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“Hilarious!” the Globe and Mail

Well, in the fantasy land of pull-quote heaven, I got my best one so far. This is the kind of thing you put in your bio or press kit, in order to seem newsworthy, so that news will cover you (yes, it’s a circular media logic that runs our world).

“Hilarious!”
– The Globe and Mail.

From an article about Monkey Warfare!

That finally beats my previous best pull quotes –

“Gorgeously sophisticated”
– The Georgia Straight

in reference to my video work on the play Omniscience.

Then again, the ultimate elaborate one – too long for a poster, but it warms my heart to repeat and cut-and-paste it all over the place:

“The films of Flick Harrison promise to provoke a range of reactions, from simple disgust to something as noble as social enlightenment.”
-Katherine Monk, Vancouver Sun

Heh heh. Hello, press kit.

MAN, is blogging ever narcissistic. Yeesh.

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Monkey Warfare theatrical release


Monkey Warfare is now live in theatres! Go see it before it falls into the Void of Nothingness…

Most excitingly, the film got picked as one of the TOP TEN FILMS OF 2006 by the Toronto International Film Festival Group!!

Reviews are in:

MOMENTUM

OTTAWA CITIZEN ARTICLE
(which confirms the Molotov Cocktail sequence is “IN”)

FILMCAN

ONLY MAGAZINE

NOW TORONTO

Any other links, please forward them or post to comments!

Thanks! And get to theatres… QUICKLY!

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The Autonomy Complex

Flick Harrison’s short film trilogy, The Autonomy Complex, will have its first test screening at the Gumboot on the Sunshine Coast on Monday, November 20th, presented by Black Cat productions!

Film screens @ 7:30pm. Doors open @ 7:00pm. Admission $6.
Coffee, tea, juice, snacks, and deserts available. Fully licensed.
More info @ 886-2780 or blackcat@resist.ca
MONDAY NOVEMBER 20
at the Gumboot Cafe in Roberts Creek

Presented by filmmaker Flick Harrison

The Autonomy Complex
~ a video trilogy ~

Flick Harrison’s video trilogy is a Canadian nationalist sitcom, an international socialist documentary, and a personal anarchist experiment. Together they form a sweeping picture of political complexity and the tricky balance between freedom and equality: a propaganda of confusion.

Freeworld is set in the year 2023 after Canada is annexed by the USA. Hiroko Doko, arrested for fleeing the draft, is sent into the wilderness with Hedwing, a determined slacker, to capture a loony robot.

Camels Turbans Guns is a documentary made in Pakistan in 1998, just after the mutual nuclear-test showdown with India. It explores the tribal, stone-hut lifestyle of the Baluchi nomads (embroiled today in an armed uprising). Still fiercely independent, they face an encroaching triple-threat of organized Islam, foreign aid and American military
interest.

Based on a short story by DM Fraser, Marie Tyrell is an experimental drama about an activist on death row, told through her lover’s songs, her teenage diaries, and her prison psych report. Also an interactive documentary, it allows an interrogation the politics and the film’s own production. With original footage of Noam Chomsky, Svend Robinson, Scott Ritter, the Woodwards squat, Larry Campbell, and Stephen Osbourne.

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Flick does video for theatre this week!

Hey folks! Check out this new theatre show, opening this week, which features my video design!

It’s about a Vietnam war dodger, now a leftist professor in Ottawa, who begins to doubt his pacifist convictions when his wife commits suicide and his daughter takes a dangerous posting as a middle-east diplomat.

(the most interesting part for me was cutting together Taliban propaganda video with Vietcong 16mm films).

(Two- for- one previews Thur. November 2 & Fri. November 3 at 8 pm)
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VIFF wrap party

I was having too much fun / working too hard to take many pics but the closing Gala is finally over and we can all get on with our lives. The visual projections went super-well, I don’t think anyone guessed what the connection was (they were all credits from past closing gala films, isn’t that innnteresting?) but it gave the room that epic-ending feeling which was my purpose.

(BTW, as I type, I wish there was a way to make myspace playslists so I can listen continually without calling up that window and clicking all the darn time).

Anyway, here’s a few pics. This is me with Cathy Falkner, filmmaker David Vaisbord and Sheril Gelmon. Man, his hair is getting fabulous, like some movie star in a cartoon. Notice I took one more kick at the “I fuck the man” / Monkey Warfare t-shirt can.

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Days 3-5 of VIFF – slowing down


Days go by and blogging gets harder (especially with the nagging doubt that blogging is actually lame). Both Vancouver Film Fest screenings of Monkey Warfare were packed to the gills. I notice the Vancouver audience had a good laugh at all the drug humour; in Toronto that stuff caused chuckles but out here people were laughing out loud. Now I don’t feel like the only one who got it.

Reg actually intro’d the film by saying that despite all the Toronto references, it is actually an East Van film: that’s where Reg is from.

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VIFF opening gala

So I had a blast projecting visuals at the Vancouver International Film Festival opening gala.

The party was at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Georgia in the main ballroom. This picture is Cathy Falkner with Sandy Buck. Sandy planned the whole event which is an insanely big job. Cathy was helping do the decoration on the night.

In the background you can see my visuals! They were on two giant odd-shaped fabric backdrops on either side of the band, plus one little projection on the escalator outside the ballroom. It was fantabulous, in my opinion.
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Flick hosting at VIFF

Looks like I’ll be back in the Cinematic Salon-type saddle at Vancouver International Film Festival this year. I’ve been asked to moderate a panel with Reg Harkema, Cindy Wolfe and DJ Hans Lucas of Monkey Warfare!

The panel, tentatively titled Monkey Filmmaking, will take place on October 2nd at 11 a.m. It’s sponsored and organized by Cineworks Independent Filmmakers’ Society.

I will entice the Monday-morning audience by officially starting an irresponsible rumour: DJ Hans Lucas will most likely have copies of the promotional vinyl LP soundtrack for Monkey Warfare which he tends to give out like candy. You didn’t hear it from me.

This is in addition to my other VIFF connection: I’ll be doing video visuals for all three festival galas this year! That’s thanks to Sandy Buck…

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Monkey Warfare prize!

So Monkey Warfare is showing at Vancouver International Film Fest on Sept 30 and Oct 1! Details here at VIFF’s page.

Also, there’s a new Monkey Warfare official website. Yay for top-level domain names! The page automatically plays the awesome Weird War song that usually runs through my head about six-seven hours per day now.

And finally, Monkey Warfare got a Special Jury Award at the Toronto International Film Festival 2006!

Apparently the jury didn’t stay through the credits. Heh heh heh. So they missed the best part.

Fromthe interview with Reginald Harkema in the GLOBE AND MAIL:

“Harkema, a B.C. native, said afterwards: “Gee, I guess I’m not gonna buy that huge hunk of hash [hashish] I was dreaming about,” – an echo of director Bruce McDonald’s statement that “$25,000 is going to buy me a chunk of hash,” when his feature Roadkill took the Toronto-City prize in 1989.”

Endquote.

I love that they had to explain that hash is hashish. Really? Ya don’t say!