Shock, Fear, and Belief: The Films and Videos of Madi Piller

Saturday, December 3, Doors 7:30pm / Screening 8pm
$8/ $5 Members + Students
@ Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Avenue
Co-presentation with CFMDC & TAIS

Part of Fall 2016


Madi Piller has worked diligently and with a great appetite for the past fifteen years,
working up her hybrid chops, mix-mastering a rigorous, emulsion-based formalism with a
commitment to process and the joys of seeing. She was one of the first Super 8 filmmakers in Colombia, and tonight’s program will open with a glimpse of her earliest work, and the phenom who called herself Shakira. When Piller moved to Canada she raised the flag for animation, and made a brace of shorts that feature sometimes harrowing political recollections, carefully reworked, run through generations of frame by frame laser printings or else hand-painted frames, shuttling between film formats, working to find the feeling tone of recollection. The centerpiece of this retrospective is the world premiere of her new trilogy, a landscape of memory shot in her native Peru, where she reanimates the grounds of her seeing in a materialist rapture.

Program:

Shakira Music Video, 1981, 1 minute, DV

Vive Le Film, 2:13 minutes, 2006, 35mm

Animated Self-Portraits/Autoportraits Animés, 8:49 minutes, 2012, 35mm

Toro Bravo, 3:40 minutes, 2007, 35mm

7200 Frames Under The Sun, 3:20 minutes, 2011, dual projection, Super 8, digital projection (silent)

Chambre de Torture 1944, 2:29 minutes, 2003, 16mm

Anonymous, 1855, 1:28 minutes, 2005, DV

Bacchanal, 15 minutes, 2014, Super 8 @ 18fps (silent)

Untitled, 1925 Part Three, 11 minutes, 2016, 16mm -> DV

Untitled, 1925 Part Two, 8:45 minutes 2016, 16mm -> DV

Untitled, 1925 Part One, 7 minutes 2016, 16mm -> DV

Untitled,1925

Animated Self-Portraits

Animated Self-Portraits

Toro Bravo

Toro Bravo

Chambre de Torture, 1944

Chambre de Torture, 1944

Anonymous, 1855

Anonymous, 1855

Chambre de Torture, 1944

Chambre de Torture, 1944

Vive le Film

Vive le Film

CFMDC SM
TAIS