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Events in the Tunnel
by Penny McCann & Eric Walker
2022/10:01/experimental
Distributor: CFMDC
Drawn from Super 8 films in the artists’ personal archives as well as found amateur 8mm footage, Events in the Tunnel presents an absurdist abbreviated retelling of Canada’s colonial history as defined by that great colonial trope, the cross-country train trip. In the transitional void of a train tunnel, we witness familiar 19th and 20th century paradigms of white middle-class conformity as represented by images of travel, amusement, and domesticity, with Canadian culture embodied by a chimeric portrayal of the early 20th century painter Tom Thomson.
Sound design by Chris Ikonomopoulos
Exhibition format: Digital (Pro Res, H.264)
Original format: Regular 8, Super 8 and 16mm
Date of production: January 2, 2022
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SCREENINGS/FESTIVALS
SCREENINGS/FESTIVALS
Resolution 2022, Digital Art Resource Centre (Ottawa, Ontario) Feb. 4, 2022
Dawson City International Short Film Festival (Yukon) April 15, 2022 – Festival premiere
Dresdner Schmalfilmtage (Dresden, Germany) July 7, 2022 – European premiere
Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria, BC) October 21st, 2022
Revolutions per Minute Film Festival (Boston, Mass.) Oct. 22nd, 2022 - US premiere
Engauge Experimental Film Festival (Seattle, Washington) November 3rd, 2022
Analogica 12 (Bolzano, Italy) – Nov. 10th, 2022, and streaming Nov. 14 – 20th, 2022– Italian premiere
Digi60 Community Screening (Ottawa, Ontario) December 16, 2022
The Celluloid Specimen, Labocine, streaming online Dec. 6, 2022 – Jan. 3, 2023
Collections CQ, Panorama XP, Cinémathèque Québecoise (Montreal, Quebec) June 2, 2023
Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film and Video (Mexico City) – August 19, 2023
Silver Wave Festival (Fredericton, New Brunswick) – Nov. 2-9, 2023
Cauldron International Film and Video Festival (Salt Lake City, Utah) – May 24, 2024
Nominee, Best Experimental Short, Silver Wave Film Festival
BIOS:
Events in the Tunnel marks the first co-directing project by life partners and artists Penny McCann and Eric Walker.
Penny McCann's body of media artwork spans thirty years and encompasses both narrative and experimental films and video. Her work has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan), the Hamburg International Short Film Festival (Hamburg, Germany), the Ottawa Art Gallery (Ottawa, Ontario), and the Cinémathèque Québécoise (Montreal, Québec).
Visual and media artist Eric Walker studied video art with Dara Birnbaum at the Nova Scotia College of Art in the 1970’s. His artwork is in numerous public and private collections including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the Owens Art Gallery, and the Ottawa Art Gallery. www.ericwalkervisualartist.com/
Eric Walker and Penny McCann
Photo credit: Aoife MacNamara
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