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

Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry (Daniel Barrow)

Daniel Barrow - Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry

Daniel Barrow returns to Edmonton, and to STEM Cell - this time with his newest manual animation, Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry, screening at Metro Cinema on Fri, Feb 12 @ 9pm.

Please join us as well for a free artist's talk on Sat, Feb 13 @ 2pm, at The ARTery. The artist's talk follows a brunch put on by The EATery at The ARTery, from noon til 3pm. There is no cover charge, and the artist's talk is free. Brunch will be regular EATery prices.

The ARTery is at 9535 Jasper Ave.

Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry

Canada 2008, 60 min performance, Written, Illustrated and Performed by Daniel Barrow

Original Soundtrack by Amy Linton

Awarded the 2008 Images Prize at its premiere, Daniel Barrow's newest "manual animation" combines overhead projection with video, music, and live narration to tell the story of a garbage man with a vision to create an independent phone book chronicling the lives of each person in his city. In the late hours of the night, he sifts through garbage, collecting personal information and then traces pictures of each citizen through the windows of their homes as they sleep. What he doesn't yet realize is that a deranged killer is trailing him, murdering each citizen he includes in his book, thus rendering his cataloging efforts obsolete. The garbageman is a failed artist who fears becoming subject to the grip of something overwhelming. This animation traces his attempts to slow down and creatively reflect, in a process of coming to terms with his own self-loathing and fear.

Fri, Feb 12 @ 9pm @ Metro Cinema (9828 101A Ave)

Tickets for the performance are $10, or $8 for students, seniors, and members of MZD / FAVA.

Reeling: Dance on Screen

Mile Zero Dance is bringing some incredible dances to Edmonton from across the country and beyond. Dance made specifically for film is a new genre that shows incredible potential and festivals like this are springing up wordwide. Some featured works include award-winning “Horizon of Exile” by Isabel Rocamora, “Blush” by Ultima Vez and shorts by Montreal’s Mouvement Perpetuel.

Thursday, Feb 11th: 9 pm: “Badlands Project”- see the results of Mile Zero Dance’s collaborative project with Hideo Arai set in the rough terrain of Drumheller, directed by DJ Buchanan. Reception to follow

Friday, Feb 12th: 7pm: “Sex, Death and Arabesque” - a program of dance shorts

Saturday, Feb13th: 9 pm: “Blush” by Belgium’s Ultima Vez

Sunday, Feb 14th: 2:30 pm: “The Gravity of Desire” - a program of dance shorts

All screenings @ Metro Cinema in the Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave

Tickets: $8 for students, seniors, FAVA and MZD members; $10 general.

For schedules and more information: www.stemcelledmonton.org

For interviews or photos, contact Katrina: 780-424-1573 or admin@milezerodance.com