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The Cross Country Screening Tour 2014

From June 25 to November 13, 2014 artist run centres, screening collectives and film festivals from Prince Edward Island to the North West Territories screened "Cold Iron Is A Titanic Comedy", a 72 minute kabuki opera art film, featuring 253469 artists.  Thanks to everyone who participated!   Below is a list of the screenings in cities across Canada.

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aceartinc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
Wednesday, June 25, 7pm

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Eastern Edge Gallery, St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Wednesday, June 25, 7pm
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Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, British Columbia
Wednesday, July 30, 7pm
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Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre and The Screening Room as part of the Unibrow Series

Wednesday, July 30, 7pm
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Art Zoo Studio, Toronto, Ontario


Wednesday, August 6, 8pm
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Niagara Artists Centre, St Catharines, Ontario
Tuesday, September 16, 8pm
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Iqaluit Library, Iqaluit, Nunavut
Tuesday, September 16, 8pm
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this town is small artist run centre & Island Media Arts Festival
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Saturday, September 27, 8pm
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University of Alberta Film Society, Edmonton, Alberta
Thursday, October 09, 8pm
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NSCAD Film Club, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday, October 10, 8pm
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Yellowknife Artist Run Community Centre, Yellowknife,
North West Territories

Thursday, November 13, 7pm

For more information c
ontact the project director
Kathleen Reichelt at kfreichelt@gmail.com



The Digital Film
Cold Iron Is A Titanic Comedy

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"Cold Iron Is A Titanic Comedy" is an independently financed & produced project by artists living and working in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

This digital art film was written and directed by Wesley Rickert, and using temporary studio & outdoor locations, including Toronto City Hall, Kensington Market, Little Italy and the city's bicycle lanes, as well as Florida's sight-seeing coastal highway A1A.  These locations provide place and time references for an otherwise timeless kabuki opera film narrative crashed by absurdist poetry and elaborate costumes, stylized movements and an original sound-track by the electronic noise orchestra Burning Iceberg.

In the confusing words of the poet musician director Wesley Rickert, this film is a "tin-foil road-trip to Florida & the British Museum, in faster Chinese that dialogues over the electric kettle of Toronto's City Hall and rotates in perpetual stillness towards a tsunami of row-boat performances". 

Floating, sinking and swimming in an ocean of culture where it is always 6'o'clock, forever broadcasting and radiating the infamous international art-criminal Istvan Kantor (as the Neoist Pied Piper), Art Szombathy (as Louis the IV), Ian Malone, (as Juan Ponce De Leon), and Christina Kozak (as the universe expanding Tally Aurora), all wisely guided by Henry Benvenuiti (as Captain Smith), tempted by The Hercinia Arts Collective (playing as Sirens), Sandra Fitzsimmons (as Liberty), joining Tonya Henry (as an old flame), and Eszter Jagica (as the fountain of youth), Olivia Roblin, (as Janus), the flowing Brooke Stubbings (as the swimming passengers), and Kirsten W (a groovy disco Gargon), Kathleen R (as the Ventriloquist), the plastic Amber X, (as the Captain's Hallucination), and painting it all on the coldest waters, Ashley Zarowny (as the happy Vincent Van Gogh).

More about the cast here


Read the reviews here.


See our blog for production stills and the making of this digital film here


Cold Iron Is A Titanic Comedy
Premiere at CineCycle Underground Cinema
in Toronto, January 23, 2014

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 Istvan Kantor introduces "Cold Iron Is A Titanic Comedy"
at CineCycle Underground Cinema, Toronto

It was a packed house at CineCycle Underground Cinema for the premier screening of "Cold Iron Is A Titanic Comedy", a 72 minute kabuki opera art film by Toronto artist Wesley Rickert shown on January 23, 2014 and being introduced by Istvan Kantor (winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media arts) who also plays the Neoist Pied Piper.

The evening began with a line up of short films and videos by Toronto area artists including
"the sinking of the TITANIC, 2012, (3 minutes, 30 seconds) Istvan Kantor, "untitled" 2012, (4 minutes 30 seconds) Chris Boni,  and "powerline" 2013, (2 minutes) Wallace D. Robinson.



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