Cue-Up:: November 29 2007

It was a dark and dreary night, for Cue-Up yesterday eve. Large and small violations of war conventions and murders flickered before us... finally, a puffy pink curtain descended.

Our guest presentation featured a screening of two works by independent video maker and educator Christopher Pavsek. He offered The one and all (7:00) and To those born after (29:00).
You can find more about his work here: pavsekfilms.com
Thank you for your screening, q&a, and for sticking around to see the works that came 'from the floor', Christopher.

The audience work screened:
Nic Brown, Aaron, 8:12, DVD. "A short film about a horrible man."
Jeff Languille, (untitled), 10:41, MiniDV. "Part of a series of 'landscape' works."
Brian Lye, Pink Paper Bag Man visits East Africa, 7:15, DVD. "A road trip documented in a group creative fashion."
Chris Brown, mouse, 1:00, DVD. "About mouse traps."

Watch this space for details on next year's series of Cue-Up events featuring the on-going theme: hospitality...

Can't wait to see you all there. In the meantime, feel free to leave comments about what you saw last night!

Comments

[nic]

here's an idea: make cue up entirely about people bringing in their movies. its the only venue in vancouver for underground film makers, and yet its always dominated by a guest. if i wanted to see a specific, semi-renowned film, i would seek it out and see it directly. this thing should be all about bringing in film makers without a venue and letting them show their work and having the audience and artists discuss them. most people leave shortly after the guest, and i bet a lot more people would come if it was advertised correctly. i think the only way people find out about it is word of mouth and the georgia straight - so having it on tuesdays will atleast give the straight readers a couple days to prepare - but think of the potential cue up has! and yet every time, its the same thing, and always runs too late to allot any time for people to discuss the films... anyhow, please seriously consider eliminating the guest presenter, and finding a way of optimally advertising this event. it could be a great thing.

[Lois]

Thanks Nic!
Good ideas. We have not so far had these comments... You are right, the highest priority for Cue-Up is open screening. You have screened work at a number of Cue's-Up, so your comments are really valuable to us. Our aim in having guests to enrich the video producer community: to develope the critical context and enrich discussions; and to give accomplished producers a chance to give an artist talk. The enrichment of discussion or critical context hasn't always happened. That is why we came up with our 'hospitality' ideas. Hope you can come in the new year and let us know what you think of our new ideas!
We do want to keep better control of the hours... maybe screening should start the night?