CONTRE COURANT - Experimental Film Festival
A Main Film event organized with the support of the Conseil des arts de Montréal
DAY 1 - ROUND TABLE 2
> Supporting Experimental Flmmaking : Dissemination
Experimental film, as a non-institutional and non-industry art form, does not follow traditional distribution models, with filmmakers often presenting their work in alternative contexts. Where can these singular works be seen? Among the various dissemination mechanisms that exist, are there any that are customized-customizable/perfectible/progressive? Do they line up with filmmakers’ realities? How can work be preserved and made accessible?
Moderator : Benjamin R. Taylor
Panelists : Ariel Esteban-Cayer, Kristofer Woofter, Nour Ouayda
Moderator: Benjamin R. Taylor
Benjamin R. Taylor is a filmmaker working in experimental and documentary forms. His work focusses on geography, architecture, nature and spirituality. His films have been presented in various festivals and galleries in Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia.
He is the curator of the monthly experimental documentary screening series Visions in Montréal.
He is co-founder of la lumière collective, an independent presentation space in Montréal.
Panelist: Ariel Esteban-Cayer
Director & Curator :: Film POP @ POP Montréal (2014-present)
Programmer :: Fantasia International Film Festival (2013-present)
critique :: 24 Images, Panorama
Panelist : Nour Ouayda
Nour Ouayda is a film director. She also works as an editor and writes about cinema. She is currently pursuing a research around drifting and cinema.
Panelist : Kristopher Woofter
Kristopher Woofter is a programmer for the Montréal Underground Film Festival and co-director of the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies – Montréal. He received his PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia University, and is a faculty member of the English Department at Dawson College, where he teaches courses on the American Gothic, the Weird tradition, and horror in literature and cinema. He has also served for ten years as a co-chair for the Horror Area of the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations’ annual national conference, and is a charter associate and former two-term secretary of the Whedon Studies Association. He has published on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2010), has a co-authored essay (with Papagena Robbins) on the intersection of the Gothic and documentary in the Italian journal Textus, entitled “Gothumentary: The Gothic Unsettling of Documentary’s Rhetoric of Rationality” (2012), and has an essay on The Cabin in the Woods in Reading Joss Whedon (Syracuse UP, 2014). Recent publications include a co-edited collection entitled, Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade (2015, Lexington) and a forthcoming editorial project on Joss Whedon and horror.
