[IPSM] Real Reels Video Fest: Yellow Reels, Brown Reals--FRI, JUN. 16TH

[Nora Butler-Burke]

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Subject: [Centre2110] (Mtl.) Real Reels Video Fest: Yellow Reels, Brown
Reals--FRI, JUN. 16TH
From:    "Centre 2110" <centre2110 at gmail.com>
Date:    Fri, June 9, 2006 2:22 pm
To:      centre2110 at lists.mutualaid.org
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The Centre 2110 and QPIRG Concordia present:

Real Reels Video Fest: Yellow Reels, Brown Reals

FRI, JUN. 16TH.  EV BUILDING. RM. 1-615.
YORK AMPHITHEATRE. GUY METRO. FREE.
1515 STE-CATHERINE W., CORNER BISHOP
This event is wheelchair accessible. It is also perfume and scent-free.
For free childcare, please call 848 2424, ext. 7431 by Wed., June 14th @ 5pm.

Schedule:

2 pm: THE STORY OF VINH
 60 min, 1991, USA, dir. Keiko Tsuno
 As many as 100,000 mixed race children were left in Vietnam by their
American Fathers when the U.S. troops pulled out in 1973. In the years
following the war, some were allowed to migrate to the United States.
The program shows our failure to integrate Vinh into the social fabric
and forces us to examine the legacy of the Vietnam War, the limits of
our societal obligations to refugees and their assimilation into
American society.

 3 pm: LOSING TO WINNING
 5 min., 2005, Can., dir. Heather Keung
 Losing to Winning uses video footage from Heather Keung's competitive
performance at this year's National Taekwondo Association
Championships to construct two versions of the same event. Comparing
real-time to extended time, the work places emphasis on how simple
treatment can be used to reconstruct different experiences. The work
relates contemporary martial arts practice to performance arts and
public spectacle. As subject to spectators and camera, Keung looks at
Asian identity through activity and female competition in amateur
sporting arenas.

 3:30 pm: LIVING IN COLOUR
 48 min., 2002, USA, dir. Meena Nanji
 This is an upbeat look at the lives of four second generation South
Asian youth, born and raised in L.A.. Their dreams and challenges are
articulated with a mix of self-reflection, insight, and humour.
Featuring Rasneek, a Sikh DJ, who mixes bhangra and hip-hop; Sonia, a
committed feminist, who works in health care for women, Amrapali, a
classically trained Kathak dancer, now dancing in the Cirque du
Soleil, and Dileepan, a budding public policy maker.

 4:30 pm: TALES OF THE NIGHT FAIRIES
 74 min., 2002, India, dir. Shohini Ghosh
 Five sex workers - four women and one man - along with the
filmmaker/narrator embark on a journey of storytelling. Tales of the
Night Fairies explores the power of collective organizing and
resistance while reflecting upon contemporary debates around sex work.
The simultaneously expansive and labyrinthine city of Calcutta forms
the backdrop for the personal and musical journeys of storytelling.

 5:45 pm: ISLANDS
 9 min., 2002, Can., dir. Richard Fung
 This is an experimental video that deconstructs a film by John Huston
to comment on the Caribbean's relationship to the cinematic image. As
a whole the work maps out the relationship between nationalism and
sexuality in Trinidad and Tobago and Canada. As the first piece in the
National Sex series, Islands poses questions of visibility, desire and
authenticity: is it possible to actually see the Caribbean, so shaded
is our vision by tourism and other mediating lenses?

6:30 PM: IN THE SHADOW OF GOLD MOUNTAIN
 43 min, 2004, Can., dir. Karen Cho
 Cho's film takes her from Montreal to Vancouver to uncover stories
from the last living survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion
Act. This dark chapter in Canadian history, from 1885 until 1947,
plunged the Chinese community in Canada into decades of debt and
family separation. At the centre of the film are testimonials of
extraordinary Chinese Canadians who survived an era that threatened to
eradicate their entire community.

 7:15 pm: TRYING TO KEEP CONCENTRATE
 8 min., 2004, Can., dir. Ruthann Lee
 Featuring footage from an in-store surveillance camera and interviews
with the video-maker's father (an owner of a convenience store in
downtown Toronto), the short documentary presents personal and
systematic views of Korean immigrant experiences in Canada.

 7:30 PM: UNCOMFORTABLE: THE ART OF CHRISTOPHER COZIER
 48 min., 2005, Can., dir. Richard Fung
 This is a journey thorough the work of Trinidad-based artist and
cultural critic Christopher Cozier, one of the leading contemporary
artists in the Caribbean. The tape presents Cozier's drawings,
installations and video works in the context of post-independence
Trinidad with its oil-rich economy, complicated ethnic politics, and
vibrant cultural forms. Treated in this video are the failure of
McDonald's to take root in Trinidad (while other fast food chains
flourish); the systemic difficulties of a Third World artist to
circulate internationally; an art market that validates only pretty
pictures of flowers and beaches,

 8:30 pm: THE GRACE LEE PROJECT
 68 min., 2005, USA, dir. Grace Lee
 When Korean American filmmaker Grace Lee was growing up in Missouri,
she was the only Grace Lee she knew. Once she left the Midwest
however, everyone she met seemed to know "another Grace Lee." But why
did they assume that all Grace Lees were reserved, dutiful,
piano-playing overachievers? The filmmaker plunges into a funny,
highly unscientific investigation into all those Grace Lees who break
the mould -- from a fiery social activist to a rebel who tried to burn
down her high school. With wit and charm, this film puts a hilarious
spin on the eternal question, "What's in a name?"

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