One Month Exhibit
January 27th – February 22nd, 2012
Opening Night: Friday January 27th, 2012 8pm
About the show:
“My current images conjure up themes of glorified warfare in pop culture, the social dominance of the mesomorphic male, assorted gender role conflicts, general distrust amongst people, a caste system in regards to love, nepotism in politics and the workplace and a general feeling of natural selection in spite of hollow promises of equality… but it should be noted that in the end, these images also portray the artist’s new acceptance and comfort in his mediocrity.”
About Peter Guindon:
Before perverting the world in the pages of Cinema Sewer, Peter grew up in idyllic suburban Ottawa, acquired a BFA at the University of Windsor followed by an animation certificate at Algonquin. He spent the early to mid 2000s working as a professional animator until the Canadian 2D animation industry was gutted by lack of funding and slave labour overseas, and then resorted to menial labour in order to make ends meet. He wallowed in self-pity for a couple of years until he decided to re-invent his life. In 2010, he packed his belongings and moved to Asia to teach whilst trying to find fresh opportunities to showcase his artwork. He is taking in a new culture learning a new language and meeting new people. Peter Guindon heartily recommends stark lifestyle and geographical shifts for those failing to realise their passion in their current abyss. As for his work, Peter says, “I am inspired by the artwork of Bosch, Breughel, and George Tooker. I am also visually inspired by 1920s fashion, medieval architecture and regalia, as well as modern day smog-filled skies and devastated landscapes. I believe my works offer glimpses of all of these influences to a certain degree.”
We have free passes to the Ottawa Sneak Preview of Liam Neeson man-movie The Grey this coming Monday, January 23rd at 7pm at Cineplex Odeon South Keys (2214 Banks St.). Transform from winter weary wimp to winter warrior wolf-eater in two hours. Become a survivalist by emailing info [at] invisiblecinema.ca with the subject: “The Grey” and include your name and phone number. We will call the winners.
“Christmas is coming early this year… and it’s murder.”
I love this succession of reports, so here it is. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet…” Apparently not. Our gift to the internet on this December 24th, 2011: the indecisive titling history of…
Free Passes! The Ottawa sneak preview of The The Darkest Hour is tonight, Thursday December 22nd, 2011 at 7pm at Coliseum (3090 Carling Ave.). This is the movie with Emile Hirsch running around Moscow while under attack from electric alien apparitions methodically invading and exterminating planet Earth. The more apt title Invisible Invaders was, unfortunately, already taken.
Here is the synopsis via dialogue in the trailer: “We’ve never seen anything like it!” “It’s impossible to make visible contact.” “They’re absorbing all our power supplies.” “This wasn’t just Moscow. New York… London, Paris, Tokyo… all reported invisible invaders.”"They can see us… but we can’t see them.” “-What do they want? -Energy, electricity. -Oh my god!” “The way it lit up that cop car… electricity gives it away.” “Go! Go!” “We’re gonna fight the hell back!” “Do it!” (explosions, musical swell). Dear trailer: you had me at Red Square and exploding mammals.
Enter to win FREE passes for tonight’s screening by emailing info [at] invisiblecinema.ca with the subject “Darkest Hour” and your name and phone number where you can be reached this afternoon. We will call the winners.
SAUSAGE FINGERS
New works by Patrick Thompson
December 16th, 2011 – January 18th, 2012
Opening Night: Friday December 16th, 2011 8pm
An Invisible Cinema Holiday Toast with snacks, drinks and vegan desserts
courtesy of Auntie Loo’s.
Patrick Thompson:
Born in Ottawa in 1978, Patrick Thompson makes work that encompasses a variety of approaches, including painting, installation, sculpture both indoors and out.
In his works, in both two and three dimensions, Thompson lets his experimentation with materials, process and color guide each piece separately.
Patrick Thompson lives and works in Toronto. He studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design for a short time before working under artist Mark Marsters in Ottawa. His work has been exhibited around the world, including the Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona, the Nanjing Arts Institute in Nanjing. China, Articulate Baboon Gallery in Cairo. Egypt and the Royal Ontario Museum’s ICC. Thompson also paints large scale murals in Canada’s high arctic. Recently Thompson produced THINK TENT at Toronto’s Le Labo art space which brought together a dozen teachers, artists and thinkers to brainstorm web based solutions to problems found in the education system. The discussion became the inspiration for his exhibition at the gallery. In January, Thompson will join Iqaluit based artist Danny Osborne in Hawaii to collaborate on a series of Osborne’s Red Hot Lava sculptures.
KILL ALL REDNECK PRICKS!: A Documentary Film About A Band Named KARP (http://www.karplives.com/)
SPECIAL IN-STORE SCREENING AS PART OF THE FILM’S INTERNATIONAL TOUR
2011 / USA / 89 min / Blu-ray
Director: William E. Badgley Featuring: KARP, Kathleen Hannah, King Buzzo, Calvin Johnson, Kimya Dawson
Print Source: William E. Badgley
We are proud to present the Ottawa premiere of this documentary. “An epic story of the rise and fall of the most hormonally overloaded band of punk-metal geeks to ever emerge from the mossy woods of Thurston County, Kill All Redneck Pricks takes you from the high school corridors and soggy chicken coops of Tumwater, WA, to the dizzying heights of punk rock stardom, only to make a shockingly painful crash landing. The players are real, and the stakes are life, death, and the inspired dreams of youth. King Buzzo, Justin Trosper, Kathleen Hanna, Kimya Dawson, and Calvin Johnson are just a few of the legion of friends and heroes that narrate the history and comic brutality of KARP. This is a vital story of the Pacific Northwest, loud music, and fragile humanity.”
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 14, 2011
INVISIBLE CINEMA
319 LISGAR ST.
9 PM. $5.
Car chase enthusiasts, soundtrack junkies, eurocrime hounds and national capital votaries – clear your weekend, rent an old chevy, call your closest drag-queen, turn up the volume, kick down some doors, and be suspicious of the lanky and the french. A shot-in-Ottawa (errr mostly Montreal) action classic is coming to rampage off the big screen.
As part of the Support Local campaign, The Mayfair Theatre and Invisible Cinema present Strange Shadows in an Empty Room aka Blazing Magnum aka Special Magnum aka Una Magnum Special Per Tony Saitta as November’s Saturday Night Sinema (Free for Members!) this Saturday, November 26th, 2011 at 11:15pm at The Mayfair Theatre (1074 Bank St.). Invisible Cinema will be on hand to introduce the film and give out DVD prizes.
“I am not the Jesus of the official church who the police, bankers, judges, hangmen, officers, church bosses and other powerful people tolerate. I am not your Superstar.”
- Klaus Kinski
With this week’s overdue DVD release of Kinski Paganini, everyone’s favourite mannered, temperate thespian can be seen again in his final film. By any standard the new Mya Communications transfer leaves much to desire, but at the same time it maintains this wonderful late-night cable aesthetic appropriate to the life of the film. Is there too much Kinski in Kinski Paganini? Is it overwrought? overdramatic? absurd? Sure. But when the man writes, directs, and assumes the title role, we must enter the dining hall with a gluttony for Kinski. It is our sin, as much as his.
The observant viewer will note the UK quad poster above says “in cinemas February 2011.” Well, that came and went as delays pushed back the release by nine months. But that wait is over “… it’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights…” We have FREE DOUBLE PASSES to the Ottawa Sneak Preview of The Muppets this Thursday, November 17th at 7pm at Empire 7 in the World Exchange Plaza. Want one? Please email info (at) invisiblecinema.ca with the subject: Muppets! and your name and phone number and we will draw the winners by Wednesday and contact the lucky ones via phone.
“It’s astounding Time is… fleeting Madness… takes its toll. But listen closely…”
Tonight, The Mayfair Theatre will do the time warp again, as it has been doing all weekend. Costumes, confetti (err, bubbles?), popcorn, a singing and dancing shadowcast, and Meatloaf’s cheeks jiggling to songs forty-feet wide – let the civil servants loose. The Nelson did it. The Towne did it. And The Mayfair has kept the thirty-six year old tradition intact for another year. Ottawa, after all – though almost forgotten in memory – played ground zero to Rocky Horror at Film Expo ’75, world premiering the film one week before it’s first London screening, and for untold reason, no matter how far time distances and geography separates, things are always drawn back in fits of fleeting madness… to the place they were born.
