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Loop Collective Retrospective Screening
TIFF Cinematheque's The Free Screen
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This retrospective spotlights some of the finest work produced by present and past members of the Loop Collective.
Since Loop's inception, TIFF Cinematheque's
The Free Screen
(formerly The Independents) has played a significant role in shaping the
aesthetic developments and preoccupations of its members. This programme, consisting of only a fraction of the works produced by the
collective since the group's founding, features several works that are in direct dialogue with one another, as well as with the other
films and filmmakers that Loop members encountered at The Free Screen and Loop's own events.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 7pm at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
Loop turns Fifteen * * * * *
As part of Loop’s fifteen-year anniversary, its members have produced an anthology of their own writings and a DVD containing a small selection of
their films. A retrospective and comprehensive screening of their films and videos will take place over two days at the Art Gallery of
Ontario’s Jackman Hall on March 24 and 25, 2012.
The Cinema of the Body
About the Artist
Amy Greenfield live in person!
Spring 2012. Not to be missed.
The Loop Collective will host Amy Greenfield in Toronto.
Events will include screenings of Greenfield's films and videos as well as discussion of the
relationships between cinema and dance.
Amy Greenfield began combining performance, choreography, and the cinema as early as her first film experiments of
1970. Over her forty-year career, Greenfield’s inventive combinations and transformations of various media have won
her international acclaim and awards as a film and video artist. During the ten years before making her first film,
Greenfield trained as a dancer (New England Conservatory, Martha Graham Studio, Merce Cunningham and Company)
and as a choreographer (Louis Horst, Robert Cohan, Lucas Hoving). This initial training allowed her to work both as the
principal performer in her own works and as a director of other performers. From the 1970s to the present, she has made
over thirty-two works of film-and video-dance. In addition, she has produced gallery installations, holographic moving
sculptures, live multimedia performances, and poetry.
Greenfield has been honoured for her contributions to the arts by the Fulbright Foundation and Harvard University and
has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New
York State Council on the Arts, and other arts councils. She has had nearly sixty solo exhibitions, including screenings at
the Museum of Modern Art, the Harvard Film Archive, the American Museum of the Moving Image, Anthology Film
Archives, and the Cinematheques in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Her list of group exhibitions is extensive: her films,
videos, and installations (video and holographic) have been screened and exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the
National Science Museum of Canada, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art in
Philadelphia, the Munich Film Archive, and the Hayward Gallery in London. She has had twenty screenings in the last
ten years alone and her films and videos have been included in the official selections of the Berlin Film Festival, New
York Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, and Dance on Camera/Lincoln Center Festival. She has won top prizes at
the Houston Film Festival, the Athens Film Festival, and the Williamsburg Film Festival, and she has received the
Outstanding Film of the Year award at the London Film Festival.
In 2004, she was included in the Cinedance in America program at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC). In
2009, her live multimedia performance, Spirit in The Flesh, based on Shekhina, a book of photography and writing by
Leonard Nimoy, was presented at Symphony Space in New York. Greenfield was also featured filmmaker in the first
Biennial of Women in the Arts (Williamsburg Art and Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY).
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
which last year invested $11.8 million in media arts throughout Canada.
Nous remercions de son soutien le Conseil des Arts du Canada,
qui a investi 11,8 millions de dollars l'an dernier dans les arts médiatiques à travers le Canada.