DIM Cinema Presents
Suspicious Futures: Select Video Works of Susan Britton
Monday April 17 7:30pm
at the Pacific Cinematheque 1131 Howe St.
www.dimcinema.ca | www.cinematheque.ca
Curated by Allison Collins 

A communiqué from the past, performed as sex, love, loss, mystery, and technology. The work of Susan Britton, one of the original artists and founders of Toronto-based Vtape (a leading Canadian distributor of independent, artist-driven video art), has been out of distribution — and thus out of the public eye - for almost 15 years. Recently restored, this body of work reveals an important early voice from the past life of video art in Canada. Campy sci-fi concerns mixed with synth beats accompany her inquests into the future. Offering sceptical inquiry into ideology and the feminine subject, her short works act as vignettes, bringing us subject positions and rhetoric from our recent past. Britton’s longer narratives play with their own formal nature, with deft use of apparatus and technology to help the story along and then pull it apart. This screening experiments with loose ends, as befits Britton’s proto-punk personae. Offering a sample of work from her sprawling, ambitious body of video art, it is accompanied by a catalogue—fully illustrated, with a full videography.

Why I Hate Communism No.1 | 1976. Video, 3 mins.
Freeze Frame |1983. Video, 2 mins.
1984 | 1983. Video, 4 mins. — Previously unreleased
Casting Call | 1979. Video, 36 mins.
Up Down Strange | 1981. Video, 55 mins.

This programme originated at Vtape January 2011 as part of their Curatorial Incubator program.  www.vtape.org

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DIM Cinema is a A monthly evening of contemporary short-form moving images and cinematic collaborations. DIM is focused on expanding the visibility of Canadian and international experimental artists and their practices in the cinema; and illuminating underground moving-image culture in Vancouver. DIM is programmed by Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk