FREE film Wednesdays at Lightbox

Although the free Family Day weekend has just passed, there are more free screenings – part of a series of short avant-garde films – coming up at the Lightbox centre:

• Wednesday, 23rd of February @ 7pm
  Keeping Trace — On Time and Film
  
  • Pro Agri, Nicky Hamlyn [Great Britain, 2008, 3 min, 16mm]
  • Les Chaises, Vincent Grenier [Canada, 2008, 8 min, HD]
  • August Afternoons, Deanna Morse [USA, 1985, 5 min, 16mm]
    
  • She is Away, Bruce Elder [Canada, 1976, 13 min, 16mm]
  • Tamalpais, Chris Kennedy [Canada, 2009, 14 min, 16mm]
  • Lacuna, Shannon Harris [Canada, 2008, 10 min, DV]
  • Transitions, Barbara Sternberg [Canada, 1982, 11 min, 16mm]
  Presented by the Canadian Film Makers Distribution Centre.
  
  
• Wednesday, 9th of March @ 7pm
  Mantler’s Visual Music
  • Introduction by Chris Cummings
  • Allegretto, Oskar Fischinger [USA 1936, 3 min, 35mm]
  • Motion Painting No. 1, Oskar Fischinger [USA, 1947, 11 min, 35mm]
  • Trade Tattoo, Len Lye [USA,1937, 5 min, 16mm]
  • Rhythm, Len Lye [USA, 1957, 1 min, 16mm]
  • Free Radicals, Len Lye [USA 1958, 4 min, 16mm
  • Synchromy, Norman McLaren [Canada, 1971, 7 min, 35mm]
  • Lines Horizontal, Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambart [Canada, 1961, 6 min, 35mm]
  • Gymnopedies, Larry Jordan [USA, 1965, 6 min, 16mm]
  • Friendly Witness, Warren Sonbert [USA, 1989, 22 min, 16mm]
  • When the Organ Played ‘Oh Promise Me’, Cecil Stokes [c.1940, 3 min, 16mm]
  • 15-minute live musical performance by Mantler
    
  Presented by The Music Gallery.
  
  
• Wednesday, 23rd of March @ 7pm
  Images of Nature, or The Nature of the Image
  
  • Light Magic, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof [Canada, 2001, 3 min, 16mm]
  • View of the Falls from the Canadian Side, John Price [Canada, 2006, 7 min, 35mm]
  • Migration, David Rimmer [Canada, 1969, 11 min, 16mm]
  • Notes in Origin, Ellie Epp [Canada, 1987, 17 min, 16mm]
  • Plein Air, Richard Kerr [Canada, 1991, 20 min, 16mm]
  • Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis, Daïchi Saïto [Canada, 2009, 10 min, 35mm]
  • Beauty Plus Pity, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby [Canada, 2009, 14 min, video]
    
  Presented by the Canadian Film Makers Distribution Centre.
  
  
• Wednesday, 30th of March @ 7pm
  Landscape as Expression — San Francisco Bay Area
  • A Trip Down Market Street, Miles Brothers [USA, 1906, 12 min, Silent, 35mm]
  • North Beach, Dion Vigne [USA, 1958, 5 min, 16mm]
  • Visions of a City, Lawrence Jordan [USA, 1957-78, 8 min]
  • All My Life, Bruce Baillie [USA, 1966, 3 min]
  • Golden Gate Bridge Exposure: Poised for Parabolas, Lynn Marie Kirby [USA, 2004, 5 min, Silent, DV]
  • Junkopia, Chris Marker [USA, 1981, 6 min, 35mm]
  • Street Noise, Michael Glawogger [USA, 1981, 9 min, 16mm]
  • Degrees of Limitation, Scott Stark [USA, 1982, 3 min, Silent, 16mm]
  • Side/Walk/Shuttle, Ernie Gehr [USA, 1991, 41 min, 16mm]
  Presented by the Images Festival.
  

See you there!
#TOfilmfest

Above Lightbox: Festival Tower, pt.2

Festival Tower sits atop the festival's new Lightbox centre on Reitman Square at King & John — it's the residential portion of the three-way venture between the festival (cinema/galleries/work-spaces/offices), the Reitman family (land), and Daniels (developer/builder).

Although Lightbox opened during the September 2010 film festival, occupancy in Festival Tower began later in November.

[Previous posts about the building: Lightbox developments, Lightbox tour, and Lightbox tour, part 2; also O&B Canteen, Luma, and Malaparte dining spaces.]

The Urban Toronto forum was kind enough to mention our article, Above Lightbox: Festival Tower, and they have also posted snapshots of suite interiors at Festival Tower.

Last fall, we weren't able to see any of the residential amenities — tentatively scheduled for completion this spring — but we recently took a tour of some of the common areas now under construction...

Tower entrance

Tower cinema

Tower pool/fitness room


...and some views...

East

South

West


Night


"What's On Today"

A unique feature of Festival Tower: a flat-screen displaying the day's film schedule at Lightbox (plus opening hours for the gallery, library, studio, lounge and gift shop) — conveniently located by the elevators, on the ground-floor entrance — nice! :-)

See you at the next fest!
@TOfilmfest

PS.
Want to live at Festival Tower? – check http://bit.ly/FestTwrMLS for a list of all the suites currently for sale/rent...

...or, how about living nearby the new Lightbox centre? – look for the Condos on the Market in the Toronto Star – UPDATE: the downtown west area was featured Mar.3/2011.

PPS.
CONTINUED:
Part one of this article, Above Lightbox: Festival Tower.
Part three of this article, Above Lightbox: Festival Tower, pt.3

Sun.20-Mon.21/Feb: FREE Tim Burton show at Lightbox

In celebration of Family Day, the Tim Burton exhibition at the new Lightbox centre will be FREE on both Sunday, February 20 and Monday, February 21 from 12pm to 6pm.
(Regular price, $22.75)

The Lightbox centre opens at 10am.

There are also free film screenings on both days!

[Free tickets distributed 30 minutes prior to showtime — first-come, first-served; capacity is limited. See FAQ for details.]

Sunday, February 20th

Free Black History Month event

• 3:30pm – Witness As Desired: A Celebration of African Canadian Film

  "A selection of short films programmed/curated by Kenneth Montague, followed by a panel discussion hosted by Cameron Bailey. Witness As Desired is an exploration of African Canadian identity in film. The program presents a series of short films by emerging and established filmmakers that reflect historical journeys and challenge representations of African Canadians as well as document contemporary perceptions of race and identity." – Presented shorts include:

  • Sum of the parts: what can be named, 2009 [18min] – Deanna Bowen
  • Where Do White People Go When the Long Weekend Comes?, 2008 [7min] – Powys Dewhurst
  • Batty Boys Revenge, 2010 [3min] – Alison Duke
  • Olé’, 2010 [3min] – Jason Ebanks
  • CHAINS, 2009 [11min] – Sharon Lewis
  • Keep On Keepin’ On, 2010 [3min] – Sylvia Hamilton
  • The Little Prince, 2009 [7min] – Chantal James
  • MAKING CHANGE, 1995 [18min] – Colina Phillips
  • Proverbs 24:10, 2008 [2min] – Peter Dean Rickards
  • Looking for Dawn, 2011 [25min] – Dawn Wilkinson

Free documentary screening

• 1:00pm, 6:15pm, 8:40pm – Unauthorized [Harvey Weinstein documentary by Barry Avrich], 2010
• 3:30pm – Cameraman [Jack Cardiff documentary], 2010

Free cinema classics

• 1:00pm – Leave Her to Heaven, 1945
• 6:00pm – Red Shoes, 1948
• 7:00pm – The Rules of the Game, 1939
  

Monday, February 21st

Free Tim Burton screenings

• 12:30pm – Alice in Wonderland, 2010 — Tim Burton
• 1:45pm – James and the Giant Peach, 1996 — Tim Burton
• 3:00pm – The Nightmare Before Christmas, 1993 — Tim Burton
  
  

Free live music performance

• 4:30pm – Sherlock Jr., 1924 — Buster Keaton (with live music from iNSiDEaMiND; see the Toronto Star interview with Cheldon Paterson and Erik Laar plus Silent Toronto's Buster Keaton, turntables and sound effects: The early days of cinema redux.
  

Free Mary Pickford screenings

• 12:00pm – Suds, 1920 — Mary Pickford
  
• 2:30pm – Through the Back Door, 1921 — Mary Pickford
  
• 4:30pm – My Best Girl, 1927 — Mary Pickford

The Mary Pickford: The Invention of the Movie Star, on the 4th-floor in the Canadian Film Gallery runs free from January 13 to July 3, 2011.

See you there!
#TOfilmfest

PS.
For families with children, Lightbox is also bringing back Bibi Blocksberg (2002, Germany; previously screened for Halloween), and Singin' in the Dark hosted by Shawn Hitchins (presented during the 2010 Nuit Blanche celebration).