December 13th, 2016
Sam La France and I wrote an article on Maki Berchache and Nathalie Nambot’s Brûle la mer for Mice Magazine. Available to read here.
The Free Screen archive has been updated to include text from the entire five years I programmed it.
December 12th, 2015
The website is due for a bit of an update.
More regular news is available through my twitter account @secretflix
June 30th, 2015
I just published a small book devoted to an interview between Jaap Pieters & John Porter.
More info here.
August 3rd, 2014
Brimstone Line will be playing at the Rural Route Film Festival in Brooklyn on August 10. It will then participate in the tour, including stops in Austria, Croatia, and Chile.
The film will also show at the 18 festival de Cine de Lima, along with 4x8x3 during August 10-15.
349 (for Sol LeWitt) will precede the new documentary on Sol LeWitt by Chris Teerink at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, August 12, 14 & 15.
July 3rd, 2014
Brimstone Line will play at the Media City Film Festival on July 11. I will be present.
It will also play at the Kunstmeile Hamburg on July 9 (followed by a Skype conversation with me).
I will be in Baltimore July 29 at a screening of my films, “Towards a Vanishing Point: Works by Chris Kennedy”, programmed by Kate Ewald, at The Crown, 1910 N. Charles Street.
June 1st, 2014
Simultaneous Contrast will be showing at Experimental Response Cinema in Austin as part of Clint Enns’ “Tales from the Northern Underground” program.
May 14th, 2014
I’ll be presenting at Moving Collages: Video Art, Animation and Experimental Cinema Symposium in Gatineau on May 17.
April 3rd, 2014
Brimstone Line won a Jury Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Phantoms will show in the CFMDC’s Market program at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival (May 1-6, 2014).
March 25th, 2014
Early Monthly Segments, the monthly film salon I program with Scott Miller Berry and Kate MacKay just celebrated its fifth anniversary.
In the next few weeks, Brimstone Line screens at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Images Festival (in a program curated by Johnson Ngo) and the Nashville Film Festival.
February 2nd, 2014
I will be presenting Brimstone Line at the Berlinale in February.
A conversation between Tomonari Nishikawa and myself is available in Speaking Directly: Oral Histories of the Moving Image, edited by Federico Windhausen and published by the SF Cinematheque.
Tomonari has also curated Brimstone Line into a screening called Traces of Activity at Uplink in Tokyo on March 1.
November 9th, 2013
I will be in person to present a screening of my work on November 13 at Nightingale Cinema in Chicago. The screening is curated by Sally Lawton.
Brimstone Line will then play Chicago again at DINCA’s Vision Quest November 21-23.
Meanwhile, One Roll in the Blackness plays at Light Cube‘s Transmissions 2 in New Delhi, November 14-18.
August 26th, 2013
My new film, Brimstone Line, has been completed. Screenings already confirmed include the Toronto International Film Festival in September and Antimatter Festival in October.
lay claim to an island is showing this week at Arkipel International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival in Jakarta.
February 16th, 2013
I wrote a cover story on the Japanese musician Akio Suzuki for Musicworks. Out now!
Towards a Vanishing Point will be shown at Aggregate Space in Oakland from March 1-16 as part of their A Tempting Fate: Inevitability and Scientific Fortune show.
Mike Hoolboom posted my article on his Invisible Man installation on his website here.
January 9th, 2013
I’m teaching two Video for Artists classes at OCADU this Semester.
This season’s Free Screen will feature a six-program retrospective of the films of Barbara Hammer.
and… I’ve just started as the new Executive Director of LIFT. Come on by!
October 17th, 2012
I just got back from the International Experimental Cinema Congress 2012 in Berlin (Think : Film).
I will have articles coming out in the new issue of MIRAJ and Millennium Film Journal.
In November, I will have a solo screening of my work in La Semana II del Film Experimental in La Plata, Argentina. The Canada Council is supporting my travel to attend.
September 17th, 2012
I’m teaching a Time-Based Media class at OCAD University in Toronto this fall and Video for Artists in the Winter.
One Roll in the Blackness has been curated by Jim Hobbs into a show called 100 HUNDRED FOOT that is touring around the UK.
Towards a Vanishing Point shows at the Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria this October and at the Museum London on October 18.
Also in October, Tamalpais shows as part of the Alchemy Festival in the Scottish Borders.
June 3rd, 2012
I will be teaching Video For Artists at OCADU in June and a Film Workshop at Trent University from June to August.
Simultaneous Contrast shows in a program called “L’Autre urbain, la métropole post-moderne” at Mire in Nantes on June 6.
Phantoms and Genesee show at the Parkdale Film + Video Showcase in Toronto, June 21-24, 2012.
349 (for Sol LeWitt) shows at the Onion City Experimental Film Festival in Chicago, June 21-23, 2012.
May 2nd, 2012
Genesee premieres at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival this weekend (May 4-6). 349 (for Sol LeWitt) will also screen.
One Roll in the Blackness tours to the Spectacle Cinema in Brooklyn, NY with the rest of the Black Thorns in the Black Box program on May 6.
Nicky Hamlyn will be in Toronto to present his work at Early Monthly Segments on May 7. The screening will include one of my favourites of his — White Light.
Consider supporting the Temenos Kickstarter appeal. It’s an amazing project by an inspirational filmmaker.
April 4th, 2012
Towards a Vanishing Point will screen at the Images Festival (April 12-21) and in the CFMDC’s Market program at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival (April 26-May 1). I will be in attendance at both festivals.
March 1st, 2012
I was recently hired as the Programmer for The Free Screen, TIFF Cinematheque’s monthly experimental and independent film series. Info on the first two screenings (Jan Peacock on March 21 & Lewis Klahr on April 11) is available here.
I have a new article about the musician Olivia Block in the newest issue of Musicworks (#112).
Phantoms will have its international premiere at the Hong Kong International Film Festival on March 28 and April 5.
349 (for Sol LeWitt) will screen at the Ann Arbor Film Festival‘s 50th Anniversary (March 27-April 1). I will be in attendance at both festivals.
A short portrait film I did of Keiji Haino, One Roll in the Blackness, debuts at a screening for Black Thorns in the Black Box on March 1 in Kansas City, KS. It will show again in Chicago on March 23.
Oh, yeah, and here’s my 2011 Top Ten.
February 2nd, 2012
349 (for Sol LeWitt) will screen at this year’s Berlinale, February 9-18. Simultaneous Contrast will screen at The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge. I will be attendance for both festivals.
349 (for Sol LeWitt) will also screen at Antitube in Québec City, February 17 & 18.
lay claim to an island will screen at the Strange Beauty Film Festival in Durham, NC (February 16-18) and the Big Muddy Film Festival in Carbondale, IL (February 21-26).
January 3rd, 2012
Nicky Hamlyn included a thoughtful discussion about my film Tape Film in his article “Medium Practices”, available in Public #44: Experimental Media.
Towards a Vanishing Point will debuts as part of the LIFT 30th Anniversary Commissioning Project from January 19-21.
Schuh Schnell Service shows at the the 8 fest in Toronto during January 27-29, 2012.
lay claim to an island screens at the 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (January 28-February 5).
December 7th, 2011
From December 16 to January 21, 2012, Phantoms is installed at the Aggregate Space (Oakland) as part of the Ostranenie: Reconsidering the Known show curated by Jennifer Rarick.
November 11th, 2011
I have a new article on the 2010 version of Reunion, a chess match originally staged in 1968 between Duchamp and Cage, in the newest issue of Musicworks (#111).
349 (for Sol LeWitt) shows at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley on November 16.
October 5th, 2011
I will be presenting my films alongside Tomonari Nishikawa at Emerson College on October 18.
Schuh Schnell Service screens at the inaugural Chicago 8: Small Gauge Film Festival on October 22.
August 30th, 2011
349 (for Sol LeWitt) will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11.
From September 23 to October 16, the acrobat is installed at the Lexington Art League (Kentucky) as part of the Re:Play show curated by the Lexington Film League.
Phantoms will premiere at the Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria, BC during October 14–22, 2011.
July 3rd, 2011
From July 1-August 18, Simultaneous Contrast is installed at the Niche in the Fine Arts Library, a project curated by Lydia Moyer at the University of Virginia.
Tomonari Nishikawa will be curating the next Early Monthly Segments screening on July 18. He will be presenting a program of recent Japanese 16mm films.
I will be participating in the Chain Letter show, curated by Christian Cummings & Doug Harvey at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles. My piece will make an appearance during the opening on July 23.
June 1st, 2011
Dutch super 8 filmmaker Jaap Pieters is in Toronto this week for his screening at Early Monthly Segments on June 6 in Toronto.
Tamalpais screens June 3 at The Chicago Underground Film Festival.
lay claim to an island will screen at The Rencontres Internationales Festival in Berlin on July 1.
April 23rd, 2011
I’m finishing up the semester as a Visiting Lecturer in Studio Art at the University of Virginia.
Tamalpais screens at this year’s Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (May 6-8).
lay claim to an island will screen at The Rencontres Internationales Festival in Madrid on May 26.
The next Early Monthly Segments screening will be on May 16 in Toronto.
I will also be attending the Oberhausen Film Festival and Media City Film Festival this May.