NUIT BLANCHE: OUTDOOR CINEMA
In collaboration with Winnipeg's first ever Nuit Blanche - a night time festival of the arts - we are thrilled to present a night-long program of Winnipeg films in a unique outdoor cinema experience!
All events are FREE ADMISSION!
CHROMA-DANCE: ELEVEN EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
8:30 PM @ The Cube
The eXperimental Improv Ensemble (under the direction of Gordon Fitzell) will perform new live soundtracks to accompany shorts by Winnipeg filmmakers: Coral Aiken, Bryan Besant, Irene Bindi, Guy Maddin, Solomon Nagler, Carole O'Brien, Robert Pasternak, Heidi Phillips, James Pomeroy, Matthew Rankin, and Olga Zikrata.
90 SECOND QUICKIE FILM CONTEST SCREENING
10:00 PM @ Portage & Main
The 90 second quickie film contest is a call to create a 90 second (or shorter) film. Participating films must be submitted to the WFG by Wed Sept 8 at 5 PM, and will be shown as part of Nuit Blanche on the 35' by 13' screen at Portage and Main. For more info on the contest, please click here
MY WINNIPEG
Midnight @ Portage & Main
Named one of Roger Ebert's top ten films of the decade, Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg is a film no Winnipegger should dare miss, especially when it is presented on Winnipeg's most famous street corner.
“Guy Maddin's films are like a silent movie dreaming it can speak. No frame of his work could be mistaken for anyone else's. He combines documentary, lurid melodrama, newsreels, feverish fantasies and tortured typography into a form that appears to contain urgent information. His sound tracks are sometimes clear narration, sometimes soap opera, sometimes snatches that seem heard over a radio from long ago and far away. The effect is hypnotic.” – Roger Ebert, excerpted from The Best Films of the Decade by Roger Ebert, December 2009