Fall with us Under the Overpass – Assembly Favorites with Infest Wisely and Video Hymn!

This Friday, September 21, we invite you to join us for a special outdoorsy evening here in Montreal.

A video Bike-In at Dare-Dare gallery in the park with no name (check out dare-dare.org/)
Between clark et st-laurent, Arcade et Van Horne, under the overpass.
Trippple Films!! Assembly shorts!! HYMN 7 video zine launch! Science fiction! Bicycles! Free!

We’ll be screening some of Tessa‘s favorite short films from the first Indyish Assembly International Art Relay, and talking a little bit about our Art Relay’s past and future.

Jim Munroe of No Media Kings will be next at bat (and by ‘bat’ I mean ‘projector’) to share with us his cool 7 part collaborative sci-fi film Infest Wisely (Yes, this is the Montreal Premiere!).

The night also features a video mix tape – an ongoing cross-country collaboration – called Video Hymn, which I really look forward to checking out!!

All this will take place in the Unnamed Park (I felt that should be capitalized) under the overpass where St.Laurent Avenue meets Van Horne. We are being welcomed and hosted there by a gallery that lives in a trailer: Dare Dare! Dare Dare is bringing the equipment to screen these videos and amp the sound around the concrete. If you can come, you should bring pillows and blankets for optimum cozyness. Our rain venue is the Green Room, though it looks like the weather will be fine.

We’re all invited back to the Green Room post-screening either way for after party dancin.

The Assembly 1.0 was the first International art relay produced by Indyish.com in Feb-March 2007. 60 artists from across Canada collaborated, passing projects and changing media at each pass, to make new scripts, short films, illustrations and original scores, all stemming from the same rock opera kernel. We’ll screen a few favorites at the launch and talk about the process, where we’re at with Assembly 2.0, and ideas for the next art relay (3.0).

15 minutes.

VIDEO HYMN 7 is the seventh issue of the HYMN video mix-tape project. Featuring films and animations from the Canadas and the US of A. Films by: Jody Kramer, Paul Morris, Neely Goniodsky, Malcolm Sutherland, Rickie Lea Owens (Montréal) Stephen Wichuk & Veda Hille, Sean Arden, Mark Dahl, Chris Brabant, Zachary Flett (Vancouver) Stefan Gruber (Seattle), Jaclyn Lewis (Portland), Ariel Gregory (Olympia) and Heather Harkins (Halifax)! Cartoon promises deliver real scene-stealing starlets! Oh my!

A new, chewable nanotechnology lets people take pictures with their eyes and cures cancer. But the early adopters find out it’s hard to uninstall something after it’s spread through their bloodstream… Shot in Toronto
and written by Jim Munroe, INFEST WISELY is a lo-fi sci-fi no-budget feature in seven episodes, each with a different director and intertwining characters. www.infestwisely.com

“Infest Wisely is a great lo-fi sci-fi nanopunk flick”
-Wired.com

Watch the trailer at http://infestwisely.com/trailer.html

86 minutes