VISIONS | VENTRILOQUISMS + LETTERS FROM HOME (Jan. 10 & 11, 2018)

VISIONS presents:

VENTRILOQUISMS (Shorts by Mike Hoolboom) January 10, 2018 

Programme includes: Citizen poet (2017) Moucle’s Island (1998) In the Theater (2005) Spectator (2017) Ghost (2017) Safety Film Collection (2014) & Frank’s Cock (1993)

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LETTERS FROM HOME: KHALIK ALLAH AND NICHOLAS KOVATS (Programme by Mike Hoolboom for VISIONS’ Dialogue series) January 11, 2018 

Programme includes: Apucikam Megyunk Haza (Nicholas Kovats, 2009) Beloved Village (Nicholas Kovats, 2017) Now I Understand (Nicholas Kovats, 2014) & the feature length film Field Niggas (Khalik Allah, 2014)

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Mike Hoolboom is a Canadian media artist and writer who lives in Toronto. He has made over eighty films and videos, though most have been withdrawn from circulation, approximately a dozen remain on view. His work has appeared in over four hundred festivals, garnering thirty awards. He has been granted the Tom Berner Award for community service and two lifetime achievement awards, the first from the city of Toronto, and the second from the Mediawave Festival in Hungary. Last year he won the Governor General’s Award.​

The filmmaker will be present on both evenings.

8PM / 7$ la lumière collective [7080, rue Alexandra, #506, Montréal]