Workman Arts Members: Born To Be An Artist

Image Credit: Music Box, Don Vaillancourt and Naomi Hendrickje Laufer

SHORT FILMS | CANADA | 66 MINUTES | ENGLISH WITH OPEN CAPTIONS

GENRE: VARIOUS
TYPE: FILM | IN-PERSON
KEYWORDS: AUTOBIOGRAPHY | EXPERIMENTAL | PETS & SERVICE ANIMALS | SPOKEN WORD

 

The short film program “Born To Be An Artist” explores different methodologies in filmmaking as a way to express something that is true or unique to the idea of self. Featured artists: Shabnam Sukhdev and Ishaa Chopra, Don Vaillancourt and Naomi Hendrickje Laufer, Emily Sweet, Shantell Powell, Dorothy Ogda Laxton, Amy Ness, Victoria Brecht and Gladys Lou  

 

Unfinished | Shabnam Sukhdev And Ishaa Chopra | 2021 | Doc | English, Hindi with open captions

Music Box | Don Vaillancourt and Naomi Hendrickje Laufer | 2023 | Experimental | English with open captions

Interspecies Antics | Emily Sweet | 2020 | Experimental | English with open captions

Chinchilla Theatre Episode 1 – The Director’s Cut | Shantell Powell | 2020 | Experimental 

The Reluctant Messenger  | Dorothy Ogda Laxton | 2023 | Spoken Word | English with open captions

Amys Fight | Amy Ness | Documentary | English with open captions

Coffee & a Smoke | Victoria Brecht | 2023 | Documentary | English with open captions

Breathe Easy | Gladys Lou | 2021 | Experimental/performance art | English with open captions

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November 6 - 12, 2023

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LIZ ROBERTS: ON AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FILMMAKING

LIZ ROBERTS: ON AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FILMMAKING

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LIZ ROBERTS: ON AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FILMMAKING

Please join us—and bring your friends—for a free workshop exploring the process of creating an autobiographical film with Liz Roberts. Roberts is our spotlight artist this year, her remarkable short film Midwaste is available for streaming across Canada during Rendezvous With Madness. (see page 37 for film synopsis and schedule)

Liz Roberts makes work that is often collaborative and rooted in moving image and sound. She has held teaching positions in the Cinema Department at Denison University, Film & Video,  Graduate Studies at Columbus College of Art & Design and the Art and Film Studies departments at The Ohio State University. Her her early 16mm films have screened with Ann Arbor Film Festival (Michigan), Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn), Filmmakers’ Coop (New York) and were awarded at the New York Exposition of Short Film & Video and Chicago International Film Festivals. From 2015 to 2018 Roberts was a core participant in MINT—a collective, gallery, and multidisciplinary warehouse space in Columbus, Ohio. In 2019 she received a fellowship in sculpture for Vermont Studio Center, volunteered as staff at ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) and was in residence at The Growlery in San Francisco. Currently she has a monthly show on Columbus, Ohio based Verge.FM and KCHUNG Radio in Los Angeles. Her most recent film, Midwaste screened at Hot Docs in 2022. She is a 2022 BAVC (Bay Area Video Coalition) MediaMaker fellow.

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Live auto-captioning will be provided. ASL interpretation by request. For all accessibility inquiries please contact Raine Laurent-Eugene at raine_laurenteugene@workmanarts.com.

TUES, NOV 1,  5:00 PM ET

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ASL interpretation by request. 

A black and white photo ID of a fem presenting person staring into the camera with no smile. On the right, written name "Roberts Elizabeth" in Patient field, signatures and birthdate with a New York address in black typed text at the top right corner.

Streaming across Canada October 27th to November 6th

MIDWASTE
2021 | Liz Roberts | USA | 23 Minutes | English

Artist spotlight

Rendezvous With Madness is pleased to present the short film Midwaste directed by Liz Roberts available for streaming across Canada from October 27th to November 6th 

Midwaste addresses the Midwest region, midlife, and various notions of wasted. Roberts’ connection to drug subculture is inextricable from her relationship to the camera. She started making Super 8 films as a teen, shooting friends she became intimate with in circles of drug use. Her methods are palpable and relational; retracing her steps, interviewing friends about their memories of the past, and revisiting footage taken at various stages of her youth.

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Liz Roberts is running a virtual workshop on Tuesday, November 1 on creating autobiographical films please visit workmanarts.com for more details.

Keywords: Artist | Healing | Addiction | Autobiography
Genre: Short
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