DIM
A monthly evening of contemporary short-form moving images and cinematic collaborations. Focused on expanding the visibility of Canadian and international experimental artists and their practices in the cinema, DIM seeks to illuminate underground moving image culture in Vancouver.
DIM is Programmed by Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk through the Pacific Cinematheque Pacifique. For more information contact programming[at]dimcinema[dot]ca
DIM evenings take place on the 3rd Monday of every month and commence at 7:30pm, unless otherwise stated.
Screenings are held at the Pacific Cinematheque Pacifique at 1131 Howe St. Vancouver BC Canada | Screenings are 18yrs+ | Tix $9.50/$8students + $3membership | www.cinematheque.bc.ca
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26
Vanessa Renwick and Daniel Menche: The Possibility of Nature, Hope in Pure Sound, and Faith in Magnetism
April 26, 2009 - 7:30pm | Add new comment
Programmed by Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk and Gabriel Saloman
Following the screening of Hope and Prey, their 3 channel video projection and live sound performance project at VIVO Media Arts Centre and the Signal + Noise Festival, Portland artists Vanessa Renwick and Daniel Menche present an intimate artist talk and screening of works that contextualize their collaboration. Vanessa’s interest in place, relationships between bodies and landscapes, and all sorts of borders collides with Daniel’s dedication to music that expresses the undisciplined purity of emotion that strives for one goal: vehement beauty.
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Vanessa Renwick (born 1961 in Chicago, Illinois) is founder and janitor of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass. She is a film / video / installation artist and lives in Portland, Oregon. A filmmaker by nature, not by stress of research. She puts scholars to rout by solving through Nature's teaching problems that have fretted their trained minds. Her iconoclastic work reflects an interest in place, relationships between bodies and landscapes, and all sorts of borders. Working in experimental and poetic documentary forms, she produces films, videos and installations that explore the possibility of hope in contemporary society. She is a naturalist, born, not made: a true barefoot, cinematic rabblerouser, of grand physique, calm pulse and a magnetism that demands the most profound attention.
Daniel Menche (born 1969) is a proud native Oregonian. Since the late 80s he has established himself as a musician with a sense of focus and determination uncharacteristic in a genre known for its randomness and chaotic structure. Rather than creating "noise," he strives for order and cohesiveness. His presentation of sonic structures is similar to the way a writer depicts a story, an allegory seems to arise, which uses confusion as a symbol for the imaginative process of total sound purity; aural intensity is not a representation of confusion or the chaotic, but a concerted effort to provoke and stimulate the listeners imagination by generating intensely powerful sounds and music.
www.esophagus.com/htdb/mench | danielmenche.blogspot.com
Co-Sponsored by VIVO Media Arts Centre and Signal + Noise Media Art Festival www.signalandnoise.ca | www.vivomediaarts.com