For Immediate Release
May 7, 2004
Film screenings and wrap party mark the End of the Reel
Screening: May 14, 7 p.m., Max Bell Auditorium, The Banff Centre, Free
Party: May 14, 8 p.m., Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Free
To celebrate a successful first season for The Walter Phillips Gallery’s Reel Time film series at The Banff Centre, the Gallery will host a special screening of Zacharias Kunuk’s film Nunaqpa, and Jimmie Durham’s film The Pursuit of Happiness on May 14. The evening wraps up with a party in the Gallery, with wine, appetizers, and a preview of the next Reel Time series, which starts in the fall.
Begun last December with monthly screenings at Banff’s Lux Theatre, Reel Time featured films selected from the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The series proved to be an immediate success, with four out of five of the screenings selling out, and more than $4000 raised for the Walter Phillips Gallery, and for Bow Valley nonprofits including the Banff Volunteer Centre, AIDS Bow Valley, and the Mountain Parks Watershed Association. Reel Time returns on October 4 with selections from TIFF 2004.
The Kunuk and Durham films will be screened in conjunction with the Walter Phillips Gallery’s current exhibition, A Question of Place, which is on through May 23. The Pursuit of Happiness (2003) is a fictional film about a young American Indian artist, Joe Hill (played by Anri Sala) who collects trash from the side of the highway. He later sells it back to American collectors as art, and eventually makes enough money to escape to Paris. Nunaqpa (1991), also a fictional film, is set in the Arctic in the summer of 1930. For Igloolik Inuit, it is the time of
nunaqpa, or going inland, the long walk in search of summer-fat caribou to cache for the hard winter ahead. Two families leave for the hunt, while an elderly couple waits by the shore for their return.
The Reel Time film series is intended to foster an appreciation for, and provide access to, alternative cinema in the Bow Valley. The Walter Phillips Gallery is a not-for-profit public art gallery committed to contemporary art and visual culture.
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Downloadable print-ready images from The Pursuit of Happiness are at:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/communications/images/wpg/#question
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Jill Sawyer
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403.762.6475
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