Works by Michael Brynntrup, Scott Fitzpatrick, Ann Marie Fleming, Mike Hoolboom, Meesoo Lee, Curt McDowell, Grace Mitchell, Frank & Caroline Mouris, Ariel Teal
In-person only
Curated by Aaron Zeghers
Microscope Gallery is very pleased to present an evening of 16mm films and videos organized by Winnipeg-based filmmaker and curator Aaron Zeghers featuring a 68-minute program of confessional works by 9 artists, spanning five decades between the years of 1972 and 2018.
From Aaron Zeghers:
A program of the short “cinematic confessional” is a survey of the most glorious individuals. They are the people I love – the perverts, miscreants and ne’er do wells. These are the stories that society has assigned something to confess about, in the first place. But unlike the christian confessional (see also “broom closet”), or the crowded judicial confessional stand, this is not a punitive confessional. As we will witness on glorious 16mm and video on this fateful eve of August 28th, the cinematic confessional is a joyous reclaiming of every throbbing inch of our being…”
Aaron Zeghers will be in attendance to introduce the event and available for a Q&A following the screening.
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Curtis A. McDowell was an American underground filmmaker.
Scott Fitzpatrick is a media artist (Libra) from Winnipeg whose film and video work has screened at underground festivals and marginalized venues worldwide. He's received prizes from the WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, FLEX Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival, Montreal Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, and was the recipient of the 2018 Winnipeg Film Group Manitoba Film Hothouse Award. In addition to producing his own work, SF has presented the work of others as director of the WNDX Festival of Moving Image, and as co-founder of Winnipeg Underground Film Festival. SF has also curated work for the Gimli Film Festival, Antimatter Media Art, Forthwith Festival, Send + Receive, San Diego Underground Film Festival, MIRE International Film Labs Meeting, and the PRISME Festival.
Frank and Caroline Mouris are a husband and wife team of animators, using photo collage techniques and other methods involving objects and still images. Their 1973 short Frank Film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Grace Mitchell is a filmmaker, musician, and educator residing in Milwaukee, WI. They are currently an instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. Mitchell co-runs Underscore, an artist run project space emphasizing risk-taking in art, video, installation, and performance.
Meesoo Lee is a video-maker from Vancouver, whose work is inspired by zines and underground filmmaking. He often uses the camcorder as his primary tool and experiments with the natural flaws in early video recording technology.
Ann Marie Fleming is an award-winning Canadian independent filmmaker, writer and artist, born in Okinawa, of Chinese and Australian parentage. Her film work incorporates various techniques: animation, documentary, experimental, dramatic, and primarily deals with themes of family, history and memory, in a continuing media critique.
Ariel Teal (she/they) is an artist, activist, and current graduate student in the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at UW-Madison. Previously, Teal received her MFA in Film from UW-Milwaukee where she taught for 5 years and was the Program Director of the Union Cinema.
Mike Hoolboom writes and makes movies.
Michael Brynntrup (*1959) studied Philosophy and History of Arts. Received Master's degree in Fine Arts in 1991. Living in Berlin since 1982. – Installations, performances, over 80 experimental short films and videos since 1980, four feature films. – Film exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art New York; 17 premieres at Berlin Film Festival since 1984. Numerous film awards and solo presentations at international film and media art festivals. – Since 2006 Professor for Film/Video at HBK Braunschweig University of Art.
Aaron Zeghers is a Canadian experimental filmmaker, film programmer, writer and educator based in Winnipeg for now.