Videographe, The Noah and Suoni per il Popolo present
MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE: An Evening of Ballardian Film + Video.
Curated by Kier-La Janisse
with a special introduction by Claude Lalumière, author of OBJECTS OF WORSHIP and THE DOOR TO LOST PAGES

Friday June 14, 2013 – 9:00pm
Peut-ere Vintage Microcinema
6029a ave du Parc, Montreal

Taking its name and inspiration from the works of British iconoclast J.G Ballard (1930-2009) – the pre-eminent voice of the new wave of post-Sputnik science fiction heralded in the 1960s and best known in North America as the author of Crash (1973) and Empire of the Sun (1984) – this program features works that are both directly Ballardian as well as those which (perhaps unconsciously) explore a sampling of Ballard’s thematic obsessions: environmental desolation and transformation, concretization and the rise of the megalopolis, automotive fetishism and destruction, advertising and consumerism, celebrity spectacle, societal stratification and gated communities, alienation and inner space, interrogation and incarceration. This free screening celebrates the launch of the Myths of the Near Future program on Videographe’s online portal Vitheque (www.vitheque.com).

The version of Myths of the Near Future presented at the screening will be as a single stream of programming demarcated by trailers, commercials and UK public information films, and include the following films:

– THE UNLIMITED DREAM COMPANY,Sam Scoggins (UK, 1983)
– ACTIVATED MEMORY II, Sabrina Ratte (Canada, 2011)
– THE RESORT [Documentary], George Thomson (UK, 2009)
– THE RESORT,George Thomson (UK, 2009)
– LOOTERS RADIO, Mark Essen (UK 2011)
– THE CONCENTRATION CITY, Anna Kraay (UK 2010)
– CORNEAS DIADEM, Brandon Blommaert (Canada 2008)
– GRANDE ANARCA, Alvise Renzini (Italy 2003)
– CRASH!, Harley Cokeliss (UK 1971).
(Please note this rare authorized screening of Harley Cokeliss’ CRASH! is unique to the launch screening, and will not be available on the Vitheque platform as per the BBC’s terms and conditions).

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Vidéographe, The Noah et le Festival SUONI PER IL POPOLO s’associent à cette projection d’œuvres sélectionnées par l’écrivaine et commissaire Kier-La Janisse.

Tirant son nom et son inspiration des œuvres de l’iconoclaste britannique J.G Ballard (1930-2009), principal porte-parole de la nouvelle vague de science-fiction entamée dans les années 60 post-Spoutnik et mieux connu en Amérique du Nord comme étant l’auteur de Crash (1973) et Empire of the Sun (1984) – ce programme propose des œuvres qui sont directement Ballardiennes, ainsi que des œuvres qui explorent (inconsciemment, peut-être) un échantillonnage varié de ses obsessions thématiques : la destruction et la transformation de l’environnement, la concrétisation et l’émergence de la mégalopole, le fétichisme de la destruction et de l’automobile, la publicité et la société de consommation, le spectacle de la célébrité, les sociétés stratifiées et les communautés emmurées, l’aliénation et l’espace intérieur ou l’interrogation et l’incarcération. Cette projection gratuite célèbre le lancement du programme Myths of the Near Future sur Vithèque, le portail en viagra canada online pharmacy ligne de Videographe. (www.vitheque.com).

La version de Myths of the Near Future présentée lors de cette séance sera montrée en un seul bloc entrecoupé de bandes-annonces, de publicités, ainsi que de films d’information publique britanniques, en plus d’inclure les films suivants:

– The unlimited dream company, de Sam Scoggins
– Activated memory II, de Sabrina Ratte
– The resort (documentaire) de George Thomson
– The resort (film), de George Thomson
– Looters RADIO de Mark Essen
– The concentration city de Anna Kraay
– Corneas diadem de Brandon Blommaert
– Grande anarca de Alvise Renzini
– CRASH! de Harley Cokeliss (SEULE et UNIQUE projection)

Image from Harley Cokeliss’ film ‘CRASH’ © BBCTV

About the author:

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, uk propecia publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), best online generic levitra and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).