Avant-Garde Showcase (Toronto '10) November 19, 2010

Boston Premieres Curated by Andréa Picard, Wavelengths—a well-respected program featuring experimental film within the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival—celebrated its 10th birthday this September with an expanded line-up of 36 films and videos. The Bright Family Screen Room’s international selections from Wavelengths 2010 range from stroboscopic three-dimensionality by legendary avant-garde master Ken Jacobs, to New England artist T. Marie’s stunning pixel-painting, to the best short film winner of this year’s Venice Film Festival, Peter Tscherkassy’s avant-garde/commercial/early cinema 35mm mash-up Coming Attractions.

The program: Atlantiques (Mati Diop, Senegal/France), Coming Attractions (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria), Anne Truitt, Working (Jem Cohen, U.S.), Portrait, Tea Time, Red Curtain (Helga Fanderl, Germany), The Day was a Scorcher (Ken Jacobs, U.S.), Slave Ship (T. Marie, U.S.), Burning Bush (Vincent Grenier, U.S.), Leona Alone (Oliver Husain, Canada).

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