Practical Dreamers (PDF ebook)
‘The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.’ – Man Ray
Welcome to the world of fringe movies. Here, artists have been busy putting queer shoulders to the wheels, or bending light to talk about First Nations rights (and making it funny, to boot), or demonstrating how a personality can be taken apart and put back together, all during a ten-minute movie which might take years to make.
In Practical Dreamers, twenty-seven artists dish about how they get it done and why it matters. The conversations are personal, up close and jargon free, smart without smarting.
Mike Hoolboom talks footage recycling with Alessa Cohene (Supposed To) and Jubal Brown (Life Is Pornography); investigates the documentaries of Donigan Cumming (My Dinner With Weegee); looks at the Middle East with Jayce Salloum (This Is Not Beirut); discusses identity with queer Asian avatars Richard Fung (Dirty Laundry), Midi Onodera (The Displaced View) and Ho Tam (The Yellow Pages), and First Nations vets Kent Monkman (Blood River) and Shelley Niro (Honey Moccasin); and addresses the visions of Peter Mettler (Gambling, Gods and LSD).
Check out some of the artists' work at www.fringeonline.ca.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Daniel Cockburn - Smartbomb Helen Lee - Priceless Deirdre Logue - Beyond the Usual Limits Kent Monkman - Miss Chief Nelson Henricks - Ironic Nostalgia Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby - I Am a Conjuror Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay - The Singer Shelley Niro - The Red Army Is the Strongest Peter Mettler - Gambling, Gods and LSD Donigan Cumming - Reality and Motive in the Documentary Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof - Memos of Resistance Midi Onodera - Camera Obscura for Dreams John Price - Home Is a Movie Daniel Barrow - After Charlie Brown and Liberace Wayne Yung - My Heart the Travel Agent Jayce Salloum - From Lebanon to Kelowna Jeff Erbach - Soft Like Me Su Rynard - After Science Monique Moumblow - Doubling Steve Reinke - My Rectum Is Not a Grave Aleesa Cohene - Twice-Told Tales Ho Tam - Season of the Boys Christina Battle - Colour Processing Alex MacKenzie - Blinding Light Jubal Brown - Life Is Pornography Paulette Phillips - Monster Richard Fung - Thinking Pictures
