ART FOR COMMUTERS PRODUCED 4 MAJOR PROJECTS IN 2007/08:
TRANSIT STORIES
part of the Contact Toronto Photography Festival, May 2007
image credit: Armundo Lulu
Transit Stories gathered photographs, through an ongoing open-call process, that told a story about people’s time spent on Toronto’s public transit. For the weeks leading up to the Contact, as well as during the first 3 weeks of the Festival, photographers uploaded their personal transit stories as a series of 5-10 photographs. Transit Stories featured a different photographer each day for the month of May. The work was seen as a 30 second spot, which ran every ten minutes, all day. Over 30 different artists’ photographs were screened on ONESTOP's TTC network as part of this project.
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Press for Transit Stories:
Shore, Tim, “Transit Stories,” BlogTO, April 16, 2007
Poulton, Terry, “CGC element added to Toronto's annual photo fest," Media in Canada, April 19, 2007
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TORONTO URBAN FILM FESTIVAL (TUFF)
September 8 – 14, 2007
image credit: Charuvi Agrawal and Jeff Tran
TUFF featured silent 1-minute films, in all genres, that addressed one of 6 urban themes. A different thematic programme of 10 films was featured each day of the Festival, with films cycling every 10 minutes throughout the day. We screened 60 films out of a total of over 170 submissions, gathered through an open-call process. Programmers John Greyson, Steve Reinke, Heather Keung, Jon Davies, Kim Simon and Jaqueline Nuwame chose work from the submissions, each programming one day, and online audience voting determined programming for the last day of the Festival. Emmy winning filmmaker Jeremy Podeswa chose the top 3 films of the festival. It was free to enter, open to everyone and 10 prizes were awarded at our closing party (including a trip to Jamaica and a Sony HD camcorder). We received almost 6000 audience votes for the 60 films in TUFF.
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Press for TUFF:
"TUFF Times on ONESTOP,” The Torontoist, July 11, 2007
Kohl, Jesse, “Subway screens to debut "hybrid programming," Media in Canada, August 10, 2007
Brown, Matt, “TUFF Love,” BlogTO, August 22, 2007
Gauthier, Bernard (producer), piece on TUFF Bravo!News and CP24, September 1-8, 2007
Proulx, Shaun, “Looking for another film-festival option? Just wait a minute; 60-second movies target commuters,” The Globe and Mail, September 6, 2007, pA11
Perrin, Jacquie, 2-minute story on TUFF, Saturday Report, CBC TV and CBC Newsworld, September 8, 2007
Caetano, Sandy, “Film fest for all; urban answer to the glitz TIFF,” Metro, weekend edition September 7-9, 2007, p37
Pelletier, Dan, “Festival not TUFF enough,” Excaliber (York University), September 13, 2007
Kazia, Alexandra, “They really embraced the city; Sixty filmmakers transport TO to the small screen,” The Varisty Online (University of Toronto), September 17, 2007
Nelson, Jacquie, “Underground films” The EyeOpener (Ryerson University), September 18, 2007
Moustakis, Cindy, “Toronto gets TUFF love; Short, silent, T.O.-centric film fest hits TTC ad screens,” The Ryersonian (Ryerson University), September 19, 2007, p11
Ferrari, Sandra, “TUFF Taking art to new depths,” The Sheridan Sun Online (Sheridan College), September 20, 2007
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WORDS TRAVEL FAST
An Independent Project of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, September 29-30, 2007
image credit: Emma Lopez and Zoe Whittall
Six animations played full-screen on Onestop's network for twelve hours, without interruption from news flashes and marketing. Words Travel Fast featured the poetry of Toronto-based writers who reflect on the experience of urban life. The motion-poems commissioned for Words Travel Fast emerged from the collaborative pairing of poet Emily Pohl-Weary with motion graphics artist Karen Richardson, poet Emily Schultz with motion graphics artist Franco Barroeta Fonseca, and poet Zoe Whittall with motion graphics artist Emma Lopez.
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Press for Words Travel Fast:
Smith, Shaun “Sleepless in Toronto: Nuit Blanche returns,” Quill and Quire, September 28, 2007
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IDEAS FOR A LIVING CITY - Student Shorts Competition
February 1- March 2, 2008
image credit: Lena Chun
The juried competion challenged post-secondary students to take a green leap forward and imagine what it might be like to live in an ecologically sustainable city. Eight inspirational eco-urban videos by post-secondary students played during the month of February, screeninf every 10 minutes. Each week featured 2 new student shorts, with the two films cycling throughout the day. 1st and 2nd place were chosen and awarded prizes.
Press for Ideas for a Living City:
Kalinowski, Tess “Artists get (TTC) platform for upbeat videos on city,” The Toronto Star, February 4, 2008
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