Deadline coming up for Northwest Film Festival

August 1st is the deadline for the 38th Northwest Filmmakers Festival. Its free to submit! So what are you waiting for?

Hank Bull, The Time Dilation Machine

Working in conjunction with DIM Cinema the final night of Signal & Noise is tomorrow night's screening of Hank Bull, The Time Dilation Machine a collection of Double 8, Super 8 and 16mm films from the 1970s made by artist Hank Bull & friends. The show starts at 7:30pm at the Pacific Cinémathèque.

Smithsonian on 8mm

Inspired by the release of the J.J. Abrams spectacle Super 8, the Smithsonian published a pair of articles this month on the history of amateur film gauges and their use in documentary work.

Signal & Noise 2011

Signal & Noise starts tonight with a screening of Ben Rivers' four part Slow Action at the Western Front. Check out the official S&N site for further details of this year's lineup of films and performances.

Terminal Cinema hits Main St. Car Free Day

Details are still being worked out but it looks like a repeat of the Terminal Cinema II lineup will show as part of Car Free Day on June 19th. In a partnership between Cineworks and the Olio Festival a screening tent will be set up and a loop of TC films will be shown. More information to be announced as this develops.

Terminal Cinema II Post-Mortem

With a venue located at the very end of Main St. and sitting a few meters from the tracks laid by the railway company that dubbed Vancouver the Terminal City. Its safe to say it was a sell out! The micro-cinema at the Cineworks Annex was packed to standing room only with over 40 people in attendance.

Thank you for coming and special thanks to volunteers Megan Bodaly and Bill Beattie for technical assistance and with the setup.

Press Clippings From the 2008 Edition

From the 2008 Terminal Cinema archives:

An interview by JarkTheSaint with 4TheRcrcd Magazine.

A preview feature written by Jon Turner for Beyond Robson.

Terminal Cinema on SpaceBook and MyFace

We crave digital friends!

We dusted off our MySpace account, if anyone still uses that check it out here.

And have setup a Facebook event page.

We hope to soon be friends of convenience with all of you!

Terminal Cinema II - Posters 1 & 2

All good sequels should have bigger set pieces and more villains than the last. We were unable to find any good super-villains to join the cast but we did come up with two poster designs.

























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Design on the 2nd poster by Cineworks curator, Jennifer Cane.

The 2011 Slate

Encore by Jason Karman
Video Vixens Do Los Angeles by Blair Dykes
days just wave goodbye by c.j. brabant
Love Birds by Brian Lye
Plastic Bottles by John Ornoy
Work in Progress by John Woods

The Terminal Cinema Countdown

From the first show, our animated countdown:

Terminal Cinema II

After much delay Terminal Cinema reforms for its second group showing! Films are still being booked but the the evening will take place at 9pm on Saturday, May 28th 2011 at the Cineworks Annex (basement of the Ironworks building - 235 Alexander at Main). Followed immediately by an after party.

Return to Terminal Cinema in 2011

The first Terminal Cinema took place April 1, 2008 at the Pacific Cinémathèque. Hosted by the notorious Bernie Bombay, nearly 2 hours of short films were shown to an audience of nearly 200.

Curated with an eye to providing a venue for local filmmakers who could find no outlets for their work, the evening was a celebration of the underground film of Vancouver and only showed a small portion of the work available. Since that event, streaming video on the internet has become arguably the 'go to' place to watch film be it Hollywood hits or the avant garde.

However the traditional theatrical exhibition is still a vibrant venue to view motion picture work. Particularly the unpredictable element of the audience and the group experience of watching a film. With this second showing we will focus on a shorter program and put an emphasis on the social aspect of the theatre. We hope to see you there.

Terminal Cinema 2008 Line Up

From the archive, this was the 2008 Terminal Cinema program:

The Experience by Dan Rocque

The Experience is a harrowing investigation into the nature of human
decision. Presented in a stark, existentialist piece revolving around
one man blinded by anxiety, paranoia, and guilt.

Dan Rocque is a giallo inspired cinematographer and director who
sacrificed financial security and lucrative oil patch wages to attend
film school in Vancouver and work in the film industry. His professional
career walks the line between the analogue and digital worlds.

Buffalo Farm by John Woods

A visual poem about the development of the Canadian West, contrasting
the relationship between time, nature and mankind.

John Woods is a fake electrician living in East Vancouver. Sometimes he
makes movies, most of the time he makes fluff. Until recently his
completed work has been few and far between.

GOOD FRIENDS ARE HARD TO DINE by Dale Bredeson

The ground breaking "One-Minute Film Festival" opener, closer and middle act. This ground breaking festival never did break any ground. It never happened. There's an empty lot somewhere in East Van with a gold shovel laying flat on the earth. Dale Bredeson is a professional Japanese Bear Fighter. It is not that he is Japanese himself, just that he fights exclusively Japanese Bears. He has nothing against the Japanese,just their Bears. He understands that his career draws a lot of controversy. SURPLUS by Blair Dykes Surplus tells the story of Gus, a young clerk who has worked his whole life in Big Jake’s Sizzling Army Surplus Store, never setting foot outside. Gus’ world consists of sword canes, soda pop and psychopathic patrons in a realm of combat and camouflage. Blair Dykes is no one famous. Frog Jesus by Ben Peters He thought he could make a Frog Jesus. Ben Peters runs a film production company called Kijo in Vancouver, BC along with Toby Gorman, that is currently concentrating on short films. Bully Solution by Kryshan Randell Shy eight-year-old Timmy has been picked on his whole life, until school groundskeeper Jack Raddick gives Timmy some tools to deal with bullies that will put an end to his problem forever. Born and raised in BC, Kryshan has been making and watching films for as long as he can remember. In previous years, he ran the Vancouver-based fast film events The 24 Hour Film Contest and The Great Canadian Commercial Contest. Most recently, he received a Kickstart grant and completed the dark relationship comedy Glimpse, which premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Jouez Avec Ca, Henri by Terry Mialkowsky In a world driven mad by war, Henri makes a dark deal with forest witches so he may see his true love once more. Angst. Poverty. Success. Malaise. Black outs. Re-invention. True love. Terry lived in turn of the millennium Vancouver for several years and created over a dozen shorts before temporarily relocating to the Vancouver suburb of Regina,Saskatchewan where he toils on B-level motion pictures in their surprisingly robust film industry. He is currently in post on his opus, "Ahh, youth!". Terry and his partner,the delicious Shannon Jardine are the founders of Prairie Threat Entertainment, home to the in-development television projects "The Land of The Yodeling Mushroom People" and "The Shamrock Hotel". Shot on B/W 16mm film and developed by hand in the director's bathtub. Unicorn Ragazzo by Sean Macpherson The tale of an imaginary unicorn who is doomed to wander the earth, watching over the child who first imagined him, but now no longer believes in him, as she grows up and her life leads to tragedy. Shot on black & white Super 8 film and developed by hand. Sean came to Vancouver from Alberta to pursue a music career but found his way into filmmaking. In two years he has completed 3 short films and has recently begun post-production on a feature film. Topsy & Tallulah in The Inheritance or... The Perils of Peabody by Ariel Kirk-Gushowaty and Marina Montiel Topsy & Tallulah, the twin heiresses to a fortune cookie fortune, finally come into their inheritance. But when their beloved feline, Mr. Peabody, is kidnapped and held ransom, it's up to our intrepid heroines to save him and solve the mystery of Chokyu Bubblegum! Marina Montiel and Ariel Kirk-Gushowaty became creative collaborators over 10 years ago when Marina was in film school at Ryerson University, and Ariel was studying Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Since then they have moved back to their home turf, and work on projects together whenever they can. Part Two of Topsy and Tallulah's adventures is now in pre-production! Voices by Peter Kepkay Despite crushing poverty, the people of a small African nation find strength in their sense of community. This documentary film showcases the lives and songs of African choirs. Peter's work as a sound mixer has taken him around the globe several times over. But a job on a film shot in Africa opened a new sense of purpose in his life and made him start his own charity group focused on the fight against AIDS in Africa. This documentary is his debut film VETA by Luke Newsom An Inuit hunter meets his match. Animation from the perspective of a redneck. Spare time stop motion animator Luke Newsom has only just began regurgitating his ideas onto the screen.