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John Cage, Indeterminacy

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On August 7th, join us for the world premieres of Douglas Dixon-Barker’s Landscape #256 (2025) & untitled (petal) (2025) and Kelley Dong’s Letter to Sirius (2026). They are part of the program ‘every day, had 52 films in his head’ featuring films by Douglas Dixon-Barker, Kelley Dong, Alexandre Galmard, Isaac Goes, Isiah Medina, and Dylan Tachick from 2013-2026. Presented by Quantity Cinema at United Unlimited (near Landsdowne & Bloor, DM for address), doors at 7:30pm, projection at 8:00pm. Tickets $15 at door, cash or card.

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every day, had 52 films in his head

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"[...] stirring up floods of erudition, [...] debating with myself over principles and programs, [...] piling up calculations, equations, conclusions [...] and the screenplay stalls." — Eisenstein ("Bolsheviks Do Laugh", 1937)

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Hollis Frampton, ”A Stipulation of Terms from Maternal Hopi" (in Circles of Confusion, 1983).

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Erik Berg, "Phone."

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The ILM Industrial Complex: Star Wars and VFX in the Digital Age (2023), Jane Baldwin.

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Fernando Pessoa

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Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951), Langston Hughes

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Kinet screening poster from the archive by Marc Matchak

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Aden Luz Rienspects

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"As soon as we treat language as an autonomous object, [...] we condemn ourselves to seeking the power of words in words, that is to say, where it is not." — Pierre Bourdieu, Ce que parler veut dire. L'économie des échanges linguistiques, Fayard, 1982, p. 103.

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"Discourse is a great sovereign which, with the smallest and most inconspicuous of bodies, performs the most divine acts." — Gorgias, Éloge d'Hélène

"I await anyone who wishes to come to my home and speak with me. How glad I would be to listen. Provided I have weapons at hand, however futile and harmless they may be." — Pasolini, Sonnets [3]

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"Giotto's Christ would be a work of art for Manet, but Manet's Christ with angels might have meant nothing to Giotto." (Malraux, Le Musée Imaginaire, 53)

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88:88 is now back online, thank you to all the movie theatres and people who celebrated its 10th anniversary. Original: https://youtu.be/6JInsI3rakY w French subtitles: https://youtu.be/I-ZhrHgqhZk w Spanish subtitles: https://youtu.be/6JNlpLX3J2I