This week at EPFC North, we’re celebrating the 50th Earth Day on Wednesday, April 22 with a special evening of social-distance appropriate projections! Viewable from the street between 8 and 10 pm, the event is free and all-ages. Top window, 1521 Salsbury Drive, between Grant Street and Graveley Street, Vancouver, BC.

If you’d like us to project a special Earth Day message as part of the show, send it to info@echoparkfilmcenter.org and we’ll shine a light on it!

This week on the deep dive, we celebrate Swedish Filmmaker Maria Magnusson, shown here presenting one of her amazing 16mm films on Hollywood Boulevard with the EPFC Filmcicle! We’re hoping we’ll still be able to welcome Maria to EPFC later in the year as planned but in the meantime, check out her work here as well as The Sound We See: A Göteborg City Symphony, part of EPFC’s ongoing international analog community film project that Maria both participated in and helped make possible.

Maria Magnusson is a Gothenburg (Sweden) based artist/experimental filmmaker whose work explores the relation between sound and the moving picture in experimental videos and short film. She works with found footage, archival material, and combines analogue and digital filmic methods. Maria’s experimental films have screened at festivals, galleries and micro-cinemas including International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, LA FilmForum, Echo Park Film Center,The Alchemy Film Festival, Antimatter Film Festival, the Images Festival, Montreal Underground Film Festival. Experiments in Cinema Festival 11.4, CROSSROADS 2015, WNDX- Festival of Moving Image.

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Kerry St. Laurent

Theme: Tonal Contrast
We’re looking at films that explore contrast in the several ways we can interpret the word “tone” – sound, color, and mood – both in each individual piece and how they contrast with each other.

Ever since we first opened our doors in 2001, EPFC has always offered free classes to local youth. We’re so proud of the thousands of young filmmakers who have participated in our analog and digital film projects and gone on to change the world in amazing ways as artists, educators, activists and awesome human beings! Huge shout out, too, to all of our incredible and incredibly talented instructors who dedicate themselves wholeheartedly to sharing the analog and digital magic with the next generation of cinematic visionaries.

Workshop: Art Club 
Tuesday, April 14
11 am – 1 pm
Our first Zoom installment of our international collaboration with Art Club Frome in Somerset, UK! Zoom in for relaxed art-making on a secret theme to be announced at the start of the session. The only rule is MAKE. Free event! Everyone welcome! More info here! 

Missed it? Join us the second Tuesday of each month!