is irresistible to watch as they become increasingly dependent on one another. Needing each other to perform basic bodily functions, such as breathing, “Sheila and Nicholas Pye explore collisions of a different sort in their edgy (and often hilarious) film exposing the vulnerabilities of emotional interdependence.“
Sarah Milroy, The Globe and Mail, This Week, Saturday, June 5, 2004, page M8
Title: Untitled
2002, 6 min 30 sec,
An abandoned farmhouse serves as the catalyst for the exploration of childhood, memory, and architecture. The elusive process of recollecting memories, both fabricated and real, is examined as a girl moves from one decrepit room to the next. The protagonist, played by the writer/director, is a young girl on the verge of womanhood who exorcises her past by destroying the house.
Title: The Lesson
2004, 10 min 30 sec
Inspired by the existential writer, Eugene Ionesco, this story unfolds in a middle class drawing room, during a non-specific time period. A professor, his young pupil, and his maid embark on a journey through the curriculum of the absurd. The characters
in the film are rendered emotionless and marionette like by the pixilated style in which the film was shot. As the lesson continues, communication breaks down, language falters, and the austere professor loses all control. |
|
|
| The Right Way, with The Archer |
| schedule | | Amy (Dwyer) and David (Brown) are two underachievers from suburbia. Neglected by their abusive parents, and uninspired by their dreary lives, meeting each other seemed to be just what they were looking for. But when Amy gets pregnant, the young couple are forced to decide: should they do things the wrong way or the right way? Fast-paced and emotionally charged, The Right Way tells the story of young dreams gone sour.
Mark Penney, who is currently in pre-production to direct the $10 million budget film Utopia, dropped out of film school after his cousin's suicide to make a film about the desolate lives of young suburbanites and the burning desires they have to give themselves meaning. Cineastes and regular audiences alike will both get a treat from watching Canada's most exciting new film artist.
Preceding The Right Way will be The Archer, a short film directed by John Palmer (Genie-nominee for Sugar) and starring Kim Poirier, Dov Tiefenbach and Anthony Furey.
Proceeds from this limited release will be donated to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, in honour of the anniversary of Penney's cousin's suicide.
|
|
|
| The Right Way, with The Archer | June 22nd | schedule | | Amy (Dwyer) and David (Brown) are two underachievers from suburbia. Neglected by their abusive parents, and uninspired by their dreary lives, meeting each other seemed to be just what they were looking for. But when Amy gets pregnant, the young couple are forced to decide: should they do things the wrong way or the right way? Fast-paced and emotionally charged, The Right Way tells the story of young dreams gone sour.
Mark Penney, who is currently in pre-production to direct the $10 million budget film Utopia, dropped out of film school after his cousin's suicide to make a film about the desolate lives of young suburbanites and the burning desires they have to give themselves meaning. Cineastes and regular audiences alike will both get a treat from watching Canada's most exciting new film artist.
Preceding The Right Way will be The Archer, a short film directed by John Palmer (Genie-nominee for Sugar) and starring Kim Poirier, Dov Tiefenbach and Anthony Furey.
Proceeds from this limited release will be donated to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, in honour of the anniversary of Penney's cousin's suicide.
|
|
|
| Muffins For Granny | June 23, 30, July 7, 14 and 21 | schedule | | “Muffins For Granny is a remarkably layered, emotionally complex story of personal and cultural survival. McLaren tells the story of her own grandmother by combining precious home movie fragments with the stories of seven elders dramatically affected by their experiences in residential schools. McLaren uses animation with a painterly visual approach to move the audience between the darkness of memory and the reality that these charismatic survivors live in today.” |
|
|
| Dark Days ---Dir. Marc Singer (UK, 2000) 94 mins | FREE Saturday Screenings *** Oct 13, 20 , 27 and November 3 and 10. | schedule | | Marc Singer’s film, Dark Days, documents a community of men and women living in the tunnels next to the Amtrak subway tracks near Penn Station in New York City. At the cusp of the millennium, these people live in constant darkness among the rats and the roaring subways in one room shacks equipped with scavenged items, a bucket for a toilet and leaky overhead pipes for a shower. The squatters tell stories about their childhood, jail time, drug abuse and survival. DJ Shadow provides the soundtrack for this film. Dark Days has won over six awards, including three at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000: Audience Award; Cinematography Award; Freedom of Expression Award. |
|
|
| The Cameraman | January 5th, 12th 19th, 26th and February 2nd, 2008 | schedule | | long description under the program admin |
|
|
| Man With A Movie Camera | January 5th, 12th 19th, 26th and February 2nd, 2008 | schedule | |
|
|
| The Story of the Count of Monte Christo | Feb 9, 16, 23, Mar 1, 8, 15 | schedule | |
|
|
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1 of 7 |
| schedule | |
|
|
| Nuit Blanche 2008 | October 4, 2008 | schedule | |
Kate Tarini Gallery
The stunning photographic works of Kate Tarini, who won Ryerson’s
best of show at the School of Image Arts’ year-end 2008 Maximum Exposure show will be displayed in the lobby and cafe of CAMERA. The exhibit is curated by Jenn Park, Mira Godard Study Centre, School of Image Arts.
School of Image Arts - Photography
Kate Tarini (IMA ‘08)
Student Films
In the CAMERA cinema, relax and watch the work of Canada’s next generation of great filmmakers. View live drama, animation and documentary shorts completed by some of our 2008 film graduates.
There’s definitely something for everyone, including Princess
Margaret Blvd., winner of Best Film at the TIFFG 2008 Student Film Showcase.
School of Image Arts - Film
4PLAY ‘Wrap it Up!’ - Gerry Amram (IMA ‘08)
Z
ach Gray (IMA ‘08)
Heartwrenching - Leigh Nunan (IMA ‘08)
Ashes - Mark Philps (IMA ‘08)
Broken Tulips - Brandon Cronenberg (IMA ‘08)
End of Paradise - Ben Edelberg (IMA ‘08)
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place - Joe Ciaravino (IMA ‘08)
My Dad Ralph - Nickolas Wong (IMA ‘08)
The Nakuru Slums - Dan Montgomery (IMA ‘08)
K
azik Radwanski (IMA ‘08)
Princess Margaret Blvd. - Kazik Radwanski (IMA ‘08)
Starsearcher - Adam Brown (IMA ‘08) |
|
|
| Goethe-Institut: Silent Films by Ernst Lubitsch with LIVE MUSIC | September 30, October 07, 14, & 21 2008 | schedule | |
|
|
| Goethe-Institut: Revisiting the Films of Alexander Kluge | Tuesdays & Wednesdays from October 28 to November 12, 2008 | schedule | | As one of Germany’s most influential and revolutionary filmmakers, philosophers and authors, Alexander Kluge, who had close ties to Theodor Adorno and the Frankfurt School, was one of the principal architects of a movement that lead to what we have come to know as New German Cinema. As co-signatory of the famous Oberhausen Manifesto (1962), which saught freedom from the established conventions of filmmaking, Kluge helped critically redefine the aesthetic, thematic and economic concepts of modern independent cinema. While addressing essential formal and political concerns of the 60s, 70s and early 80s in Germany, Kluge’s feature films carry with them thematic and stylistic resonances that clearly speak to us to this day.
This series of 9 feature films and one program of shorts by Alexander Kluge is co-presented by the Goethe-Institut Toronto, Camera, and Pleasure Dome.
|
|
|
| Gerry Deiter - Give Peace a Chance | May 26th-June 2nd | schedule | | The Stephen Bulger Gallery is proud to present over 200 photographs of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken during their historic 1969 eight day Bed-in For Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montréal. Give Peace A Chance: an exhibition of works by Gerry Deiter coincides with the 40th anniversary of this event, and many of the photographs have never been previously displayed. The gallery will remain open 24 hours per day for this special 8 day exhibition.
In May 1969, Gerry Deiter was assigned by LIFE magazine to photograph Lennon and Ono at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel during their protest against America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. He captured hundreds of images of the couple in public and behind the scenes, as celebrities and visitors poured through the room. It was during this protest that Lennon wrote the song Give Peace A Chance, which he then recorded spontaneously with an unlikely crowd who just happened to be there at the time. Despite the media attention that the event received, Deiter’s photographs were never published in LIFE; it was bumped in favour of another story about the war. I Instead, they were filed away for 30 years until 2001 when the events on September 11th inspired Deiter to try and rekindle the couple’s message of peace, love and compassion.
These images eloquently capture the spirituality and the idealism that lay behind the media event. In 2005, Gerry Deiter wrote “Being present at the birth of that powerful anthem to peace had a special significance to me, helping me to embark on a new life, both professionally and spiritually. It was a time for revolution, of social and political upheaval that, like the words and music of Give Peace a Chance, echoes down through the decades and inspires us today to bring peace, compassion and justice to the world.”
Born in Brooklyn, Deiter grew up in Greenwich Village where at a very early age he began taking photographs of the city. Surrounded by art and fashion during his teens, he was an apprentice to many of the top New York fashion and commercial photographers. Soon he regularly had fashion spreads in Women’s Wear Daily and his work was on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar magazine. He also photographed the jazz scene in New York and shot the first two album covers for Frank Zappa. In the 1960s, Deiter became involved in the anti-Vietnam war movement where he documented numerous protests. In 1968, he moved to Canada, where he settled in Montréal and continued to work as a photojournalist featured in publications such as Time Magazine and Life.
By 1970, Deiter had moved to the West Coast where he became the first photographer to sail with the Greenpeace Too to protest nuclear testing on Amchitka Island. He was the founding editor of the newspaper, Prince Rupert This Week, and continued his news work as a contributing editor to the online news site, Peace, Earth & Justice News.
This exhibition is the first showing of Deiter’s photographs in Ontario and coincides with an exhibition in Lennon’s hometown of Liverpool, United Kingdom, at the Beatles Story Museum. In June, the series will also travel to the Museum at Bethel Woods, the site of the famous Woodstock Festival. |
|
|
| Off World | May 1-31 | schedule | | Mateo Guez eloquently captures the lives of children who live, work and play in Smoky Mountain, one of the world’s worst slums, where entire families scavenge to survive. Smoky Mountain is a mound of refuse outside of Manila, in the central Philippines, named after the methane-heavy mist hovering over it. Guez challenges our preconceptions of the camera by using a mobile phone as an extension of his body to frame his direct experience. In a street-level installation, designed by Andrew Mallis, viewers can engage in a unique forum with Guez’s video wall while intimate stills are delivered virtually to their mobile phones. The gallery is immaterial and the image, though multiple, is personal; both exist in the intimate, yet social, spaces now extended by mobile media.
Curated by Sanaz Mazinani
|
|
|
| GERRY DEITER – Give Peace A Chance | May 26- June 2 | schedule | | GERRY DEITER – Give Peace A Chance
Special Exhibition Hours: Open 24 hours
Reception and Book Launch: Tuesday, May 26, 5 – 8pm
Special Events: Tuesday, June 1st
(b. New York City, NY, 1934 - 2005)
The gallery is pleased to present over 200 photographs of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken during their historic 1969 eight day Bed-in For Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montréal. “Give Peace A Chance:” an exhibition of works by Gerry Deiter coincides with the 40th anniversary of this event, and many of the photographs have never been previously displayed. The gallery will remain open 24 hours per day for this special 8 day exhibition.
In May 1969, Gerry Deiter was assigned by LIFE magazine to photograph Lennon and Ono at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel during their protest against America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. He captured hundreds of images of the couple in public and behind the scenes, as celebrities and visitors poured through the room. It was during this protest that Lennon wrote the song Give Peace A Chance, which he then recorded spontaneously with an unlikely crowd who just happened to be there at the time. Despite the media attention that the event received, Deiter’s photographs were never published in LIFE; it was bumped in favour of another story about the war. Instead, they were filed away for 30 years until 2001 when the events on September 11th inspired Deiter to try and rekindle the couple’s message of peace, love and compassion.
These images eloquently capture the spirituality and the idealism that lay behind the media event. In 2005, Gerry Deiter wrote “Being present at the birth of that powerful anthem to peace had a special significance to me, helping me to embark on a new life, both professionally and spiritually. It was a time for revolution, of social and political upheaval that, like the words and music of Give Peace a Chance, echoes down through the decades and inspires us today to bring peace, compassion and justice to the world.”
Born in Brooklyn, Deiter grew up in Greenwich Village where at a very early age he began taking photographs of the city. Surrounded by art and fashion during his teens, he was an apprentice to many of the top New York fashion and commercial photographers. Soon he regularly had fashion spreads in Women’s Wear Daily and his work was on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar magazine. He also photographed the jazz scene in New York and shot the first two album covers for Frank Zappa. In the 1960s, Deiter became involved in the anti-Vietnam war movement where he documented numerous protests. In 1968, he moved to Canada, where he settled in Montréal and continued to work as a photojournalist featured in publications such as Time Magazine and Life.
By 1970, Deiter had moved to the West Coast where he became the first photographer to sail with the Greenpeace Too to protest nuclear testing on Amchitka Island. He was the founding editor of the newspaper, Prince Rupert This Week, and continued his news work as a contributing editor to the online news site, Peace, Earth & Justice News.
This exhibition is the first showing of Deiter’s photographs in Ontario and coincides with an exhibition in Lennon’s hometown of Liverpool, United Kingdom, at the Beatles Story Museum. In June, the series will also travel to the Museum at Bethel Woods, the site of the famous Woodstock Festival.
|
|
|
| Naturally Inspired | September 24 2009 | schedule | | For more details visit
www.morrisb.com
www.cinellimaillet.com |
|
|
| The Wedding Show | January 15-17 2010 | schedule | | The Wedding Show
January 15–17, 2010
The Carlu, 444 Yonge Street, 7th floor
Times: Friday, January 15, 5-9pm
Saturday, January 16, 10am-6pm
Sunday, January 17, 10am-5pm
Cost: $17.00/$20.00
visit www.theweddingco.com for more details |
|
|
|
|
|
