17/1/2013
Barry Doupe'
CineCycle, Toronto
The Colors That Combine To Make White Are Important. Screening
The Toronto premiere of Barry Doupe's most recent feature-length animated film (119 minutes, 2012 video). It explores the power structure within a failing Japanese glass factory. Doupe's characters rapidly evolve through three distinct acts, subverting the dominant archetypes and corporate hierarchies in the Japanese salaryman genre to examine language, art and expression. Alluding to the office comedy 9 to 5 (1980), Yasujiro Ozu's staid, heartwarming Good Morning (1959) and Luchino Visconti's sexually-charged finale in Death in Venice (1971), Colors shifts between cultural reference points, flattening them out into a dialogue of desperate, over-reaching thoughts and searching inquiries about nature, love, mortality and consciousness. Premiere: January 18 at 7.30pm @CineCycle (Co-presentation with Vtape). Artist Talk: January 19 at 1pm @Vtape (452 - 401 Richmond Street West).