Screenings: Image & Light • History & Influence: Film and Photographic Works, Vancouver

Independent Experimental Film, 1972-96
Wednesday, November 15 – 7:30 pm
Program One

Sandy Wilson
The Bridal Shower (1972, 16mm, colour, sound, 22 mins.)

Reel Feelings
So Where’s My Prince Already? (1976, 16mm, colour, sound, 20 mins.)

Lisa Doyle
Did You Do the Napkin Tops? (1991, 16mm, colour, sound, 7 mins.)

Ann Marie Fleming
You Take Care Now (1989, 16mm, colour, sound, 10 mins.)

Fumiko Kiyooka and Scott Haynes
Clouds (1985, 16mm, b/w and colour, sound, 26 mins.)

Steve Cosens
Endiang (1992, 16mm, b/w, sound, 8 mins.)

(93 mins. total)

Wednesday, November 15 – 9:20 pm
Program Two

Ken Anderlini
Tangled Garden, Act II, Scene II (1993, 16mm, colour, sound, 13 mins.)

David Rimmer
Tiger (1994, 35mm, colour, sound, 5 mins.)
Local Knowledge (1992, 16mm, colour, sound, music by Dennis Burke, 33 mins.)

lan Wallace
Poverty (1980-1, 16mm, b/w film and monochromatic leader, 6 mins.)

Dana Claxton
The Red Paper (1996, 16mm, b/w sound, 14 mins.)

(71 mins. total)

Documentaries
Thursday, November 16 – 7:30 pm
Program One

Phillip Borsos
Cooperage (1976, 16mm, colour, sound, 17 mins.)
The first of a trilogy of “process films” that established Borsos (The Grey Fox) as an important filmmaker, this work chronicles Canada’s only wooden barrel-making factory, Sweeney Cooperage. Located in Vancouver, it was once the largest barrel company in the world. As well as a document of a “dying art,” the film provides a metaphoric commentary on the transition from craft and the use of human labour to the mechanization of a modern world.

Anne Wheeler
Augusta (1976, 16mm, colour, sound, 17 mins.)
This portrait of a non-status Shuswap woman living in the Williams Lake area of B.C. was filmed in her eighty-eighth year, and is an early work of the director Anne Wheeler (Better Than Chocolate, Marine Life). Augusta recalls her past, while living actively and self-sufficiently in the present.

Peg Campbell and Moira Simpson
Street Kids (1985, 16mm, b/w, sound, 22 mins.)
This film provides a realistic look at juvenile prostitution through the creative use of graphically animated photographs and the words of young males and females who are struggling to get off the streets.

Linda Ohama
The Last Harvest (1993, 16mm, colour, sound, 46 mins.)
This award winning film chronicles the dignity and determination of a woman and her family, from her arrival to Canada in the 20s as a “Japanese picture bride,” through the Japanese-Canadian war experience, to a flourishing farm life that is eventually lost in the 90s due to external economic forces.

(101 mins. total)

Thursday, November 16 – 9:30 pm
Program Two

Mina Shum
Me, Mom, and Mona (1993, 16mm, colour, sound, 20 mins.)
A discussion between Shum, her sister and her mother reveals the impact of conflicting forces of Chinese and Canadian cultural tradi-tions, patriarchal expectations, different generations, feminist aspirations and the need for personal identity. The film presents, humorously and evocatively, how each woman deals with these challenges in her life.

Colin Browne
Father and Son (1992, 16mm, colour, sound, 88 mins.)
An innovative documentary and film memoir that explores the roles of son and father in western culture. Through the reflections of several fathers and sons, archival footage, photographs, home video, poetic sequences, and comments by the filmmaker on his own experience, the rich complexities of this relationship are examined.

(108 mins. total)

The Documentary as Extended Exploration
Saturday, November 18 – 7:30 pm

Nettie Wild
A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution (1988, 16mm, colour, sound, 112 mins.)
Covering the time when Corazon Aquino was established as the new head of a democratic government of the Philippines in February 1986, this film chronicles the issues and characters of these historical events, including the ramifications of a political triangle formed by the legal left, the illegal, armed revolution (the New People’s Army) and the armed reactionary right. An award winning work from the director of A Place Called Chiapas.

Saturday, November 18 – 9:30 pm

Jan-Marie Martell with Annie Zetco York
Bowl of Bone (1992, 16mm, colour, sound, 114 mins.)
Shot over 15 years in collaboration with Interior Salish herbalist and syuwe (shaman) Annie Zetco York, this film combines journalism with spiritual quest-biography and dreams with explorations of cultural difference, friendship, life, death and ritual. Winner of numerous North American honours, including the Eagle Spirit Award at the American Indian Film Festival.

As part of the project Image & Light • History & Influence: Film and Photographic Works, Vancouver, Pacific Cinémathèque joins with the Charles H. Scott Gallery of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design to present five evenings of screenings on November 8, 15, 16, 18 and 20. Curated by Ann Pollock, this project examines contributions to and influences on film and photographic practice in the Vancouver region from the late 60s to the present.

An Evening of Animation
Monday, November 20 – 7:30 pm

Al Sens, Ken Wallace, Gail Noonan, Marilyn Cherenko, Carol Halstead, Martin Rose, Ann Marie Fleming, and Marv Newland are among the many filmmakers who will be represented in this program of Vancouver animation.