DIM Cinema
DIM presents Canadian and international artists and their moving-image practices in dialogue with the cinema.
DIM is programmed by Amy Kazymerchyk through the Pacific Cinémathèque Pacifique. programming[at]dimcinema[dot]ca
DIM IS NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTING UNSOLICITED SUBMISSIONS FROM ARTISTS OR CURATORS.
DIM evenings take place on the third Monday of every month and commence at 7:30pm, unless otherwise stated.
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Aug
21
Cary Cronenwett's Maggots and Men, Derek Jarman's Imagining October, Kenneth Anger's Fireworks
August 21, 2009 - 7:00pm | Add new comment
Maggots and Men is an experimental historical narrative set in a mythologized, post-revolutionary Russia. The film dramatizes the events of the 1921 Kronstadt uprising and pays tribute to the Kronstadt sailors’ earnest pursuit of communist ideals. With a subtext of gender anarchy, Maggots and Men positions the struggle for gender equality within a larger struggle for peace and justice. Cast with female-to-male transgender actors, the film documents a rapidly evolving transgender community and illuminates the contemporary gender revolution. Painting the brief success of Kronstadt’s communal society as a fanciful utopia, Maggots and Men transports us to a realm where we can dream of alternatives to capitalist society.
Derek Jarman | Imagining October | 1984 | 27mins | 16mm | UK
A dreamlike meditation on art and politics in the final years of the Cold War; shot in the streets of Moscow on Super-8 film during the final moments of pre-Perestroika Russia.
Kenneth Anger | Fireworks | 1947 | 15mins | 16mm | USA
One of the earliest wet dreams about the power and physique of Navy Marines, conjured at the mercy of a sailor’s loaded masochism.
program running time: 95mins
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Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival is Vancouver's second largest film festival and the largest queer arts event in Western Canada. The Festival hosts a variety of performances, workshops, panels, parties and more, facilitating a unique community space for 11 days each August.
Aug
6
The Speculative Frontier + Jeffrey Allport + Empress
August 6, 2009 - 8:00pm | Add new comment
Inspired by Stan Brakhage’s The Stars Are Beautiful (1974), a sound film that cycles through mythological explanations for the cosmos in dozens of permutations, the curators of tonight's event devised an exploratory text that drew from science fiction, structural anthropology, and deep-space physics. They then approached artists from a wide range of disciplines to create new work in response to this cue, resulting in a series of projects--performances, music, lectures, films, and videos--that navigate across the Speculative Frontier, the boundary between the known and the unknown.
Expect to see and hear: transmissions from Apollo 8, unidentified objects,black metal, alchemy, ghosts, gods, cartoons.
Selections from “The Stars Are Beautiful”
3) It’s a great roof studded with sequins. The movement of the stars is in relationship to the movement of the sun, giving the impression that the stars are moving across the sky.
4) The stars are optical nerve endings of the eye which the universe is.
9) The fact is, the earth is falling into a well. The sun is the top of the well, the blue sky the walls. The stars are reflections of the real stars behind the sun.
10) It is a furry animal. The stars are silver hairs.
12) The sky is all together, not composed in such great distances as we suppose. In truth, it is an old fire. The stars are small sparks, the sun a burning coal. The black of the sky at night is ashes, the moon a bubbling drop of water. This is the same with us, i.e.: as the universe burns, so do we. Our heads contain water very much like the sky holds moons. The burning in us keeps the water in our heads boiling and sputtering.
13) The sky is the dead decaying body of God; the stars are glittering maggots.
20) The stars are trembling silver stings to everyone’s brains. The sun and moon are the eyes of the great puppeteer…Once a month he smiles and winks: He has control of our fates.
21) The day-sky is a pool of al our tears: the world is getting smaller and smaller. The night –sky is a blotter to all our black thoughts: there is very little space left.
30) The sun, moon, and stars are the footprints of God (we are his head) as he walks currently in a circle.
by Stan Brakhage
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