1. Birth of the Living Dead | Film Screening
2. Home Movie Day | Jonathan Culp
3. Shift | Anne & Marco Cibola
1. Birth of the Living Dead by Rob Kuhns
Wednesday 12 May 2010 at 8:30pm
Niagara Artists Centre
FREE EVENT
Birth of the Living Dead, examines the making and impact of George A. Romero's 1968 film, “Night of the Living Dead.” Although marketed – and received by most critics -- as a dismissible exploitation shocker, it became a worldwide sensation and is considered one of the most important horror films of all time. NAC Members are invited to join filmmaker Rob Kuhns and provide feedback at this special preliminary screening of his soon to be released documentary.
2. Shift by Marco & Anne Cibola
Dennis Tourbin Members Gallery
Niagara Artists Centre
8 May - 21 May 2010
Opening Reception Saturday 15 May 2010 at 7pm
Repetition shows up in everything from architecture to music. It exists in nature and in manufactured landscapes. Shapes and sounds repeat, providing a sense of stability and predictability. But this doesn't mean that everything is always the same. Marco Cibola and Anne Cibola explore how repetition is not always exact, resulting in slight shifts. Marco's abstractions explore repetition and minor shifts in music, and Anne's sculptural work acknowledges both repetition and the shifts that change neighbourhoods over time.
3. BRING YOUR OWN HOME MOVIE DAY
Saturday 22 May 2010
Home movie clinic: 12nn - 2pm
Home movie screening: 2pm - 5pm
Niagara Artists Centre
A FREE EVENT
Home movies are more fun than you think!
Watching home movies together allows communities to share and learn about our past. From the 1920s to the 1980s, countless families shot home movie footage - at home and on vacation, getting married and goofing around. These forgotten films contain scenes from our personal, local and global histories that can't be seen anywhere else.
At noon on Saturday 22 May, the Niagara Artists Centre will host a 'home movie clinic'. This is your opportunity to view, organize and repair your old 8mm, Super 8, and 16mm home movies (no video) at personal viewing stations. Technical assistants will help you to work the machines and offer information about film storage and preservation.
At 2pm, please join us for a community home movie screening. You are welcome to bring in your own home movies to share. Share a bit of your own history and learn about everybody else's.
The screening will begin with images from the collection of Vineland's Edra Thompson. Edra used super 8 film extensively in her educational work during the 60s and 70s. Her forty-year-old films feature stunning color images of steam engines, extreme closeups of feeding hummingbirds, and time lapse photography of butterflies emerging from their chrysalis.
The screening will be hosted by Jonathan Culp, who has spent many years working with 16mm and Super 8 film. He recently shot five rolls of home movie footage on the Galapagos Islands, and will be sharing that film at this event, as well as showing some of his many 'orphan' home movies with footage dating back to the 1939 royal visit!
For more information, please contact psauce@gmail.com or call 905-562-7267.