SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 3:30pm
ARTSISTs IN RESIDENCE
S creening and Q & A
K
yle Whitehead is an artist and filmmaker working
primarily with small-format cinema, experimental sound
and electronics. He prefers a careful and considered
approach to image making; which should not be confused
with best practices, as his work is more about embracing the
potential of an indeterminate process. What he wants is the
definitive by chance – leveraging trailing-edge technologies
often with unusual or startling effect. His work has been
exhibited nationally and internationally at film festivals and
visual arts venues. Kyle received his BFA from the Alberta
College of Art and Design and currently resides in Calgary
where he spends most of his time in the dark.
In his artist talk Kyle will discuss his practice broadly, showing
documentation and video transfers of past works, as well as
works in-progress. Kyle’s film-based practice also incorporates
experimental sound, synthesizers of his own design and
interactive electronics, and is largely presented at visual arts
venues and festivals, as installation or live-performance, in an
effort to explore the boundaries of expanded cinema. Kyle
will be showing video documentation of his recent project
Circles of Confusion, as well as several shorts created on
Super 8 and 16mm film.
The Joy of Failure: An Artist Talk with
Filmmaker Matthew Rankin
M
atthew Rankin presents a guided tour of his films,
techniques, imaginative universe and speculates
upon the majesty and, indeed, the duty of artistic
cataclysm.
Matthew Rankin studied Québec history at McGill University
and at Université Laval before returning into the artistic
underclass of his native Winnipeg to become a maker of art
films. Working in photochemical hybrids of documentary,
experimental drama and animated abstraction, Matthew’s
films have been the object of both international acclaim
and outraged corporate attack. A three-time alumnus of
the Sundance Film Festival, Matthew was a 2013 artist-inresidence at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New
Hampshire, and is the winner of the 2014 National Media Arts
Prize. Matthew works in English, French and, increasingly,
Esperanto.
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