Nuit Blanche comes to Concordia

CRYSTALINE: The cinematic and the handmade

March 1st 6pm – 2am March 2nd

Concordia’s Visual Arts Building and the FOFA Gallery will come alive with hand-made cinema,16mm loop projections and live performance. Under the banner of CRYSTALINE: the cinematic and the handmade, IITS Cinemas will present screenings from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema Animation department, The Montreal Stop Motion Animation Film Festival, groop*index, and the Winnipeg Film Group.The FOFA and VAV galleries will feature interactive animation woks involving current exhibiting artists and students.

Tour guides will accompany visitors from one site to the other.

*All events are free of charge.

Where:
VAV Gallery and Room 114
Visual Arts Building (VA)
1395 René Levesque Blvd. W.  (Metro Lucien L’Allier) map

FOFA Gallery
Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex (EV)
1515 Ste-Catherine St. W. (Metro Guy-Concordia) map

Event listing
Screenings (VA 114)
6 p.m. Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema (child friendly)
8 p.m. Montreal Stop Motion Animation Film Festival
10 p.m. groop*index
12 a.m. Winnipeg Film Group, curated by Matthew Rankin

In the VA Building, room devoted to those who are interested in exploring their imaginations through the medium of handmade animation will be open to the public. Visitors encouraged to create their own work with assistance from animation professionals such as Concordia professor Erik Goulet. Traditional animation techniques such as sand, paper cut-out and drawing on 35mm film will be available for experimentation. Participants will be emailed their creations shortly after the event has taken place.

VAV Gallery
The VAV Gallery will be creating an “interactive filmstrip” of wall-mounted images where each participating artist will be given two square feet in order to produce works that respond to the wintery landscape of Montreal. Performances in this space will create the poetic centre of the Crystaline project where the inside meets the outside, and artists meet pedestrians.

FOFA Gallery
In the outside courtyard, a new banner by Yulia Grebneva will be presented on the FOFA Gallery Image Grid. The diptych, selected from her evocative series Survivors, will greet passersby along Ste-Catherine Street.

Inside, in the York Corridor Vitrines, paperwork, a process-based installation of an animated “exquisite corpse” video will be projected by artists Sarah Pupo, Kandis Friesen and Kerri Flannigan. The playful, transformative nature of the exquisite corpse, a classic surrealist drawing game, collaboratively assembles an image by having one artist add on to a previous artist’s imagery. In this iteration, each of the artists will be animating their drawing live in three separate areas of the vitrines and the new collective image will be projected in the final fourth space. Don’t miss the artists engaging one another in this exciting exchange.

In collaboration with:
Montreal Stop Motion Animation Film Festival, groop*index, Winnipeg Film Group, Matthew Rankin, and Concordia University’s FOFA Gallery, VAV Gallery, and IITS Cinemas