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This Sunday, April 28th 2024, be sure to check out N DIMENSIONAL SPACE, an experimental film screening and gathering organized by XINEMA (Iris Film Collective member Sidney Gordon) + UNIT/PITT to accompany Al Razutis’ exhibition GRAVITY WINS, ENTROPY RULES curated by Felix Rapp. Featuring works by Kasper Feyrer, Tamara Henderson, Peter Lipskis, Sam Perry, and Al Razutis released between the years of 1965-2023, this program showcases a range of voices from Vancouver’s experimental film history, representing a community of filmmakers influenced by the shifting ethos and environments of the Pacific Northwest.

Sunday, April 28, 2024, 8pm The Garden - UNIT/PITT 2954 W4th Ave Vancouver BC

**Please note, this event is taking place outside. Pay-what-you-can tickets will be available at the door. Please plan to arrive early to secure a seat. If weather is poor, the screening will be rescheduled**

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Basement Films have truly outdone themselves with this year's Experiments In Cinema v19.8, an incredible festival of experimental film and video works that will include a special programme of films by Jon Behrens (1964-2022), Belgrade's Alternative Film Video, a live media performance by 99 Hooker, works from (S8) Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico, and loads more. Iris Film Collective member Alex MacKenzie's YUL20A will be screening in Experiment 6, and there are a total of an incredible 21 curated collections of work to see.

If you can't make it in person from April 23-27 2024 in Albuquerque at the Guild Cinema, you can watch it free online May 4-18 2024 at experimentsincinema.org.

Check out the site for the full festival guide and all the film goodies!

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“Making developers with the plants from Cypress mountain — cedar and other plant materials. Some of the film was also immersed in ocean water, which affected the image. I buried some of the film by the train tracks after processing it. Through this process, I was bringing those places and bringing Josh into the film physically.” — Nisha Platzer

Great interview on ReIssue!, Alex Jensen and filmmaker Nisha Platzer (and Iris Film Collective member) in conversation: “Synchronicities, Queerness, and Analogue Film” @firstraver @melodiousimagefilm @reissue.pub #irisfilmcollective #nishaplatzer #ecoprocessing #reissue

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Iris Film Collective recommends: Come celebrate the life and work of David Rimmer with a free National Canadian Film Day program devoted to his singular experimental film practice. Friends and collaborators will be in attendance, with remembrances shared throughout the evening. Wednesday, April 17th 2024 at 7pm, The Cinematheque at 1131 Howe Street. (photo: Self Portrait, by David Rimmer)

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The 25th anniversary of the dresdner schmalfilmtage festival will be a truly Canadian event this year, with many films from Canadian Artist (including Iris Film Collective member Alex MacKenzie's WAITING ROOM in competition), a prairie retrospective with Mike Rollo, as well as a workshop and curated screening with Ontario-based Sandy McLennan. With even more films from Baltic Analog, Austria's Sixpack Film and plenty more, you will want to be there if not in person then in filmspirit: March 14-17 2024!

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We are excited to have Iris Film Collective member Alex MacKenzie participating in the third and final phase of the SPECTRAL Wanderings research seminar in Nantes (France) followed by a european tour of his EXPERIMENTS FOR A SINGLE PROJECTOR with workshops as well in Nantes, Rennes, Berlin, Riga, Helsinki and Vaasa between February 17 and March 11, 2024. Be sure to check it out if you are in the neighbourhood!

Details and links at alexmackenzie.ca

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Wishing everybody Season's Feelings over the holidays, see you in 2024!

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We are excited to announce that Iris Film Collective member Alex MacKenzie will be having the European Premiere of YUL20A at Alternative Film Video 2023 in New Belgrade, Serbia. The festival take place 6-9 December. If you are in Serbia, check it out!

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Iris Film Collective's Nisha Platzer will be in person at the Bogotá Film Festival to present BACK HOME Tuesday November 21 at 8pm!

PLUS: A second screening of BACK HOME along with a selection of works from IRIS FILM COLLECTIVE at Maleza, 28bis #49a-70 on Friday November 24 at 7pm.

EXCITING!!

@bogocine_ #Cinemania_colombia @melodiousimagefilm #nishaplatzer #backhome #irisfilmcollective @malezaproyectos @welleventhen

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We are thrilled to announce that Iris Film Collective member Lindsay McIntyre will be having her worked screened at the Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). If you are in Berkeley be sure to check out "Seeing Them: The Films of Lindsay McIntyre", 7pm November 15th 2023.

Lindsay's film NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ recently won Best Live Action Short at the 24th imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, which moves the film forward as a nomination to the Academy Awards!

#BAMPFA #tinymovingpictures #lindsaymcintyre #irisfilmcollective #16mm #PacificFilmArchive #imagineNATIVE

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It's the ONE YEAR CINE-CELEBRATION of the incredible XIN3MA! Thursday November 16th at 7pm, VanCity Theater.

Don't miss this open submission screening of 35 Xin3matic gems, including a couple from Iris Film Collective members: Amanda Thomson's "Too Drunk to be Afraid - Kellarissa" and lisa g's "86 SE Marine".

Congratulations on a stunning year of monthly shows and adjacent events, such a truly welcome addition to Vancouver's local experimental film scene. SEE YOU THERE!

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Engauge 2023 unreels very soon in Seattle, celebrating sprocket-driven, artist-made experimental celluloid. Films from Iris Film Collective members Nisha Platzer and Alex MacKenzie are in the mix: Alex’s WAITING ROOM plays in the GRAIN, CLOUD, ATMOSPHERE programme on Friday Nov 3 at 6:30pm, while Nisha’s TULIPS ARE MY FATHER’S FAVOURITE FLOWER features in WHAT WE TENDED on Saturday Nov 4 at 6:30pm.

Be sure to check out the whole festival if you are in town, plenty of great programmes, plus a Harry Smith Centenary Celebration!

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We are thrilled that Iris member Nisha Platzer’s BACK HOME opens the Rendezvous With Madness Festival in Toronto February 27th. The festival runs to Nov 5, be sure to check it out if you are in town: https://workmanarts.com/rendezvous-with-madness/

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Antimatter is upon us! Another stunning and rigorous selection of film video and installation works running Oct 20-29, 2023. We are pleased to have YUL20A by Iris Film Collective member Alex MacKenzie having its World Premiere on opening night Oct 20 at 8pm, and member Nisha Platzer’s BACK HOME also featured the afternoon of Saturday the 21st at 3pm. Many of the films are available to stream for 24 hours after the in-person screening, so be sure check the schedule at antimatter.ca

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Iris Film Collective's Nisha Platzer is touring her feature documentary back home, with shows at Chicago Underground FF (Sept 15 & 17), Whammy! Analog in LA (Sept 18), Shapeshifters in Oakland (Sept 20) and Local Sightings FF Seattle (Sept 24), with more to come in October!

back home follows the filmmaker’s pursuit to get to know her older brother, Josh, twenty years after he took his own life. Over a five-year period, she connects with the friends who knew him best as a teenager. Her exchanges with Josh’s found family express the importance and transformative power of grieving in community.

Through intimate recollections re-imagined on 16mm and Super8 film, and lyrical, celluloid visuals hand-processed in plants, seaweed, soil and ashes, back home floats between memory and the present – a fragmented meditation on identity, loss, and healing.

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If you are in Barcelona, Vienna, Plymouth, London, Frome or Newcastle in the next weeks, come check out Alex MacKenzie’s EXPERIMENTS FOR A SINGLE PROJECTOR, as he tours this live expanded cinema show to a few select stops in Europe (see below for dates and locations) and presents workshops along the way.

Exploring the potential of the 16mm film projection apparatus and amplifying the possibilities of this refined and precise tool, EXPERIMENTS FOR A SINGLE PROJECTOR is a suite of expanded and performed works that use the mechanism to its fullest potential; manipulating, modifying and enhancing various aspects of its functionality. Found footage, painted filmstrips and light are transformed with beam interference, bipacked looping, focus, lens and shutter alterations to create radically transformed and dreamlike spaces—epic, immersive, and abstracted. The results shimmer across the screen, uniting “the cosmic with the microscopic...in an ecstatic splendour of light” (Marilyn Brakhage). 

“Alex MacKenzie is the unequivocal master of contemporary Canadian expanded cinema: using rare and outdated technology with the deft touch of a visual alchemist, MacKenzie spins his stunning and mesmerizing anti-narratives using the detritus of cinematic history to create a completely unforgettable, and undeniably powerful, alternate vision.”  -Antimatter Media Art

“MacKenzie is a key player in the revival of expanded cinema forms, having performed an array of super 8 and 16mm projection works over the last twenty-five years. His projects stretch the possibilities of the analogue form, manipulating images to beyond our received expectations.” -Chris Kennedy, Early Monthly Film Segments (Toronto) 

Experiments for a Single Projector DATES AND LOCATIONS:

28 July  Barcelona - Crater-Lab Hangar, door T 8pm 31 July  Vienna - filmkoop wien 7pm 02 August  Plymouth - CAMP/37 Looe Street 7pm 07 August  London - Close-Up Film Centre 8:15pm 09 August  Frome - Bennett Centre 7:30pm 11 August  Newcastle - Star & Shadow Cinema 7:30pm

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Spectral Wandering Sound and Images 2.0, presented by @mire_nantes, just wrapped in Rochefort-Sur-Loire, France, where a group of film and audio artists gathered to create and modify projection and performance apparatus for off-grid use as a part of the larger SPECTRAL project. Iris Film Collective member Alex Mackenzie was one of the residents on site for an intensive 10 days of research and building, along with incredible food and a stunning backdrop. Huge thanks to all who gave their time and space. Watch out for the final phase in February 2024!