STEM Cell 2010

STEM Cell: Sub Terranean Edmonton Media Arts Festival
Presented by Metro Cinema, Mile Zero Dance and FAVA
Thur, February 11 – Sun, February 14, 2010

Featuring:
Reeling: Dance on Screen
A live performance by Daniel Barrow
Experimental Docs packaged around themes of Home Movies! Phenomenology! Perception! And More!

Three organizations (Mile Zero Dance, FAVA, and Metro Cinema) are collaborating to present the latest edition of STEM Cell, a celebration of experimental film, video, media art, and dance-on-screen works.

The 2010 festival includes:

• a live performance by Daniel Barrow of his manual animation, Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry
• the premiere of Mile Zero Dance's Badlands Project, a dance on screen work made in collaboration by Gerry Morita, Hideo Arai, and David Jeffrey Buchanan
• five packages of short experimental documentaries, including work by John Greyson and Tom Sherman (both winners of the Bell Award in Video Art), and by local filmmakers Aaron Munson, Trevor Anderson and Ashleigh Brown, among many others.
• a screening of Blush, a dance on screen work by Ultima Vez & Wim Vandekeybus, with music by David Eugene Edwards of Woven Hand, and 16 Horsepower
• two screenings of short dance on screen work, including Danse Macabre by Pedro Pires (one of Canada's Top Ten Short Films of 2009)
• a piece of media art abandonware by local artist Mr Wick. A media art sculpture will be left in public during the course of the festival; once we know the location, we will announce it via Facebook and our website. There is no guarantee that the work will not be cleaned up, vandalized or removed before audience members get to see it, although we will document it as best as we can.

Tickets: $10 general, $8 students/seniors/MZD+FAVA members
Festival Passes: $40
Passes available in advance from Metro Cinema, Mile Zero Dance or FAVA as of Jan. 25
Individual tickets available only at the door

More information at:Metro Cinema's STEM Cell page

Schedule of Events

Thur, Feb 11th:

• 7:00 pm: Experimental Docs: Variations on the Home Movie
• 9:00 pm: Reeling: MZD's Bad Lands (Good Luck)
• Reception to follow

Fri, Feb 12th:

• 7:00 pm: Reeling: Sex, Death & Arabesque - A series of dance shorts
• 9:00 pm: Daniel Barrow, live performance of: Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry

Sat, Feb 13th:

• Noon - 3:00 pm: Brunch, The EATery at The ARTery
• 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Daniel Barrow Artist Talk @ The ARTery (free admission for artist talk)
• 6:00 pm: Experimental Docs: Landscapes
• 7:30 pm: Experimental Docs: The Medium of Media
• 9:00 pm: Reeling: Blush - a film by Ultima Vez

Sun, Feb 14th:

• 1:00 pm: Experimental Docs: Memory
• 2:30 pm: Reeling: The Gravity of Desire - A series of dance shorts
• 4:00 pm: Experimental Docs: Phenomenology & Perception

Date & Time TBD:

• Abandonware installation by media artist Dr Wik