october 2016
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #89 = Dan Browne in person!
Early Monthly Segments is pleased to host a screening of the work of local artist Dan Browne. A prolific film and video maker over the last decade, Browne finds himself drawn to the abstract patterns of nature, organizing them visually into immersive films that examine light play and embodied vision.
After a few years diving prolifically into digital image-making—including the much lauded memento mori—tonight’s screening features a return to celluloid for Browne with a brand new compendium of seven short films, entitled The Lost Cycle. The cycle, for Browne, “came about as a result of the process of going through my negatives — I found these otherwise lost moments in my filmography, moments that had meaning, which I had intended to do things with but never got around to doing, and decided to release them as a coming to terms with my karma for the medium.”
Programme:
Quanta, Dan Browne, Canada, 2008, 16mm, 9 min.
On Sundays, Dan Browne, Canada, 2007, 16mm, 20 min.
Hand-processing, Dan Browne, Canada, 2010, 16mm, 3 min.
The Lost Cycle, Dan Browne, Canada, 2016, 16mm, 24 min.
Festival of Light, Dan Browne, Canada, 2007, 16mm, 3 min.
Early Monthly Segments #89 = Dan Browne in person!
@ Gladstone Hotel, Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
Monday, October 24, 2016 | 8:00 PM screening | $5-10 suggested donation
Newly announced screenings of Poem:
- UNEXPOSED Microcinema on September 30th, part of a three-part series on Canadian experimental film, alongside Shannon Harris, Erin Celeste Weisgerber, Parastoo Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko and Faraz Anoushahpour, Scott Fitzpatrick and Mike Hoolbloom.
- Festival du Nouveau Cinema, "The New Alchemists #2," on October 10th & 12th, featuring works by Anouk de Clercq, Solomon Nagler, Katherine Liberovskaya, Matthias Müller, Jessica Sarah Rinland and Audréane Beaucage. I will be in attendance for both screenings!
- Transient Visions Festival of Moving Image, "Lines that we follow, shapes that we create," curated by Tomonari Nishikawa, on October 15th. Great selection of works, featuring Blake Williams, Robert Todd, Christina Hunt, Brian Wilson, Dana Berman Duff and Zach Iannazzi.
- KLEX - 7th Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival, November 25-27th.
Also, Midway (2008) will be presented at Curta8 International Festival of Super 8 on October 8th, in a programme alongside works by Saul Levine, Stephen Broomer, Joseph Bernard, Malena Szlam, Alexandra Morales, and Eda Goksel and Rita Piffer. This is the first time the restored version has been publicly presented, many thanks to Rafael Schlichting and Cláudio Cárdenas!
Above: Stills from Midway (2008, 13 min, Super 8 Kodachrome).
I am also really pleased to say I have some upcoming solo screenings in the works. I will do a separate post on these as soon as they are announced, but for now I can say that in December I will be touring the Loop Collective "Recent Works" programme to Ottawa with Canadian Film Institute, and Montreal with VISIONS / La Lumière Collective, alongside a selection of my own films, featuring The Lost Cycle (2016). It also looks like I will have a solo show in Toronto later this month... Details TBA soon!