Join us for a weekend of illuminating films and thought-provoking discussion. The third annual Canadian Art Film Series showcases documentaries on Canadian and international artists and features special interviews with directors and artists. Organized by Ann Webb.

WORLD PREMIERE SCREENING
7:00 pm Walk with Us (Wiebke von Carolsfeld, Canada, 52 minutes, 2005)
Director Wiebke von Carolsfeld takes us on an exploration of the collaborative work of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, two of Canada's most acclaimed visual artists. Join the artists, the director and Canadian Art contributor Sascha Hastings for a special conversation following the screening.

NEW SECOND SCREENING!
9:00 pm Walk with Us (Wiebke von Carolsfeld, Canada, 52 minutes, 2005)
Director Wiebke von Carolsfeld takes us on an exploration of the collaborative work of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, two of Canada's most acclaimed visual artists.

All screenings and the Video Art in Canada event are at the Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Avenue (at Bloor Street), Toronto.

4:00 pm The Colour of Memory: Conversations with Guido Molinari (Donald Winkler and Nicola Zavaglia, Canada, 48 minutes, 2004)
In this film, made in the months just prior to the artist's death, Molinari shares his philosophy of painting, explains his artistic vision and shows us works spanning his fifty-year career.

7:00 pm Frank Auerbach: To The Studio (Hannah Rothschild, UK, 55 minutes, 2004)
An exclusive invitation to the secret world of Frank Auerbach, the painter who rarely leaves his studio and works 365 days a year. His main links with the outside world are his models, many of whom have sat for him for between ten and 42 years. They talk with insight about being painted and the man behind the canvas.

8:30 pm Lucian Freud: Portraits (Jake Auerbach, UK, 66 minutes, 2004)
Over a period of two years, filmmaker Jake Auerbach and Freud's biographer, William Feaver, interviewed many of Freud's subjects, ranging from David Hockney to the painter's ex-lovers, daughters and granddaughters. Unprecedented, intimate and revealing, the film weaves these interviews with a large selection of work by one of the great artists of our century. Join critic Sarah Milroy in conversation with filmmaker Jake Auerbach following the screening.

All screenings and the Video Art in Canada event are at the Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Avenue (at Bloor Street), Toronto.

2:00 pm Chris Ofili (Illuminations, UK, 26 minutes, 2004)
Shot in London, Germany and Venice, this film explores two spectacular installations by Ofili: within reach and 'The Upper Room. Both works are collaborations he created with architect David Adjaye, and both are about "trying to create an atmosphere for people to feel somehow out of themselves."

             Spot: Olafur Eliasson (Joe Adlesten, Denmark, Danish with English subtitles, 29 minutes, 2004)
Known for his environmental mixed-media works, Eliasson uses raw materials and technology as he explores the nature of seeing and perceiving. We follow Eliasson as he travels from his studio in Berlin to the 2003 Venice Biennale, to his spectacular Tate Modern commission, to Wolfsburg, Germany, for his 2004 retrospective and to his native Iceland.

3:30 pm Tracey Emin (Illuminations, UK, 26 minutes, 2003/5)
Although at times obscured by the artist's celebrity, the art of Tracey Emin is serious and focused, challenging and at times startlingly beautiful. In this film, she speaks frankly about her career, her craft and the candid themes with which she engages: autobiography, memory, desire and identity.

             Sam Taylor-Wood (Illuminations, UK, 26 minutes, 2004/5)
Sam Taylor-Wood's photographs and video installations are alluring and seductive and deal with themes of isolation, anxiety, conflict and alienation. In this film, which features extracts from many of the artist's key works, such as 16mm, Brontosaurus and Still Life, Taylor-Wood reflects on her ways of working, autobiography in her art, sex and death.

5:00 pm Sophie Calle (Susan Shaw, The South Bank Show, UK, 48 minutes, 2005)
French artist Sophie Calle explores love, loss and sexual obsession—the famed author Paul Auster describes Calle as walking along the border of art and life. Through personal interviews with the artist, Paul Auster, Damien Hirst, Frank Gehry, Robert Storr and others, this captivating film strives to answer the question: who is Sophie Calle?

All screenings and the Video Art in Canada event are at the Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Avenue (at Bloor Street), Toronto.

1:00 to 3:00 pm Video Art in Canada: Downloading Video Panel Discussion
Free Admission
Downloading Video: video art and digital culture will explore the future of video art in the age of the iPod movie and the digital "film." This panel marks the launch of the Video Art in Canada website. Panelists will discuss how this resource website can be used by educators. A mobile computer lab, to visit and explore the website before and after the panel, is generously provided by Charles Street Video.

For more information please contact Vtape at 416 351 1317 or education@vtape.org

Panelists:
b.h. Yael is a video and installation artist, Professor and Chair of the Integrated Media department at the Ontario College of Art and Design.

Richard Fung, videomaker and writer, has lectured and taught across North America and is the recipient of many awards, including the Bell Canada Award in Video Art. He currently teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design.

Peggy Gale, independent curator and writer, has published numerous articles on video and media arts and is the main author of Vtape's educational website Video Art in Canada.

Tom Sherman is an artist, educator, writer and cultural critic. His essay "Video 2005: Three texts on video" was the cover story of Canadian Art's spring 2005 issue. Tom teaches at Syracuse University and is also a Bell Canada Award in Video Art winner.

Moderated by Lisa Steele, artist, writer, curator, Associate Chair of the Visual Studies Programme at the University of Toronto and Creative Director of Vtape.

Video Art in Canada is a bilingual educational website developed by Vtape and featuring the winners of the Bell Canada Award in Video Art, produced with the participation of the Ontario College of Art and Design, with funding provided by Bell Canada and the Virtual Museum of Canada, a Department of Canadian Heritage initiative to promote Canadian cultural works via the Internet.

Video Art in Canada goes live on February 25, 2006. Visit the website at www.videoart.virtualmuseum.ca and www.artvideo.museevirtuel.ca

All screenings and the Video Art in Canada event are at the Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Avenue (at Bloor Street), Toronto.

Tickets

RUSH TICKETS:
On site rush seating will be on sale, depending on availabilty,
at the Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Avenue (at Bloor Street), Toronto.

Please arrive before each screening to purchase individual tickets on a rush basis.

At the door, single-screening tickets are $10.

Ticket sales are final; no refunds or exchanges.

All screenings and the Video Art in Canada event are at the Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Avenue (at Bloor Street), Toronto.
Website: www.mnjcc.org Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC: www.mnjcc.org

Schedule subject to change.

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The Canadian Art Foundation thanks our supporters for their generosity

Special thanks to The South Bank Show,
Granada Media Group, Jay Smith and Laura Rapp,
The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation, The Gladstone Hotel,
and Laura Trisorio for inspiring the Film Series.

Video Art in Canada Panel Discussion and Website Launch supporters

Film Credits:

Walk with Us
Barlin Productions
Up Front Entertainment Inc.
49 Spadina Avenue, Ste. 302
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5V 2J1 www.upfront.ca
www.upfront.ca, info@upfront.ca
Up Front Entertainment Inc. specializes in producing television documentaries, lifestyle and current affairs.

The Colour of Memory: Conversations with Guido Molinari
Diversus Productions
1001 Lenoir, Studio B416
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4C 2Z6 www.diversus.com
www.diversus.com, info@diversus.com

Frank Auerbach: To The Studio
Lucian Freud: Portraits
Jake Auerbach Films Ltd.
33 Beresford Road, London England N52 HS
jake_auerbach@blueyonder.co.uk

Chris Ofili
Tracey Emin
Sam Taylor-Wood
Illuminations www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
19-20 Rheidol Mews, Rheidol Terrace
Islington, London, England N18 NU
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
Illuminations produces and publishes media with and about artists, exhibitions and museums, distributing work to television, on DVD, and by licensing to education and others.

Sophie Calle
The South Bank Show
Granada Media Group Limited www.Itv.com
www.Itv.com

Press Reviews:

They're not stars if there's no video, Toronto Star, Feb. 23, 2006, by Peter Goddard

www.thestar.com/whatson Peter Goddard slide show on the Canadian Art Film Series