DISTRIBUTION NEWS:
November 2024
Upcoming Screenings:
Several works from the Video Pool Catalogue will be screening at Gimme Some Truth Documentary Film Festival in Winnipeg MB this November.
NO MOON TONIGHT by Laura Ohio
An essay film that journeys through a personal archive of erotic thresholds and institutional borders. Ohio examines the possibility of personal transformation within both the dark, unsettling spaces of intimacy and the systems of hyper-visibility constructed by histories of enclosure and white supremacy.
At the End of the Hallway, Another Door by Sylvia Matas
This video was made with black and white photographs I took using unsecured streaming surveillance cameras. The subtitles start off as straightforward image description, but as the video progresses, the relationship between the images and texts unravels and becomes more mysterious.
stationary (untitled) by Nicole Shimonek
“stationery (untitled)” is a performative experiment for "study untitled study" a gallery and proposal, run by Connie Chapel using Collin Zipp’s sculpture "untitled study".
Check out the full schedule here
Make sure to catch this exhibition at Galerie Buhler which runs until November 17th
The show includes Erika MacPherson's video from the catalogue You Are Here/We Are There.
Shot along the shores of Jökulsá á Brú, the largest glacial river in eastern Iceland, You Are Here/We Are There bears witness to a landscape being submerged under 57 square kilometres of water, a reservoir created for the purpose of providing hydroelectric energy to a nearby Alcoa aluminum smelter. Images of the sublime Icelandic highland wilderness, remote hills, and the river valley fill the viewer with a powerful sense of place and lingering questions of responsibility, inter-connectedness and loss.
This is a group exhibition featuring work by KC Adams, Alexis Auréoline, Jaime Black, Sarah Crawley, Chantal Dupas, Laila Fazal, Noëlla Gauthier, Ariel Gordon, Ted Howarth, Jennine Krauchi, Mathew Lacosse, Erika MacPherson, Tracy Peters, Chuckwudubem Ukaigwe, Katherena Vermette, and Diane Whitehouse. Curated by hannah_g
(still from Rhayne Vermette, Domus, 2017, image sourced from walkerart.org )
The Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis, MN is screening two works from the VP Catalogue
Isolating Landscapes by Heidi Phillips
Isolating Landscapes is a short experimental film which includes found footage of landscapes, sailboats, and people washing in water. Thematically, the work seeks to describe detachment and loneliness.
Spirits of Abstruse Lizards by Ekene Emeka-Maduka
The Spirit of Abstruse Lizards is a fiction-satire set in a world where conch shells (relics with such long life) transmit phone calls and; liars grow noses like Pinocchio. This work combines Western fiction with Igbo folklore, entangled in lies, as with colonial influence, interference, the crossing of cultures, and alteration: Things that progress for better or worse.
These works are part of screening curated by Rhayne Vermette titled Our Winnipeg, Ourselves. Learn more about the event here
New Titles in Distribution
Like a Tongue Knows the Mouth by Laura Ohio (2024), 24:00
Time becomes a spiral when a freeway fire causes a city-wide traffic jam and leads the filmmaker to follow an elderly woman walking through Downtown Los Angeles. Ohio delves into the well of grief and brings back the solitude of being human, the presence of absence, and the inescapable nature of the first home.
At Home in a State by Hope Peterson (1993/2020), 4:00
Two friends ponder security issues, the threat of gendered violence and the intrusion of authority in their private space. Filmed at the Frances Street squats in Vancouver's east end, where I lived for several months in 1993. This housing resistance was a many months-long occupation of a row of abandoned homes slated for demolition and luxury development. Shortly after this work was made, the City of Vancouver deployed a SWAT unit to confront and evacuate the residents, and the community dispersed. Shot on Super8 film and animated on the Amiga, this work became part of a multichannel peephole installation called Thalamus: The Women's Apartments, at Ace Art Gallery, Winnipeg, in 1993. The video's themes of DIY culture and the rejection of societal norms embody the punk ethos, and the violence of precarity and surveillance resonate today as much as ever.
123 by Omid Moterassed (2023), 7:00
A visual essay in response to the works of Oriah Wiersma, Laura Vriend, and Kevin Fraser. Commissioned by Young Lungs Dance Exchange.
If you're interested in inquiring about the works in our catalogue please contact madeline@videopool.org