14th Annual Members Screening - Factory Media Centre

Annual Members’ Screening Reception: Monday, November 25, 2019, following the AGM around 7:30pm.
Screening Dates: Nov. 25 – Dec 20, 2019

Factory Media Centre was pleased to present The 14th Annual Members’ Screening. This screening welcomed work by new and returning members, and showcased a selection of Hamilton’s diverse media artwork. The program was on view until December 20, 2019 during regular gallery hours.

FMC would like to thank you, our members, for your ongoing support throughout our 15 years of serving Hamilton.

Featuring works by:
Andrés Miramontes
Annette Gerard
Harold Sikkema
Jars Hooch
John-Riley O’Handley
Lucille Kim
Masoud Eskandari
Minjung Hwangbo
Richard Purvis
Robert Ezergailis
Ryan Ferguson
Ryan Melmoth
Sandra Lim
Shane Pennells

First Prize Recipient: THE SELF by Masoud Eskandari
Second Prize Recipient: OPPOSITES AND THE SAME by Lucille Kim
Third Prize Recipient: A TOUR AND A DRINK by John-Riley O’Handley

Program:

CINDY
MJ Hwangbo, 2019, 2:45 minutes | Documentary

One day, I was making my way over to an Art Gallery in Hamilton, and was stopped in my tracks by Cindy Koeller’s voice. Cindy is a soprano singer that has remained true to her craft for 23+ years and continues to pursue her passion. Here is a little short about herself and her journey.

CROWDED PLACE
Robert Ezergailis, 2017, 4:33 | Experimental

A TOUR & A DRINK
John-Riley O’Handley, 2019, 7:42 | Suspense/Thriller

An unexpected evening visit.

ANIMATION REEL
Annette Gerard, 2019, 1:57 | Animation

I am a Sheridan College Illustration graduate, and Mohawk College Photography grad too. I just started to do some simple animations in the last few years. I feel like this reel is just the beginning of some bigger things to come. Humble beginnings in animation

WAVES OF FORTITUDE
Lucille Kim, 2019, 9:00 | Abstract Soundscape

Waves of Fortitude is an abstract soundscape about my mind’s journey within navigating PTSD and the start of taking medication for my anxiety/panic disorder. This has led towards a need to take back control and strength in finding my sense of balance that was completely damaged.

KUCKAROO IS HAPPY (KIND OF BLUE)
Jars Hooch, 2019, 5:41 | Performance

Kuckeroo is happy (kind of blue) is one in a series of short films that feature creature(s) performing in a kind of blue space. In this particular video, Kuckeroo becomes enamored with the dangly parts of their body and joyously dances to both show them off and to celebrate them. The sound in this video is courtesy of Ryan Melmoth.

THE SELF
Masoud Eskandari, 2017, 7:00 | Documentary

The Self is an autobiographical documentary video, made out of still images, text, music and sound. In this documentary the artist has a poetic performance and expressing himself with a challenge on a major question as “Who am I”. This is documentary the artist is in search of the self of himself as an immigrant who the subject of ‘Identity’ is a problematic subject matter in the new country.

This artwork is divided on five chapters conveying the idea of a diary book in black and white images except the last section of the last chapter which is in color.

OPPOSITES AND THE SAME
Lucille Kim, 2015, 7:08 | Video Art/Peformance

Opposites and the Same is a performance video constructing the state of conversation between me and my mother, and my struggle with Cambodian-Canadian inheritance or environmental influences. White tiles represent 330 Khmer words that I can remember, while hands suggest a body language and the hesitant or overwhelming exchanges within our relationship.

BLUE MOVIE
Robert Ezergailis, 2008, 7:27 | Experimental

*Warning: Blue Movie contains explicit content.

TRANSLATION
Shane Pennells, 2019, 2:42 | Drama

Translation was made as an entry to an online film contest held by Lacie Collective. The rules were the film had to use 12 of 22 provided lines and run exactly two minutes in length. Out of 220 entries from around the world, “Translation” placed 12th. The version presented here is an extended version.

THE MILLENNIUM TRAIL
Harold Sikkema, 2019, 4:23 | Algorithmic Art

Exploring Prince Edward County in 2019, the artist cycled along a section of the Millennium Trail near Wellington. The traversal, along with its staccato gritty-gravel acoustics, is here woven together with its own panoramic cross section, and further encapsulated in a rotating spiralized loop of the same. Camera shake is embraced, for the human wobble at which it hints: one hand on the wheel and the other on the camera. Formerly a branch line connecting Picton to Trenton and the Grand Trunk Railway, the Millennium Trail is described as “multi-use”. The artist wonders what other “uses” it may have.

WEST END LAND PARK FILM V.1
Sandra Lim, 2019, 3:00 | Documentary

This work is part of series of short archival interventions, which take my family’s home movies and position them in relation to national archives of the post war period and beyond, into the 1960’s and 70’s.

THE GETAWAY
Shane Pennells, 2019, 1:14 | Comedy/Crime

The Getaway was an entry in the Hamilton Film Festival’s annual film challenge. The challenge was to make a comedic short that had 14 lines of dialogue and ran exactly 1:14 in length. The film was shown on the final night of the festival.

PAS SEUL
Richard Purvis, 2012, 9:10 | Experimental

In 2008 I made a move to South Korea with the hope of earning enough to buy a camera and make a film of stills in homage to Chris Marker, my greatest inspiration at that time. Three years, 48,000 photos and several bad life choices later, I created ‘Pas Seul’ — a filmic poem about love and loss, set against my lived experience in South Korea. It is an attempt to capture the emotional rollercoaster of that part of my life and the catharsis of letting it all go.

FLOWERS VARIATIONS
Andrés Miramontes, 2019, 10:37 | Poetry

AI reading a traditional Yaqui oral tradition poem in a spoken word format with a Kaossilator improvising background noises.

OTHER ROUTES
Ryan Ferguson, 2019, 3:14 | Experimental

Super8 source, digital edit. Part of the fragments in rounds series, soundtrack is ‘Catching Up’ by electroluminescent.

VIDEOGAME SCRAPS
Ryan Melmoth, 2019, 4:37 | Experimental

This is a mashup of a few segments of a video game I have been making, including videos that would play within the game. My audience is usually video game players and the queer furry fandom and I wanted to share my work in a new type of space.