Phenomena
2019 | 9 minutes | Canada
Director: Penny McCann
An experimental triptych filmed in Super 8 and 16mm over a four-year period, "Phenomena" continues an evolving preoccupation with landscape and celluloid practices. Three scenes are observed: a snowstorm in downtown Ottawa (where the artist lives), a gentle winter thaw on a bog in Eastern Ontario, and the raging Ottawa river during spring run-off. The simple act of observation is transformed into a post-modern cataloging of events, prompting the viewer to wonder to what extent the natural world and phenomena can exist unmediated in filmed representation.
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Preceding Roy Andersson’s absurdist masterpiece, About Endlessness, Phenomena will whisk away one reality and replace it with another; one where time passes in structured vignettes composed of unstructured narratives.
- Keltie Duncan
Screenings
Phenomena will precede About endlessness
FRIDAY, MARCH 27
6:30PM
Ottawa Art Gallery
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Stay after the screening for Q&A with short film director
SunDAY, MARCH 29
7:00PM
Mayfair Theatre
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Stay after the screening for Q&A with short film director