FILM SERIES 2: PICTURES OF LIGHT Sunday March 14 2pm J.A. de SÈVE CINEMA   J.W. McConnell Building (Library) 1400 de Maisonneuve West As part of the GHOST ACOUSTICS exhibition, AKVK has assembled a three-part film series. FILM SERIES 2: AKVK are thrilled to be able to present a 35mm print of Peter Mettler’s celebrated film. PICTURE OF LIGHT Peter Mettler CA | 2007 | 83 min. | COLOR | 35mm | English “We live in a time where things do not seem to exist if they are not contained as an image. But if you look into this darkness you may see the lights of your own retina. Not unlike the northern lights, not unlike the movements of thought, not unlike a shapeless accumulation of everything we have ever seen.” Made possible through the collaboration of the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, in parallel with “Magnetic Norths” curated by Charles Stankievech and the kind support of Grimthorpe Films.

FILM SERIES 2: PICTURES OF LIGHT Sunday March 14 2pm

J.A. de SÈVE CINEMA  
J.W. McConnell Building (Library)
1400 de Maisonneuve West

As part of the GHOST ACOUSTICS
exhibition, AKVK has assembled a
three-part film series.

FILM SERIES 2:
AKVK are thrilled to be able to present
a 35mm print of Peter Mettler’s
celebrated film.

PICTURE OF LIGHT
Peter Mettler
CA | 2007 | 83 min. | COLOR | 35mm | English
“We live in a time where things do not
seem to exist if they are not contained
as an image. But if you look into this
darkness you may see the lights of your
own retina. Not unlike the northern
lights, not unlike the movements of
thought, not unlike a shapeless
accumulation of everything we have
ever seen.”

Made possible through the collaboration of the Leonard and
Bina Ellen Gallery, in parallel with “Magnetic Norths”
curated by Charles Stankievech and the kind support of
Grimthorpe Films.

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About:

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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