alex mackenzie : filmart

 
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intertidal (2012)



Alex MacKenzie is an experimental film artist working primarily with analog equipment and hand processed imagery. He creates works of expanded cinema, light projection installation, and projector performance. His work has screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the EXiS Experimental Film Festival in Seoul, Lightcone in Paris, Kino Arsenal in Berlin and others. Alex was the founder and curator of the Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, the Blinding Light!! Cinema and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival. He was an artist in residence at Atelier MTK in Grenobles, France and Struts Gallery/Faucet Media in New Brunswick. Alex co-edited Damp: Contemporary Vancouver Media Art (Anvil Press 2008), and interviewed David Rimmer for Loop, Print, Fade + Flicker: David Rimmer's Moving Images (Anvil Press 2009). Alex was recently Artist in Residence at Cineworks' Analog Film Annex in Vancouver. BIO

current/upcoming:

eastern canada mini-tour:
intertidal & logbook screening, pleasuredome toronto (may 31 2013)
handmade emulsion and expanded cinema workshops, lift toronto (june 1/2 2013)
intertidal screening, cinematheque quebecoise montreal (june 5 2013)
intertidal screening, daimon gatineau (june 6 2013)
logbook & this charming couple screening/artist talk, ifco ottawa (june 7 2013)
handmade emulsion workshop, ifco ottawa (june 8 2013)

reel2real youth film festival handmade film mentor, roundhouse vancouver (apr 15-19 2013)
auroratone digitalis screens at spectacle, brooklyn, nyc (mar 14 2013)
expanding cinema, extended workshop series, cineworks (oct 2012-march 2013)

uk tour: intertidal & workshops, etc.
the cube, bristol - screening and workshop (feb 3 2013)

glasgow short film festival, scotland - screenings and workshop (feb 7-10 2013)
screen bandita at whitespace, edinburgh scotland - screening (feb 14 2013)
star & shadow cinema, newcastle - screening and workshop (feb 16-17 2013)
cherry kino, leeds - screening (feb 12 2013)
unconscious archives and no.w.here, london - screening and workshop (feb 26 & mar 2 2013)

auroratone digitalis screening, townhouse gallery cairo egypt (nov 18 2012)
intertidal and this charming couple screening, anti-matter victoria (oct 13 2012)
expanded cinema panel discussion, wndx winnipeg (sep 29 2012)
intertidal world premiere, wndx winnipeg (sep 27 2012)
situated cinema commission "portal", wndx winnipeg (sep 26 2012)
auroratone digitalis premiere, commissioned for the auroratone project, film pop montreal (sep 21 2012)
solo screening of new works and work-in-progress: logbook, intertidal, this charming couple, cineworks (may 11 2012)
possible model for a microcinema presented as a part of "cinema", voorkamer lier belgium (may 11-july 8 2012)
artist in residence, cineworks analog film annex (april 2011-feb 2012)
handmade film workshops, reel 2 real youth film festival, roundhouse (april 16-20 2012)
handmade emulsion workshops, worm filmwerkplaats, rotterdam (jan 30/31, 2012)
logbook european premiere, rotterdam international film festival (jan 29 2012)

recent interviews/writings
interview with ali lopez, post everything cfuv victoria (oct 10 2012)
interview by kirk finken in guerrila (july 2012)
lycanthropy, essay for strange codes: the life and films of arthur lipsett
monument, essay for empty quarter: notes and pictures
toward an ecology of film (claudio cacciotti)
living, breathing images (marie-hélène lemaire)
contingencies and continuities: the wooden lightbox
and new media history (zoë constantinides)
listening to the lightbox: recollecting a secret art (samuel thulin)

book reviews
review of loop, print, fade + flicker: david rimmer's moving images
(essay by mike hoolboom, interview by alex mackenzie) in senses of cinema
and in canadian literature
review of same in toro
review of damp: contemporary vancouver media art in broken pencil
(edited/designed by alex macKenzie and oliver hockenhull)

 

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