WAMM issue 25 | MAY 2010

contents< issue 25 - may 2010 >

[music] windsor scene 04-05

[music] them crooked vlutures 06

MEDIA CITY [pull out] GUIDE 07-11

[fi lm] johan van der keuken 11

[fi lm] friedl vom gröller (kubelka) 11

[poetry] robert earl stewart 12

locals @ toronto fashion week 12

[theatre] the patient in 709 13

<arts + music + theatre> listings 14

cjam album charts 15

windsor music video contest 16

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may 2010 | issue 25

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We’re a third of the way through the year here at the Windsor Scene

and we’ve already born witness to several great releases, awesome out of town talent, and loads of packed shows. Yes, 2010 is shaping up quite well, quite well indeed.

WINDSOR GIVES A FOLK

Big congratulations go out to Ken-neth Macleod & The Windsor Salt Band who took home the best band award at last month’s Jammy Awards, CJAM 99.1FM’s annual listener’s choice awards (dethroning The Locusts Have No King who were looking at a possible three-peat). The most impressive thing about the band’s win is that they don’t even have any recordings and they get absolutely no radio play. In an age where bands constantly push themselves through every medium possible, it’s great to see that an act that only has a half kept-up facebook page can still garner a great amount

of posi-tive attention. The win is

a tribute to the band’s musicianship and live performance and proves that you don’t need Twitter, Myspace etc. or even an album to succeed. You can catch them every Wednesday at The Dominion House.

Ron Leary is just about set to re-lease his forthcoming album Depen-dent Arising but he needs the support of his fans to do it. Literally exhaust-ing every potential avenue of credit, pouring thousands of dollars into the recordings, Leary is a bit short on funds to physically manufacture his newest work. That’s where we come in. Leary has set up an online account to pre-order the release to raise the money needed to make the album tangible. As I write this he’s just about halfway there, so fans and friends of this Windsor ex-pat be sure to support. The record itself looks to outdo his debut offering The Road Inbetween with an all-star backing band featuring Windsor greats like Mr.Chill and Dean Drouillard, who also takes production credits on the project.www.ronleary.com

On the topic of Dean Drouillard, this other talented Windsor ex-pat has been up to much more than just producing Leary’s new masterpiece. He recently completed one of his most interesting projects to date in The Bear Lake, a sonic odyssey two years in the making. He’s also taken up production duties for Christine Bougie’s third album Aloha Su-preme, The Run With The Kittens EP Myth In The Sky and a few songs on Royal Wood’s latest effort, who he tours with throughout May before he joins Sarah Harmer’s band for their North American tour in support of her upcoming album that Drouil-lard also played on. That’s a lot of Dean. www.deandrouillard.com

Catch The Magic Hall Of Mirrors, who’ve been playing some great shows as of late with the likes of Pack AD and Amos The Transpar-ent at Phog Lounge on Sunday, May 2nd opening for Yukon Blonde, an act that generated such a huge response in the room just two months ago that they had to come back. Same Latitude As Rome has a major event coming up on Saturday, May 8th at the Black Historical Museum with special guest Jackie Robitaille. The concert is spon-sored in support of the “Friends of Bellevue,” a heritage group dedi-cated to saving a historic building in Amherstburg “Bellevue House.” SLAR also plays the Sandwich Town Arts Festival on Saturday, May 22nd and you can now catch Jackie Ro-

bitaille every Thursday at The Gourmet Emporium alongside Sara Fontaine as they profile local origi-nal artists.www.myspace.com/magichallofmirrorswww.samelatitudeasrome.comwww.jackierobitaille.com

THE HIPPEST HOP IN TOWN

Fans of hip hop rejoice! Two great shows in one night! First off, the 4th Annual Windsor Hip Hop Concert hosted by Needle 9:14 at the Hang-over on Friday, May 7th. The show features an veritable who’s who of the local scene including stalwarts Academy, Rose City Rags and Jay Braaks among others. Four years running

9:14 promises to bring out some fresh talent for an event that could easily be considered as Windsor’s biggest local hip hop show of the year. Over at The Phog Lounge a slew of touring hip hop artists will take the stage at the Clipped Wings Tour kick-off. Toronto’s Magnolius and Leo 37 team up with Windsor’s Flow & Smooth and Detroit’s United States Of Mind, who were recently named best rap group in the Metro Times best of issue. Between the four performers, hear everything from jazzy hip hop to dubby R&B, explosive bangers and assembly-line style rap from golden era influences.www.windsorhiphop.netwww.usmdetroit.com

FOR THOSE WHO LIKE TO ROCK

Tons of loud rock shows go-ing on in the month of May featuring some incredible touring talent, resurgences and hometown favourites.

High Mother sneaks a show in at Phog

Lounge on Tuesday, May 4th with Mrs.Smith

before their singer ships out for

work in the west. Fans of the band will have to keep

their ears to the ground for these shows if they don’t want to miss

a great band of veteran musicians.Catch all out stoner rock with Gypsy Chief Goliath, a newer act featuring

Al ‘The Yeti” Bones from Mister Bones and Georgian Skull

plays the Coach & Horses on

Saturday,

with Murad Erzincl

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dean drouillard

May 8th. Hammerdown, an act who seems to be playing more and more shows as of late, bring even more stoner sound. You can also catch the bluesy grooves of Tyburn Tree opening the bill. With Funnel working the bar and sound this show adds up to a winning combination. Tuesday, May 11th sees some B.C. deathcore as Doom Cannon hit The Chubby Pickle with locally based Faithful Unto Death who recently resurfaced in the scene. On Wednesday, May 12th the touring Calgary post punk outfit This City Defects comes to Phog Lounge playing

alongside the Vancouver trio Many-ourhorse. Local support comes in the form of The Bulletproof Tiger who never disappoint. Friday, May 14th has the Christian hardcore act For Today return to the Blind Dog after selling the venue out during their last visit. Faithful Unto Death is opening this bill as well, definitely getting back into the the circle of young metal acts coming through

town. All this, and that’s just the first half of the month!

www.myspace.com/high-mother

www.myspace.com/gypsychiefgoliathwww.myspace.com/

doomcannonbandwww.myspace.com/thisci-

tydefectswww.myspace.com/for-

today

Explode When They Bloom

continue to play in

support of their latest album The Ugly (profiled in our April issue). Any music fans who want to keep the live music experience going after Them Crooked Vultures finish up at Caesars can catch Explode play a Sunday night show at Phog Lounge May 16th. On Friday, May 21st the band plays an all ages show at Milk Coffee Bar with EVAN and Welland’s indie rockers Hunters & Anglers, a fantastic band with great live energy we were lucky enough to catch alongside Orphan Choir closing out Scene Music Festival in St.Catharines last summer. There will be a BIG metal show at the Blind Dog on Tuesday, May 18th with the progressive metalcore gi-ants Misery Signals. This Milwau-kee act is still riding high touring the globe in support of their 2008 release Controller. Joining in on the mad-ness is To-

ronto’s Structures,

Australia’s Amity Afflic-

tion and Windsor’s own tech metal powerhouses

Assassinate The Following, a band whose live instrumentation is a sight to be seen. On Saturday, May 29th you can see some old school Montreal punk when Inepsy plays The Coach and Horses. Toronto’s The New Enemy and locals Disco Assault, whose ten minute EP has kept our heads banging to this day, as well as Destroy Thy Will start the night off right. A month filled with loud rock finishes off on a high note on Sunday, May 30th at The

Blind Dog. Dying Fetus headlines an epic metal show with a tonne of great talent in Arsis, Misery Index, Annotations Of An Autopsy and Conducting From The Grave. Much respect to David Silvera at Sinnastarr Entertainment for bring so many respected names in heavy rock through town.www.myspace.com/explodewhen-theybloomwww.myspace.com/miserysignalswww.myspace.com/inepsywww.myspace.com/dyingfetus

ON THE ROAD

With the warm weather upon us, many Windsor acts are picking up and hitting the road for some tour-ing. Michou, whose CD release show for their latest album Cardona brought out droves of fans to The Blind Dog in March, are spending the month of May throughout east-ern Canada. The Locusts Have No King have been playing short strings of dates in Ontario and Quebec for the past couple of months, the next of which kicks off at Phog Lounge on Thursday, May 20th. Richy Nix continues his tour through the U.S. midwest playing some bigger festivals and events. The Miclordz & Sauce Funky have been keeping busy as well. Still playing in support of their latest, Sunset Ammunition, they found a great amount of success in the US in the past few months. May sees the act play a handful of one-off shows around Ontario. Final-ly we must mention, Aquila, whose latest release Imperium somehow slipped past our radar last month. Having since heard the album we can’t wait until the next show here in town, but we’ll have to because one of the area’s heaviest has a bunch of

business to take care of in western Canada. The band has a string of dates set up throughout the area in both May and June so don’t expect the homecoming show until July.www.itsnicetomichou.comwww.myspace.com/thelocustshavenokingwww.richynixmusic.comwww.myspace.com/miclordzmusicwww.myspace.com/aquilametal

CAN’T ARGUE WITH FREE

This month we leave you with some gifts of free music. Royce Grayer Hill a.k.a. Vex has made a name for himself in the local electronic music scene as an artist defined by redefinition, constantly bobbing and weaving through genres and styles as if he was on the run. Now though, it would seem he’s found a new home in his most recent dubstep project under the name Dstruct-O. His hour long Battle Of The Bots mix is currently available for free download from dubstep authorities, detroitdubstep.com. For the past couple of months we’ve teased at the release of James OL & Villains’ upcoming live album Alive At The Colch. Well, the record has finally available but not for sale. The band decided that they would share their latest project for free with fans, friends and anyone who would lis-ten. The ‘live’ album has a fantastic production value, quirky jams, girl-boy harmonies, and a distinct sense of humour made abundantly appar-ent on the album’s closing track. On the topic of James OL, he’ll be teaming up with the Windsor Scene to provide you monthly download links to a free live tracks from some of Windsor’s finest musicians... It all starts next month! Until then. www.detroitdubstep.comhigh mother

The summer of ’88: Microsoft released Windows 2.1, Enzo Ferrari died, the Iran–Iraq War ended with an estimated

one million lives lost, the So-viet Union and East Germany cleaned up at the Summer Olympics in Seoul and a DC based hardcore band played at the Croatian Center in Windsor. In support of their album ‘No More Censor-ship,’ Washington, DC’s Scream headlined a gig for about 30 Windsor punk kids. Doug Breault of the Flesh Columns and Mesca-line Ritual was at the sound board and a 19 year old Dave Grohl was behind the drums. Within three years Grohl would be hitting skins and brass with arguably the biggest band since The Beatles, Nirvana. After Nir-vana front-man Kurt Cobain left the group to join the 27 Club, Grohl moved from the drum stool to center stage to form and front the three time Grammy Award winning Foo Fighters and further seal his place in rock and roll history, all while avoiding a return to Windsor.

“I think I can remember Windsor,” says Grohl. “It was a long time ago though.”

Suspiciously, it has been 22 years since Grohl has played in Windsor.

“Didn’t Nirvana play there?” In fact, they did, in April 1990, just weeks before Nir-vana began working with pro-ducer Butch Vig on what was to become ‘Nevermind.’ It was with the band’s original drummer Chad Channing that Nirvana played the Coach

& Horses. Within a month, Grohl had replaced Channing, joined Nirvana in the studio and recorded an album that went on to sell over 26 mil-lion copies. Even though Grohl acted as drummer for Queens of the Stone Age when they played The Loop on January 30th 1999, (for a mere $500 USD guarantee), Gene Trautmann was behind the kit and Grohl avoided the rose city again. Luckily, Queens of the Stone Age front-man, Josh Homme decided to come back to

Windsor, this time with Grohl in tow and likely with a larger guarantee.

Them Crooked Vultures, (Sunday, May 16th at The Colosseum at Caesars Wind-sor), features Homme’s distinctive guitar and lead vocal reuniting with Grohl’s signature rhythms in aim of “simple, straightforward rock and roll.”

Despite the previous suc-cesses of Grohl and Homme they appear to have asked someone’s grandfather to play bass. One can only assume that the bassist, one John Paul Jones, owned a suitable tour-ing van or rehearsal space, though further investigation finds that Jones was once in another band. They were a group who despite their lack of knowledge of the insur-mountable weight of atomic number 82 in lighter-than-air aircraft and an inability to

spell are reported to have achieved some formidable success in the 1970s.

Super-groups are strange things often built with the sole purpose of making money on the notoriety of the membersè former glory, (see: Ringo Starr’s All Starr Band), though Them Crooked Vultures started as more of a hobby band in a studio.

The band formed over din-ner at Medieval Times at Grohl’s 40th birthday party: “I thought this is so perfect,” Grohl recalls, “our first band meeting is at fucking Medi-eval Times and I’m wasted!” Later the three met in a studio in Los Angeles. “It was really weird, ‘cause I’d said to Josh and I think I said it to John too, ‘I don’t know how to start a new band, I haven’t done it in 15 fucking years man,’ so we just showed up, plugged in and started play-ing.” A few weeks later, the

three emerged with a 13 song album and the desire to turn a hobby band into a full-on touring act, who already have plans to get back in the studio to work on a follow-up LP. “We’ve done some killer stuff, but I don’t feel we’ve even scratched the surface,” says Grohl, who despite insinuating a 2010 release for a sophomore Them Crooked Vultures record recently found the stress of a busy schedual too much and landed himself in hospital after a caf-feine overdose. “I was doing Vultures stuff at night, Foo Fighters stuff during the day and I had a newborn at home so I was sleeping two to three hours a night on an air mattress in a guest bedroom. We were in the studio making a record and I was drinking a lot of coffee,” says Grohl, “and yeah, I had too much coffee. I started to get chest pains so I went to the hospital and they told me to stop drinking the coffee.”

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The decaffeinated Them Crooked Vultures play The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor, Sunday, May 16th. Tickets start at $35 and are available at ticketmaster.ca and the box office at Caesars.

pop vulturethem crooked vultures’ dave grohl on his return to windsor after 22 years

rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, left to right: John Paul Jones, Josh Homme & Dave Grohl

live music

“We’ve done some killer stuff, but I don’t feel we’ve even scratched the surface.” -dave grohl

mediacity16Tuesday, May 25, 8 pm @ the Burton Theatre (3420 Cass Avenue, Detroit, burtontheatre.com)Tickets $7 US or free with Media City pass

ErieKevin Jerome Everson* USA, 16mm on video, 81 min, 2010

Erie consists of several indepen-dent events filmed in black-and-white in the area around Lake Erie. Each event lasts about 10 minutes, the length of a roll of film, and they are edited back-to-back.

Hardly any words are spoken, apart from the particularly signif-cant dialogue of three workers from a General Motors factory. The factory is soon going to close, like so many major steel and car companies, to the joy of those who think that “untrained” workers are earning too much money.

Erie is a major contribution to a central theme in the sizeable oeuvre of Kevin Jerome Ever-son: the culture of African-Ameri-can workers.__________________________

Wednesday, May 26, 7:30 pm

Retrospective: Johan van der KeukenNetherlands, 16mm (Temps/Tra-vail 16mm on video)

The prolific career of the Dutch documentary filmmaker JO-HAN VAN DER KEUKEN (1938-2001) spans 42 years, during which time he made 55 short and feature-length films which screened at countless venues worldwide, winning several major awards. During his lifetime, van der Keuken was the subject of retrospective screenings at most of the world’s prominent film institutions including the Cinémathèque Québécoise (Montreal, 1975), the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, 1978 and 1999), the Film Museum (Mu-nich, 1980), the Cinémathèque Française (Paris,1987), Kino Arsenal (Berlin, 1999) and both the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) and Cinematheque On-tario (Toronto) in 2000.

Media City is pleased to present a selection of five of Johan van der Keuken’s short films, four dating from the 1960s and one, Temps/Travail, that is among the last of his completed works.

Blind Child I 24 min, 1964

What is reality? A leap across an abyss. To gather material for Blind Child, van der Keuken spent two months at a Dutch Institute for the Blind. The major theme of the film is perception; the secondary themes are com-munication and the never-ending struggle to be in contact with reality.

Four Walls 22 min, 1965

A reflection on the relationship between physical and mental space. In 1965, Amsterdam un-derwent a severe housing crisis. Welcomed into a tiny apartment occupied by a large family, the director undertook a meticulous dissection of “inhabitable space.”

Herman Slobbe/Blind Child 2 29 min, 1966

The second film on blind children follows one young boy in particu-lar. Upon reaching puberty, Her-man Slobbe needs to struggle against his environment in order to carve out a path for himself.

A Moment’s Silence10 min, 1960-63

The incessant coming-and-go-ing of cars slows to a crawl, the passersby stop and the city of Amsterdam comes to a stand-still. This film is one of the first that van der Keuken made on his own, freely, and without the constraints of anecdote, storyline or script

Temps/Travail 11 min, 1999

A montage showing the repeti-tive movements typical of many types of laborious rural, craft and industrial activities in completely different geographical contexts.

“Film has its origins at the fair and it should stay that way. But is that fair not situated in the marshy country behind the church, the temple and the mosque? Just past the ware-house and the town halll? Not far from the concert hall, the theatre, the the police-station and the disco, yes, the whole community full of homeopaths and psycho-paths, who all run around or are stuck in a traffic-jam, restless in search of the meaning of life. The filmmaker is there, I think, to make something of this confu-sion visible, but also something of that meaning.” —Johan van der Keuken__________________________

Wednesday, May 26, 9:30 pmInternational Program 1

LullabyRobert Todd* USA, 16mm, 9 min, 2009 Sleepy... waiting for something to happen, with a camera in the dim, in a playground, quiet and colourful. Swinging away, and slowly drifting off. RihlaGerbrand Burger Netherlands, video, 11 min, 2009 The imaginary journey of a man who travels from east to west. His character is composed of a collection of literary fragments dating from the 14th century until today. The original texts are largely written by Arabs travel-ling to Europe. The word “rihla” means “journey in search of wisdom or knowledge”.

DistanceJulie Murray* USA, 16mm, 12 min, 2010 Time spent at two shores, one thinly populated, the other a wasteland. Notions of home and

its ache are, to borrow a phrase, “not capable of being told unless by far-off hints and adumbra-tions.” Oral HistoryVolko Kamensky* Germany, 35mm, 22 min, 2009 A report from the land of the Brothers Grimm: the story of a sleepy German hamlet present-ed in twenty-two images. The voices of its inhabitants guide the audience through the rural environment. But the impact of the film owes as much to what is concealed as to what is shown and said. The crucial distinc-tion between story and history becomes increasingly flimsy. One Bright Day

Jem Cohen USA, video, 18 min, 2008 While out shooting for a different project altogether, I encoun-tered two men sleeping on a Manhattan street. A short time later, I was standing in front of Penn Station when one of the men suddenly reappeared. He stepped in front of my camera and began to speak.

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Thursday, May 27, 6 pmRegional Artist ProgramNew film and video from here or hereabouts. Program includes:

Sleeping BearJack Cronin Detroit, 16mm on video, 10.5 min, 2009

Filmed at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan over the course of three years, this work, which loosely follows the cycle of seasons, is a study of the landscape and an attempt to represent the unique character of this region.

ControllerEd Janzen Kingsville, video, 2 min, 2010

A fly compresses time and cap-tures itself on video by triggering a motion-activated surveillance webcam.

the international festival of experimental film and video art returns <may 25-29>unless otherwise noted all events are at the Capitol Theatre, 121 University Avenue West | unless otherwise noted all screenings are pay what you can, suggested donation $5

* indicates artist in attendance Tickets available at the door. | Full festival passes: $20 | more information @ www.houseoftoast.ca

Experimental, the mere mention of the term sends so many running. Seen as an antonymic prefix that

confuses and pretenses otherwise accessible music, art and film, ‘ex-perimentalism’ needs not find the viewer/listener erecting a wall that would make Berlin blush. Speaking of Berlin, while Krautrock’s Neu! and Faust may have been noisy and unapproachable to many, one of the most accessible musicians in history, David Bowie, drew upon their experimental sounds to cre-ate his iconic Berlin Trilogy: ‘Low,’ ‘Heroes’ and ‘Lodger.’ Just as the noise obsessed New York no-wave scene birthed Sonic Youth who blended noise and pop, in turn exposing hundreds of thousands to their genesis, many top gross-ing film makers have taken to name checking the innovators who inspired them. Without avant-garde cinema, commercial film wouldn’t be the same, nor would MTV, as music video is a commercialization of many techniques of experimen-tal film. This is where we arrive at Media City.

If the simple fact that Media City is one of the world’s top exponents and most respected festivals of experimental film and video art globally fails to draw you in, instead leaving you fearing hours of time lapse clouds, there are some things you should know. While no festival of experimental film could be complete without time lapse clouds, the number of easily ap-proachable, accessible and simply enjoyable films rolling at the 16th instalment of Media City is higher than ever. Additionally with many of the film makers being flown in from around the world, you’ll have the opportunity to sit and have a pint with some of today’s leading producers of experimental film; try that at Cannes. And while the majority of theatres project from digital prints, all films presented at Media City are presented in the medium the artist intended, be it super 8mm, 35mm or video.

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mediacity16The Use of MovementChristopher McNamara Windsor/Ann Arbor, video, 15 min, 2009

Each scene is an incomplete narrative, with monologues in Spanish, German, Bengali and Italian creating occasional dis-sonances with the images.

Ice/FigureMichelle Tarailo Windsor, video, 4.5 min, 2008

A meditation on the movement of the Detroit River and the indus-trial landscape it flows through.

See/SawCharlie Egleston London, 16mm, 5 min, 2010

… and more new films from Windsor and Detroit TBA on houseoftoast.ca

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Thursday, May 27, 7:30 pmInternational Program 2

Sea FrontStuart Moore & Kayla Parker England, S8mm on video, 5.5 min, 2009

The once-grand 19th century structures built into the limestone cliffs at the seashore in Plym-outh, England are now cracked and crumbling. This space between land and sea is a site for rites of passage for modern day Plymouth youth, who gather here at high tide throughout the summer months.

Four Little FilmsNick Collins England, 16mm, 10 min, 2009

Frost Table documents dawn and sunrise on January 1st, 2008, a cold morning on a French hillside. Tholos looks at an exca-vated Mycenean tomb in Mes-senia, Peloponnese, set amid olive groves, but with patches of shade close by where flow-ers grow. Jasmine Tea unfurls itself from a white screen to an infusion which is ready to drink. Garden looks at a corner of my garden which is both sombre and joyful.

Hanging upside down in the branches Ute Aurand* Germany, 16mm, 15 min, 2009

A montage of brief recollections filmed before the death of my mother in 2000 and the death of my father in 2007. I stand as an adult in the midst of childhood feelings, gazing at the disappear-ance of my family home and the changing relation to my parents.

ToadsMilena Gierke Germany, S8 to 35mm enlargment, 6 min, 2008

Images of a stream in southern France: it‘s the toads’ mating season. Movement on the water surface distorts the toads, some-times making them unrecogniz-able, bringing two different levels of perception into the action at hand.

Groundplay Robert Todd* USA, 16mm, 12 min, 2009

Life is like a speck of dust. A camera as a microscope, nosing about in a world on a different scale. The sensitive instrument does not perceive objects, but dives into the empty spaces be-tween them. The focus shifts to a new world filled with structures, grit and dust barely perceptible to the naked eye.

FrontierHarriet McDougall England, video, 13 min, 2008

The senses act simultaneously as receptors and filters, both enabling us to make sense of our surroundings and preventing us from fully doing so. In Frontier, two layers of imagery (shot in a continuous 15 hour take from dawn to dusk) are interlaced and compressed. Transient effects of light and colour confound expec-tations of visual depth and space within the frame.__________________________

Thursday, May 27, 9:30 pmInternational Program 3

AtlantiquesMati Diop* Senegal/France, video, 15 min, 2009

By nightfall, around a campfire, a young man from Dakar tells his friends his clandestine odyssey.

So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to ComeDavid Gatten* USA, 16mm, 9 min, 2010

Excerpts from Sir Thomas Browne’s 1658 text HYDRIOT-APHIA Urne-Burial Or, A Brief Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Nor-Folk are superimposed with the stone faces of grave markers and burial urns. This image-text bookends a series of objects framed in the ancient glass window panes of a tiny shop in a tiny snow-covered town on a mountain top in Colorado.

Present ParticipleShirin Sabahi Iran/Sweden, R8mm on video, 25 min, 2009

A film inspired by the artist’s chance discovery of three reels of silent 8mm footage shot by Ellis Edman (1899-1988), a prominent Swedish journalist. The researcher (the artist), the filmmaker (Edman) and the archivist (Edman’s son) each have a “voice” in interpreting the images.

AlikiRichard Wiebe* USA, video, 5 min, 2009

Lake Aliki, Cyprus. For centu-ries, countless flamingos have

wintered here from Iran. The Greeks represented them in poetry, the Romans slaughtered them for their tongues. Today, a man sings: Pharmacist, oh pharmacist, oh pharmacist, I want medicine for myself, I want medicine for myself, My heart, my heart, my heart is beating like this, My heart is afflicted be cause of you.

Through Some Trick of Nature It AppearsBruce McClure* USA, 3 x 16mm, 16 min, 2010

A new live performance by Brooklyn’s Bruce McClure, employing sync sound and three 16mm projectors bipacked with film loops taken from an obsolete educational film, Birds of North-ern Places.__________________________

Friday, May 28, 3 pm(@ the Art Gallery of Windsor, 401 Riverside Drive West)

Yearportraits: A Discussion with Friedl vom Gröller* (Austria) Organized by Media City to coincide with a retrospective of the films of Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka), the three series of Yearportraits (from 1977-78, 1997-98 and 2003-04) exhibited at the AGW represent but a tiny fraction of the artist’s ongoing photographic project spanning nearly forty years. Since 1972, she has taken a self-portrait every day and organized them into a calendrical system. The result is tens of thousands of photographs coolly document-ing the passage of time. In one sense, the photos could be seen as a film, running at a rate of one frame per day. Along with the Yearportraits, also on view at the AGW is vom Gröller’s photograph Venzone (1975) and a selection of photo books and monographs about the artist and her work. for more Friedl vom Gröller , see page 11

Yearportraits opens at the AGW on April 10 and continues until July 4.

Friday, May 28, 7:30 pmRetrospective: Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka)*

Fifteen short films by the Aus-trian filmmaker, spanning her career from the late 1960s to the present day. Accompanied by a discussion with the artist.

“Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) has a mulitfaceted relation to photog-raphy and film. She is not only an artist working with (these) me-dia, she is also a psychoanalyst who uses her camera in order to study psychic processes... she considers herself an artist who ‘thinks psychoanalytically’.”—Mika Elo

Program includes:Erwin, Toni, Ilse 35mm, 9 min, 1968/69

Graf Zokan (Franz West) 35mm, 3 min, 1969

Neuffer’s Gegenstände 16mm, 6 min, 1971

Ohne Titel 35mm, 5 min, 1981

Secret Identities of a Psycho-analyst 16mm, 6 min, 1995-2005

Eugen Bavcar 16mm, 3 min, 1999

Spucken 35mm, 2 min, 2000

Le Baromètre 35mm, 3 min, 2004

Paris June 2009 16mm, 3 min, 2009

Boston Steamer 16mm, 3 min, 2009

Passage Briare 16mm, 3 min, 2009

Delphine de Olivera 16mm, 3 min, 2009

Hen-Night 16mm, 3 min, 2009

Wedding 16mm, 3 min, 2009

Der Fototermin 16mm, 3 min, 2009

Friday, May 28, 9:30 pmInternational Program 4

LoutronBarbara Meter Netherlands, video, 17 min, 2009

A day in the life of an old Otto-man bath, from dawn till dusk, where the light, the mirroring in the water and the visitors figure alongside the protagonist: the bath itself.

Summer Grass 2/10Mie Kurihara Japan, S8mm, 10 min, 2008

A hot and quiet summer once again arrives. Only 20% of ants actually do any work.

ProlegomenaCédric Gaul-Berrard* France, 16mm, 11 min, 2008

Thirteen fragments studying time using various film techniques such as step filming, matte-box-es and superimposition.

Burning BushVincent Grenier* Canada (QC)/USA, video, 9.5 min, 2010

“In Eastern Orthodoxy a tradition exists that the flame Moses saw was God’s Uncreated Ener-gies/Glory, manifested as light, thus explaining why the bush was not consumed. Hence, it is not interpreted as a miracle in the sense of an event, which only temporarily exists, but is instead viewed as Moses being permitted to see these Uncre-ated Energies/Glory, which are considered to be eternal things; the Orthodox definition of salva-tion is this vision of the Uncre-ated Energies/Glory, and it is a recurring theme in the works of Greek Orthodox theologians.” —New World Encyclopedia

Daylight and the SunKaren Johannesen* USA, S8mm, 5 min, 2009

Light itself comes in packages, and is emitted and absorbed not continuously, but in small units of quanta, traveling through space at high velocity.

Point Line Plane (for PP)Simon Payne* England, video, 8 min, 2010

A multidimensional video in which shifting grids continu-ously reframe perspective and increasing layers illuminate the viewer. (Multidimensional cinema = luminance, the x and y axes + an illusionary axis consisting of depth, time, sound and the auditorium.)__________________________

Saturday, May 29, 6 pmRecent Canadian Film and Video

Strips Félix Dufour-Laperrière Montréal, 35mm, 5.5 min, 2010

n. M; shortened form of strip-tease. From strip, to remove, to take away, and tease, to entice, to tempt. And then all this in plural.

Sometime. Somewhere. Zohar Kfir Montréal (Israel), S8mm on video, 6.5 min, 2009

If I were silent, I’d hear nothing. But if I were silent all the other sounds would start again.

Refraction Series Chris Gehman Toronto, 35mm, 8 min, 2008

An experimental approach to optics, using simple materials and techniques to generate a range of pure light and colours in motion.

Sea Series #7 and #5John Price Toronto, 35mm, 3.5 and 5 min, 2010

#5: In-camera experimentation as the sun set in a beautiful part of the world with loved ones close at hand. #7: Watching a ferry disappear into the horizon on a frigid winter day.

Trees of Syntax, Leaves of AxisDaïchi Saïto Montréal, 16mm, 10 min, 2009

A collaboration with musician Malcolm Goldstein. Patterns, variation, and repetition, using trees in a park as the main visual motif.

The Wheel Pixie Cram Ottawa, 16mm on video, 3 min, 2009

A mother breastfeeds her child. A woman peels an orange.

j. Solomon Nagler & Alexandre Larose Halifax/Montréal, 16mm, 6.5 min, 2009

A dig into the orphaned trash cans of cinema archives, trans-posing old celluloid into a poem on need, affection and solitude.

Simultaneous Contrast Chris Kennedy Toronto, 16mm, 5.5 min, 2008

Spatial oscillations provide a per-mutating play of figure, ground

and space, imaging the possibil-ity of being two places at once.

Puccini Conservato Michael Snow Toronto, video, 10 min, 2008

A visual and sonic commentary to La Bohème.__________________________

Saturday, May 29, 7:30 pmInternational Program 5

Gregor AlexisJana Debus* Germany, 16mm on video, 20 min, 2009

The locations chosen for this portrait (a desolate apartment and a wasteland littered with abandoned machinery) are indicative of the condition of someone potentially as vulner-able as the insects that collect on his windowsill.

DissonantManon de Boer Netherlands/Belgium, 16mm on video, 11 min, 2010

The dancer Cynthia Loemij im-provises for about 10 minutes to Eugène Ysaÿe’s Three Sonatas for Violin Solo. The camera follows her movements. The 3-minute duration of one 16mm film roll interrupts the recording. During the moments that the im-age is in suspense, a game with the audience’s memory is being played.

Piensa en MiAlexandra Cuesta* Ecuador/USA, 16mm, 15 min, 2009

Moving from east to west and back again, the windows of a bus frame fleeting sections of the urban landscape of Los Angeles. Images of riders, textures of light and fragments of bodies in space come together to weave a por-trait in motion. Isolation, routine and everyday splendour create the backdrop of the journey, while the intermittent noise of traffic contructs the soundscape.

Lumphini 2552Tomonari Nishikawa Japan, 35mm, 3 min, 2009

All images were shot in with a 35mm still camera in Bangkok’s

monumental Lumphini Park. Although it may give the sense of an on-site, sync-sound audio recording, the sound arises from visual information on the film’s optical track, the result of directly printing each still photo directly to the full frame of 35mm motion picture film. “Lumphini” is derived from the Sanskrit word for the birthplace of the Buddha; 2009 is 2552 according the Buddhist calendar.

In the Park and A WalkUte Aurand* Germany, 16mm, 6 and 4.5 min, 2008

In the Park of the Rietberg Mu-seum in Zürich, with its collection of Asian, African and Indian art. A Walk through the winter of Enga-din and Bergell in Switzerland.__________________________

Saturday, May 29, 9:30 pmInternational Program 6

I Know Where I’m GoingBen Rivers England, 16mm, 30 min, 2009

A drive way off the beaten path on an automotive pilgrimage, seeking out hidden trails and solitary places of autonomy and concealment. En route to the Isle of Mull, we encounter geologists, beekeepers and forest clearers, as well as confronting the ele-ments of bad weather and daily surprises.

Vampire(s)Arnaud Gerber France, 16mm on video, 29 min, 2008

In the late twenties in Düsseldorf, terror had a name: Peter Kürten, the Vampire. Today, the con-fessions of the serial killer that inspired Fritz Lang’s M (1931) are still haunting the streets of the city. Today like yesterday, society has only one answer: “He is not human!”

Dining CarsArianne Olthaar* Netherlands, S8 to 35mm enlargement, 15 min, 2010

Interiors of dining cars from the 1960s and 70s, shot on Super 8. Having dinner here must have been very cosy once, but today the rolling interiors have become rocking time capsules.

media city.international festival of experimental film and video art <may 25-29>unless otherwise noted all events are at the Capitol Theatre, 121 University Avenue West | unless otherwise noted all screenings are pay what you can, suggested donation $5

* indicates artist in attendance Tickets available at the door. | Full festival passes: $20 | more information @ www.houseoftoast.ca

Johan van der Keuken (1938-2001) began his experimentation with photogra-phy at the age of twelve. Five years later, in 1955, his first book of pho-

tographs was published. “We are 17” included 30 portraits depict-ing his unhappy classmate at a Montessori School in Amsterdam. It is important to note that Johan first trained his eye through the viewfinder of a Rolleiflex, carefully developing his singular vision in the “documentary style”. Photog-raphy was no doubt a significant factor in determining his lifelong path as an “image-maker”, and the observational tool through which he first began to record the world, one frame at a time. In 1956, van der Keuken accepted a scholarship from the Institute of Cinematography in Paris (IDHEC); “There were no scholarships for photography at the time, but there were for filmmaking. Film was far more serious.”

In 1957 his second book Behind Glass was published and coin-cided with photo exhibitions in Amsterdam, Paris and Milan. That same year he embarked on a prolific filmmaking career begin-ning with the collaborative short Paris l’aube, made with James Blue and Derry Hall. Over the next forty-four years, van der Keuken produced more than fifty-five short and feature-length films.

“I am very anxious about, well, perfection…I would like to be able to show something with utter clarity. Yet, I am completely aware that I am a filmmaker working with approximation…Yes, you might say that there is an element of

playfulness in my work…but at the same time, there are things that are so real and so powerful that they cannot be mastered. Hence, we enter the realm of approxima-tion. I cannot accept the perfect “shot/reverse angle shot as the “truth” of a film. Something in me despairs over never being able to “say the right thing.”

During his lifetime, van der Keu-ken taught filmmaking seminars in Geneva, Hamburg, Brussels, Annecy, Beaconsfield, Stuttgart, Berlin, Ludwigsburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Munich, Mülheim, New York, and Denmark. His films have screened at various institu-tions internationally including the Pacific Film Archive (Berke-ley, 1978 and 1999), the Film Museum (Munich, 1980), the Cinémathèque Française (Paris, 1987), Kino Arsenal (Berlin, 1999) the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) and Cinematheque Ontario (Toronto) in 2000. His first retro-spective was held in Canada at the Cinémathèque Québécoise (Montreal) in 1975. Media City is grateful to the EYE Film Institute (Netherlands) and Medici Arts International (Paris) for making this screening possible.

This is a rare chance to see work by one of the greatest documenta-ry filmmakers of the 20th century. Featured in this program will be a selection of the director’s short films produced during the 1960s, and Temps/Travail (2000) one of his last completed films.

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Wednesday, May 26th 2010. Screening at 7:30 PMCapitol Theatre 121 University Ave. Wwww.houseoftoast.caTickets Pay What You Can!

pictures for the blind:Johan van der Keuken

Photographie de Johan van der Keuken, Johan et Ysbrant, 1955

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one frame a dayFriedl vom Gröller (Kubelka)

Jahresportrait Teil 4 - detail ( Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) )

Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) was born in London in 1946 and spent her childhood in East Berlin and Vienna. She made her first films in the late

1960s while still a student, asking her models to look into the cam-era for the duration of one reel of film: “I want to see something that has never before been seen in this form.” Her films have screened at venues such as the Munich Film Museum, the Inter-national Film Festival Rotterdam, Anthology Film Archives (New York), the Austrian Filmmuseum to name a few. In 1971 she grad-uated with a diploma in industrial photography from the Graphic Instruction and Research Institute in Vienna. In 1997 she completed her psychoanalytical training, em-ploying themes concerned with the human psyche, humor and shame. Perhaps best known for her serial photographs (the Year, Month, Week and Day Portraits) Kubelka has had solo exhibitions of her photographic works at museums and galleries including the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Vienna), Gal-erie Fotohof (Salzburg) and the Frankfurter Kunstverein. In 2005 she was awarded the Staatspreis für Photographie, Austria’s most prestigious photography award. She is founder of the Vienna School of Artistic Photogra-phy (1990) and the School for Independent Film (2006). She currently teaches photography in Salzburg and Vienna.

moving“Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) has a mulitfaceted relation to photog-raphy and film. She is not only an artist working with (these) media, she is also a psychoanalyst who uses her camera in order to study psychic processes... she consid-ers herself an artist who ‘thinks psychoanalytically’.”—Mika Elo (artist and researcher in Helsinki)

Media City 16 offers a rare chance to view 15 short films by the Austrian filmmaker, spanning her career from the late 1960s to the present day. These silent black-and-white films were edited in the camera only, and therefore convey an intensity and intimacy stemming from the shooting pro-cess and the tension that builds between Kubelka and those portrayed. The retrospective series of 33mm and 16mm films, ranging from two to nine minutes plays on Friday, May 28 at 7:30 pm, accompanied by a discus-sion with the artist herself. At the Capitol Theatre (121 University Ave. W) Tickets are available at the door on a pay what you can basis.

stillOver the past decade Media City and the Art Gallery of Windsor have presented collaborative in-stallation programming featuring works by renowned international artists such as David Claerbout (Belgium), Sharon Lockhart (USA), Eija-Liisa Ahtila (Finland), and Mircea Cantor (Romania),

alongside some of Canada’s most prominent media artists including David Rokeby and Mike Hoolboom to name a few. In 2010 the tradition continues with Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka). Or-ganized by Media City to coincide with the retrospective of her films, the three series of Yearportraits (from 1977-78, 1997-98 and 2003-04) exhibited at the AGW represent but a tiny fraction of the artist’s ongoing photographic project spanning nearly forty years. Since 1972, she has taken a self-portrait every day and organized them into a calendri-cal system. The result is tens of thousands of photographs coolly documenting the passage of time. In one sense, the photos could be seen as a film, running at a rate of one frame per day. Along with the Yearportraits, also on view at the AGW is vom Gröller’s photograph Venzone (1975) and a selection of photo books and monographs about the artist and her work. Yearportraits continues at the AGW until July 4, with an discus-sion with Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) on Friday, May 28, 3 pm at the Art Gallery of Windsor, 401 Riverside Drive West.

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Full Media City schedual avali-able at houseoftoast.ca or on pages 8-10 of this paper, program guides are available for free at the festival and at Phog Lounge, Milk Coffee Bar and other downtown locations.

Robert Earl Stewart does not wear a beret on a regular basis. He also does not carry a set of bongo drums under one arm at all times. He doesn’t seem to use

the words o’er, ne’er, or whilst in conversation and he doesn’t publish to livejournal.Despite all this, Stewart is a poet, and an ac-claimed one at that. His first book of poetry, Something Burned Along the Southern Border, has recently been shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, which honours the best first book of poetry published by a Canadian. His work combines language play and translation with laugh out loud humour, and striking imagery with conversational language. This allows Stewart to bridge the gap between academia and accessibility, a difficult line to walk, along which Stewart balances comfort-ably.Many people hold the view that poetry was something that happened exclusively in the 1800s (think Word-sworth and daffodils), or the 1960s (berets, bongos, beatniks). In any case, in the views of many, poetry is dead today, and it isn’t much of a loss. For those who are aware that somewhere someone is still writing poetry, the stereo-types of elitist academics, or over-emotional high schoolers pouring their hearts out on the Internet remain. The beauty in Stewart’s work is that it breaks down all these expectations, and grabs hold of any audience, regardless of their past experience with poetry. Poets like Stewart have the power to convince the public that poetry is still relevant and, amazingly, entertaining as well.A latecomer to the poetry scene, Stewart began as a writer of fiction, after studying American fiction, film and television in the English Depart-ment at the University of Windsor and later at Montreal’s McGill University. Windsor music lovers may remember him from his work singing with the band Elephant in the early ‘90s. While he has a novel in the works, a project he has been chipping away at since 2001, Stewart began writing poems when he saw the appeal in poetry’s immediacy.“I started writing poetry in 2004 in a moment of inspiration,” he says. “A poem arrived in my head, wholly-formed. All I had to do was repro-duce it on the page. It took about 20 minutes. There was immediacy there and the thing that really attracted me to poetry was how quickly I could get results. Where the novel was chug-ging along in fits and starts, sometimes I could write a really good first draft of a poem in two minutes.” Beyond the quicker pace of his poetic inspiration, Stewart also saw a more positive critical reception to his poems. “The poems were getting published in the U.S. And England. That wasn’t happening with my fiction,” he explains. “I couldn’t help but be encouraged to write more poetry by this.”Following on his success with poetry in literary journals, Stewart published Something Burned Along the Southern Border with Mansfield Press, and launched it at Milk Bar downtown Windsor in 2010. His success continued as the book was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, for best first book of poetry published by

a Canadian. With a prestigious list of previous winners, including Di Brandt, Rosemary Sulli-van, and most recently Katia Grubisic, the award recognizes some of the best in Canadian poetry. “I’m fortunate enough to have been published by a press that takes care of their authors,” Stew-art says. “Mansfield Press publisher Denis De Klerck, my editor Stuart Ross and editorial assis-tant Leigh Nash did all the legwork (submitting the nomination forms and the required number of copies of the work) on my behalf for all the awards for which I was eligible.”While Stewart is published by Toronto-based Mansfield Press, he maintains strong ties to Windsor. He grew up in Walkerville and still lives in the city, which continues to influence his writing. “Windsor’s proximity to Detroit and the

American Midwest ethos has also had a big influence on my work. I focused on American literature all through my schooling. I had some great mentors who were Ameri-can, including the late John Ditsky who was a life-long Detroiter,” Stewart explains. He adds, “I’ve also spent a lot of time out in the county, working for the Windsor Star and Lasalle Post, and I find the county fascinat-ing—just as a place to be alone in. I think I write more about the county than I do about the city. It’s like the protective rind that forms a border between Windsor and the rest of Canada, with the river being all that separates us from Detroit—a wet, fertile, fully-

permeable membrane that promotes some kind of vibrant, intangible exchange.”Stewart sees Windsor as a community with a rep-utation that doesn’t quite suit its reality. “Windsor has this reputation of being a strictly blue collar, salt-of-the-earth kind of town and I think that’s more of a media perpetuated myth than anything else,” he says. “With the exception of two years spent living in Montreal, I’ve lived in Windsor all my life and my experience simply isn’t the one that most people across Canada hold up as being the typical Windsor experience. This is not to say that Windsor is an arts Mecca, but I think there is a lot more going on here than meets the eye.”While Stewart says he is not extremely in-tune with the Windsor arts and poetry scene, he sees poetry in Windsor as a tough gig. “I’ve been going to the Juice poetry nights at Phog in recent months, and I’ve seen a few people read who I think are very good, and when I talk to them, they don’t seem very confident or serious about what they’re doing. I don’t think it’s an affectation. I think it’s genuinely uncertainty as to what’s going on in poetry because poetry is such a tough in Windsor—tougher than it is in most places. There aren’t a lot of poetry venues or events,” he says. On top of Juice nights, which occur the first Wednesday of every month at Phog Lounge, Stewart offers up a couple other events for those wishing to experience the poetry that is going on in Windsor. Stewart will read May 20th as part of the Live Poets reading series at Paula’s Gallery (Wyandotte St. East), and is conducting a poetry workshop all day on June 26th at Mackenzie Hall (Sandwich St.).

“There may not be a very big arts community in Windsor,” Stewart says, “but I see a lot more individuality here, and a lot more acceptance of people for who they are.”

the best words in the best orderburning on the southern borderRobert Earl Stewart

kate hargreaves

A beautiful woman covered in paint splatters poses for a live photo

shoot. Make up artists work their magic on models in hall-ways as crowds watch. Flash-ing lights and giant screens project over the catwalk, while six foot tall women in four inch heels teeter near the bar. It’s [FAT] Alternative Fashion Week in Toronto, and indepen-dent designers from Canada and around the world are here to give Toronto’s fashion savvy crowd a look at some bold new wearable art. Among these designers are Windsor’s Vanessa Hughes and Meaghan Biddle, better known as design duo Petey the Troll. Hughes and Biddle have been part of Windsor’s DIY fashion scene for several years, participating in and planning the Grandstand and Eye Candy series of fashion shows at Milk, Phog and the University of Windsor. Petey the Troll moved out of the local venues, travel-ling to Toronto April 24th, to present their new line, Petey Couture, at Toronto Alternative Fashion week. Petey Couture was part of the final day of the four day festival, which for the last five years has featured “inventive, pioneering, and contemporary expression.” Hughes and Biddle were among 200 designers from around the world to participate in the runway shows at [FAT] (Fashion. Art. Toronto.), which also featured performance art, independent film, photogra-phy, and music. “We heard about [FAT] from other local Windsor designers who had been involved, including Jen Lopez, Robin Angell and Amy Snook. We thought it would be a great stepping stone to build a reputation in Toronto,” explains Hughes. Having applied twice to the show with no success, Hughes and Biddle were ecstatic to be accepted to this year’s event. While the Windsor design-ers raced around backstage before the Saturday night show, themed “Joy,” Halifax’s Rich Aucoin did his best to work the crowd up with his participation heavy and incredibly fun indie-dance music and sing-a-long visuals. Unfortunately, most people at [FAT] were a bit too cool to get excited about good music. As Aucoin’s set wound down, the seats on either side of the runway filled up with industry professionals lining the front rows with an eye out for the next best designers and models. The audience in the packed studio, some with elaborately painted faces, sleek black dresses, and hundred dollar geometric haircuts, had all eyes on each other, picking some looks apart and whisper-ing approving comments about others in their neighbour’s ear. When the panicked looking

women with headsets and clip-boards finally disappeared from the runway, the crowd hushed as electro music pumped into the studio.Petey Couture was set to hit the runway third out of five designers in the second runway segment of the evening. Mod-els with severe expressions in incredibly high heels hit the cat-walk in jersey neutral-coloured dresses for Jamaica’s Anuna by Tami and Lubica, followed by a set of sleepwear and cozy knits in lux colours from Calgary’s Colleen Booth. Finally, it was Petey’s turn to rock the runway. The Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows” fad-ed through the speakers and mo-hawked models hit the catwalk in Petey Couture’s decadent red velvets, brocades and earth tones. Couture impressed with exquisite tailoring on jackets, corsets and gorgeously fitted trousers. “Our collection was primarily inspired by our back-ground in costume design for theatre,” says Hughes. “We used a lot of historical influences and added some Sgt. Pepper details, which resulted in bright colours and military elements such as epaulettes and vintage insignia.” Windsor-based models Clarese Thomas (cover of WAMM Feb-ruary fashion issue) and Maggie Yoell stalked the runway con-fidently toward an intimidating wall of flash photography for the Petey show, while Wind-sor-born model Naiya Panayiota walked for several designers on all four days of runway. “We found it comforting having some familiar faces with us, but we also made new connections with models from the Toronto area,” notes Hughes. “Maggie and Clarese fit in beautifully with the others and everything went very smoothly.”Expanding into menswear for the first-time, Petey Couture blends the gendering of cloth-ing, featuring women’s jackets and feminine skirts in sharp suiting and plaid, and men’s blazers with touches of velvet and brocade. “[Menswear] definitely proved to be the most challenging aspect, but we were more than pleased with the outcome,” says Hughes. Petey Couture’s set closed as Sergeant Pepper started to play with the re-emergence of the stunning red frock coat featured on the cover of WAMM’s fashion edition. Hughes and Biddle followed their collection out onto the runway to great ap-plause with their usual modesty, but they must have known that the Windsor contingent at To-ronto Alternative Fashion Week would make our city proud.Hughes and Biddle had only positive things to say about their first experience with [FAT]. “The organization of the organizers was stellar. The models were great and very enthusiastic. We were overall very impressed with the way everything went backstage,” says Hughes.

@trimming the [FAT] Petey the Troll toronto alternative fashion weekkate hargreaves / photos: justin bondy

patient in 709the

It’s always a bit daunting when Rob Tymec offers me a role in one of his shows, not so much because he’s an intimidating person, but simply be-cause, when you’re cast in one of his plays, you have no idea what kind of bizarre things you may be required to do in front of a theatre full of

people! Just off the top of my head, I can think of shows where I got buckets of water dumped on my head, had to prance around half-naked in a cupid costume, took a smack in the face that hurt so badly it made my ears ring and, worst of all, had to actually kiss Rob full on the lips!

Since forming his company Monkeys With A Typewriter in 2002, Tymec’s gained the reputation of being a producer who’s not afraid to take chances. This is partly due to the fact that the company’s primary mandate is to produce nothing but original works by local playwrights. Given how twisted the minds of some people in this town can be, he gets some pretty weird stuff submitted to him! The company also seems to have a sort of unwritten mandate and that is that Monkeys With A Typewriter enjoys producing the sort of scripts that other companies would never dare to touch, the type of material that really crosses the line. I do not mean just in terms of “being edgy” but also in terms of artistic merit. Scripts produced by the company, oftentimes, do not fit under any kind of specific genre or are such an ecclectic blend of genres that it takes twelve hyphenated words to label them!

The latest play coming from the company is certainly no exception to the rule. “It’s called The Patient In 709,” Tymec ex-plained to me when he offered me a part in it, nearly six months ago. “Probably the best label we could attach to it would be medical drama since three of the main characters are medical proffessionals and a fourth, of course, is a patient in a hospital. Also, it’s not so much a romance as it is a play about failed romances, a “break-up play,” I sup-pose. Oddly enough, it has also got a bit of a soap opera feel to it, too. And then there’s a strange supernatural element to the whole thing that seems to defy all labels.” Intrigued by his description, I decided to take a look at the script and he was accurate in the way he presented the play to me; Patient In 709 requires at least a paragraph to categorise it properly.

The plot is even more elaborate. The story chiefly concerns a nurse by the name of Sara Jamieson (played by the attrac-tive and talented Kim Burgess). Sara is intrigued by a patient (currently residing

in Room 709, of course) who is being kept under strict isolation. Although she is prohibitted from seeing him, Sara begins to visit him secretly. The two of them form an odd bond between them that has very far-reaching consequences.

While this relationship is going on, there’s also a lot of outside turmoil affecting Sara’s life. That’s where my character comes in. I play Brad, an on-again-off-again boyfriend who she just can’t truly let go of. I’m the closest there is to an actual villain in the play. Although, I do have some competi-tion in that department from another char-acter named Julie (played by the equally attractive and talented Kylee Sawchuck), a fellow nurse who is also Sara’s best friend. Julie sees Sara as far more than a friend. The turmoil these two relationships in Sara’s life generate seems to be having a strange effect on this mysterious Patient in 709.

“I’m basically using the Patient to deliver a very simple message to my audience,” Tymec told me one day during rehearsals, “and that’s the idea that every decision we make has either a negative or positive con-sequence on our soul. We either enhance ourselves or destroy ourselves in the actions we choose to take. The Patient In 709 was just a way for me to visually illustrate that idea.”

Indeed, if you observe the play with this message in mind, you’ll see what Tymec’s going after. Throughout the first act, the Patient remains onstage at all times but watch what sort of things the Patient goes through as storylines develop in the life of Sara. See what her decisions start doing to him...

But why is the Patient being affected in such a way by the things Sara does? To find out, you’re just going to have to go see the show. Even if I wasn’t cast in the play, myself, I would still recommend you catch this one. _________________

The Patient in 709, a medical drama by Rob Tymec, runs May 7th, 8th, 14th and 15th at Korda Zone Theatre (2520 Seminole Road, one block east of Walker and Seminole).

The show begins at 8pm, and tickets are $15 fot adults and $10 for seniors or students.This show contains course language and mature subject matter. For more information or to reserve advance tickets call 519-977-2852 or email [email protected].

live theatre

If you had to miss all the fun at [FAT], you can still get your Windsor fashion fix. Hughes and Biddle are hosting Run-way for Rosie on May 28th at Mackenzie Hall. “The Runway for Rosie show is paired with an art show called The Art of War,” explains Hughes. “The event was conceived as a benefit for Windsor Femi-nist Theatre, a local theatre company we work for on the side. We decided to take the opportunity to create a collective arts event that we hope will transcend genera-tion gaps and mediums in Windsor’s arts community.” The event will feature local models strutting in not only the new Petey Couture collection, but lines from six other independent designers from the Windsor area. Dee Dee Shrkeli, recently returned from her big break showing her Dilly Daisy spring line in London, Eng-land, will show off her brightly-colured vintage-inspired pieces, while Jen Lopez, who has shown her collection at [FAT] in past years, will showcase her line usthemwe. Also featured will be Designs by Ana Stulic, a Windsor-born designer schooled in fashion in Milan, and re-cently returned from fashion adventures in Europe. Rachel Gray will show her NeverHopeless collection and Tamara Kimmerly, co-founder of Kingsville’s rEvolution gallery and studio will also have her theefamily fashion line on display. “We’re building a full-length runway with DJ (wh)y.m.e.(??),” says Hughes, noting that in keeping with the theatre influence, the show will also conclude a showing of a set of costumes from the feminist theatre’s upcoming productions.

Hughes and Biddle are well on their way to mak-ing a name for them-selves in the DIY fashion world and have no plans to slow down their pace. “The very first thing we thought of when we finished the [FAT] show was the many things we could do the next year,” says Hughes. “As for Petey the Troll, look out for a full men’s line [and] lots more women’s clothes and accessories!”

Runway for Rosie and the Art of War runs May 28th from 6pm until 1am with the fashion show starting at 8pm. The door is $10 by donation and there will be a cash bar, food, and an art and clothing sale after the show.

trimming the [FAT] Petey the Troll toronto alternative fashion week

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WEEKLY LIVE MUSIC________________________

MONDAYS

Open Mic w/ Tara WattsPhog Lounge

Open Mic w/ Clinton HammondThe Manchester

Open MicThe Whiskey

TUESDAYS

Open Mic w/ Andrew MacLeodThe Dominion House

The Last Trio (7-9)Mr.Chill & Greg Cox (9-12)FM Lounge

Open Mic w/ Stephanie SarafianosThe Mill

Open Mic w/ Jamie ReaumeTwig & Berries

Open Mic The Basement (U of W)

WEDNESDAYS

Kenneth MacLeod & AssociatesThe Dominion House

L&M Jam Night FM Lounge

THURSDAYS

HuladogFM Lounge

Jackie Robitaille &Sara FontaineThe Gourmet Empourium

Open Mic w/ Mike HargreavesMilk

Toast & Jam The Whiskey

Lonesome LeftyMick’s Irish Pub

SATURDAYS

Splatterday w/ Chad & JoeyFM Lounge

SUNDAYS

Open MicFM Lounge

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LIVE MUSIC_________________________

SATURDAY 1

Clash of the Titans WSO Masterworks Con-cert. Schumann and Chopin with guest Daniel WnukowskiChrysler Theatrewindsorsymphony.com

RaGaelMick’s Irish Pub

Travis Reitsma @ May Day Rally (4:30pm)City Hall Square

Black RussianThe Gourmet Empourium

SUNDAY 2

Yukon Blonde w/ Magic Hall of Mirrors Phog Lounge

TUESDAY 4

High Mother Phog Lounge

THURSDAY 6

Karyn Ellis w/ Janine StollPhog Lounge

FRIDAY 7

EVLCoach & Horses

Kenneth MacLeod & the Windsor SaltMick’s Irish Pub

Unity in the Community BBQ (12-5pm)featuring music by Kero & FlowPrint House/ Pelissier Street Gallery

USM w/ Magnolius & Leo37 Phog Lounge

Windsor Folk Society Coffee House & Acoustic Stage Mackenzie Hall

SATURDAY 8

Joan CharetteThe Gourmet Empourium

Meadowlark Five w/ Dirty Nil & Bulletproof TigerPhog Lounge

Al BonesCoach & Horses

The Johnstones w/ Street Pharmacy, The Classix, Abm & The Treehouse KidsThe Blind Dog

Kenneth MacLeod & the Windsor SaltMick’s Irish Pub

CharoColosseum at Caesars Windsor

WEDNESDAY 12

This City Defects w/ Man Your Horse & Bulletproof Tiger Phog Lounge

FRIDAY 14

ASK w/ James-OL and the VillansPhog Lounge

Mark CrampsieMick’s Irish Pub

FRCoach & Horses

SATURDAY 15

Jetset Motel w/ Great Diviners & Black UnicornPhog Lounge

Murray AndrewMick’s Irish Pub

Trish WalesThe Gourmet Empourium

SUNDAY 16

Explode When They Bloom Phog Lounge

Them Crooked VulturesColosseum at Caesars Windsor

For Today w/ Faithful Unto Death, Immanuel, What’s Left & CyreeneBlind Dog

TUESDAY 18

Misery Signals w/ Struc-tures, Amity Affliction, Assassinate The Follow-ing & DesertionThe Blind Dog

WEDNESDAY 19

Kalle Mattson w/ Kevin Echlin & Tim Davidson Phog Lounge

THURSDAY 20

The Locusts Have No King (family tree show)Phog Lounge

FRIDAY 21

Stereo Goes Stellar w/ The Archives & Tim Davidson Phog Lounge

Assassinate the Following w/ Hunter City Madness & Educare Coach & Horses

SATURDAY 22

ChicagoColosseum at Caesars Windsor

SurdasterPhog Lounge

SUNDAY 23

David Simard w/ Erin Lang & Kevin Echlin Phog Lounge

TUESDAY 25

Perilelle w/ Brzowski Jesse Dangerously & HW Phog Lounge

THURSDAY 27

Rude City Riot w/ Credible Witness & That’s the SpiritPhog Lounge

George Thorogood and the DestroyersColosseum at Caesars Windsor

FRIDAY 28

Brothers w/ Tyburn Tree & Seven OutCoach & Horses

Yellow Wood w/ Courtney John & Jon EpworthPhog Lounge

SATURDAY 29

DJ SharSharPhog Lounge

Inepsy w/ Destroy Thy Will Coach & Horses

SUNDAY 30

Dying Fetus w/ Arsis, Misery Index, Annotations Of An Autopsy & Conducting From The GraveBlind Dog

Styrofoam Ones w/ The Darcys, Donlands & Mor-timer & The Bulletproof TigerPhog Lounge

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THEATRE_________________________

SATURDAY 1

Get SmartTheatre Windsortheatrewindsor.com

Thunder from Down Under ‘male revue’Colosseum at Caesars Windsor

SUNDAY 2


THURSDAY 6

Love Bombing After the Earthquake (8pm)Mackenzie Hallbreathearttheatre.com


FRIDAY 7

Love Bombing After the Earthquake (8pm)Mackenzie Hallbreathearttheatre.com

The Patient in 709 (8pm)Korda Zone Theatrekordaproductions.com


Willy Wonka (8pm)Chrysler Theatrewindsorlight.com

SATURDAY 8




SUNDAY 9



FRIDAY 14



Aladdin Capitol Theatreriverfronttheatrecom-pany.ca

SATURDAY 15

Lost Dog Dating (8pm)Mackenzie Hall519-255-7600




SUNDAY 16



FRIDAY 21


SATURDAY 22



Dot Com City of DreamsChrysler Theatrechryslertheatre.com

SUNDAY 23


WEDNESDAY 26

To Kill a Mockingbird (11am & 2am)Capitol Theatreactorstheatreofwindsor.com

THURSDAY 27


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independentalbum charts

2. Cobblestone Jazz / Modern Deep Left Quartet E3. Drive-By Truckers / The Big To-Do / ATO4. Bonobo / Black Sands / Ninja Tune5. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears / Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is / Lost Highway6. Awesome Color / Massa Hypnos / Ecstatic Peace!7. Plants And Animals / La La Land / Secret City E8. She & Him / Volume Two / Merge9. Hannah Georgas / This Is Good / Hidden Pony E10. Rafter / Animal Feelings / Asthmatic Kitty11. Mark Sultan / $ / Last Gang E12. Archie Bronson Outfi t / Coconut / Domino13. Slow Club / Yeah So / Moshi Moshi14. Dum Dum Girls / I Will Be / Sub Pop15. Jason Collett / Rat-A-Tat-Tat / Arts & Crafts E16. The Bambi Molesters / As The Dark Wave Swells / Dancing Bear Glitterhouse17. Lovers Love Haters / Lovers Love Haters / self-released E18. Patrick Keenan / Washed Out Roads / Naneek Of The North E19. Brad Mehldau / Highway Rider / Nonesuch20. The Locusts Have No King / Come One, Come All / self-released E y21. James O-L and The Villains / Alive At The Colch! / self-released E y22. Pack A.D. / We Kill Computers / Mint E23. The Whigs / In The Dark / ATO24. Parallels / Visionaries / Marigold E25. Mi Ami / Steal Your Face / Thrill Jockey26. Growing / Pumps! / Vice27. Jackie Robitaille / Take A Step Closer / self- released E y28. Mose Allison / The Way Of The World / Anti-29. High Places / High Places vs. Mankind / Thrill Jockey30. Christina Maria / Straight Line / Vissen E

FRIDAY 28

DragKorda Zone Theatrekordazone.com


SATURDAY 29



To Kill a Mockingbird (10pm)Capitol Theatreactorstheatreofwindsor.com

For Love of Isis Scottish Club of Windsorfaydn.com/loveofi sis

SUNDAY 30


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ARTS_________________________

SATURDAY 1

Windsor Fights Back! (opening reception)[Leesa Bringas, Blake Fall-Conroy, Lucy Howe, Ezekial Moores, José Seoane & A.G. Smith]Artcite Inc.artcite.ca

Building Bridges (BBQ opening reception | 12-4pm)Common Ground Gal-lery at Mackenzie Hallhanakaeye.com

Art Sale @ Riverside Library (10am-4pm)(Patrick Stevens, Marie Wellwood, Sue Mar-entette, Elaine Woods, Gulnaz Turdalieva, Deb-bie Grant, Denise Parent & Jane Barlow)Riverside Library

SmogFest (opening reception)Milk

Mystical Sedona by Victoria SnelgroveThe Grove Gallery, Essexthegrovegallery.ca

Jackie Zimmer (art opening)Phog Lounge

SUNDAY 2

Artist Trading Cards’ Big Trade (2-4pm)Ten Thousand Villages

Kaya and Christiane Muller (readings)Hilton Windsor72angels.ca

WEDNESDAY 5

Juice Open Mic PoetryPhog Lounge

THURSDAY 6

Last Train Home (2009 | Canada/China/UK | director: Lixin Fan) (7pm) Capitol Theatrewindsorfi lmfestival.com

A Town Called Panic (2009 | Belgium/France/Luxem | director: Sté-phane Aubier, Vincent Patar) (9pm) Capitol Theatrewindsorfi lmfestival.com

FRIDAY 7

Unity in the Community BBQ (12-5pm)featuring new works by D3N!@LPrint House/ Pelissier Street Gallery

SATURDAY 8

Art Sale @ Riverside Library (10am-4pm)(Mia Kerr, Stella’s Works, Anne Spadafora, Kath-ryn Tisdale,Jane Barlow & Marie Wellwood)Riverside Library

Radical Slam; open mic poetry (7pm)Windsor Workers’ Action Centre

Resonation II; Installation by Dong-Kyoon Nam and Paul Breschuk,Remorse; Text work by Amin Rehman(reception 7-10pm)400 block of Pelissier Street

SATURDAY 15

Art Sale @ Riverside Library (10am-4pm)(Sandi Wheaton, Re-becca Draisey & Tracy Paterson)Riverside Library

MONDAY 17

Anit-Homophobia Day events:postcard project Artcite Inc. poetry slam Milk

TUESDAY 18

Comic Book Syndicate (fi lming)Phog Lounge

THURSDAY 20

Broken City Lab: How to Save a Citydetails @ brokencitylab.org/savethecity.

SATURDAY 22

Artists’ Parade (starts at 9am) Olde Sandwich Towne.

Live Graffi ti Painting (12-5pm)(The alley behind) Print House/ Pelissier Street Gallery

Sandwich Towne Art Fes-tival, art show (11-6pm)Sandwich Towne

SUNDAY 23

Sandwich Towne Art Fes-tival, art show (11-6pm)Sandwich Towne

WEDNESDAY 26

Media City 16th Experi-mental Film and Video Festival(full details on pages 7-10)Capitol Theatre

THURSDAY 27


Materials Trade. ReUse. ReCyle; MayWorks Stitch & Bitch and ArtistTrading Cards (6:30-9pm)Windsor Workers Action Centre

FRIDAY 28

Media City 16th:Yearportraits: A Discussion with Friedl vom Gröller* (3pm)Art Gallery of Windsoragw.ca


Runway for Rosie fashion show (8pm) and the Art of War (Windsor Feminist Theatre benefi t)Mackenzie Hallwindsorfeministtheatre.ca

SATURDAY 29


SmogFest (last gasp closing reception) (7:30pm)Milk

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2. Cobblestone Jazz / Modern Deep Left 1

Young Rival / Young RivalSonic Unyon E

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compiled by Chris WhiteTUNE IN TO CJAM’S TOP 12 COUNTDOWN TUESDAY AT 7PM!album charts are arranged according to number of plays on CJAM 99.1FM in Windsor over a four (4) week period prior to the publishing of this issue. (E) denotes canadian,(y)denotes local artist.

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WAMM issue 25 | MAY 2010