{"id":10746,"date":"2012-05-14T22:26:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T02:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=10746"},"modified":"2012-05-27T11:28:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T15:28:23","slug":"burning-birch-x3-the-worldwide-film-festival-of-short-art-films-by-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=10746","title":{"rendered":"BURNING BIRCH X3: the Worldwide Film Festival of Short Art Films By Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/channel-253469-airplane_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10747\" title=\"channel 253469 airplane_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/channel-253469-airplane_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>May 26, 2012, 9:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n$5 cover<br \/>\n<strong>The Trash Palace<\/strong><br \/>\n89B Niagara Street<br \/>\nToronto, ON, M5V 1C3<br \/>\nT: Kathleen Reichelt, 416.561.2951\u00a0or\u00a0647.344.4690<br \/>\nE: Kathleen Reichelt, kfreichelt@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">253469 presents <em>BURNING BIRCH X3: the Worldwide Film Festival of Short Art Films By Artists.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><\/em>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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.\u00a0The films range from computer animated experiments to direct painting on the film surface.\u00a0Made of punk poetry aesthetics, these shorts are decidedly not documentary in nature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The films screening at the Trash Palace on May 26th &#8220;are the misfits and hard to categorize that don&#8217;t get shown at other film festivals&#8221; says Rickert, &#8220;Many films often don&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Audiences can expect films with titles of <em>Hack Your Own Leg!<\/em>\u00a0(Latvia, 12 mins) and <em>Sommeil Paradoxial<\/em>\u00a0(France, 2 mins).\u00a0In addition to the screening, the punk jazz noise band 253469 will perform with the silent projection of two new short films by Wesley Rickert: \u00a0<em>Blue Whiskey,\u00a0<\/em>2012 (15 mins) and <em>Black Plastic Fork,\u00a0<\/em>2012 (2 mins).<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 253469<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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, Eug\u00e9nie Cliche, Istvan Kantor, Jubal Brown, Brooke Stubbings, William Davison, Christina Kozak and Henry &#8220;Banger&#8221; Benvenutti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 26, 2012, 9:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE TRASH PALACE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toronto-based artist project 253469 presents a one night only worldwide film festival of short art films by artists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=10746\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10746"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11308,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746\/revisions\/11308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}