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A B O U T
Brett Kashmere is a Pittsburgh-based filmmaker, curator, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Oberlin College in Ohio, USA.
His work combines traditional research methods with hybrid interfaces,
handmade equipment, and materialist aesthetics. Through intricate experimental documentaries and unadorned camera movies, Kashmere explores
the intersection of history and (counter-) memory, geographies of identity, and the politics of representation. His films, videos and scholarship
have been presented at festivals, conferences and venues internationally and used in university curricula. The film scholar Thomas Waugh writes that
Kashmere’s essay-film Valery’s Ankle, about the contradiction of hockey violence and Canadian identity,
“may well give momentum (and integrity) to the discourses
of sports, masculinity, and nationalism in Canadian cinemas.”
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N E W S
An article I co-wrote with Astria Suparak about Canadian live cinema practices is now available on my
website here.
It will also be published in forthcoming volume, Cinematograph 7: Live Cinema, edited by Thomas Beard.
I'm currently writing an essay about Garine Torossian's collage film Sparklehorse for an anthology on Torossian's work being produced
by the Canadian Film Institute.
"Counter-Archive," the second issue of INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics
is in production and should be available in May 2010. Watch for upcoming launch parties in Oberlin, Pittsburgh, and elsewhere.
Also, Valery's Ankle will soon be available for online viewing via the Hot Docs Doc Library.
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ONE TAKE SUPER 8 EVENT
 Wednesday, October 5, 8pm
Main Hall, 5390 St. Laurent, Montreal
The ONE TAKE SUPER 8 EVENT is a distinct film screening, in that none of the films will be viewed before they are screened. The filmmakers are not allowed to edit or screen their films prior to the screening. What they shoot in the camera is what is shown. No Cuts. No Splices. No Changes. One Take, One Night. This leads to some exciting and refreshing films.
The ONE TAKE SUPER 8 EVENT was established in 2000 by prairie filmmaker Alex Rogalski as a way to help create more independent films by a variety of artists, while giving the local community an opportunity to view these films collectively. The concept of using Super 8 cameras is centered on the idea that Super 8 (often discarded to antiquity in this digital age) is still the most affordable film gauge for independent filmmakers. In recent years, more attention has been given to this format, as it once sat on the brink of extinction. Now its effects are seen in major Hollywood films, as well as music videos and mainstream commercials.
FILMS BY: Tyler Banadyga, Shawn Bauche, Aimee Beauchamp, Julie Cote & Khoa Le, Farzin Farzaneh, Tom Fennario, Zach Finkelstein, Anne Michele Fortin, Shawn Fulton, Eric Gaucher, Isabella Geddes, Amber Goodwyn, Eric Hanson, Dave Johnson, Brett Kashmere & Astria Suparak, Justine Litynski, Terryll Loffler, Lindsay McIntyre, Solomon Nagler, Dianne Ouellette, rdp, Alex Rogalski, Michael Rollo, Daichi Saito, Kim Simard, Katherine Skelton, and Aaron Ulledal.
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Wednesday, October 5, 8pm
