Re: [Frameworks] Toronto book launch for Sculpting Cinema - Nov 24 @ 3pm

2018-10-24 Thread Melanie Wilmink
Hi Michael,
Pleasure Dome is self-distributing so we're working on getting it into some
independent shops, but the easiest way to get it would be to order directly
from them. You can email their staff person, Theresa Slater at
pleasuredomemana...@gmail.com for more details. If anyone would like to
suggest a brick and mortar store for us to approach, feel free to message
me or Theresa directly.
Thanks for your interest!
Best,
Melanie

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 2:07 PM Michael Betancourt <
hinterland.mov...@gmail.com> wrote:

> where is it available?
>
> Michael
>
> Sent from my phone so appologies for any typos!
>
> On Oct 24, 2018, at 1:42 PM, Melanie Wilmink 
> wrote:
>
> *BOOK LAUNCH: Sculpting Cinema*
> Saturday, November 24, 2018 - 3:00 pm
> John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design –
> University of Toronto in Room 230 – 1 Spadina Crescent. Toronto, ON
> Join our Sculpting Cinema Book Launch event here!
> <https://pdome.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=61126251ad9534b6993e651e9&id=182ce430a5&e=0912dbd5e7>
> Or order your copy by emailing pleasuredomemana...@gmail.com.
>
> 
>
>
> Pleasure Dome is pleased to announce the launch of its newest publication, 
> *Sculpting
> Cinema *(Ed. Melanie Wilmink & Solomon Nagler).
>
> *Sculpting Cinema* documents the intersections of sculpture,
> architecture, performance, installation art, and expanded cinema within
> contemporary Canadian art. Through seven pieces of writing and two artists'
> projects, a selection of scholars and creatives from across the country
> have explored the ways that cinema flows off the screen and into physical
> space. The book embodies this thematic content through a creative design,
> making it an attractive collectors' object and critical discourse
> simultaneously. Each copy of this limited-edition run contains unique
> photo-emulsion prints by Solomon Nagler and Angela Henderson, and the
> overall design by Jayme Spinks uses creative layout and typography to
> convey the “feeling” of cinema through the format of a printed book. 
> *Sculpting
> Cinema* considers how cinema has moved beyond the black box in an
> aesthetically-driven format that is scholarly, but also accessible to
> general interest readers who wish to learn more about these artworks.
>
> Includes essays by Harry Vandervlist, Melanie Wilmink, Zoë Heyn-Jones,
> Carmen Victor, Tom Kohut, Collin Zipp, Shana MacDonald; with artists'
> projects by Angela Henderson/ Solomon Nagler and Pierre Hébert.
>
> Featuring the work of: Donald Lawrence, Solomon Nagler/ Alexandre Larose
> and Passage Studio, Christina Battle, Kristie MacDonald, Charles
> Stankievech, Andrew John Milne, David Hoffos, and Shary Boyle.
>
>
> *This publication was produced through the support of the Canada Council
> for the Arts, Media Arts Initiatives Grant.*
>
> *ABOUT PLEASURE DOME (est. 1989)*
>
> Pleasure Dome is an artist-run exhibition collective dedicated to the
> presentation of artists’ film, video and experimental media. Pleasure Dome
> partners with media art organizations and artist-run centers in Toronto,
> nationally, and abroad to initiate co-presentations, collaborations, and
> sponsorships to bring forward culturally diverse and experimental media
> projects.
>
> *Pleasure Dome is generously supported by the Toronto Arts Council, the
> Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Arts Council, and by our members,
> sponsors, and community partners.*
>
> For more information: pleasuredomemana...@gmail.com|
> www.pdome.org
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[Frameworks] Deadline Jan 15: York University Robarts Conference Transgressing the Nation-State

2017-01-05 Thread Melanie Wilmink
Deadline approaching! Submit by January 15.

Call for Proposals​ - ​Transgressing the Nation-state:
Challenging the Constructs of Canadian Identity

As Canada approaches the 150th anniversary of Confederation, it is
important to ask: how are systems of colonialism, racism, sexism, and other
social and economic disparities that characterized the founding of this
country still embedded in our society? The Robarts Centre for Canadian
Studies welcomes exploration of these topics from multiple and competing
perspectives at its annual conference on April 20th and 21st, 2017 at York
University in Toronto. The conference will examine the dialogue surrounding
Canadian identity by focusing on the current challenges to established
forms of government, welfare policies and modes of participation in a
radically changed globalized nation, where history, migration, and
transnationalism play an important role. Presentations will offer an
interdisciplinary analysis of opportunities provided and challenges faced
in Canada’s past, present and future.

Graduate students are invited to submit proposals for presentations that
examine themes of inequality in Canada. The goal of this two-day conference
is to provide a space for discussions of inequality in Canada broadly
defined; we thus encourage students from a wide variety of disciplines to
interpret this theme. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to,
the legacies, experiences, or expressions of Canadians whose social
locations vary on the basis of gender, sexuality, race, Indigeneity,
ability, socioeconomic status, region, migration status, and difference.
Papers on other related topics will also be considered. Reimbursement of
some travel costs will be made available for students attending the entire
conference from outside of the Greater Toronto Area. Please submit
proposals (max. 250 words) for papers or panels
http://yorkrobartsgraduateconference.org by January 15th, 2017.
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[Frameworks] The Situated Cinema Project; in camera

2015-09-02 Thread Melanie Wilmink
*The Situated Cinema Project; in-camera* is a portable micro-cinema
commissioned by Toronto-based Pleasure Dome media arts exhibition
collective to celebrate our 25th anniversary. Created by Halifax-based
filmmaker Solomon Nagler with architects Thomas Evans and Jonathan
Mandeville of passage studio, the structure features pilgrimage (16mm, 4
min. looped, 2015) — an experimental film created by Nagler and his
artistic collaborator Alexandre Larose.

>From September 10 — 20, the Situated Cinema will travel to three Toronto
locations, hosted by the Toronto International Film Festival®, 8-11 Gallery
and Artscape Youngplace. As it travels, the architectural structure of the
cinema will intervene in the city, creating unexpected situations where
chance encounters and dislocated spaces forge new relationships between the
spectatorial body and the urban landscape. Inseparable from its context,
the Situated Cinema Project;in-camera explores intersections of film and
architecture through a rejection of conventional cinematic
representation,reinventing the cinema space as temporary and mobile.

Dates & Locations:

September 10-13: The Toronto International Film Festival’s Festival Street
- Intersection of King Street West & Peter St. (TIFF Festival Street hours
of operation)

September 14-16: 8-11 Gallery - 233 Spadina Ave (10am-10pm)

September 17-20: Artscape Youngplace - 180 Shaw St. (10am-10pm)

Artist talk: Sat Sept 12 @ 7:30pm - Artscape Youngplace
Reception: Thurs Sept 17 @ 6-10pm - Artscape Youngplace

For more information: www.pdome.org

FB: facebook.com/pdomeTO
Twitter: @PleasureDomeTO (#SituatedCinema)

Many thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for their assistance for
this project through a Media Arts Initiatives Grant, and to our programming
partners, The Toronto International Film Festival, 8-11 Gallery and
Artscape Youngplace.

Pleasure Dome is made possible through the ongoing support of:The Canada
Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council and the City of Toronto
through the Toronto Arts Council as well as our members, sponsors and
community partners.

® Toronto International Film Festival Inc., used under license
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[Frameworks] Call for submissions: New Toronto Works - June 1 deadline

2015-05-19 Thread Melanie Wilmink
Pleasure Dome is seeking short experimental film/video works, expanded
cinema performances and media art installations by Toronto-based artists
for the annual New Toronto Works Show.

Works must be produced after January 2014 and be no longer than 15 minutes.
To submit please send a weblink of the work, single page synopsis, and
artist bio to newtorontowo...@gmail.com or send/ drop-off submission
preview to:

Trinity Square Video
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 376
Toronto, ON. M5V 3A8

Submission deadline: MONDAY 1 JUNE 2015

The 22nd annual New Toronto Works will be presented as part of our Fall
2015 season.
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Re: [Frameworks] Films on nuclear energy, The Cold War, utopia

2015-02-28 Thread Melanie Wilmink
Not utopic per-se, but Daniel McIntyre has been making films around nuclear
radiation, Chernobyl and atomic bomb testing on Bikini Island.
http://www.danielmcintyre.info/cv/. Check out the Lion series and Bikini.
-Melanie


On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Tess Takahashi 
wrote:

> Tomonari Nishikawa’s
>
> *sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars*
>
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Salah Hassanpour 
> wrote:
>
>> A Boy and His Dog (1975) especially the series of unexpectedly drastic
>> third-act changes in setting, tone, etc.
>>
>> Salah Hassanpour
>> On Feb 27, 2015 4:40 PM, "herb shellenberger"  wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Frameworkers,
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm looking for suggestions of artist films/videos having to do with any
>>> of the following themes:
>>> -alternative energy
>>> -utopia
>>> -nuclear energy/war
>>> -The Cold War
>>>
>>>
>>> A couple I've come up with that might fit these themes in some way:
>>> Crossroads (Bruce Conner, 1976)
>>> 23 Skidoo (Julian Biggs, NFB, 1964)
>>> The Lonely Shore (Ken Russell, BBC Monitor, 1962)
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Herb Shellenberger
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[Frameworks] Pleasure Dome summer season announced

2014-05-23 Thread Melanie Wilmink
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to promote a few exciting media-art events that are being
held by Pleasure Dome this summer in Toronto. More info on our website:
www.pdome.org or on our social media (listed below).
Cheers,
Melanie Wilmink


*Wednesday May 28 - Mike Kelley Videos: Early Works & Day is Done*
Co-presentation with the Art Gallery of Ontario.
6 PM Early Works
8 PM Day Is Done
$12, Members $10, Students $8
@ Jackman Hall, AGO, 317 Dundas Street West

American artist Mike Kelley was one of the most provocative and influential
figures in contemporary art. His idiosyncratic works negotiate a charged
terrain of desire, dread and sociopathology in everyday life. His video
projects, often created with collaborators such as Paul McCarthy, Raymond
Pettibon and Tony Oursler, inhabit a peculiarly American landscape infused
with irony and pop cultural debris. We are honoured to be presenting this
two-part programme with the Art Gallery of Ontario in association with the
exhibition Elevated: Contemporary Art in the AGO Tower.


*June 1 - New Toronto Works 2014 Call for Submissions Deadline*
Pleasure Dome is seeking short experimental film/video works, expanded
cinema performances and media art installations by Toronto-based artists
for the annual New Toronto Works Show. Works must be produced after January
2013 and be no longer than 15 minutes.
To submit please send a weblink of the work, single page synopsis, and
artist bio to: newtorontowo...@gmail.com
For film or un-digitized analog video, please submit to:
C/o Pleasure Dome
2466 Dundas Street West, Box 502
Toronto,ON
M6P 1W9
or
Drop off with Erik Martinson @ Vtape, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 452
Submissions must be post-marked by June 1st. For returns, please include
self-addressed envelope, or indicate other means of return.


*Thursday, June 5 -  Dirty Looks NYC: Three Years with Performance by
Narcissister*
7:30 PM $10, $ 8 Members + Students
@ Tallulah's Cabaret, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street

Dirty Looks NYC, a platform for queer experimental film and video, culls
from their first three years of programming. Including artists such as Tom
Rubnitz, Chris E. Vargas, Charles Atlas, Jill Reiter, Michael Robinson,
Luther Price, Charles Lofton, Michael Lucid, and Narcissister, it is a
program of works that have shaped or defined the Dirty Looks project and
queer visual culture at large. Looking back from the edge of queer
futurity, Dirty Looks NYC features queer takes on Black Power, riot grrrl,
maternity, and Madonna’s “Vogue,” culminating with a live performance by
Narcissister!


*Friday, June 6 - Narcissister and The Mask; A Workshop*
Co-presentation with VideoFag
12 — 3 PM
@ VideoFag, 187 Augusta Avenue
$30, limited to 15 participants.
Email: pd...@bell.net to reserve.

As an extension of her video screening and performance in the Dirty Looks,
NYC program at Pleasure Dome, Narcissister is pleased to offer her
first-ever workshop. Informed by her own practice, the workshop will
investigate what it means to mask ourselves, to disguise ourselves to the
point that a radical physical transformation takes place. Narcissister will
initiate discussions and pose questions about what it means on personal,
societal, political, and spiritual levels not only to mask ourselves, but
also to de-mask ourselves. Participants are asked to bring the masks and
costumes that define their alternate personae. There will be opportunities
for verbal and performative expression. Participants will be photographed
as their personae for an on-going photo-project. The workshop will begin
with a presentation of Narcissister’s body of work.


*Saturday, July 5 - A Public Conversation on Diverse Media Exhibition &
Open Screening*
Free
5 PM: Public Conversation
6:30 PM: BBQ
8 PM: Open Screening
@ CineCycle, 129 Spadina Avenue

We have recently been involved in discussions around a certain aspect of
Pleasure Dome’s mission statement preamble, a piece of text which was added
to our mission statement in 1993 in order to address the changing format
landscapes of media art at the time. Now, 20 years later, perhaps the time
has come to re-address this issue, in light of continuing changes to media
art technology and practices. The preamble currently reads: Preamble #6.
Pleasure Dome seeks to exhibit a balance of work from both the film and
video mediums and as such, will show video up to a limit of fifty percent
of our total screen time and financial resources devoted to exhibition, in
each season. As such, on Saturday July 5th, 2014 at 5pm all are invited to
join us at CineCycle to begin a discussion on updating the mission
statement concerning a 50/50 exhibition quota of film and video.

At 8 PM join us for our annual Open Screening where we invite our members
and audience to present any film or video work (under 10 min.) in this
non-curated screening. Bring your latest experimental work—finished or
unfinished, found or stolen — to CineCycle prior to 8 

Re: [Frameworks] painted film finisher

2013-05-27 Thread Melanie Wilmink
Hi Jarrett,
I've used clear nail polish successfully, but it's really just a stopgap to
transfer it, not a permanent solution. If you send the film off for public
screenings without a print it's pretty much guaranteed that the
projectionists will be extremely annoyed at a print that is gunking up
their equipment. It will also be difficult to project it properly as it
might make the film jump around in the gate since it's not perfectly smooth
anymore. If you're just projecting it for yourself, or intending to
stabilize it for a transfer, the nail polish seems to work fine though.

Also if you haven't seen it already, Helen Hill's Recipes for Disaster is
an excellent handmade film resource -
http://www.angoleiro.com/cine_texts/recipes_for_disaster_hill.pdf. I can't
seem to find an official online publication of it, but the official
memorial website with more information on the author is
http://www.helenhill.org.

Cheers,
Melanie Wilmink



On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Jarrett Hayman  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have recently completed two films made using direct application
> techniques, such as hand painting with craft paint, india ink, permanent
> markers and other media. I would like to find a way to apply some kind of
> finish to the film so that the ink and paint do not continue to rub off
> with projection, but I'm afraid to use a spray finish for traditional
> paintings, as they are usually quite flammable. Any ideas?
>
> -JH
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