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
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Wednesday, June 25, 7pm
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Eastern Edge Gallery, St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Wednesday, June 25, 7pm
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Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, British Columbia
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Wednesday, July 30, 7pm
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Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre and The Screening Room as part of the Unibrow Series
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Wednesday, July 30, 7pm
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Art Zoo Studio, Toronto, Ontario
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Wednesday, August 6, 8pm
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Niagara Artists Centre, St Catharines, Ontario
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Tuesday, September 16, 8pm
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Iqaluit Library, Iqaluit, Nunavut
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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
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Thursday, October 09, 8pm
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NSCAD Film Club, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Friday, October 10, 8pm
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Yellowknife Artist Run Community Centre, Yellowknife,
North West Territories |
Thursday, November 13, 7pm
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For more information contact 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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