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19/11/2003

One Minute Film & Video Festival

Bloor Cinema, Toronto

One Minute. One Theme. What would you say in sixty seconds?

The theme for this year's One Minute Film & Video Festival is Neighbours.

November 20th at the Bloor Cinema at 7pm

On Thursday, November 20th, 2003, the One Minute Film and Video Festival will make its debut at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto. Fifty films and videos will be screened over the course of the one-night festival, each one no longer than sixty seconds in length. Each screened entry will be based around the same theme, neighbours, although contributing artists have been encouraged to interpret the theme as broadly as desired, and in any genre they choose. As a result, the One Minute Film and Video festival is made up of new work almost all of it having been produced to meet the requirements of the theme. A screening of new work built around a new common theme will be presented every six months.

The One Minute Film and Video Festival came about as a result of a dare among lapsed- filmmaker friends in Toronto. The idea was to complete a project based in imposed time and subject- matter restrictions to make it easier to get motivated. Through word-of-mouth and the unlimited breadth and scope of the Internet, the project has spread quickly through both local and international independent-filmmaking circles. The film and video projects to be screened as part of the Neighbours project include documentary, experimental and narrative films. New Zealander A.J. Bean has neighbours losing track of their underclothes in Neighbourly Knickers, while Toronto artist Erica Brown tells the story of a childhood neighbour with abstract watercolourillustrations. Montreal filmmakers Thea Metcalfe and Stephen Legar investigate neighbours by looking at clotheslines, Niki Trosky documents a women s commune in Winnipeg, and Toronto artist Daniel Cockburn considers our American neighbours through a conversation involving pennies.

The One Minute Film and Video Festival will be held Thursday, November 20th at the Bloor Cinema at 7pm.

Tickets will be $5 at the door. The screening will be presided over by an awards jury made up of individuals from Toronto s art and film communities, including Gunilla Josephson and John Marriot.

Festival director and curator Meredith Dault is a graduate of York University s department of film and video. She currently works as an administrator at a Toronto art gallery.

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