Thursday, May 9^th 2013, 7:00pm

@ CommunityWise Resource Centre (223 12^th Ave SW Calgary)

FREE

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Join us for a dynamic program of new films by CSIF members. Nick Haywood, Spencer Estabrooks, Javier Santoro, Cameron McGowan, Hernan Moreno and more will screen their short films and take part in a panel discussion about process, storytelling and the local film scene. Moderated by Rolf Stengl.

Friday, October 19^th 2012, 7:00pm

@ The Old Y Centre for Community Organizations (223 12^th Ave SW Calgary)

FREE

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The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers is excited to present Canadian Indigenous Shorts from the 2011 imagineNATIVE Festival in conjunction with the national Stolen Sisters Digital Initiative (SSDI) and 2012 imagineNATIVE Festival in Toronto (October 17-21).

This program will start with a selection of short animations by students from the Stoney Education Authority.

The main program features outstanding short films from Métis, Inuit and First Nations artists, including:

> Inuit High Kick, Director: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (Inuit)

> The Visit, Director: Lisa Jackson (Anishnaabe)

> Wapawekka, Director: Danis Goulet (Métis)

> Lumaajuuq, Director: Alethea Arnaqua-Baril (Inuit)

> Burnt, Director: Alejandro Valbuena (Kogi)

> Shi-shi-etko, Producer: Marilyn Thomas (Saulteaux/Cree)

> Savage, Director: Lisa Jackson (Anishnaabe)

> File Under Miscellaneous, Director: Jeff Barnaby (Mi’kmaq)

*A short Q + A period with students from the U of C First Nations Students Association will follow the program

Amanda Couch- A Levitation for Calgary + Kyle Whitehead- Circles of Confusion

in collaboration with M:ST Performative Arts Festival 6

Thursday, October 18th @ 7:00pm

at TRUCK Gallery (815 1st St SW)

The ephemeral and transitory nature of the mediated image is brought to light in both Amanda Couch (London, UK) and Kyle Whitehead's (Calgary) performances. Couch invites the audience to view a live image of herself through a camera obscura, where she eerily appears; inverted and floating in space. Whitehead’s image and sound based performance uses Super 8 film-loop projections and optically controlled sine-wave oscillators. Both performances challenge our fundamental assumptions about sensory perception, and expose the profound effects of mediation.

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Monthly film screenings from our library @ CommunityWise Resource Centre (223 12th Ave SW)

In 1997 CSIF acquired a library of over 2500 celluloid films from the Calgary Public Library, and every 3rd Tuesday in the Summer months we invite a member to curate a screening and give a short Q + A. The screenings are FREE, held outdoors in our cozy courtyard and also feature live music. The only catch is that for copyright reasons we can't disclose the name of the film until you see it... Come out and get in on the secret!

May 21st @ 9:00pm Curated by Kyle Whitehead

June 19th (Wed) @ 10:00pm Sled Island Edition!

July 16th @ 10:00pm Curated by U of C's Scene & Heard Club

Aug 20th @ 9:00pm Curated by Julien Testa

Sept 5th @ 8:00pm Curated by Dan Zimmerman

(poster by Greg Doble www.gregdoble.com)

The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers is pleased to announce a special co-presentation with Calgary’s own Indigeneity Artist Collective and Edmonton’s Dreamspeakers Film Festival. We will present a selection of Aboriginal films from Dreamspeaker’s carefully chosen program in Calgary starting June 1 and running nightly until June 4.

Wednesday June 1 @ 7pm - “Down the Mighty River” - the story of the relationship of displaced Cree with the Hydro Dam development that unsettled them. (CSIF Sofa Cinema – J2, 2711 Battleford Ave. SW – Currie Barracks) - Rated PG

Thursday June 2 @ 7pm - “Qimmit” – an overview of the changes experienced by the Inuit from 1950-1970 with their loss of sled dogs and semi-nomadic lifestyle. A controversial issue at the time, many Inuit still believe that their dogs were deliberately killed by the RCMP as part of government policy to force them off the land. (CSIF Sofa Cinema – J2, 2711 Battleford Ave. SW – Currie Barracks) - Rated PG Disturbing Content

Friday June 3 @ 7pm – Local Aboriginal Short Films – a selection of live-action and animated short films by local artists. Lineup TBA. (The Plaza Theatre – 1133 Kensington Rd. NW) - Rating TBA

Saturday June 4 @ 7pm – “Boy” – It is 1984, and Michael Jackson is king-even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy’s father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version-an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before. This is where the goat enters. (The Plaza Theatre – 1133 Kensington Rd. NW) - Rated 14A Coarse Language, Substance Abuse

Tickets: $8 Members, Students, Seniors; $10 General Admission
Available at the door.

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