Festival Wrap-up

Thursday, August 28, noon – 5:00 p.m.
Bison Courtyard, 211A Bear Street
Free

Footnotes (Banff) 2008

Kay Burns, artist, Calgary
Footnotes (Banff) has been created as part of a self-directed co-production residency at the Banff Centre with the Banff New Media Institute’s Mobile Lab. It is a locative-media audio walk allowing the viewers’ presence within a space to activate the sound. This walking experience is punctuated with sound triggered by the participants’ geophysical positions and delivered through GPS cell phones/headsets. This project takes as its starting point the underlying notion that we have a connection to place that is shared, nurtured, and cultivated through story and lore. The spoken-word audio elements allude to factual or plausible history of the site combined with fiction; they are delivered as a first person narrative giving the participant a glimpse into a more personal and intimate interpretation of each region as lived and experienced by a past resident/visitor. The content alludes to paradoxes and attributes of human presence within a national park, as well as human interrelation associated with place. The stories are from multiple points of view, a series of sound vignettes of recollections across time and place.

Walks will be scheduled at noon and 3:00 p.m.. To book a time, please contact steve_woollard@banffcentre.ca or 1-403-762-7500

Late Fragment

Late Fragment allows you to watch the film in your own way. With a traditional film, the story unravels as the director intends. With this interactive film, you click enter on your remote control to change scenes. There are no page numbers or menus to chart your course: you decide which storylines you wish to follow, when you want to dig deeper into the history of a character, or when you want to move away. You become the director of the film you are watching. This is a completely new cinematic experience. How do you know when to click your remote? As you watch the story unfold, there may be repeated scenes, pauses that may signal an interesting moment to click, or moments when you intuitively want to click. Every time you watch Late Fragment, you may learn new truths, uncover different histories, and piece together the film in new and very different ways.

In Late Fragment, Kevin, Théo and Faye attempt to piece together the fractured stories of their lives. They are on a quest to reconcile pasts haunted by violence and crime. As you interact with the film, you become part of the quest to uncover the darkness of their pasts, reveal the truths behind their lives, in hopes of restoring wholeness, forgiveness, and perhaps even redemption.

Daniel Fortin — Digital Snow

Digital Snow is a dvd-rom portrait and archive of the work of celebrated Canadian artist Michael Snow, created by Montréal’s studio ÉPOXY.

Kung Fu Numerik — Who We Are

A selection of shorts of www.whoweare.ca, a NFB-produced website created by Montréal’s Kung Fu Numerik that presents a vast interactive mosaic of video portraits of immigrants to Canada.

Steve Woollard —Friend or Foe?

Botega
Friend or Foe? looks at the relationship between our natural and technological worlds. The show aims to draw awareness to the spaces we share with technology and highlight our ever-increasing ambivalence towards them. All of the pieces in the show have been created since Steve moved from Cardiff, Wales, to Banff in November 2007. He accredits this inspirational landscape as a significant influence of the work and invites everyone to come explore the technology hidden within our landscape.

HorizonZero

HorizonZero was a multimedia Web magazine produced by the Banff New Media Institute between August 2002 and December 2004. Focused on digital art and culture in Canada, it was a bilingual virtual space devoted to creativity and critical ideas in the new media canon. The 18 back issues will be available for viewing.

BNMI Co-production Screening

The Banff New Media Institute runs a Coproduction Residency program which supports the development and creation of new works. This screening is a sample of some of past Coproduction projects.

Visions

This Aboriginal poetry video, seen through the eyes of a child, invokes a powerful sequence of visual layers. Produced in collaboration with the Aboriginal Arts program.

Co-producer: Anne Frazier-Henry (Gibson, Canada), 1995
Length: 9 minutes

The Translators

This experimental narrative mixes melodrama and humour with conceptual ideas. As the title suggests, the operative metaphor is translation — a process implicit in every act of communication and understanding — which also refers to the viewers’ untangling of the narrative. The story concerns a couple, he a writer, she an academic, whose personal difficulties and ambitions are tested by chance, fate and misadventure. A cast of friends and strangers, not to mention their own son, help them to elaborate on issues of romantic love, cultural identity, spiritual disquiet, art, loss, and mortality.

Co-producer: John Zeppetelli (Montreal, Canada) 1998
Length: 38 minutes

Logodi Street

A layered subjective documentary shot in Hungary, through a walking visit to the street where the co-producer was born. The video includes testimonies and compelling architecture.

Co-producer: Nina Czegledy (Budapest, Hungary) 1995
Length: 22 minutes

Hitech Culture

A documentary short with interviews of artists and researchers on the place and future of virtual reality. From its origin as a training ground for fighter pilots to a device to ride a mathematical object, artist and researchers talk about their experiences and reasons of using virtual reality. Michael Century, Toni Dove, Perry Hobermann, Michael Scroggins, Diane Gromola, Jo Ann McIntyre, Ron Kuivilla, and Brenda Laurel are featured in this documentary.

Co-producer: Brian Hamilton, 1994
Length: 9 minutes

That Thing Between Us

That Thing Between Us is a nine-minute duet for two performers, where the audience watches from in between the action of the performers. This site-specific video and film installation captures the energy and dynamism of a heated discussion and articulated dance duet. It blurs the line between abstract and personal expression and offers a view of the duet that is impossible in the traditional theatre setting.

Co-producer: Nicole Mion (Calgary, Canada), 2005
Length: 9 minutes

Video Terraform Dance Party

This project is an extension of Jeremy Bailey’s work on VideoPaint, a satirical electronic painting performance software he invented and continues to develop and demonstrate as an ongoing performance. Like VideoPaint, this is totally functional software, and Jeremy has performed the software by demonstrating its functionality and also by telling allegorical stories using the same tools. The final performance contained a dance party in which the audience is invited to dance in the final 3d environment created during the demonstration.

Co-producer: Jeremy Bailey (Toronto, Canada), 2007
Length: 12 minutes