Jan 23 | Mike Hoolboom's Public Lighting screens at Cinecycle
On Saturday, January 23, Toronto film collective Pleasure Dome will be launching Projecting Questions? Mike Hoolboom's Invisible Man between the art gallery and the movie theatre, an Art Gallery of York University exhibition monograph, handsomely designed by Lisa Kiss. The launch will be followed by a screening of Public Lighting. Books will be for sale at the event.
Public Lighting (76 minutes 2004)
Newly recut for this screening!
Winner of best documentary at Nouveau Cinema Festival in Montreal and Best Experimental at Sante Fe.
“Mike Hoolboom returns with a captivating, richly layered experimental feature exploring the “cult of personality” and the role photographs play in creating memory. A young author introduces the premise that there are six types of personality. Six stories demonstrate the thesis, ranging from a gay man recounting the locations of various breakups to an homage to composer Philip Glass and a confessional letter from an HIV-positive man to Madonna.” (Outfest Festival)
"Few filmmakers use re-appropriated footage in such an emotive way: at once humorous and incisive, these chains of images inevitably lead us back to parts of ourselves. Hoolboom's recent work is in profound sympathy with the human condition that speaks directly to our hearts." (Mark Webber, London Film Festival)
Pleasure Dome presents
Saturday, January 23
7pm book launch and reception (food and drinks provided)
8pm screening
Cinecycle
129 Spadina Avenue
