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Cold Cuts Video Festival is an annual curated
exhibition of video works by contemporary
Canadian and international artists running in
conjunction with the Dawson City International
Short Film Festival held in Dawson City, Yukon,
Canada.

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ANTICHRIST – Neoist Hokey Pokey

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I’m Not The Girl Who Misses Much

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The works in this 2014 iteration of Cold
Cuts Video Festival, Revel in It, explore the
world of pop culture and mass media – they
envelop it and wallow in it, and from within
this spectrum, reflect on the possibilities of
social reconfiguration and plurality of identity.
The critique of contemporary culture is a
shameless and simultaneous embrace. Notions
of confining gender constructs and otherness
are blown apart and rebuilt in endless
configurations for the purposes of imagining
something different.

*I-Be Area

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The presence of the media and the online world
is omnipresent. Its relevance is poignant and
inescapable. And we must revel in it.

Mary

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On Message

Twilight Avenger

Transhuman Dance Recital #1

Red Carpet

Cold Cuts Video Festival: Revel in It
Ryan Trecartin
*I-Be Area, 2007, 108 min
(*Friday Screening Event Only)
“We’re in a house of many tight, messy rooms. In the
suburbs? Cyberspace? Hard to say. ...Everyone moves in a
jerky, speeded-up, look-at-me way and speaks superfast to
one another, to the camera, into a cellphone. ...For queer
artists of Mr. Trecartin’s generation, cross-dressing, crossidentifying and cross-thinking are part of a state of being,
not statements of political position. His art is about just
saying no to life as we think we have seen it and saying
yes to zanier, virtual-utopian possibilities.” Holland Cotter,
The New York Times
Pipilotti Rist
I’m Not The Girl Who Misses Much
1986, 7:46 min
Rist’s classic video takes on rock music with its own tools,
pushing pop’s repetitive strategies and representations of
women to absurd lengths. Footage of the artist chanting
the piece’s title (a line adapted from The Beatles’ song
Happiness is a Warm Gun) is replayed at high and low
speeds, with obscuring video effects.
Kent Monkman
Mary, 2011, 3:18 min
Shot in uber-glam shampoo-commercial-style, Mary
features the gorgeous, otherworldly Miss Chief Eagle
Testickle in this irreverent reinterpretation of the Prince
of Wales’s visit to Montreal in 1860 that challenges the
meaning of “surrender” within Aboriginal treaties.

Stephen Andrews
On Message, 2006, 9:30 min
On Message is an analog animation using the same set
of drawings to tell four different versions of the same
story: the emotional fallout of two witnesses to a police
shooting; a musical about groovy gay boys making the
scene; a cop show about the chase and arrest of a suspect;
and a news report about soldiers on leave in Iraq.

Jeremy Bailey
Transhuman Dance Recital #1
2007, 6:27 min
From this point on I dedicate myself to finding better ways
for humans to dance. “I have transcended my human form.
And that is what you see here today. I have freed myself
from the imitative constraints of the natural world, and
therefore I am now free”.

Istvan Kantor
ANTICHRIST – Neoist Hokey Pokey
2010, 5:30 minutes
ANTICHRIST is a tribute to plunder, sex, noise and violence.
It is a manifesto that sums up Kantor’s ongoing critical
lament centering on authority and power in technological
society. The almost mythological images taken from such
filmmakers as Kubrick and Ridley Scott are transformed
into iconic insults feeding people’s imagination with
robopunk rebellion.

Lisa Birke
Red Carpet, 2013, 15:00 min
Red carpet is a durational performance-for-video that
follows a glamorous female figure in a black glittering
gown and three inch heels, teetering down a seemingly
endless red carpet — a carpet that cuts its way through an
ever-changing landscape.

Kelly Richardson
Twilight Avenger
2008, 5:40 min | HD video installation
Equal parts sci-fi myth and forest fable, Kelly Richardson’s
Twilight Avenger begins with a fairytale-worthy image of
a misty, moonlit forest clearing inhabited by a majestic
stag who emanates a luminous green vapour. As the scene
unfolds, questions remain whether the protagonist is some
sort of forest sentinel, as the title implies, or perhaps a
victim of a man-made mishap.

2014 Dawson City International Short Film Festival

Exhibition: ODD Gallery April 18 – 20, 2014

Please join us for an Opening
Reception in the ODD Gallery on
Friday, April 18, 2014 from 4-6pm.
Gallery Exhibition Hours:
Saturday, April 19 from 11-5pm
Sunday, April 20 from 1-5pm
Many thanks to the Yukon Arts Fund,
the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture,
and the Yukon School of Visual Arts
for their generous support.

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