TAX SHELTER TERRORS: THE REAL STORY OF CANADIAN CULT CINEMA
(2021)
author(s): Xavier Mendik
published in: Research Catalogue
This 2016 UK/Canadian documentary is the first practice as research project to fully explore the social and historical significance of the controversial ‘tax shelter’ films that were released in Canada between 1974 and 1984. It considers both the tax shelter phenomenon (which allowed investors to deduct 100% of taxable investment in film production), and the dramatic expansion in populist Canadian cinema it prompted (including ‘body horror’ films, home invasion thrillers, ribald teen movies and regional sex comedies).
THE QUIET REVOLUTION: STATE SOCIETY AND THE CANADIAN HORROR FILM
(2021)
author(s): Xavier Mendik
published in: Research Catalogue
This two-part UK/Canadian produced documentary provides an extensive analysis of horror cinema trends from the 1960s to the present day. It critically evaluates Canadian traditions of the genre through a range of pertinent methodologies in order to explore wider tensions surrounding national identity (part one, 70 minutes), as well as the struggles for representation as advanced by female and indigenous filmmakers (part two, 52 minutes).
That's La Morte: Italian Cult Cinema and the Years of Lead
(2021)
author(s): Xavier Mendik
published in: Research Catalogue
'That's la Morte: Italian Cult Cinema and the Years of Lead' is an 80 minute documentary that considers how cult and horror film cycles came to reflect wider anxieties within 1970s Italy. The documentary comprises of archival and film data from the decade alongside interview interventions from leading filmmakers, producers, performers, screenwriters musicians and historians.
How to Make Performing Arts Survive Time and Become an Accessible Archive: An Attempt to Register Performing Art’s Creation
(2021)
author(s): Greta Pundzaite
published in: Research Catalogue
While the momentariness of performing arts might be one of the most (if not the most) fascinating aspect of the art form allowing to experience the fragility of live events and creatures themselves, the context they depend upon, it is also approached as a great obstacle for a smooth evolution (or rather enriching and intriguing transformation) of the art form. It is believed that not having a medium that allows registering and archiving pieces of creation causes a constant loss. Having in mind that a certain amount of loss of any art form is inevitable, the performing arts situation is understood as quite unbalanced, or rather, problematic from the artist’s point of view. It is believed that not being able to access the history of creation (not from a historical but (more or less) direct contact with the creation point of view), tangles, straitens the potential of an artist, makes him/her feel the gaps of collective memory. By contemplating authenticity, repetition, difference, continuity, context and interconnection, creation is addressed as a collective and complex process. A piece of performing arts itself is approached in the same way (consisting of various interconnected elements), suggesting a similar approach towards the registration process. Work consists of the initial version of performance registration structure/system CYCLE and the essay ‘How to Make Performing Arts Survive Time and Become an Accessible Archive: An Attempt to Register Performing Art’s Creation’.
I'M NOT FROM HERE
(2021)
author(s): Greta Pundzaite
published in: Research Catalogue
I'M NOT FROM HERE is a journey to the sensory depths of memory, early years of life and associated rituals. A piece of text in two languages (one of which is Lithuanian, the mother tongue and the original language of the text) is presented along with the physical shape of named memories and sensorial experience of the text. 212 km railroad line connecting child's home with adult's one becomes the map of 2 hours 30 minutes lasting journey of thoughts.
Actividad 1. ¿Cómo miro el mundo? Cartografía Poética
(2021)
author(s): Luis Ernesto Perez
published in: Research Catalogue
Actividad 1. ¿Cómo miro el mundo? Cartografía Poética