August 17, 2010 – Works by award-winning artists Michael Nyman and Harun Farocki are the latest additions to the Toronto International Film Festival’s city-wide Future Projections program of moving-image art projects, inspired by the history and culture of cinema. Like other Future Projections titles this year, by artists such as Douglas Gordon, Stan Douglas and Martin Arnold, Nyman’s and Farocki’s works complement Essential Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox’s inaugural exhibition, by referencing films and filmmakers in the Essential 100, a list based on TIFF expert and audience votes.
The Future Projections program is free and open to the public for the duration of the festival, September 9 to 19, at TIFF Bell Lightbox and various locations around Toronto.
Michael Nyman: NYman With A Movie Camera (2010) – Toronto premiere
In NYman With A Movie Camera, Michael Nyman revisits one of the high-points of his career: the composition of his now-famous score for Dziga Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera (1929), film #9 on the Essential 100 list. In a partial attempt to deconstruct the master's invention of montage, Nyman began videotaping things around him, substituting new images, shot-for-shot, for Vertov’s own, and then reapplying his score. The seemingly random images tease us into imagining a story, but in our frustration to fit the pieces together, we pay attention to Nyman’s original score – and through it, we come to feel the narrative connections between the two films. Running September 12 to 19 in Cinema 5 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
Michael Nyman will be in attendance on September 12.
Harun Farocki: Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades (2006)
Future Projections projects previously announced in the July 7 Essential Cinema exhibition press release include:
Michael Snow: Slidelength (1969-71)
Presented within the Essential Cinema exhibition at TIFF Bell Lightbox’s main gallery.
Martin Arnold: Jeanne (2003) – Toronto premiere
Presented within the Essential Cinema exhibition at TIFF Bell Lightbox’s main gallery.
Douglas Gordon: 24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro (2008) – Toronto premiere
Presented within the Essential Cinema exhibition at TIFF Bell Lightbox’s main gallery.
The Otolith Group: Otolith III (2009) – North American premiere
Presented in collaboration with The Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay West.
Stan Douglas: Klatsassin (2006) – Toronto premiere
Presented in collaboration with Stephen Bulger Gallery, 1026 Queen Street West.
William Kentridge: Journey to the Moon (2003) – Toronto premiere
Presented in collaboration with Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington Avenue.
Perry Bard: Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake (2007-ongoing) – Toronto premiere
Presented in collaboration with The Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen Street West.
Chris Chong Chan Fui + Yasuhiro Morinaga: HEAVENHELL (2009) – North American premiere
Presented in collaboration with The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 952 Queen Street West.
Ming Wong: In Love for the Mood (2009) – Toronto premiere
Presented in the RBC Learning Studio at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
Ming Wong: Angst Essen/Eat Fear (2008) – Toronto premiere
Presented in the RBC Learning Studio at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy: Soft Rains #6: Suburban Horror (part 1) (2003) – Toronto premiere
Presented in collaboration with The Royal Ontario Museum’s Institute for Contemporary Culture. ROM, 100 Queen’s Park.
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