Tune in on Tuesday, November 9, at 8 pm for AIR on the Air Episode 25 featuring EPFC Summer 2013 Artists In Residence Karel and Kate Doing, followed by an hour of music  from Bukhara, Uzbekistan where community film project The Sound We See #23 is currently underway! Optical Track is EPFC’s weekly radio show on dublab.com. Can’t join us live? Optical Track is archived for your listening pleasure anytime at https://www.dublab.com/shows/optical-track

Support for AIR on the Air is provided by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.

Workshop (Outdoors at Moberly Fieldhouse): ART CLUB Tuesday, November 9
11 am – 1 pm
Our eighteenth Zoom installment of our international collaboration with Art Club Frome in Somerset, UK! Zoom on in for relaxed art-making on a secret theme to be announced at the start of the session. The only rule is MAKE. Free online event! Everyone welcome! More info https://www.facebook.com/ArtClubFrome/

We are very exited to have Hân Pham as our next breathing room artist in residence!

breathing room reimagines the artist residency as a fluid space for collaboration, experimentation, relaxation and community connection. Facilitated by Iris Film Collective and EPFC North, breathing room artists are provided with some filmmaking materials and equipment, technical and creative support, and access to work/exhibition space at Moberly and/or Burrard View Fieldhouse. The residency also includes optional opportunities for artists to engage with the local community via workshops, talks, screenings and other public activities. breathing room artists are invited to share their creative discoveries at a free public in-person and/or online event at the end of their residency.

Hân Phạm (b.1999) is an emerging Vietnamese documentary/ experimental filmmaker and artist from Saigon, Vietnam. Working with experimental haptic video and film, photography, and soundscape compositions, her works often thinks through the ephemerality of memory, language, and history in relation to the constantly changing and dislocated landscapes, rooting in the inbetweeness of distance as space for reflection. Hân has exhibited at Vancouver International Film Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, and Vines Arts Festival, presented her work in a public installation with Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen in 2020-2021, and participated in the VIFF Catalyst Mentorship Program.

Tune in on Tuesday, November 2, at 8 pm for two hours of music and conversation from Bukhara, Uzbekistan where community film project The Sound We See #23 is currently underway! Optical Track is EPFC’s weekly radio show on dublab.com. Can’t join us live? Optical Track is archived for your listening pleasure anytime at https://www.dublab.com/shows/optical-track

the8fest is pleased to announce that submissions for our 15th festival are now OPEN!!

the8fest Small-Gauge Film Festival is a little festival for small films. We are a unique Toronto-based festival that screens films solely on celluloid: 8mm, Super 8, and 9.5mm. We also welcome installation, loops, performance/film, music/film, and ‘proto-cinema devices’ like zoetropes. Programming ranges from personal, handmade, experimental, animations, diaries, essays, collage, cut-ups, and more. Please help us create a new space for older mediums with timeless style!

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2021.

the8fest seeks your 8mm, Super 8, 9.5mm films, and other small gauge film projects (such as loops and installations) for our 15th festival being held on February 25th to 27th, 2022. DIY filmmakers, experimental artists, established filmmakers, and everyone who has an interest in small gauge film should apply! the8fest encourages and will be explicitly prioritizing submissions from Black and Indigenous artists of colour. We would also like to encourage submissions from Queer, POC and Disabled artists as well as artists of Trans and Non-Binary experience.

You can submit your application using the following form http://the8fest.com/1917-2/

OR complete the form attached and email it to the8fest@gmail.com