2015 Black Maria Film Festival Program
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Slaughterhouse<br />
Documentary<br />
by Philip Hoffman, Ontario, Canada<br />
15 min.<br />
This multi-framed work weaves several<br />
inter-connected threads of loss:<br />
of land and agriculture, of property<br />
and business. The archival materials<br />
are gleaned from public and personal<br />
sources such as the National Archive<br />
of Canada, for the story of a nineteenth century aboriginal<br />
woman and land rights activist Nahnebahwequay (1924-65).<br />
We meet organic farmer Michael Schmidt, through excerpts of<br />
the Farmer’s Advocate and Family Herald publications (1958-<br />
68). Then through a trip into the artist’s familial past, we follow<br />
the rise and fall of his family’s slaughterhouse and pork processing<br />
plant, Hoffman Meats (1951-81), in Kitchener, Ontario.<br />
SoundPrint<br />
Experimental<br />
by Monteith McCollum, Vestal, NY<br />
7 min.<br />
“SoundPrint” explores the marks<br />
left by sonic frequencies on<br />
various materials and landscapes,<br />
natural and artificial. Imagery<br />
from optical soundtracks and<br />
microphotography of record<br />
grooves play against similar signals received by sand, water,<br />
and people. Video frames copied to paper are re-animated<br />
allowing the image to blend and degrade in a physical form.<br />
The sounds of the ocean, booming sand dunes, and the<br />
Midshipman toadfish are the backdrop for a rich exploration<br />
of the subtleties of written and transcribed sound.<br />
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