VID EXP presents: VHS home movie double bill
Mercredi, février 18, @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Video Home System (2018, Sharlene Bamboat, 19 mins)
Stand By for Tape Back-up (2016, Ross Sutherland, 65 mins)
(both films version originale anglais only)
Two artist films exploring personal and societal relationships to the VHS cassette. Screened on VHS!
Montreal artist Sharlene Bamboat’s Video Home System traces the convergence of popular culture and politics in Pakistan during the 1980s and 1990s. Meanwhile Ross Sutherland’s Stand By for Tape Back-up is a profound and funny film about “memory, death and re-runs sparked from a lost vhs”.
Sharlene Bamboat is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based artist working primarily in non-fiction moving image. Her work is distibuted by VTape, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, and Vidéographe.
Ross Sutherland is a writer and poet, and creator of the award-winning experimental fiction podcast Imaginary Advice.
Video Home System:
Video Home System traces the convergnence of popular culture and politics in Pakistan during the 1980s and 1990s. This video showcases the connections between pop culture and nationalism, and how bootleg economies kept the cinema industry alive during periods of censorship.
Stand By For Tape Back-up:
‘A remarkable cine-essay … oddly moving and unlike any film in recent memory.’
— THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER on Stand By for Tape Back-up
Stand-By for Tape Back Up was awarded the Grand Jury prize for Experimental Film at BAFICI in Argentina, and the Runner-Up Audience Prize at Fantastic Fest in Austin TX.
