Workshop and Screening: floppy disk filmmaking – workshop and screening installations by Florian Cramer 
Saturday, November 2
1 pm – 5 pm

Workshop (limited to 6 participants): With its tiny capacity, slow speed and glitchiness, the 3.5″ floppy disk is a difficult medium for moving images. However, its constraints can be embraced as a creative challenge, and as a learning tool for understanding data compression and the messy analog hardware underlying digital technology. In this workshop, participants will learn how to make their own moving images on floppy disks using Open Source software. No previous technical knowledge is required. Participation is limited to 6 people. Please bring your own laptop, if you have one.

Installation (open to general public): Parallel to the workshop, visual poetry Super 8 film loops (based on texts by Ernst Jandl and Moor Mother/Camae Ayewa) and select floppy disk films will be screened.

Join us Saturday, October 26 and Sunday, October 27 for Cinematic Oktoberfest, a weekend of FREE screenings by two terrific visiting German artists-in-residence: Florian Cramer and Dagie Brundert! There will be German-themed refreshments!

Saturday: filmmaking as zinemaking: diy moving images from rotterdam, netherlands by fcr

Sunday: Dagie Delights: New Films From A Recent Residency

These events are made possible by Wunderbar Together: Germany and the US,  an initiative funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, implemented by Goethe Institut and supported by BDI The Voice of Germany Industry.

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Zachary Epcar

This week, continuing the theme of EXTRAVAGANT ACTS, we have 1983’s ‘Turtle Dreams’ by Meredith Monk & Ping Chong.

It’s Thanksgiving Weekend in Canada and as a special treat we’ve got  Artist In Residence Beaux Geste Mingus from LA at EPFC North to present a free workshop and screening on Sunday, October 13! Bring the whole family! Pumpkin pie will be served.

Workshop: Shoebox Projectors
Sunday, October 13
2 pm – 5 pm
Learn how to make your very own portable projector! we’ll provide the shoeboxes and the lenses, BYO smartphone. Free event! Everyone welcome!

Screening: Vinegar Syndrome presents ON THE MOVE plus Films by Beaux Mingus
Sunday, October 13
5 pm – 7 pm
Vinegar Syndrome is our Gong Show­-style grab bag series of short educational and ephemeral films, plumbing the depths of EPFC’s impressive film library. For enthusiasts of found footage and collage films, it’s a great way to learn what kinds of films are available at the Film Center—the weird, the cool, the good, the bad, the ugly. All films are selected purely by title around a specific theme and we won’t be previewing anything, so we’ll be just as surprised as you guys! This show’s theme is ON THE MOVE–Films about traveling, moving forward, thumbing for a ride and flying high! As always, there will be lots of snacks and plenty of silly commentary from your host–visiting Artist In Residence Beaux Mingus–and our feisty audience. And speaking of Beaux Mingus, we’ll start the evening off with a few of Beaux’s best loved short films! Free event! Everyone welcome!

The Great Canadian Dog Draw – Saturday September 28: 1 – 5 PM 

In honor of Culture Days, we’re celebrating great Canadian dogs – past, present and future, real and imagined – with an afternoon “dog draw” led by dog-lover and EPFC North September Visiting Artist In Residence Joff Winterhart. Get a portrait of your pet by Joff or make one yourself! Free event! Everyone welcome, including canine friends who play well with others. More info: https://culturedays.ca/

Dogs and Other People: Films By Joff Winterhart – Saturday September 28: 5 – 7 PM

Join us for this very special screening of films by EPFC North’s September Visiting Artist In Residence Joff Winterhart! Joff Winterhart is an illustrator and filmmaker and plays drums in his band, Bucky. He lives in Bristol, UK and is the author of the award winning graphic novels Days of the Bagnold Summer (just released as a feature film!) and Driving Short Distances