Left. Right. Left! March on over to check out the spectacularly catchy tune “Toot Your Own Horn” by Winnipeg-based rap group The Lytics. The video is directed by Mike Maryniuk and is a frenzied collage of hyper-gyrating visuals that are as bouncy as the song they accompany.
Blending The Lytics with Maryniuk is a perfect match. “Toot Your Own Horn” is an upbeat tune filled with positive energy, exactly the same kind of energy that Maryniuk brings to his short films such as Cattle Call (co-directed with Matthew Rankin) and The Dead Ringer. There’s also quite the flavor of everybody’s hometown of Winnipeg infused in the mix, such as placing the band in front of the Nutty Club’s muralized slogan “Famous for Quality.”
Maryniuk also tosses in his penchant for utilizing experimental film techniques, such as the cracked film cutouts framing some of the action scenes, what...
Blending The Lytics with Maryniuk is a perfect match. “Toot Your Own Horn” is an upbeat tune filled with positive energy, exactly the same kind of energy that Maryniuk brings to his short films such as Cattle Call (co-directed with Matthew Rankin) and The Dead Ringer. There’s also quite the flavor of everybody’s hometown of Winnipeg infused in the mix, such as placing the band in front of the Nutty Club’s muralized slogan “Famous for Quality.”
Maryniuk also tosses in his penchant for utilizing experimental film techniques, such as the cracked film cutouts framing some of the action scenes, what...
- 10/22/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Aug. 30
7:30 p.m.
Pacific Cinémathèque
1131 Howe St.
Vancouver, BC
Hosted by: Dim Cinema
What’s Winnipeg, Manitoba most famous for? K-Tel? Hunky Bill’s Perogie Maker? The Green Garbage Bag? Well, yes, it’s the birthplace of all those things, but Winnipeg also has an incredibly rich and diverse filmmaking community. Curators Clint Enns and Leslie Supnet — who are also Winnipeg filmmakers themselves — have gathered an impressive collection of the best that their hometown has to offer.
What unites these films is that their place of origin has definitely influenced their content. Not that these films are about the city specifically, bu they do exhibit the same scrappy lo-fi inventiveness that makes Winnipeg the unique place in the world that it is. It’s the spirit of the “strange humour, hand-crafted experimentation and lo-fi/high-tec conundrums” of the town that will shine through on the screen.
For more info...
7:30 p.m.
Pacific Cinémathèque
1131 Howe St.
Vancouver, BC
Hosted by: Dim Cinema
What’s Winnipeg, Manitoba most famous for? K-Tel? Hunky Bill’s Perogie Maker? The Green Garbage Bag? Well, yes, it’s the birthplace of all those things, but Winnipeg also has an incredibly rich and diverse filmmaking community. Curators Clint Enns and Leslie Supnet — who are also Winnipeg filmmakers themselves — have gathered an impressive collection of the best that their hometown has to offer.
What unites these films is that their place of origin has definitely influenced their content. Not that these films are about the city specifically, bu they do exhibit the same scrappy lo-fi inventiveness that makes Winnipeg the unique place in the world that it is. It’s the spirit of the “strange humour, hand-crafted experimentation and lo-fi/high-tec conundrums” of the town that will shine through on the screen.
For more info...
- 8/25/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
Skhizein by Jeremy Clapin (top); Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall by Sam Green, Carrie Lozano (middle); Nora by Alla Kovgan, David Hinton (bottom) The Los Angeles Filmforum will present Program 2 of the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 22, at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. As per the La Filmforum’s press release, the Ann Arbor Film Festival is "the original and longest-running independent film festival in the United States, recognized as a premiere showcase for risk-taking, pioneering and art driven cinema." Program 2 explores "themes of a changing globalized world through personal, existential journeys." The screening films are: Cattle Call (Mike Maryniuk & Matthew Rankin, 4 min) Utopia Part 3: [...]...
- 11/12/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
[Our thanks go out to Kier-La Janisse for conducting and passing along the following interview with Winnipeg-based film maker Matthew Rankin. For those who don’t know her, Kier-La is everywhere controlling everything, basically. Bow to her will.]
Matthew Rankin has been described as “The Billy the Kid of Winnipeg filmmakers”. A founding member of the artist collective L’Atelier national du Manitoba - whose output includes short and feature-length films, videos, poster campaigns, curated programs and essays that aim to re-appraise and celebrate the most maligned aspects of Winnipeg’s cultural history - Rankin has made films about the demise of the beloved hockey team, the Winnipeg Jets (Death by Popcorn: The Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets, 2005, a collaboration with Walter Forsberg and Mike Maryniuk); the strange history of Winnipeg TV commercials (Kubasa in a Glass: Fetishised Winnipeg TV Commercials 1978–1993, 2005); an ironic ode to decrepit Winnipeg apartment buildings (I Dream of Driftwood, 2007); and a surrealist masterpiece that pits Quebec nationalism against Manitoban self-loathing (Hydro-Levesque, 2008), among others. His most recent short is a collaboration with fellow Winnipeg filmmaker/scratch animator Mike Maryniuk called Cattle Call, a frenetic stop-motion...
Matthew Rankin has been described as “The Billy the Kid of Winnipeg filmmakers”. A founding member of the artist collective L’Atelier national du Manitoba - whose output includes short and feature-length films, videos, poster campaigns, curated programs and essays that aim to re-appraise and celebrate the most maligned aspects of Winnipeg’s cultural history - Rankin has made films about the demise of the beloved hockey team, the Winnipeg Jets (Death by Popcorn: The Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets, 2005, a collaboration with Walter Forsberg and Mike Maryniuk); the strange history of Winnipeg TV commercials (Kubasa in a Glass: Fetishised Winnipeg TV Commercials 1978–1993, 2005); an ironic ode to decrepit Winnipeg apartment buildings (I Dream of Driftwood, 2007); and a surrealist masterpiece that pits Quebec nationalism against Manitoban self-loathing (Hydro-Levesque, 2008), among others. His most recent short is a collaboration with fellow Winnipeg filmmaker/scratch animator Mike Maryniuk called Cattle Call, a frenetic stop-motion...
- 4/14/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
"Made in China," a comedy about a Texan boy who heads to Shanghai to capitalize on his novelty invention idea, and "45365," a documentary about everyday life in a small town in Ohio, took the top prizes at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival this year. Tennessee drama "That Evening Sun" and Katrina pet rescue doc "Mine" took the audiences awards. The full list of winners is below:
Feature Jury Awards
Documentary Feature: "45365," director: Bill Ross
An inquiring look at everyday life in Middle America, the film explores the congruities of daily life in an American town Sidney, Ohio.
Honorable Mention: "The Way We Get By," director: Aron Gaudet
On call 24/7 for the past 6 years, a group of senior citizens transform their lives by greeting nearly one million U.S. troops at a tiny airport in Maine.
Narrative Feature: "Made in China," director: Judi Krant
Lost in Shanghai, an inventor discovers that it...
Feature Jury Awards
Documentary Feature: "45365," director: Bill Ross
An inquiring look at everyday life in Middle America, the film explores the congruities of daily life in an American town Sidney, Ohio.
Honorable Mention: "The Way We Get By," director: Aron Gaudet
On call 24/7 for the past 6 years, a group of senior citizens transform their lives by greeting nearly one million U.S. troops at a tiny airport in Maine.
Narrative Feature: "Made in China," director: Judi Krant
Lost in Shanghai, an inventor discovers that it...
- 3/18/2009
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
The SXSW Film Festival explores distinguished filmmaking from provocative documentaries to subversive Hollywood comedies. The event is going on right now until March 22nd in Austin, Texas.
Check their official website right here.
Here's the not-so-complete list of the SXSW film festival winners (some winners will not be announced until Friday):
Feature Jury Awards
Documentary Feature
Winner . 45365
Director: Bill Ross
Honorable Mention . The Way We Get By
Director: Aron Gaudet
Narrative Feature
Winner . Made in China
Director: Judi Krant
Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast . That Evening Sun
Director: Scott Teems
Audience Awards
Emerging Visions
Winner . Motherland
Director: Jennifer Steinman
Documentary Feature
Winner . Mine
Director: Geralyn Pezanoski
Narrative Feature
Winner . That Evening Sun
Director: Scott Teems
24 Beats Per Second
Winner . To Be Announced on Friday, 3/20
Lone Star States
Winner . To Be Announced on Friday, 3/20
Special Jury Awards
SXSW & Aiga...
Check their official website right here.
Here's the not-so-complete list of the SXSW film festival winners (some winners will not be announced until Friday):
Feature Jury Awards
Documentary Feature
Winner . 45365
Director: Bill Ross
Honorable Mention . The Way We Get By
Director: Aron Gaudet
Narrative Feature
Winner . Made in China
Director: Judi Krant
Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast . That Evening Sun
Director: Scott Teems
Audience Awards
Emerging Visions
Winner . Motherland
Director: Jennifer Steinman
Documentary Feature
Winner . Mine
Director: Geralyn Pezanoski
Narrative Feature
Winner . That Evening Sun
Director: Scott Teems
24 Beats Per Second
Winner . To Be Announced on Friday, 3/20
Lone Star States
Winner . To Be Announced on Friday, 3/20
Special Jury Awards
SXSW & Aiga...
- 3/18/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
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