Early Monthly Segments is happy to host the Toronto leg of Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy’s Fall 2016 Canadian tour. Working together since 2010 under the moniker OJOBOCA, they have collaborated on over a dozen films and live performances, many of them made with the resources gleaned from the artist-run 16mm film lab Labor Berlin. The evening includes The Masked Monkeys, a film edited in part during their Goethe Insititut + LIFT Residency in 2014, and two live dual screen projections.

The Masked Monkeys is a surreal documentary about monkeys in Java who are trained to perform in the streets. The documentary is shot in beautiful, detailed black and white and overlaid with OJOBOCA’s signature trenchant voice-over.

Their two dual screen 16mm projections mimic an early 20th century “feeling machine” nicknamed the Traumatoscope, a machine designed by Dr. D. Forme “to replace the faulty mechanism of human emotion”. OJOBOCA adapt this machine into an expansion of their on-going interest in Horrorism, a simulated method for inner and outer transformation.

Not for the faint of heart!

Programme:

The Masked Monkeys, Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy, Germany, 2015, 16mm, 30 minutes (film still above)

Now I Want to Laugh, Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy, Germany, 2014, 2 x 16mm, 15 minutes

New Museum of Mankind, Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy, Germany, 2016, 2 x 16mm, 30 minutes

@ Gladstone Hotel, Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West

Monday, September 26, 2016

8:00 PM screening

$5-10 suggested donation

Early Monthly Segments is a monthly film series named after an early film by Robert Beavers, and is inspired by the immediacy, vibrancy and experimentation found in that film. Founded by Scott Miller Berry, Chris Kennedy, and Kate MacKay this series features historical and contemporary avant-garde films in a salon-like setting at the Gladstone.

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EMS #89 = October 2016 = TBA