La mort lente (et planifiée) du Programme français de l’ONF
Par Marie-Claude Loiselle (Rédactrice en chef, revue 24 Images)

Vous pouvez consulter l’article de Marie-Claude Loiselle sur l’abolition du Programme français de l’ONF publié dans le Devoir du 17 mai au lien ci-dessous.

“On n’installe pas sans couvrir un sombre dessein un tel régime de terreur. Il y avait un plan à exécuter, qui n’est rien de moins que de nier la spécificité du Programme français en le noyant dans une vaste structure onéfienne coast to coast, indifférenciée, nivelée. Or, comme cela n’aurait évidemment pas reçu l’assentiment général, il fallait donc faire en sorte de l’imposer… de force. Une atteinte radicale à l’autonomie du Programme français a été décidée et mise en oeuvre sans que personne, à aucun moment, ait été consulté ni même informé de ce qui se préparait !”

Les amateurs du cinéma will be taking over the Cinema l’Amour for a spectacular soirée of films from emerging cinéastes.

The Cinema Students’ Association (CSA) presents the best works made in the undergraduate film production and film animation departments this year! A special jury will choose among the 12 films presented to award prizes from our sponsors: Technicolor, La Boite Noir, Cinema du Parc, American Apparel.

$6 students
$7 everyone else
(tickets at the door)

SPECIAL JURY
Peter Wintonick – documentarist (Manufacturing Consent) Astria Suparak – superstar curator Jay Baruchel – actor (Million Dollar Baby, etc) Shira Avni – NFB animator Julie Huguet – Silence, on court! & ONF

Albert Maysles will be giving a master class and presenting part of his upcoming film, a work-in-progress, “The Jew on Trial” this Sunday, May 15 at 3:30 at the NFB Cinema. Tickets are available at the NFB box office for $10 ($7 for students).

Presented as part of the Montreal Jewish Film Festival

On Friday, MAY 13, 2005 we’ll be celebrating the release of SYNOPTIQUE 9 with a benefit concert and short-film programme (curated by Brett Kashmere) at Main Hall, 5390 St. Laurent, Montreal.

When: Friday May 13th, 2005; doors go at 8:00

Where: Main Hall, 5390 St. Laurent. Just below St. Viateur.

What: At 8:30 a film program selected by Concordia’s Brett Kashmere, entitled Original Copy will be screened. Then, music with Alden and Adam, The Remains of Brian Borcherdt, and The Besnard Lakes.

Tickets are cheap ($5 in advance and $7 at the door) and on sale at: CD Esoterik and Cheap Thrills.

*** PRESENTED BY CJLO ***

ORIGINAL COPY
PROGRAMMED BY BRETT KASHMERE

EYE MYTH EDUCATIONAL :: STAN BRAKHAGE
BACKSTROKE :: TROY RHOADES
CINEMA AND VISUAL PLEASURE :: ANNIE MACDONELL
CHIASMUS :: DAICHI SAITO
BREATH :: KELLY EGAN
CHASMIC DANCE :: DAICHI SAITO
BUFFALO LIFTS :: CHRISTINA BATTLE
PLANE :: KARA BLAKE
WATERWORX :: RICK HANCOX
PARADISE FALLS, NEW MEXICO :: CHRISTINA BATTLE

AND MORE

Brett Kashmere’s notes for the upcoming short-film programme ORIGINAL COPY are now available. ORIGINAL COPY screens tomorrow night at 8:30 pm at Main Hall, as part of the SYNOPTIQUE BENEFIT show.

ORIGINAL COPY Notes:
http://www.synoptique.ca/archives/edition9/o_copy_notes.htm

Synoptique Benefit:
http://blog.synoptique.ca/lib/blog/unq/198/

From Laurel Wypkema:

“Albert Maysles will be giving a master class and presenting part of his upcoming film, a work-in-progress, “The Jew on Trial” this Sunday, May 15 at 3:30 at the NFB Cinema. Tickets go on sale today, May 11 and are available at the NFB box office for $10 ($7 for students). Maybe we can all take him to lunch and pick his brain after….”

– Since 1995, the Montreal Jewish Film Festival (MJFF) has presented an array of outstanding films that have left their mark on all peoples of the world. How can one forget that life is beautiful after watching Roberto Benigni’s film, or that a man’s struggle to survive can be so poignant, as Roman Polanski’s pianist reminds us, or that marriage can come late in life, as Hatuna Mehuheret demonstrates? We have experienced a spectrum of emotions, we have travelled great distances, and this year’s festival will take viewers even further. For its 10th edition, the MJFF is presenting films focus on the theme of humanity. The objective? To offer another way to see the world!

Susan Alper, the director and founder of the MJFF, has assembled her most ambitious program yet: 41 films from 15 countries, including 5 from Canada, and for the first time, 2 films on Brazil. Twenty-one shorts and 20 feature-length films, including 7 films in French or subtitled in French and 34 films in English, Spanish, Arab, Italian, Hebrew, Yiddish, Portuguese, German, Russian, Flemish and Norwegian, subtitled in English, will be presented at Montreal’s four most striking theatres. LOST EMBRACE by Daniel Burman (Grand Jury Prize and Silver Bear for Best Actor—Daniel Hendler—at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival) will open the MJFF at the Imperial Cinema on May 10, after which the festival will continue at the Cinémathèque québécoise, the NFB Cinema and Ex-Centris until May 19. Now a fixture on Montreal’s cultural landscape, the MJFF will unfold from May 10 to 19, 2005. For further information, phone (514) 448-5610 or visit our website at http://www.mjff.qc.ca

For its 6th edition, Elektra is still set on introducing works and artists that crossbreed leading electronic music and visual art. Tonight, the acclaimed Sheffield, England duo Autechre will open Elektra as part of their ongoing North American tour. They will treat Montrealers to live manipulations of the angular, disjointed rhythms found on their new album. Autechre will be preceded by a live performance by snd and a set by Rob Hall. Presented in collaboration with Gillett Entertainment Group.

As one of the largest events in North America dedicated to the digital arts, Elektra is broadening its horizons for this new edition by integrating into its program interactive works set in public venues, sound installations, new media and conferences on motion design. So, Elektra also welcome Belgium’s Front 242 to Metropolis on May 14. This will be their first performance in North America in several years, a benefit show marking the eagerly awaited return of one of electronic music’s most influential groups. These pioneers of “EBM” (electronic body music) will undoubtedly wow fans with their blend of synthesized voices, military marches and pop.

Over the entire course of the event, a number of audio and interactive installations will be presented across the city.

Animation Students present their 2005 Animation Festival at Hall Building, Tuesday, May 10th from 7pm to 10pm EDT, although please give generously at the door as they modestly suggest a $2 donation.

Preparations are still underway for the SYNOPTIQUE BENEFIT: A night of short film screenings, music, indecorum, cinema community. We received this pithy e-mail from Brett Kashmere, the curator of the short film programme he calls Original Copy:

ORIGINAL COPY
Rework, re-edit, reroute. Transform, translate,
disrupt the surface. Speed up, slow down, zoom in,
superimpose. Multiply, magnify, erase. Repeat.
Start over.

Films by Christina Battle, Kara Blake, Stan Brakhage,
Kelly Egan, Rick Hancox, Annie MacDonell, Troy
Rhoades, Daïchi Saïto and more.

Advance tickets are cheap: 5 bucks at CD Esoterik and Cheap Thrills. $7 at the door.