TAIS Event: Meet the Artists & New Staff!
Thursday August 28th 6:30pm8:30pm or later!
TAIS Studio 1411 Dufferin, Unit B
Join us in celebrating the work of two very talented Montreal-based artists Martine Chartrand and Pascale Ferland who have been working at TAIS as part of a three-week residency this summer, welcoming our newest staff members Jonathan Culp Outreach Coordinator, Emily Waknine Studio Coordinator and Kier-La Janise Administrative Coordinator, and sending off our summer intern Alexandre Sapata Carbonell as he works his last week here at TAIS.
Martine and Pascale will be giving an artist talk and screening samples of their work at 6:30pm, followed by an informal gathering with music, discussion and refreshments!
About the Artists:
Martine Chartrand completed a BFA in visual arts at Concordia University in 1986, and a certificate in art education from the Universit du Qubec Montral in 1988. She has worked as a painter/illustrator for film production companies, created posters for festivals, taught and participated in exhibitions in Canada and in Europe. She first became involved in animation in 1986, working as a layout and colour artist. In 1992, she directed the award-winning short T.V. Tango, her first animated film for the NFB. In 1994, she received a grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qubec and from the Canada Council for the Arts enabling her to study in Russia under Alexander Petrov. In 2000, she made her second NFB film, Black Soul, a paint-on-glass animated short that traces the memory of black history. The film has won 23 awards, including the Golden Bear in Berlin in 2001. Her third film, MacPherson, inspired by the song by Flix Leclerc, is a paint-on glass animated film bursting with poetry, history and musical diversity. MacPherson won the First prize and The Best Canadian Short Film public award, at the Montreal International World Film Festival in 2012. http://martinechartrand.net/
Pascale Ferland made her first award-winning experimental videos while studying visual arts at UQAM Universit du Qubec Montral. After working as an artist for a number of years, she completed her first feature film, Something Like Immortality, in 2003. The film, a documentary about creative obsession, was a finalist at the Jutra Awards in the Best Documentary category. Exploring the same theme, Ferlands second feature film, Tree With Severed Branches, was completed in 2005. It won critical acclaim and went on to be screened at several national and international film festivals. In 2007, Ferland received the Lynch-Staunton Award for the outstanding quality of her work. Adagio for a Biker, her third feature documentary, followed in 2008 and was the closing film for the Quebec festival Les Rendez-vous du cinma qubcois. She has just finished Riptide, her first fiction film presented in competition in different festivals. Shes now writing Raptors, her second fiction film.
About the Staff:
Jonathan Culpwas introduced to the world of animation when he met silhouette master Lotte Reiniger at age three. He has been organizing community arts workshops and events in Toronto and beyond for twenty years, coordinating and facilitating a diverse range of educational programs in collaboration with such community partners as the Parkdale Activity and Recreation Centre, The Academy of the Impossible, RAFT Niagara, Hamilton Artists Inc., and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto. His own filmography includes over 50 titles, ranging from Super 8 experimental shorts to feature length comedy. His most recent work is the narrative collage feature Taking Shelter. Jonathan has also written about film for Fuse, Clamor, Canadian Dimension and others, and has programmed screening events with Trash Palace, The 8 Fest, Blue Sunshine, and the Satan Macnuggit Video Road Show. Currently he can be heard performing with local bands Opera Arcana and Broken Puppy.
Emily Waknine is Toronto based artist, currently in her final year of OCAD University studying Drawing & Painting and Animation. Emily is interested in traditional animation and film techniques. Her work consists of drawing, film and collage. http://emilywaknine.com/
Kier-La Janisse is a film programmer for Fantastic Fest and SF Indie, the founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies and Owner/Editor-in-Chief of Spectacular Optical. She has been a programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas, co-founded Montreal microcinema Blue Sunshine, founded the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival in Vancouver 1999-2005 and was the subject of the documentary Celluloid Horror 2005. She has written for Filmmaker, Shindig!, Incite: Journal of Experimental Media, Rue Morgue and Fangoria magazines, has contributed to The Scarecrow Movie Guide Sasquatch Books, 2004 and Destroy All Movies!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film Fantagraphics, 2011, and is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi FAB Press, 2007 and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films FAB Press, 2012. She co-edited Spectacular Optical Book One: KID POWER! with Paul Corupe, and is currently writing A Song From the Heart Beats the Devil Every Time, about childrens programming from 1965-1985. http://www.spectacularoptical.ca/