Mike Czuba’s Play I AM I at Players’ Theatre

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“Man 1 and Man 2 are locked in a life long struggle between wants and needs, the desired and the rational, never fully understanding that one without the other means nothing. This battle of ideals comes to a head with the introduction of Sonya, the latest object of interest and the metaphor for all that came before. Not only does she represent the women, but their dreams and identities as well. Written by MIKE CZUBA – Directed by LARRY LAMONT – Starring PATRICIA MCKENZIE, TRISTAN D. LALLA, GEORGE BEKIARIS – Set and Costume Designs by MYLȎE CHOQUETTE and PHIL KADOWAKI – Music by TAI TIMBERS – Stage managed by ALLIE SMITH.”

Players’ Theatre, 3480 McTavish, 3rd Floor. (Peel Metro)

July  8, 9, 10,11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24. 8pm.

Tickets: 20$, 15$ (Students/Seniors)
Ticket reservations contact: theatredancingmonkey@gmail.com

Action According to Jim Donovan

There’s also a cool interview he gave to watchmojo.com. He talks about his creative evolution as a filmmaker from short to long form. He’s quite candid about his rise to success as well as his collaboration with Oscar winner Roland Joffe (The Mission).

Une Ville d’Emmanuel Bellegarde

Voici un clip d’art d’Emmanuel Bellegarde. Le film était une performance ouverte au public dans le cadre du salon “Luxe et développement  durable”.

C’est un film d’animation tourné en direct dont le tournage a duré 24 heures. Il s’agit d’un  remix d’une oeuvre de Yona Friedman intitulée La Ville. Le film est un time lapse de 24 heures avec des animations faites en scotch sur des  plaques de plexiglass. Emmanuel a tourné sur la terrasse de chez Vuitton sur les Champs Élysées. Le film a été projeté le 15 mai dernier au Palais de Tokyo  (le musée  d’art contemporain de Paris).

“Le film raconte ce qu’est  une ville et ce qu’elle doit faire pour être plus vivable,” explique Emmanuel. La voix-off est assurée par Michael Lonsdale.

Trop beau ce clip. En espérant le voir dans nos musées canadiens !

Jérémie Saindon Directs Omnikrom’s “Comme à la télévision”

It’s the new Omnikrom video from Jérémie Saindon. It’s a blockbuster movie mashup. It opens with a slow, deliberate zoom on a TV, much like the opening zoom in Coppola’s Godfather. Then begins the jam-packed cross cultural references and spoofs of the 80s and early 90s.

Technically it’s awesome. But it’s not just that. It showcases the importance of TV as the vector of bleary-eyed Friday night existence. For good or bad, TV was, for many of us, the cypher by which we all apprehended the world. Still is, in many respects. We went to bed pining for it and got up extra early to catch yet more hours of stories about manufactured heroism, that we all somehow emulated.

In a funny way, Omnikrom’s self-referencing themselves consuming pop culture is like watching them watching themselves. So turn it up. And turn on the cathode-ray tube so that it can transmit a pathogen of mind-blowing mass entertainment!

Oh yeah, see if you can catch the cool sneaks.