Thursday, May 31 at 8 PM

Doors 7:30 pm; $5 admission.

Pixie Cram lives and works in the Ottawa-Gatineau region. She creates fiction and stop-animation on themes of nature & technology, and war. She is co-founder of the Windows Collective, a group devoted to the creation and exhibition of experimental works using film. FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE!

PROGRAM:

Pragmatopia (2018, 30 minutes, 4K colour, Live action)

The story takes place several years after an atomic bomb has hit an unnamed city and a war has resulted. It follows two young women as they journey from the outskirts of the city to a radioactive area deep in the woods. Along the way they encounter a young drifter and he travels with them. When they arrive at their destination, they discover a community of survivors who are in hiding from the government and living off the contaminated land.

Emergency Broadcast (2017, 7 minutes, HD colour, Stop-motion animation)

Animation: Tina Le Moine + Pixie Cram

Sound Design + Foley: Kevin Komaranski

Cinematography + Editing: Pixie Cram

“Pixie Cram’s film stages a hypothetical nuclear fallout, eerily bringing antique military equipment, uniforms and other objects to life with stop-motion in a way that chillingly evokes the fragile state of current global politics.” — Christopher Rohde, Director, Mirror Mountain Film Festival

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/218876849

Joan (2014, 6.30 minutes, HD colour, Pixilation and stop-motion animation)

Soundtrack by Jeff Morton

Katrina Bray as Joan of Arc

A surreal and minimalist version of the story of Joan of Arc.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/122930282

 

The Stone Dreams of the Cell (2018, 1.45 minutes, Black and white super-8)

Inspired by Alain Cavalier’s feature, La Rencontre (1996), this film explores objects and textures, both organic and inorganic. It is a poetic expression of the mundane; the beauty of ordinary objects, and the hidden stories and meaning that they hold.

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