Complete programming details: www.alucinefestival.com

CineCycle: 129 Spadina Ave. (In the alley south of Spadina Ave & Richmond St.)
 

Thursday / Nov. 19

  

 

 

 

BROOKE ALFARO
A Video Retrospective

7:30 pm

 

 Brooke Alfaro was born in Panama in 1949 and he graduated with a degree architecture in 1976. From 1980 to 1983 he studied painting at The Arts Students League of New York. He lives and works in Panama, origin and inspiration of his work. He films his movies in San Felipe which is an area the in Panama City that includes the old part of the city and El Chorrillo, a neighborhood that has had a complex history since the military invasion which leads to urban degradation and armed gang violence. El Casco, the old part of the city, was declared Historical Patrimony of Humanity and ironically this neighborhood is going through painful and cruel evictions and displacements.
   

SELF & OTHER
REPRESENTATIONS

9:30 pm

 

 A program curated by Kika Nicolela
Solo works by 20 international artists from the Exquisite Corpse Video Project were chosen for this program. They make audiovisual portraits and diaries, building the self through various strategies. The relationship among subject, author, device and audience is explored in several ways
     

11:00 pm
 

aluCine cordially invites you to
our party at:

Naco
1665 Dundas St. W. Tel: 647 347 6499
 

Friday / Nov. 20

  
 

 

  

Jose RodrigueZ Soltero
Two queer underground classics restored

7:00 pm
9:30 pm

Jose
Rodriguez
Soltero

  Lupe: Strangely neglected for too long, Jose Rodriguez Soltero’s Lupe is an underground classic of the stature of Flaming Creatures, Scorpio Rising, Hold me while I’m Naked, or The Chelsea Girls. It is ostensibly a biopic of Lupe Velez inspired by Kenneth Anger’s sketch of the Mexican spitfire in Hollywood Babylon and, stylistically, by Von Sternberg’s Marlene Dietrich vehicles.
Jerovi is a sexual probe of the Narcissus myth. His beautiful male subject clothed at first in rich brocade, but later nude, is photographed lingeringly in a lush garden. If sensual self-love in practice doesn’t offend you, you’ll find some vivid camera imagery.”

 

Saturday / Nov. 21

  
 

 

  

Frances Negrón
ARTIST TALK

5:00 pm

Frances
Negrón

 

The use of media by the two Puerto Rican vanguards of the 60’s and 70’s in NY -- The Young Lords and the Artists.
Frances Negrón-Muntaner is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and scholar. Born in Puerto Rico to a family of academics, Frances Negron’s work spans several fields, including cinema, literature, cultural criticism, and politics.Her education anticipates these various interests: She obtained a Bachelor’s in sociology at the University of Puerto Rico (1986), then a Masters in film and anthropology at Temple University, Philadelphia (1991, 1994), and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University, New Brunswick (2000).

 

 

  

Multi
Levels

7:00 pm
  Broad, sweeping, poly- dimensional, and endlessly short-circuiting. This program is an open-ended articulation of fluid visual representations and inter-subjectivities.
It presents us an unlimited range of possibilities when viewing the multiple aesthetics and strategies built into video art since its beginning.
Presented by Toronto Arts Council.
     

Memory, New Media in Mexico
Artist talk - screening

9:00 pm

Tania
Aedo

   By Tania Aedo.
Tania Aedo has used digital technology in her artistic practice since 1993. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media, and the Kyoto Art Center. She is director of the Centro Multimedia at the Centro Nacional de las Artes (CENART) in Mexico City. In addition, she teaches and lectures on art and new media in other national and international forums.
 

Sunday / Nov. 22

  

Lennox Contemporary Gallery- 12 Ossington Ave.
 

 

  

Latin Shorts
for SHORT PEOPLE (Ages 3 to 7)

3:00 pm
 

Curated by Kika Moura

We are wthat we consume and every day we consume more and more audiovisuals, not only from TV and movies, but also from our computers, cell phones and new media. As we become adapted to everything that’s new, it is the children of today who are more permeable to learn the new with the outermost fluidity.

     

Basilisco, argentina
International Artists in Residence Program

5:00 pm
  by Esteban Alvarez
El Basilisco visual artists-in-residency program is a project coordinated by a group of artists looking to broaden possibilities for national, regional and international cultural exchange. El Basilisco brings together artists from the interior of Argentina and from abroad to participate in an intensive period of production in Avellaneda, which includes a series of events to facilitate interaction with artists from the local scene, students and general public. The residency takes place in an old house in Avellaneda, ten minutes away from downtown Buenos Aires.
   

 

DESBORDES

7:00 pm
  Screening of “Nora”, directed by Alla Kovgan and David Hinton followed by Cantes de Ida y Vuelta a talk and screening by Bertha Jottar.
     

Diverging and Converging

9:00 pm
  Five short stories linked by unexpected turns.
Five films dismantling unwanted structures fabricated on differences and distances.
Imaginative and inventive they subvert our comforting presuppositions.
 

Monday / Nov. 23

  
     

Memória Viva
Brazil

7:00 pm
  Compelling and refreshingly to the point. These poetic narratives of cinematic vitality expose the permeable intersection between the imagined and the real.
Our impression and expectations are defied by the perception of the abundant resonances that occurs
in geographically contained cultural environments.
     

CUBA
INDEPENDENT YOUNG FILMAKERS

9:00 pm
  Programming: Caridad Cumana, Silvia Durán Molina y Carolina Arteaga Ravelo.