The Loop
Collective is a group of independent media artists formed in 1996 to
develop a public platform integrating
experimental film and video with other art forms. We program and
produce works for presentation through exhibitions
and events in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. Our mission
is to explore the roots of experimental
film and video by creating a dialogue with other art media. We strive
to promote experimental film and video for
critical engagement by cultivating relations among different artistic
communities. The Loop Collective has
presented gallery installations, screenings, and artist talks by
renowned figures including
Michael Snow, Chris Welsby, Christian Lebrat, Carolee Schneemann, and
Jósef Robakowski.
Programmes of films by Loop members have screened at venues including
The National Film Board of Canada (Toronto),
Cinema Parallele (Montreal), Winnipeg Cinematheque, NASCAD (Halifax),
Club SAW (Ottawa), The Factory (Hamilton),
Leeds International Film Festival (United Kingdom), and the 2010
Canadian Retrospective at EXiS Festival, (Diagonal Film Archive, Seoul).
As part of Loop’s fifteen-year
anniversary, its members have produced an anthology of their own
writings and a DVD containing a small selection of their films.
The DVD includes
fugitive l(i)ght
by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof / 2005 / 9 min. / 16mm / colour / sound
fugitive
l(i)ght emphasizes rhythmic structures over and above representation,
by drawing the viewer's gaze into a maze of multiple folds of
continuously unfolding colour patterns.
c: won eyed jail
by Kelly Egan / 2005 / 4 min 30 sec / 35 mm / colour / silent
c: won
eyed jail is a 35mm film projects consisting of two parts: a quilt
patterned out of 35mm still negatives and 35mm found motion picture, and
a traditional film print of the quilt that is screened through a 35mm
motion picture projector. The dual existence of c: won eyed jail a
projected film and as a sculptural object is meant to call into question
the originary place of analysis of film: is it in the content projected
on the screen or in the filmstrip/film negative---the “score” of the
filmmaker? The quilt itself allows audience members access to the
negative of the film, an art object normally sequestered from its viewing
public
Thaw
by Shana MacDonald / 2006 / 8 min / 16mm / colour / silent
Thaw
expresses the filmmaker’s personal frustration with images of femininity
within visual culture. Using images from the canon of
Western art
as a starting point, the film explores the feelings of panic and
immobility that accompany the exploration of one’s own sense of self in
the face of cultural expectations.
Parícutin
by Erika Loic / 2007 / 14 min / 16mm / colour / sound
In
February of 1943, a fissure appeared in the cornfield of Dionisio
Pulido, a farmer in the Mexican state of Michoacán. Ash and incandescent
rocks emerging from this fissure preceded lava flows, violent
explosions, and the birth of Mexico's youngest volcano. Parícutin
combines animation with footage shot at the current site of the volcano
to recreate the full life cycle of the volcano.
Quanta
by Dan Browne / 2008 / 10 minutes / 16mm / b&w / silent
Quanta
is an investigative record of patterns found in the observable
Universe, as contained within the perceptions of a Bolex taken for an
afternoon excursion in a rowboat.
Shapes Eat Shapes
by Angela Joosse /2006 / 3 min 16 sec / digital video / colour / sound
Shapes
Eat Shapes is a sound-image waltz. The dance is performed between
interior bodily rhythms, and exterior urban patterns and grids. In this
way, the work explores the musical and rhythmic qualities of
being-in-the-world.
Levitas
by Angela Joosse 2009 / 1min / dv / colour / sound
While
in New York I lived in an apartment which had an excellent view of
the constant flow of air planes making their way along the path
towards landing. This one minute video is a visual music piece that
plays with airborne things.
Spiders in Eden
by Ty Tekatch / 2008 / 11 min / digital video / colour / sound
There's
trouble in Eden! Spiders have taken over the garden and their
intoxicating bite threatens paradise. Guest narrator Walt Whitman.
The Changing Light
by Ilama Gutman / 2003 /1 min 30 sec / DV / colour / sound
Christ Church - Saint James
by Stephen Broomer / 2011 / 6 min 38 sec / 16mm / colour / sound
Thought Form
by Katherine McInnis / 2010 / 2min 46 sec / 16mm / b&w / silent
Morning
by Ajla Odobasic / 2011 / 4min 13 sec / S8/ DV / color / sound
Many Glimpses
by Collin Clark / 2011 / 13 min / HD / color / sound
Movement / Stasis (documentation)
by Kassandra Prus / 2009 / 8min 51sec / DV / colour / sound
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