May 26, 2012, 9:30 p.m.
$5 cover
The Trash Palace
89B Niagara Street
Toronto, ON, M5V 1C3
T: Kathleen Reichelt, 416.561.2951 or 647.344.4690
E: Kathleen Reichelt, kfreichelt@gmail.com
253469 presents BURNING BIRCH X3: the Worldwide Film Festival of Short Art Films By Artists.
Toronto-based artist project 253469 presents a one night only worldwide film festival of short art films by artists on Saturday May 26 at the Trash Palace. This program includes 15 films by 13 artists from NYC, Paris, Winnipeg, Montreal, Toronto, Los Angeles, Argentina, Latvia and Germany.
Multi disciplinary artist and art filmmaker Wesley Rickert selected the films from Vimeo channel 253469, an online community he created to exhibit short art films made by artists. The films range from computer animated experiments to direct painting on the film surface. Made of punk poetry aesthetics, these shorts are decidedly not documentary in nature.
The films screening at the Trash Palace on May 26th “are the misfits and hard to categorize that don’t get shown at other film festivals” says Rickert, “Many films often don’t fit with the themes that festivals have in mind. These films are unorthodox, avant garde efforts independently produced by artists from around the world. The films share surrealism, absurdity and the aesthetics of raw punk poetry.”
Audiences can expect films with titles of Hack Your Own Leg! (Latvia, 12 mins) and Sommeil Paradoxial (France, 2 mins). In addition to the screening, the punk jazz noise band 253469 will perform with the silent projection of two new short films by Wesley Rickert: Blue Whiskey, 2012 (15 mins) and Black Plastic Fork, 2012 (2 mins).
About 253469
253469 is not ruled by commerce, academia, politics or common sense. The artist project 253469 began in 2009 and has created opportunities for collaboration and participation in short art films, live performance, screenings, exhibitions and installations with artists pursuing experimental and avant-garde work. Based in Toronto, the 253469 project has worked with such artists as Maggy Perry, Art Szombarthy, Ullysses Castellanos, Eugénie Cliche, Istvan Kantor, Jubal Brown, Brooke Stubbings, William Davison, Christina Kozak and Henry “Banger” Benvenutti.