IFCO’s Indie Filmmaker Series Presents: New Approaches to Documentary and Sound Space The Experimental Documentary Short Films of Mike Rollo Friday, November 4th, 2011 The Collection (56 ByWard Market – Downstairs of the Mercury Lounge) Screening at 730pm Free!! http://www.ifco.ca/indi.html — Ghosts and Gravel Roads is screening in Chicago! The Chicago Underground Film Festival Presents: […]

Wrapped up shooting the Saskatchewan part of The Broken Altar hitting up nine drive-ins (both operational and abandoned) in seven days. There are four drive-in theatres currently operational in Saskatchewan: the Prairie Dog in Carlyle, the Twilight in Wolseley, the Jubilee in Watrous, and the Clearwater in Kyle. Unfortunately one of the abandoned drive ins, […]

Shooting has commenced for my new film The Broken Altar. Here are a few stills to tickle your fancy!

I have been watching a number works lately about films and nature – complimented with the observations from  Scott MacDonald in his chapter Up Close and Political: Three Short Ruminations on Nature Film from Adventures in Perception. I am currently enamoured by  the films of Jean Painlevé who was the son of Paul Painlevé the mathematician […]

Lately I’ve been feeling the need to pack up and travel across the country by train. Perhaps I’m feeling nostalgic, remembering the trip I took with my father when I was nine years old riding the rails through the rocky mountains.  Memories I will never forget: the majestic mountainscapes, the rhythm of the wheels on […]

Great throwback to 1970s / 80s VHS logos.  Remember Vestron? Thanks to the blog signalnoise.

CinemaSpace presents: Series PARALLAX VIEWS EROTICS OF ATTENTION: FILMS OF ELLIE EPP One-Day Screening Event w/ the Filmmaker Plus LIS RHODES’S 16mm film Pictures On Pink Paper Legendary Canadian filmmaker, writer and philosopher Ellie Epp screens her four 16mm films followed by a Q&A with the artist. Alongside her films, she will introduce Pictures On […]

It’s very exciting to have a fresh new series of experimental programming being established in Montreal.  From the Segal Centre, CinemaSpace’s new co-directors Daichi Saito and Malena Szlam are launching a new annual programming series which was unveiled this past week: CROSSOVER – Exploration and experience of cinema through expanded approaches PARALLAX VIEWS – Takes […]