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TIFF 2011: Wavelengths 5: The Return/Aberration of Light
Closing out Wavelengths 2011 was an inspired, if imbalanced, double bill that matched The Return (see pic above) - the newest work from Nathaniel Dorsky (who is some kind of avant-garde guru) - with a live cinema performance by Sandra Gibson, Luis Recoder, and Olivia Block called Aberration of Light: Dark Chamber Disclosure.
TIFF 2011: Wavelengths 4: Space is the Place
Everyone in the avant-garde and experimental cinema world seems to revel in the idea of 'space': interior & exterior spaces, how one 'negotiates' space, 'place' vs. 'space', 'virtual' vs. 'physical', mapping vs. traveling, and so on down the line. Really, though, as we're officially immersed in the still foreign space known as the WWW, we're more disoriented now than ever before.
TIFF 2011: Wavelengths 3: Serial Rhythms
The most enigmatically grouped programme in this year's Wavelengths was the third showcase. Where Wavelengths 1 was modelled on the fading analogue medium of celluloid, and Wavelengths 4 interpreted the concept of 'space' in six radically different ways, the theme of Serial Rhythms seemed to evolve from one piece to the next.
Review: Twenty Cigarettes
"Ninety-nine minutes, twenty shots, twenty cigarettes, twenty faces (ten men, ten women) - sounds exciting, doesn't it? To anyone who hasn't already been converted by one of James Benning's deceptively simple structural films, the prospect of sitting through all of Twenty Cigarettes is perhaps more toxic than a cigarette itself."
