Expo Film (this film is my memory)

2020/09:26 min/experimental

Distributed by: CFMDC

Using anonymous home movie footage of Expo ’67 in Montreal, the artist sets out to recreate a memory that perhaps never existed. Celluloid manipulation and sound decay techniques coalesce to transform a fabled landscape into a sublime expanse of disintegrated memory. Magnificent sound design by Edmund Eagan.

I completed Expo Film (is my memory) during lockdown in May 2020. Using anonymous home movie footage bought from Ebay, I set out to recreate a non-existent memory of visiting Expo ’67 in Montreal as a child. Expo Film features the exquisite work of local sound designer Edmund Eagan. With a nod to experimental American composer Alvin Lucier, he rerecords my voice until it is decayed beyond understanding.

Screening format: Pro Res, H264, DCP

Production format: 16mm, Super 8

Date of production: May 25th, 2020

Key credits:

Sound design: Edmund Eagan

Editor: Philip Rose

Optical printing: Cooper

Full video available on-demand on VUCAVU

Funded by:

SCREENINGS/FESTIVALS

IndieCork Film Festival (Cork, Ireland), October 9th, 2020. World & Irish premiere (online). Official competition

Festival International du Film sur l’Art (FIFA) (Montreal, Quebec). March 17-28, 2021. Canadian and Quebec premiere (online)

International Film Festival of Ottawa - IFFO (Ottawa, Ontario), March 20-21, 2021. Ottawa premiere (online)

Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA), March 24, 2021, US premiere (online) Official competition

Experiments in Cinema v. 16.1 (Alburquerque, New Mexico, USA), online May 1-22, 2021 (online)

Mirror Mountain Film Festival (Ottawa, Ontario) July 24-25, 2021 (online)

22nd dresdner schmalfilmtage (Dresden, Germany), Sept. 26, 2021. International Found Film Competition.

WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, Manitoba), Manitoba premiere. Oct. 18, 2021

Revolutions per Minute Festival (Boston, Mass) October 21, 2021

Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria, BC). October 23, 2021. British Columbia premiere

Engauge Experimental Film Festival (Seattle, Washington, USA), Oct. 30th, 2021

Istanbul Experimental Film Festival (Istanbul, Turkey), Turkish premiere. Nov. 21st, 2021

Lightproof Film Collective (Ottawa, Ontario) Nov. 21, 1021

Analogica Selection 11 (Bolzano, Italy), Italian premiere. December 1-5, 2021

Alternative Film/Video Festival 2021 (Belgrade, Serbia), Dec. 8-12, 2021

Digi60 Community Screening (Ottawa, Ontario) Dec. 10, 2021

Holding Pattern: Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection (Ottawa, Ont.) Dec. 17, 2021 – Feb. 11, 2022

Film Maudit 2.0 (Los Angeles, California, USA), Jan. 12-23, 2022. California premiere

True/False Film Festival (Columbia, Missouri). Official competition. March 3-6, 2022

Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film & Video (Mexico City, Mexico) – April 21 & May 20, 2022, Mexican premiere

Galaxy Brain Magazine edition 23, May 2022 (online)

Montreal Underground Film Festival (Montreal, Quebec) – May 20-21, 2022

Urban View competition, Short Waves Festival (Poznan, Poland) – June 14-19, 2022

Non-Syntax Experimental Film Festival (Taipei, Taiwan) – June 24, 28, 2022

Mimesis Documentary Festival (Boulder, Colorado) – August 2 – 7, 2022

Braziers International Film Festival (Oxfordshire, UK) – Sept. 2 – 4, 2022

Saxony State and University Library (Dresden, Germany) – Nov. 30, 2023

Collections:

City of Ottawa Public Art collection

Winner, International Found Footage Competition and Audience awards, 22nd dresdner schmalfilmtage

The Expo Film situates memory between the past and future, embodied by a voice which grows fainter on decaying soundtrack, as Penny McCann shines a personal light on documentary images.

– Jury members, International Found Footage Competition, Dresdner Schmalfilmtage

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