Inside the Pleasure Dome: Fringe Film in Canada

by Mike Hoolboom, Atom Egoyan (With), Atom Egoyan (Introduction)

Overview

Everybody loves the movies. But a movie about the colour blue, or an isolated mountain range, or a man grown so thin the world floats through his perfect transparency? 'You know what would be really great - to make a two-hour movie about Taylor Mead's ass,' remarked Andy Warhol, the most notorious fringe filmer of them all. Welcome to the strange and wonderful universe of fringe cinema, where the only rules left unbroken are the ones that have been forgotten. Twenty-three interviews with Canada's finest underdogs lay it all down like a road, ready to take you through the vanishing point of personality.

This new edition includes a foreword by Atom Egoyan, and features never-before-heard raps from Ellie Epp, David Rimmer, Ann Marie Fleming, Anna Gronau, John Kneller, Rick Hancox and Kika Thorne, joining fellow fringers like Mike Snow, Carl Brown, Patricia Gruben, Penelope Buitenhuis, Fumiko Kiyooka, Wrik Mead, Annette Mangaard, Gariné Torossian, Richard Kerr and Mike Cartmell.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781770561151
Publisher:	Coach House Books
Publication date:	12/01/2001
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

Mike Hoolboom is the author of four books: Plague Years, Inside the Pleasure Dome: Fringe Film in Canada, Practical Dreamers and The Steve Machine. He is a founding member of the Pleasure Dome screening collective and has worked as the artistic director of the Images Festival and as the experimental film coordinator for the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. He is the winner of over thirty international prizes and has enjoyed nine international retrospectives of his work.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	1
	Introduction: Upon Leaving the Theatre	3
	Machines of Cinema	6
	Painting the Light Fantastic	24
	Sifted Evidence	34
	Transitions	46
	Three Decades of Rage	56
	Guns, Girls and Guerrillas	74
	The Place with Many Rooms Is the Body	82
	I Was a Teenage Personality Crisis!	90
	Out of the Closet	100
	Her Soil is Gold	110
	Sex, Madness and the Church	120
	Lies My Father Told Me	128
	Pictures of Home	138
	Girl From Moush	148
	Last Days of Living	156
	Watching Death at Work	170
	There's a Future in Our Past	182
	Transformer Toy	194
	Queen of Disaster	200
	Terminal City	212
	Fringe Royalty	222
	Notes in Origin	234
	The Church of Film	244
	The Dead Are Not Powerless	252
	What Is To Be Done?	264