Texas Scramble at Toronto
Texas Scramble is a film that Sami van Ingen and I created in 1996. The film was screened at Toronto at the Lift film Festival on Friday November 25, 2005. Sami visited at the festival and introduced this and his other films during the screening.
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LIFT
newdirections / Introspective Vision: The Works of Sami van Ingen (In Person):
http://www.lift.on.ca/mt/archives/newdirections_introspective_vision_the_works_of_sami_van_ingen_in_person.html
A co-presentation with Pleasure Dome as part of our New Directions in Cinema Series
Friday, November 25, 2005
Starts at 8:00PM
Admission: $5 ($2 for Pleasure Dome members)
Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Avenue (down the alley way)
Toronto Canada
It is a great pleasure to welcome Sami van Ingen back to Toronto for a retrospective of his recent films during his artist residency at LIFT. Despite living in Finland, Sami van Ingen has deep roots in the Canadian film community. His artistic friendship with Phil Hoffman began in the late eighties and has been a key to both of their filmmaking practices, culminating in the collaborative 1995 film Sweep. van Ingen's work has been influenced both by documentary and experimental traditions (his great-grandfather was Robert Flaherty) and by his own observations of culture exchange as coloured by his childhood growing up in both India and Finland. The roots of perception and the possibilities of the film camera in creating and investigating vision are at the core of his work.
van Ingen's residency at LIFT will find him exploring new ways to merge digital practices with attentive work in 16mm and 35mm. Our screening will feature a small selection of works-in-progress as well as three completed films that represent the range of his work in film. Twone is a short series of 35mm trailers that uses a poem by Dr. Seuss to examine how children learn visual recognition. Texas Scramble relates a structuring mechanism from a golf game with a quote from the Dhammapada to create an editing pattern that ruminates on how our experience in the world depends on our position in it -- a visual hop-frog equivalent of "What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday/our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow/our life is the creation of our mind".
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TEXAS SCRAMBLE
(16 mm com-opt / betacam sp, 21 min, 1996)
Texas Scramble is based on the notion of memory as the basis for our perception, it progresses through situations and moments consisting of repetitions of varying type. Rejecting outside narrative and letting chance associations form the path.
" -what we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow, our life is the creation of our mind-" -dhammapada-
"texas scramble is a type of game in golf where every new round starts from the best individual situation"
- vivien saunders-
sound by petri kuljuntausta
producer jouko aaltonen / illume Inc
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LIFT
newdirections / Introspective Vision: The Works of Sami van Ingen (In Person):
http://www.lift.on.ca/mt/archives/newdirections_introspective_vision_the_works_of_sami_van_ingen_in_person.html
A co-presentation with Pleasure Dome as part of our New Directions in Cinema Series
Friday, November 25, 2005
Starts at 8:00PM
Admission: $5 ($2 for Pleasure Dome members)
Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Avenue (down the alley way)
Toronto Canada
It is a great pleasure to welcome Sami van Ingen back to Toronto for a retrospective of his recent films during his artist residency at LIFT. Despite living in Finland, Sami van Ingen has deep roots in the Canadian film community. His artistic friendship with Phil Hoffman began in the late eighties and has been a key to both of their filmmaking practices, culminating in the collaborative 1995 film Sweep. van Ingen's work has been influenced both by documentary and experimental traditions (his great-grandfather was Robert Flaherty) and by his own observations of culture exchange as coloured by his childhood growing up in both India and Finland. The roots of perception and the possibilities of the film camera in creating and investigating vision are at the core of his work.
van Ingen's residency at LIFT will find him exploring new ways to merge digital practices with attentive work in 16mm and 35mm. Our screening will feature a small selection of works-in-progress as well as three completed films that represent the range of his work in film. Twone is a short series of 35mm trailers that uses a poem by Dr. Seuss to examine how children learn visual recognition. Texas Scramble relates a structuring mechanism from a golf game with a quote from the Dhammapada to create an editing pattern that ruminates on how our experience in the world depends on our position in it -- a visual hop-frog equivalent of "What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday/our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow/our life is the creation of our mind".
[...]
TEXAS SCRAMBLE
(16 mm com-opt / betacam sp, 21 min, 1996)
Texas Scramble is based on the notion of memory as the basis for our perception, it progresses through situations and moments consisting of repetitions of varying type. Rejecting outside narrative and letting chance associations form the path.
" -what we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow, our life is the creation of our mind-" -dhammapada-
"texas scramble is a type of game in golf where every new round starts from the best individual situation"
- vivien saunders-
sound by petri kuljuntausta
producer jouko aaltonen / illume Inc
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