12/21 Billionaires Gnaw Their Tongues From The Pain. New Experimental Works (ATA/OtherCinema, San Francisco).
5/21 ASANASA. Montreal Underground Film Festival (Montreal QC).
11/20 ASANASA. Dreamers of Dreams Film Festival (London UK).
10/20 ASANASA. SF IndieFest (San Francisco CA).
10/20 ASANASA. Engauge Experimental Film Festival (Seattle WA).
10/20 ASANASA. Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria BC).
8/20 ASANASA. Fantasia Film Festival (Montreal QC).
4/20 ASANASA. Media Monsters 5: Otherworldly Visions (Magik Lantern; online).
12/19 ASANASA. New Experimental Works (ATA/OtherCinema, San Francisco).
01/19 Publication of The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence, which includes my chapter on Standardized Film Leaders. Congrats to editor Dr. Mark Wolf (Concordia University, Wisconsin).
11/18 LOVE LEADERS. Engauge Experimental Film Festival (Seattle, WA).
5/18 LOVE LEADERS. New Experimental Works (ATA/OtherCinema, San Francisco).
4/18 LOVE LEADERS. (4 mins 45 secs; 16mm and 35mm to digital). An aesthetic compilation of the leaders from a dozen films and TV shows with ‘love’ in their titles. Created for the Orphan Film Symposium 2018, Museum of the Moving Image, New York City.
09/17 Film Leaders, Typographic Ephemera, and the Ends of Film-As-Film. Association Typographique Internationale annual conference (UQAM, Montréal). See video, above.
05/17 Publication of ‘The Beginnings and the Ends of Film: Leader Standardization in the United States and Canada (1930–1999)’ in The Moving Image 16(2), Fall 2016, pp. 21-44.
03/17 Submitted a first draft of a contribution about film leaders to the Routledge Companion on Obsolescent Media, a project being edited by Dr. Mark Wolf (Concordia University, Wisconsin).
04/16 Presentation and premiere of Academy/Society/Universal: 3 Handwritten Leader Standards (2016) at Orphans X in Culpeper, Virginia.
07/15 A short profile (above) shot during a residency at the Banff Centre, in October 2014. There’s an important error in the film, which is entirely my fault: the first US leader standard was of course created in 1930 by AMPAS, not the SMPE.
09/15 Soar, M. & J. Gallant (2015). Lost Leaders #14 [interactive film]. OTHER ZINE #29 ‘Kino-Eye’, September.
05/15 Screening of Lost Leaders #1 and Lost Leaders #18 as part of Other Cinema’s New Experimental Works program (ATA, 992 Valencia, San Francisco).
05/15 ‘Fossicking in the Archives: Film Leaders as Medium, Metaphor, Metadata’. Panel presentation at Poetics & Politics: A Documentary Research Symposium (UCSC, May 15-17).
04/15 ‘Tea Break‘ talk about Lost Leaders at UCLA’s Moving Image Archive Studies graduate program [special thanks to Snowden Becker for the invitation].
02/15 Film archive ‘fossicking’ in Mr. Craig Baldwin’s Other Cinema collection, and at Mr. Stephen Parr’s Oddball Film + Video, plus a visit to the wonderful Prelinger Library (all in San Francisco).
10/14 Two-week artist’s residency at Banff. (Video-recorded interview to follow – see above.)
09/14 Visits to: the nitrate film archives at the Library of Congress’ NAVCC (Culpeper VA); and, Library and Archives Canada (Gatineau QC).
05/14 Lost Leaders #1 screened as part of the program for the 9th Montreal Underground Film Festival.
03/14 A short talk at the 9th Orphan Film Symposium, held at the glorious EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam. Here’s my brief report on Orphans, a write-up on the Desistfilm web log, and a link to the automated Korsakow sketch film (Lost Leaders #14) I made for projection at the Symposium.
03/14 Artist-in-residence at the Media Archeology Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder. Here’s a short report on my colour studies, and a wide-ranging interview on my process and my current projects, conducted by Renée Farrar. (The first image is from my artist’s talk at Counterpath in Denver on March 1.) An article by Johnny Magdaleno about the artist-in-residence program at the Media Archeology Lab, including reference to my colour studies. Thanks to Dr. Mél Hogan (currently U Calgary) for lining up this gig.