Mismanaging my Image
curated by Alex MacKenzie, Vancouver
PROGRAM SPONSORED BY THE CONSULATE OF CANADA
Thursday, March 6 at the Cultural Center 8:30pm
Saturday, March 8 at Heaven Gallery 7:00pm

Stock shots, celluloid detritus and forgotten images explode the potential of so-called "found footage" as a way of naming, exploring and addressing the disease within a culture desperate for renewed faith and meaning.

To Hug You and Squeeze You
Wago Kredier | V | 2.5 mins | 2001 | Brooklyn NY US wagokreider@earthlink.net
An aggressively edited doubling of found 16mm footage speaking to human/animal mating
rituals, by splicing together a home movie wedding ceremony and animals in captivity.

Introduction to Living in a Closed System jennpipp@hotmail.com
Brittany Gravely | 16mm | 18 mins | 2001 | Boston MA US
Introduction to Living in a Closed System is a fractured educational film based on the
idea of a biospheric utopia: a contained, self sustaining controlled environment which
survives through dynamic and interconnective systems. The disparate elements variously unite or
fall apart as all visions, fears and dreams of this retrospective/future space attempt to operate within the
ideal of a unified, efficient system.

A Film For Schools
Brian Warsing/Jason Asbell | V | 18 mins | 2002 | Vancouver BC CA
film4skoolz@hotmail.com
Never falling into the tempting formulas so commonly exercised with the use of found
footage (educational films), the filmmakers find a beauty beyond the cliches and move into
new territory. With an unhurried and subtle use of a broad range of this material, Warsing and
Asbell virtually reinvent the form and its most potent and remembered icons: birth, biology,
psychology and death.

Candide
John Davis | V | 10.5 mins | 2001 | San Francisco CA US earwig1@mindspring.com
A village sleeps while the average TV watcher roams through the happy-go-lucky world of
publicity. In this paradise a feeling of discomfort lurks as cartoon sounds attempt to
reassure us that it's all a game - like the reflex of the baby monkey seeking protection through its
artificial mother...
(SXSW)

IMITATION OF LIFE
Mike Hoolboom | V | 20 mins | 2001 | Toronto ON fringe@interlog.com
Canada's most prolific and committed experimentalist pillages all of cinema for this "epic
meta-science fiction, in which the future and the present are conceived first as an endless parade of
images. Science fiction as a realm of displaced fears and dreams, a place to imagine a future that's
already here."
(Image Festival)

Alex MacKenzie works as a media curator, filmmaker and performer in the film and video fields. He is the primary programmer and coordinator of The Blinding Light!! Cinema, an alternative and underground screening and performance space devoted to presenting cutting edge, underground, and obscure film and video 6 nights a week in Vancouver, Canada. He is also the Festival Director for the Vancouver Underground Film Festival. MacKenzie has been involved in independent cinema across Canada for over a decade and has lived in Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver working in a variety of independent film-related positions with Cineworks, Mainfilm, the Pacific Cinematheque and The Blinding Light!! Cinema. With over a dozen films to his credit which have screened worldwide as well as being the recipient of numerous creative development and production grants from the Canada Council, MacKenzie has recently toured his transformative film performance works to festivals and avant-garde screenings in the US, Canada, and Europe.