MIKE MARYNIUK IN PERSON!

Saturday February 28th 8:00pm

PIX Film Gallery 1411 Dufferin St., Unit C next to TAIS Studio

$10 / $8 TAIS members

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preceded by Potluck Dinner 5:30pm-7:30pm

bring some grub to wow our visiting artist and his workshop participants! All are welcome!

A magician with found footage and scratch animation and an uproarious storyteller, how can you possibly describe Mike Maryniuks films and do them justice? First, throw your expectations out the door because most of them are filtered thru some kind of weird FUN-O-METER. A secret lens that he attaches to the camera which ensures each film is imbued with 100 mirth and irreverence. Reflecting hours of detailed work, all of his films are inspired by a myriad of sources: a love of Norman McLaren scratch animation, Jim Henson puppetry, and Looney tunes cartoons. They are handmade and stitched together fusing elements of collage art, low-fi cablevision and pixilation. No film expresses his skills better than Cattle Call, his masterpiece made with fellow collaborator Matthew Rankin. This eye popping stop-motion documentary about cattle auctioneer Tim Dowler wowed critics and played at over 30 festivals worldwide including Sundance, TIFF, SXSW and the Ottawa International Animation Festival. adapted from a text by Dave Barber from the INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media and Radical Aesthetics

For this screening, we asked Mike to select his favourites of his own work, and as an added bonus hes going to share a sneak peek at two new works in progress! PLUS well be screening the results of our intensive ANIMATED MYTH-MAKING commission/workshop with Mike Maryniuk from earlier that day!

The program:

Blotto 649 2013, 3 min

Evacuate Manitoba 4 min

The Yodeling Farmer 2011, 6 min

Mahaha the Tickler 2007, 3 min

Fish Arms 2007, 3 min

Melatonin 3 min

Stay Positive 1 min

Cattle Call w/ Matthew Rankin, 2008, 3 min

Bomber Blitz 2008, 1 min

Toot your own horn 4 min

Two new works in progress 12 min

About Mike Maryniuk:

Mike Maryniuk was born in Winnipeg, but raised in the rural backcountry of Manitoba. A completely self-taught film virtuoso, Maryniuks film world is an inventive hybrid of Jim Henson, Norman McLaren and Stan Brakhage. Maryniuks films are a visual stew of hand-made ingredients and are full of home-cooked wonderfulness.