We had a truly beautiful evening of recent experimental films from Mexico presented by filmmaker Elena Pardo at Cineworks, a huge thanks to Elena for bringing them to us, to all the filmmakers, and to Cineworks for hosting!

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We had a truly beautiful evening of recent experimental films from Mexico presented by filmmaker Elena Pardo at Cineworks, a huge thanks to Elena for bringing them to us, to all the filmmakers, and to Cineworks for hosting!

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We had a truly beautiful evening of recent experimental films from Mexico presented by filmmaker Elena Pardo at Cineworks, a huge thanks to Elena for bringing them to us, to all the filmmakers, and to Cineworks for hosting!
AUGUST 23rd 7pm Elena Pardo IN PERSON from Mexico City with TERRA INCOGNITA, TERRA INDOMITA.
Copresented Iris Film Collective and Cineworks.
This evening presents a selection of experimental films curated by Elena Pardo and Isabel Rojas that explore present and past untamed territories through a speculative gaze that subverts preconceptions about identity, ethnicity and territory.
Featuring many films originally created on 16mm and Super 8, these works hail from Mexico City’s Experimental Film Collective LEC and their friends. The programme is co-presented with Cineworks and takes place at their Black Box Studio, alley entrance 1131 Howe Street - FREE admission!
Films featured are by: Carolina Jaschack, Azucena Losana, Elena Pardo, Marcela Cuevas, Edén Bastida, Jael Jacobo + Ezequiel Guido, Daniel Valdez Puertos, Bruno Varela, and Annalisa Quagliata.
Don’t miss the rare chance to see these works and meet filmmaker and co-curator Elena Pardo.
PLUS:
Echo Park Film Centre presents a picnic with Elena Pardo & Friends! Sunday, August 28 11am-2pm. Elena will facilitate a relaxed “Expanded Cinema” workshop where attendees can experience the playful wonder of 16mm projection using various gels, filters and lenses to distort analog images.
Elena is a featured guest at the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival and will be presenting Pulsos Subterráneos, a live expanded cinema work, on September 3rd at the festival.
More tickets and info here: https://www.goelevent.com/VLAFF/e/PulsosSubterraneos
Big thanks to VLAFF for their support with this program.
AUGUST 23rd 7pm Elena Pardo IN PERSON from Mexico City with TERRA INCOGNITA, TERRA INDOMITA.
Copresented Iris Film Collective and Cineworks.
This evening presents a selection of experimental films curated by Elena Pardo and Isabel Rojas that explore present and past untamed territories through a speculative gaze that subverts preconceptions about identity, ethnicity and territory.
Featuring many films originally created on 16mm and Super 8, these works hail from Mexico City’s Experimental Film Collective LEC and their friends. The programme is co-presented with Cineworks and takes place at their Black Box Studio, alley entrance 1131 Howe Street - FREE admission!
Films featured are by: Carolina Jaschack, Azucena Losana, Elena Pardo, Marcela Cuevas, Edén Bastida, Jael Jacobo + Ezequiel Guido, Daniel Valdez Puertos, Bruno Varela, and Annalisa Quagliata.
Don’t miss the rare chance to see these works and meet filmmaker and co-curator Elena Pardo.
PLUS:
Echo Park Film Centre presents a picnic with Elena Pardo & Friends! Sunday, August 28 11am-2pm. Elena will facilitate a relaxed “Expanded Cinema” workshop where attendees can experience the playful wonder of 16mm projection using various gels, filters and lenses to distort analog images.
Elena is a featured guest at the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival and will be presenting Pulsos Subterráneos, a live expanded cinema work, on September 3rd at the festival.
More tickets and info here: https://www.goelevent.com/VLAFF/e/PulsosSubterraneos
Big thanks to VLAFF for their support with this program.
Our good friends at Cineworks are excited to present a 6-part series on the history of avant-garde cinema with renowned experimental filmmaker, digital media, and installation artist, Chris Welsby. With weekly Friday seminars in February & March (excluding Thursday, February 17), this series will explore moving image practices from the early European Avant-Garde movement to the emergence of Video Art in the 1960s, and New Media of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The format for the events will include a lecture from Chris Welsby followed by screenings and an informal discussion. Join them at the Cineworks black box studio this Friday, February 11, from 5pm to 8pm, for the first session. Registration is free, but space is limited. T͟o͟ ͟r͟e͟s͟e͟r͟v͟e͟ ͟y͟o͟u͟r͟ ͟s͟p͟o͟t͟,͟ ͟p͟l͟e͟a͟s͟e͟ ͟e͟m͟a͟i͟l͟ e͟d͟u͟c͟a͟t͟i͟o͟n͟@͟c͟i͟n͟e͟w͟o͟r͟k͟s͟.͟c͟a͟.

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Cineworks recently published a great interview with Iris Film Collective member Amanda Thomson discussing the Bolex camera and its use as a contact printer. Some may recall Amanda had a workshop on this topic planned just as the pandemic hit, which was sadly cancelled.
You can see the full interview at joincineworks.square.site/resources, where they have also made available a downloadable interview package with an index and more illustrations and instruction. Check it out, inspiring stuff!
Cineworks recently published a great interview with Iris Film Collective member Amanda Thomson discussing the Bolex camera and its use as a contact printer. Some may recall Amanda had a workshop on this topic planned just as the pandemic hit, which was sadly cancelled.
You can see the full interview at joincineworks.square.site/resources, where they have also made available a downloadable interview package with an index and more illustrations and instruction. Check it out, inspiring stuff!
We are excited to announce that Iris Film Collective member Zoe Kirk-Gushowaty’s newest film Dreams Of Gold is featured in Left With Dreams, a selection of shorts curated by Brittney Appleby, through a partnership with Capture Photography Festival 2021, VUCAVU, and Cineworks. It is screening FREE from April 15-25 2021 on VUCAVU: https://vucavu.com/en/leftwithdreams.
Also featured are many of our local friends including Kellen Jackson, LIndsay McIntyre, and many others. You’ve got ten days, so get to it!