SAW Video E-Newsletter May 14th, 2008

Available Light Screening Collective presents:

RESERVOIR

Thursday May 15, 2008 at 8pm
Club SAW, Ottawa ON
67 Nicholas Street at Daly Avenue, in the Arts Court Building

Pay-What-You-Can / Cash Bar

Artists: Edward Folger (Ottawa), Zhenchen Liu (Paris), Theodore Lyman (Richmond, USA), Penny McCann (Ottawa), Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof (Toronto), and Michael Wyshock (Oneonta, USA).

Artists Edward Folger and Penny McCann will attend the screening.

This program features six experimental works by Canadian and International artists that explore the poetic and socio-political significances of water.
Sourced from diverse filmic narrative approaches and techniques, these works traverse the metaphorical terrain of water as a reservoir of life and socio-economic growth, of personal memories and collective histories, and as esoteric musings on its references with space and time. Whether these re-invented narratives are built from still images or captured sights of experience, their individual sound collage functions more than just an element that underscores the visuals. Ranging from the natural to the heavily synthesized, each sound mosaic creates a complex multidimensional space of experience that intimately engages with the viewer.

In the fluid spaces of their narratives, these experimental filmic works are more than just sites of personal ruminations. They are the contemporary reflections on and about the significances of the mundane and of the social and political issues relating to water in a global world that is continuously changing.

Program

Waterbang, Michael Wyshock (Oneonta, USA), 2007, 2 min. 29 sec., dvd
Lake Ontario (in my head), Penny McCann (Ottawa), 2006, 5 min. 12 sec., 16 mm
No Happy Endings, Edward Folger (Ottawa), 2007, 6 min. 13 sec., dvd
SHANGHAIEXPRESS, Zhenchen Liu (Paris), 2005, 6 min., dvd
Fla. Me, Theodore Lyman (Richmond, USA), 1982, 24 min., 16mm
Pulsions, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof (Toronto), 2007, 9 min. 30 sec., 16mm

Reservoir is presented in collaboration with the exhibition "Leaving Deep Water" at Galerie SAW Gallery. www.galeriesawgallery.com

Available Light Screening Collective is an Ottawa, Ontario-based volunteer organization committed to curating and presenting experimental film and video artworks within the local community. From its inception in 1995 as a Super 8 production group, Available Light has functioned as a non-incorporated artists' collective, a democratic and flexible form of governance in keeping with the shifting character of the dynamic experimental media artworks it is dedicated to presenting. Available Light gratefully acknowledges the public funding it receives from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Ottawa.

For further information: availablelightcollective@gmail.com