DISTRIBUTION HIGHLIGHTS: September 2025
Recent and Upcoming Screenings:
On Friday September 19th the the recipients of Video Pool Media Arts Centre's Video Commission Residency (VCR VOL.3) premiered their works at Temporal Landscapes. Congrats to Ryan Hill, Zoë LeBrun, and B.G-Osborne on a wonderful showcase!
Hum of the Blue Hive (by Roewen Crowe) and Porch (by Jack Lauder) are both featured in an upcoming exhibition at Buhler Gallery, opening September 11, 2025, titled Tending the Wild.Â
"Gardens are an intermediary between self-directing nature and domesticity and are entangled with politics, history, and culture. The title of this exhibition comes from a line in Paradise Lost, a seventeenth century poem by John Milton that features the Garden of Eden. âTendingâ implies attending to and working with nature but also carries the sense of a tendency towards maximality and heedlessness of boundaries. Like gardeners, many artists tend the wild and the work contained in this exhibition touches on healing, subversion, pleasure, fecundity, and reciprocity, as well as history and politics. It does not adhere to a manicured definition of what a garden or exhibition is, but like them it encourages us to tend our own wild, to explore both useful and fruitless borders, and to see what can grow within us with a bit of work, dirt, light, and imagination."
Curated by hannah_g
Click here for more details
Daniel Barrowâs Handsome Devil screened at Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF) in the Vox Machinarum program.
Daniel Barrowâs Handsome Devil is screening at Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) September 25th at 6:15pm in the Shorts: Wrecking Ball program.
"This collection of experimental shorts showcases how film can be challenged and reimagined. Through mind-blowing imagery and unconventional narratives, this package highlights the creativity and ingenuity of filmmakers from around the world."
River Revelations by Darcy Tara McDiarmid and Chantal Rousseau is screening at at Asinabka Film and Media Art Festival which takes place September 18-21 in Ottawa
Daniel Barrowâs Handsome Devil is be screening at FLUXUS Experimental Film Festival Saturday, September 27th at 8 pm in Program 2. This screening is taking place in Hamilton, Ontario and is free to attend!
"Fluxus is dedicated to showcasing experimental and boundary-pushing media works from artists of all levels working in Canada. Submissions are free and unrestricted by theme, and are open to a spectrum of artforms, including animation, documentary, video art, collage film, music video, experimental film, and more."
WNDXâs 20th annual program will feature multiple films from VPâs catalogue:
Daniel Barrowâs Handsome Devil is screening in the Open Call 2: There is Something Wrong Here program at the Rachel Brown Theatre: Friday, October 3rd at 9 pm
Colby Richardson's HEADÂ will be screening on Super8 in the 20x25 OTS8 Retrospective on October 2nd at 9 pm.
Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millanâs seminal work Weâre Talking Vulva will be screening in the Prairie Retrospective 2: Landâs End program at the Rachel Brown theatre, Saturday, October 4th at 2 pm.
Natalie Baird and Toby Gilliesâ a beaten path is screening in the Open Call 5: wndrlnd program at the Rachel Brown theatre, Sunday, October 5th at 1pm. This program is advertised as family-friendly!
From WNDX: "Our 20th anniversary edition takes us back to our roots, focusing on the very impetus for the festivalâs founding in 2005: to provide a platform for new Winnipeg and prairie cinema, and to serve as a meeting ground for experimental film on the prairies."
Click here for WNDX's full schedule of screenings and events
Antimatter [Media Art] Festival in Victoria, BC, taking place October 16â26, will showcase two works from our catalogue:
Daniel Barrowâs Handsome Devil and Jeremy Drummondâs Monument. The full festival schedule will be released at the end of September. Screenings are available in person and online.
New Titles in the Catalogue:
Computer Assisted Simulation Technology for Optimizing Rivers by Ryan Hill
Computer Assisted Simulation Technology for Optimizing Rivers" is about beavers managing the water and other resources in a location in southern Manitoba where two rivers connect. Through the construction of dams and lodges, the landscape is transformed into one of greater productive value.
nocturne, by ZoĂ« LeBrunÂ
Utilizing the âglitchâ as a portal into hidden worlds, nocturne explores the metaphors of nothingness embedded in darkness. It suggests that the indeterminate qualities of the unknown can provide revelations of wonder rather than existential dread, and that we can move through the unknown while also carrying it with us.
If you're interested in inquiring about bringing your work into our catalogue please contact madeline@videopool.org