FILM SERIES 1: CATASTROPHIC SILENCES Sunday March 7 2pm YORK AMPHITHEATRE EV-1-605 1515 Ste-Catherine West As part of the GHOST ACOUSTICS exhibition, AKVK has assembled a three-part film series. The first of this series presents three films, each considers catastrophic moments that become lasting silences. 23 SKIDOO Julian Biggs CA | 1964 | 8 min. | BW | 16mm to DVD | English Montreal has been left abandoned, forgotten sounds remain. LA SOUFRIÈRE: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe Werner Herzog DE | 1977 |  30 min. | COLOR | 16mm to DVD | English Fearing volcanic eruption, an island is evacuated. Herzog arrives to film those refusing to leave. AWAY Peter Mettler CA | 2007 | 3 min. | COLOR | DV to DVD | English With hardly any power left in his camera batteries, Mettler walks off into the Costa Rica rainforest.

FILM SERIES 1: CATASTROPHIC SILENCES

Sunday March 7 2pm

YORK AMPHITHEATRE
EV-1-605 1515 Ste-Catherine West
As part of the GHOST ACOUSTICS
exhibition, AKVK has assembled a
three-part film series.


The first of this series presents three
films, each considers catastrophic
moments that become lasting silences.

23 SKIDOO
Julian Biggs
CA | 1964 | 8 min. | BW | 16mm to DVD | English
Montreal has been left abandoned, forgotten sounds
remain.

LA SOUFRIÈRE:
Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe
Werner Herzog
DE | 1977 |  30 min. | COLOR | 16mm to DVD | English
Fearing volcanic eruption, an island is evacuated.
Herzog arrives to film those refusing to leave.

AWAY
Peter Mettler
CA | 2007 | 3 min. | COLOR | DV to DVD | English
With hardly any power left in his camera batteries,
Mettler walks off into the Costa Rica rainforest.

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AKVK is Steve Bates, Joshua Bonnetta and Douglas Moffat.

The exhibition GHOST ACOUSTICS is open from
February 15 to March 21, 2010
at the FOFA Gallery in Montreal.

STEVE BATES is a media artist, musician, and audio technician whose work revolves around improvised and composed music, radio, and installation projects. He founded and directed the Send +Receive Festival of Sound, now in its eleventh year. Bates is the Sound Coordinator at the Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies and is a graduate candidate in Studio Arts/Open Media at Concordia University.

JOSHUA BONNETTA was born in Oshawa, Ontario 1979. His body of work has exhibited cinematically, as installation and as live performance. He has shown in Russia, Columbia, U.K., Canada, Ireland, U.S., South Korea, the Netherlands, Germany and Poland. In 2009 he was awarded the National Film Board of Canada award for Best Emerging/Mid-career Canadian Film and Video Maker at Toronto's Images Festival. His practice combines sound and various forms of animation to consider the construction of representation within the cinematic image. He has an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University.

DOUGLAS MOFFAT explores the relationship between sound and the built landscape. Working with field recording, electroacoustics and landscape architecture, his projects are spaces built for listening. Trained as a landscape architect, he completed his MFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University. His graduate thesis project, The Love Song Effect explored the sonic environment of the Las Vegas Strip. He has presented works at the Jardin de Métis Festival international de jardins and the Send + Receive Festival.

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