Better Future, Pil & Galia Kollectiv
FUTURE TRILOGY
Sunday May 30, 7:30pm, 83min
(offsite at) Pacific Cinémathèque 1131 Howe St.
Please note that PC ticket and membership prices are in effect for this event
Curated by cheyanne turions
Co-presented with the Pacific Cinémathèque, DIM Cinema and Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
In November 2005, IKEA announced the opening of a new outlet in Edmonton, London, accompanied by an offer of a significant price reduction on leather sofas. When 6000 people arrived to compete for the discount, a riot ensued, injuring 16 shoppers. The Future Trilogy takes this event as the starting point for a speculative history of a fictional future. The Future for Less imagines the consumer riot as the foundation of a new totalitarian state religion imposing the tenets of modernism on the masses. In Better Future, Wolf-Shaped a rural cult perverts this official creed through pagan rituals of architectural worship performed at Celtic burial sites in Cornwall. The Future is Now stages the triumphant conquest of the industrial wasteland surrounding IKEA Edmonton, London. as a popular uprising, revisiting the original riot as a future reenactment.
AXIS XS is an improvisational vocal-noise performance and digital opera, merging computer animation and shadow artworks to create a surrealist landscape of light and sound. Hall’s vocal improvisations mimic a montage of vocal traditions, topographies and machines to create new abstract narrative forms.
Lief Hall, AXIS XS | 2010 | 20min | AV Performance | Canada
Pil + Galia Kollectiv, The Future for Less | 2006 | 10 min | DV | UK
Pil + Galia Kollectiv, Better Future, Wolf-Shaped | 2008 | 15min | DV | UK
Pil + Galia Kollectiv, The Future is Now | 2009 | 23 min | DV | UK
+ THOUGHT ON FILM// A monthly reading + discussion group that aims to promote critical thought around film product and practice through community-based discussion. Thought on Film fosters the close reading of texts confronting issues in contemporary, cutting-edge cinematic practice and philosophy. Provoked by the presentation of Pil & Galia’s The Future Trilogy, May’s gathering will feature Paolo Virno’s essay “Virtuosity and Revolution.” Monday May 31 2010 at 6pm. Cineworks [1131 Howe, back lane entrance] Free
