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Whew! The premiere of Monkey Warfare was a lavish-ish affair. The day started with breakfast at Mitzi’s Sister, which I highly recommend, then a little blogging about the previous day, then off to the races and non-stop film fest madness. My lack of sleep is degrading my mind so please forgive me if this all seems rather delusional.
[REG HARKEMA WITH GUY MADDIN]
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I have broken my Toronto Film Fest cherry this week as I finally walked through the hallowed, CN-Tower-shaded portal and into TIFF. Riding the wave of this year’s buzz-film, Monkey Warfare, is the best way to see the fest. I was the assistant editor on MW and had the infamous minor role as an instructional-video host on the safe construction of Molotov Cocktails.
Biking around Toronto on the bright-red, tiny, girl-bike that Reg Harkema and Cindy Wolfe (see pic at left) lent me, I dodged streetcar tracks and insanely aggressive taxi drivers through the streets of Parkdale and into the downtown core. Cindy has a great part in Monkey Warfare as a neurotic non-profit founder, and Reg is the writer-director. My borrowed bike, btw, is the one on the album cover of the MW promo LP – which makes it feel less like I’m a giant circus monkey (or maybe more?). Reg hands these albums out on the fly from his hand-made LP satchel that Cindy crocheted for him. One taxi cut Reg off and Reg kicked his door. Then the taxi chased him for a block or so and Cindy rather drew some attention by screaming at him and brandishing her bike chain. Continue reading “Toronto Film Fest excitement!”
Good news! Reg Harkema’s Monkey Warfare is showing this weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival at the following times:
Sunday, September 10 6:00 PM VARSITY 8
Tuesday, September 12 2:00 PM PARAMOUNT 3
Get your tickets early, it looks to be a sellout show. Nadia was on the cover of Eye Weekly, which, no doubt, will make the show a main event.
I’ll be hosting the after party on Sunday night, most likely in my pidgin french!
The Eye called my scene “potentially irresponsible but hilariously fitting.” Yeehaw!
In other news, it looks like Monkey Warfare will also be showing in Vancouver at the VIFF!
Triumph and Tragedy for Monkey Warfare, Reg Harkema’s new urban-geurilla comedy starring Don McKellar.
For some reason, the lawyers finally nixed my scene (see video below) from the film, in which I (in french) explain how to safely make a molotov cocktail so y’all won’t blow yerself up. Don’t worry, you don’t need to know french to get it. Hey, it’s fiction, right? Remember “The Great Train Robbery,” an early silent that was nearly banned for showing, in full detail, how to rob a train?
Monkey Warfare got into the Toronto International Film Festival, but it’s unclear whether my scene will show, even at festivals.
Forward and circulate, please!!
Thanks,
Flick Harrison
(click the bottom-right button on the vid to get full size)
molotov cocktail scene
Make sure to add “monkey warfare” as a myspace friend!
Marie Tyrell will be a part of the Sonar: Advanced Music and Multimedia Art festival in Barcelona, Spain, from June 15-17 2006. It will be in a section called Sonar: A La Carte in the multimedia stations pictured above!
Since Barcelona is such an awesome town, I’m incredibly happy to have the film show there.
Damn, I wish I could afford to go!!!
Just got this from Robert French, producer of Larry Kent’s new film, The Hamster Cage:
Dude — I thought you’d like this one: We were selected to play the Shanghai Int. Film Fest on May 5, which is one of only 11 “A-list” fests in the world. They got the consulate involved, offered hotel rooms, etc., so I book a flight, get my accreditation, am all ready to go to China, and they send an e-mail a few days ago that the film cannot be screened in China due to restrictive censorship rules.
The fest still wants me to go, and the consulate still has me booked for the parties…so off I go in a couple of weeks, maybe to never return…
Best,
Robert
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Ahhh, China.
I wonder if Google will block access to The Hamster Cage Website?
Oh my god – they DID.
Marie Tyrell gets yakked about in an interview with New-York-based Heyoka Magazine by artist John LeKay.
Thanks to Jody Franklin for the hookup.
Forgot to blog this Georgia Straight interview back when it came out – so here it is.
I discuss the Big New Vancouver International Film Centre (VIFC) and its lack of Canadian programming.
This article was sparked (I believe) by an anonymous email that included me in the CC line. Apparently I am the go-to guy for independent cinema rabble-rousing in this town, which isn’t a bad thing. Pieta Wooley refused to interview the mystery person anonymously by email, but here’s what she got out of me, on the record:
It’s an interesting issue, this is the first time my attention’s been drawn to it. I’m interested to know why this Sam Sam entity chose me as the kaka-disturber… But I’ll take the bait!
Camille Baker reviews Marie Tyrell in Furtherfield.Org, a net.art journal.
Baker writes that the interactive DVD’s “… approach perhaps harkens back to the Fluxus or Structuralist Movements in experimental film making of the 60 and 70’s, where the materials for making the film were exposed, to thus, become the film content. In this case, Harrison not only used the technological materials as the product, but all the parts in the process from the funding, to the text adaptation, to the filming of political protests, to the historical fodder for the story, etc. as the materials as well.”
Penelope Mulligan reviews Flick’s interactive DVD Marie Tyrell & the Cineworks cinematic salon in this month’s Discorder:
“It’s probably the most audacious use of the Extra Features shtick since the advent of DVDs.”
See it in Strut, Fret, and Flicker.