John Porter has made 300 super 8 films since 1968, and has written about and photographed alternative film activity since 1978. Video and digital are not film.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Joined December 2012
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Last Monday at Pix Film Gallery, local artist Sally Walker-Hudecki showed her new MFA thesis video "Skeuomorphs", preceded by her short performance. That's my white head at bottom of this photo taken by Pix proprietor Madi Piller.
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Last night in Toronto, a triple-projection film performance by Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki from Finland, using two 16mm projectors and an overhead projector. @LIFTfilm where she has been an artist-in-residence since September.
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@innistownhall in Toronto, John Price & Jp Marchant performed their new 16mm film using 6 projectors, in a program w/ 4 new videos by 5 pairs of local artists, commissioned by @LIFTfilm. Also free on demand to Oct 5, online @vucavu
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This Saturday during Toronto's all-night art event NUIT BLANCHE, I'll be helping Martin Heath project his 16mm Scopitones (short music films from the 1960s) outdoors in the parking lot behind CineCycle. Drop by and say hi, 7pm-5am.
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My most recent super 8 film & live performance is premiering this Friday, July 28, 9pm @the8fest @beaverhall in Toronto. I made "The List of Pandemic Dehumidifier" in late 2020, but I didn't want to perform it online during the lockdown the last 2 years.
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The last 4 weeks I've been distributing 2,000 flyers around Toronto promoting upcoming summer film workshops @LIFTfilm. I made a map to help me. Workshops registration begins Tuesday, May 23. Tell me if you'd like flyers to display at your establishment.
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@pixfilmstudio FLORIS VANHOOF with a-v performance, 16mm films w/ live sound, hand-made, hybrid analog/digital sound board, 16mm projector w/ direct-current motor running at variable speed to 8fps, & operated from across the room with his wireless remote.
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This May in Toronto I'll be doing a public presentation at a film "science fair". I will demonstrate and advocate projecting original ("camera stock") film without making copies. @LIFTfilm presents Analogue Resilience: Film Labs Gathering, May 25-30, 2023.
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Screening of 16mm films by MICHAEL SNOW (1928‐2023) curated & introduced by Jim Shedden, at Jackman Hall, @agotoronto. Great to see an artist's film screening packed with 200 unfamiliar faces. Great to be back in Jackman Hall first time since the lockdown.
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Throwback Thursdays: Last July I was at an outdoor Flash Mob Dance Party organized by Long Time No See (LTNS) in Downtown Chinatown, Toronto. I met up with a few old film friends including dancer Lily Eng and co-organizer Brenda Joy Lem (Photos by Maylynn)
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Last night in Toronto, a memorial event for MICHAEL SNOW (1928-2023) @musicgalleryTO with 2 sets by CCMC, his band for 48 years, and a new video of him by Laurie Kwasnik. L-R: John Oswald, Paul Dutton, Al Mattes, John Kamevaar, Mani Mazinani, Nobuo Kubota.
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MICHAEL SNOW (1928-2023) and his work seemed ubiquitous around Toronto. I photographed him often. Here he is on my black & white TV in the 1980s being interviewed by Elwy Yost on TVO's "Saturday Night at the Movies" about "Lust for Life", the 1956 Hollywood biography of Van Gogh.
Last night @innistownhall, veteran local artist KEITH LOCK at the screening, launch and sale of the blu-ray edition of his film "Everything Everywhere Again Alive" (1974, 16mm, 72 minutes) published by @blackzerodisc. The event was presented by Ad Hoc Film Collective & @CSI_UofT.
Last night @FreeTimesCafe in Toronto, "The Frozen Slate", archival 16mm experimental films 1974-2010 from @cfmdc, organized by students in the Film Preservation and Collections Management program @imagearts_tmu. Excellent screening!
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In Toronto last Monday, veteran local film artist, curator and arts administrator CHRIS KENNEDY showed two of his 16mm films (from 2013 & 2017) at @innistownhall, presented by Ad Hoc Collective and @CSI_UofT.
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ELIZABETH M. WEBB from Charlottesville, Virginia, with part of her new 16mm film and sculptural installation "A Bearing Tree is a Witness" @Gallery44 in Toronto from October 21 to December 10. It juxtaposes film and thin porcelain. (Photo by John Porter)
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Last night @pixfilmstudio in Toronto,
ÁLVARO FELDMAN from Madrid, Spain presented his recent super 8 films. He is currently Artist-in-Residence @LIFTfilm, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto.
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Last night in Toronto, @aluCineTO (Sept. 28-30) celebrated the work of veteran local artist JORGE LOZANO with two screenings at the Spadina Theatre including his super 8 and 16mm films (1980-2018), a dual-projection, a live performance, and an after party.
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Last week, artist-run @csvtoronto celebrated its 41st Anniversary with two outdoor screenings of past members' work, a party, and a panel discussion with veteran members Vera Frenkel, Su Rynard, Dennis Day, and Richard Fung.
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