MFG NEWS / NOUVELLES DU MFG

Concordia CSA Announcement:

---------------------------
Please come join us for an intimate discussion with filmmaker Mike Hoolboom.

Mike Hoolboom
THE NARRATED VOICE
Presented by the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Saturday, September 23rd, 2004 at 2pm in FB-411 (Faubourg Building)

Mike Hoolboom is a key member of Toronto's fringe cinema scene since
the 1980s and a prominent figure in the world of experimental
filmmaking.

He works primarily with appropriated images culled from Hollywood
films, documentary footage and home movies. These film sequences are
reconfigured into dream-like narratives depicting the cycle of life -
especially of dying or foreboding death, the complexities of desire
and the frailty of the human body. Threading these images together are
intimate voice-overs or passages of text – both confessional and
inquisitive – reflecting on the human condition both past and future.
The familiarity of Hoolboom's images underlines the impact of cinema
on our conscious selves, on memory, and what we imagine our lives
could be. It is life as cinema and cinema as life. Through this work,
curator Philip Monk states, "Hoolboom suggests that we too are born
and die through the movies."

In the future each moment will be photographed, doubled. Our bodies
will grow transparent. We will enter each other like walking through a
door, until at last we come to an end of the picture world, a world
where we are also pictures. Our movies and photographs, will they help
up understand our last place, teach us how to die?

(Excerpt: Mike Hoolboom, In the Future , Imitations of Life)

----------------------------
Contact:
marianna
csaconcordia@gmail.com