Factory Media Centre
228 James Street North L8R 2L3 Hamilton, ON, Canada

There is one week left before our online How to Share Your Film Workshop with Terrance Odette and Paul Zimic! RSVP now!

FMC's Annual Members Screening Livestream to begin shortly: https://youtu.be/nFU_Z2u78Ig

Our Annual General Meeting is starting now! You can still join! Please email Kristina at [email protected] for the Zoom link and instructions. The 15th Annual Members Screening will follow the AGM... For more information please click here: https://www.factorymediacentre.ca/annual-general-meeting-a/

Check back here at 7pm for a collaborative live coding Latin music performance and artist talk by FMC Remote Resident artist: Luis Navarro. UPDATE: Due to technical difficulties we are currently ONLY streaming on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch Luis and his team of collaborators have been meeting each week since August to investigate alternative ways of thinking about electronic-music software within Latin America and its diasporas. ... Collaborators include: Tania Alejandra, Gabriel G. aka alõm, Jessica A. Rodríguez, and Andrés Miramonte. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83tmpAh7Iw&feature=youtu.be

You are invited to Factory Media Centre's Annual General Meeting and Election of Trustees! This year's meeting will take place next week on Monday November 30th at 6pm via Zoom. The meeting will begin with a live-coding performance by recent FMC Remote Artist In Residence: Luis Navarro, followed by FMC's report and financial Audit, and will conclude with our 15th Annual Members Screening! Artists in this year's screening include: Andres Miramontes, Angel Panag, Chris Myhr, ...Courtney Green, Derek Jenkins, Donna Akrey, Ingrid Mayrhofer, Jars Hooch, Jessica Rodriguez, Jet Coghlan, John-Riley O'Handley, Justine Smith, Katherine Diemert, Kian Koocheki, Lucille Kim, Mark Prier, Natalie Hunter, Robert Ezergailis, Roberto Santaguida, Ryan Fergueson, Sandra Lim, Shane Pennels, & Sukaina Imam Come see what we've been up to, and what we have in store for 2021! Link to register on Eventbrite:https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/annual-general-meeting-and-elec Link to RSVP on Facebook:https://fb.me/e/cIG6soimb

Factory Media Centre is seeking a hardworking, detail-oriented, and friendly individual to provide administrative, research, archival, programming, marketing and operations support to the Operations Coordinator. If you have education and experience in an arts or humanities program, with substantial interest and experience with new media, including independent film, video, and other streaming multimedia art forms, this position is perfect for you! The ideal candidate will hav...e undertaken a research program in a relevant area of the arts, while having demonstrated initiative in supporting arts and/or community programming during their studies. They should also demonstrate advanced digital literacy, with some experience with social media management and experience with basic website content management systems, in addition to familiarity with and interest in digital photography, video, and sound recording. More information on the position here: https://www.factorymediacentre.ca/job-opportunity-programm/

Hello everybody! We're excited to invite everybodymembers and non-members alike, to our 15th Annual General Meeting. Please join us virtually on November 30, 2020 at 6 pm. The AGM is a great time for both FMC members and anybody interested to learn all about FMC's activities, accomplishments, funding announcements, workshops, exhibitions and events from the past year. ... This is also the time where members will be able to exercise their voice and vote for new Board members. We will also invite members to let us know what they would like to see from us. The AGM will be followed by our Members Screening where you will all have the opportunity to see some of our members' works in a display of a vast diversity of our members' artistic practices. Check out the event page to learn more and RSVP!

Thank you for tuning in to our Cell Phone Film Festival livestreams this week! A big thank you also goes out to SHIFT 2020, who partnered with us to present the films. All of the short films are available on our website for today only - don’t miss your last chance to see these experimental films: https://www.factorymediacentre.ca/cell-phone-film-festival/

Program 2 of the Cell Phone Film Festival is now live! Artist films will be running on a loop until 7:30pm! Click here to watch: https://youtu.be/WtH_Rjd7juU

FMC's Cell Phone Film Festival Program 1 is Streaming live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6IqxMG_zmA&feature=youtu.be

FMC’s Cell Phone Film Festival starts today! During the Cell Phone Film Festival, we will be streaming 11 artist films over two days on September 24-25 @6:30pm. We are also excited to share that SHIFT 2020 has joined us is a programming partner for the second program on September 25th. Have you seen the films from session one? Be sure to check them out if you haven’t! ... If you have, keep an eye out TOMORROW for session two's films! We’re excited to be highlighting two films and filmmakers featured in Cell Phone Film Festival! Here are today’s pieces: Still 1 is from Gauss V by David Disher: The Gauss program aims to discover new life throughout our galaxy. On its 5th mission, the lone captain finds that there are some things that are better left undiscovered. David Disher is a composer and filmmaker from Hamilton, Ontario. His work is a reflection of his fascination with darkness, atmosphere, and humanity’s place in a cold and uncaring universe. Still 2 is from Gathering Wool by Linnea Siggelkow, Katie Sullivan, Kelsey Burns, Ariel Bader-Shamai: A story of the romance that comes to life in your mind when you have a crush on a stranger, and its bittersweetness. Moments and feelings from your waking life are woven into a fantasy so real that the stranger becomes a character, the character becomes familiar. You play, you touch, you fall in love. This is the sweetness of it. The bitterness of it is in waking. Linnea Siggelkow is a Hamilton-based musician who writes, performs, and records under the moniker Ellis. In 2018 she released her debut EP, The Fuzz, which quickly drew international acclaim and caught the attention of Fat Possum Records. 2020 saw the release of her debut record, Born Again, which gracefully spotlight’s Ellis’s unhurried melodies, starkly confessional lyrics, and luminous vocals. Katie Sullivan is a multidisciplinary artist living in Hamilton, ON. Her work is currently focused on zine curation and film. She closely explores how we connect with one another and ourselves based on past experiences, learned behaviours and identities. She aims to evoke new ways of understanding and overcoming of sitting peacefully inside oneself. Kelsey Burns is a multidisciplinary artist based in Hamilton, with a current focus on ceramics. Ariel Bader-Shamai is a multidisciplinary artist and arts administrator based in Hamilton. You can watch Gauss V and Gathering Wool in Program 2 on September 25th at 6:30 pm! Visit the event page to RVSP for updates!: https://fb.me/e/1MmGJKupM

We are just ONE day away from FMC’s Cell Phone Film Festival! Factory Media Centre will be streaming 11 artist films over two days on September 24-25 @6:30pm. We are also excited to share that SHIFT 2020 has joined us as a programming partner for the second program on September 25th. Meet another two films and filmmakers featured in Cell Phone Film Festival!... Here are today’s pieces: Still 1 is from Portal.APP by Patricio Munoz: A short video shot with my Samsung Note10+ about an exhausted parent (Patricio Munoz) who just wants to have 2-minutes to himself but ends up wasting his free time exploring an unsolicited app mysteriously installed on his phone. Patricio Munoz is a content creator who lives in Hamilton, Ontario. He is a devoted husband and father to two children. He has experience in post-production and has worked in broadcast television for 15 years but is new to film festivals. This is Patricio’s first short film entry. Still 2 is from Movements Between Moments by Ryan Ferguson: The process of reconstructing a memory through reorganizing the documentation of the moments between the significant events of that memory. Ryan Ferguson is a musician, visual artist and curator from Hamilton, Ontario. Over the past twenty years working in the city under the artist name electroluminescent, he has more than 500 performances of his works taking place in over a dozen countries worldwide. You can watch Portal.APP, and Movements Between Moments in Program 2 on September 25th at 6:30 pm! Visit the event page to RVSP for updates!: https://fb.me/e/1MmGJKupM

It’s two days until FMC’s Cell Phone Film Festival and we hope you're looking forward to seeing the spectacular work we're presenting! FMC will be streaming 11 artist films over two days on September 24-25 @6:30pm. We are also excited to share that SHIFT 2020 has joined us as a programming partner for the second program on September 25th. Today we’re featuring the first set of session two films and filmmakers featured in Cell Phone Film Festival... Here are today’s pieces: Still 1 is from Crazy Times by Meghan McKnight and Ronley Teper: Themes of precariousness in our current apocalyptic climate and a musical call to unity in the form of an animated genesis myth. This two-dimensional, stop-motion animation done on an iPhone uses paper from McKnight's collage archive as well as some paper cut specifically for the video. All of the material used in creating this video was either thrifted, donated or found. The narrative is an allegory on creation, greed, and our capacity for redemption. The scale and setting in the video shift between the microcosmic and macrocosmic. A Collaboration between Meghan McKnight Concept, Stop Animation, Director, and Ronley Teper Music, Video Editing, Producer. Meghan Mcknight is a Toronto-based visual artist whose work spans the genres of painting, collage, photography, and experimental stop-motion animation. McKnight holds an Hons. BA from University of Toronto in Visual Studies and English. Her work has been shown and collected internationally, and is a part of the Telus, The Granite Club and Donovan Collections, among others. McKnight’s unconventional, process based-works mimic natural processes, coalescing into sometimes grotesque, ambiguous combinations that blur the lines of media, scale, and setting. For her photo works and animations, she constructs collages using vintage and thrifted print material, a procedure she likens to painting with paper. Still 2 is from The Joy of Reconnection by Jesse Goyettte: A father and daughter being guided through a traditional smudge for the first time together, and finding the joy in cultural reconnection and teachings. Jessie Goyette is a queer indigenous multi media artist, arts educator, activist, and community development worker exploring topics in culture, empowerment, and the creation of a better world. You can watch Crazy Times, and The Joy of Reconnection in Program 2 on September 25th at 6:30 pm! Visit the event page to RVSP for updates!: https://fb.me/e/1MmGJKupM

The Cell Phone Film Festival is just a few days away! FMC is pleased to share that during the Cell Phone Film Festival we will be streaming 11 artist films over two days on September 24-25 @6:30pm. We are also excited to share that SHIFT 2020 has joined us as a programming partner for the second program on September 25th. Today we’re excited to be highlighting the last film and filmmaker featured in program one of the Cell Phone Film Festival! ... This still is from Dasien by Fernando Rodriquez: A record of the passage of time, as an audiovisual collage; the images of daily life during the social distancing unleashed by the health crisis of COVID-19 are intermingled with audios of the current socio-political context and intimate messages from friends and family. The short film was filmed with a cell phone and the sound captured with an old cassette recorder. Made in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2020. I’m from Venezuela and I move out to Argentina when I was 19 years old in 2015 to study and work in filmmaking. I studied for three years at CIEVYC where I earned a scholarship to study the higher technical degree in Cinema and Audiovisual Arts from 2015-2018 and I specialized in the field of Photography. Since 2016 I have worked as a technician in the Camera branch and have participated in numerous advertisements, video clips, feature films, short films, and series as a camera assistant. You can watch Dasien in Program 1 on September 24th at 6:30 pm! Visit the event page to RVSP for updates!: https://fb.me/e/1MmGJKupM

Are you excited for FMC’s Cell Phone Film Festival? We are! We are pleased to share that we will be streaming 11 artist films over two days on September 24-25 @6:30pm. We are also excited to share that SHIFT 2020 has joined us as a programming partner for the second program on September 25th. Today, 4 days from the festival, we’re excited to be highlighting another two films and filmmakers featured in Cell Phone Film Festival! ...Continue reading

Have you heard about FMC’s Cell Phone Film Festival? We are pleased to share that we will be streaming 11 artist films over two days on September 24-25 @6:30pm. We are also excited to share that SHIFT 2020 has joined us as a programming partner for the second program on September 25th. Over the next few days, we will be highlighting the films and filmmakers featured in Cell Phone Film Festival! Here are today's pieces:... Still 1 is from Infinite Scroll by Alison Postma: Infinite Scroll is a video made at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic while the weight of an uncertain future loomed. I found myself passing time by scrolling endlessly through a social media feed populated by everybody else at home with nothing to do. The video visualizes this boredom, scrolling, and the ever-more familiar surroundings of my home. Alison Postma is an artist based in Toronto. Her practice recently has explored the relationship between objects and the body. Overarching themes throughout her work include skewed perception in dreams, and ideas of the future from the past and the past from the present. Still 2 is from Aporophobia by Graeme Maitland: Aporophobia is an experimental short film that explores the fear of poverty and its consequences for the individual within the context of modern society. The simple act of enjoying a cup of coffee is bookended by a decision to accept the offer of a life of relative comfort, and ultimately accepting that life as being an OK place to land. Shot on Super 8 and Super 16, manually spliced and assembled and then re-filmed from a flatbed editor, Aporophobia is meant to be a scrapbook of a film that captures a fleeting reflection on an artists life. Graeme Maitland is an artist, illustrator and filmmaker based in Hamilton. Graeme’s professional history is in film exhibition, having coordinated and curated film festivals and film related cultural events. His personal work is raw, reflecting how he deals with the minutia of his life in the larger context of society. You can watch Infinite Scroll and Aporophobia in Program 1 on September 24th at 6:30 pm! Visit the event page to RVSP for updates!: https://fb.me/e/1MmGJKupM

Earlier this month, FMC proudly collaborated with Hamilton Artists Inc to present Steacy Easton’s performance of Wechsler, a work exploring ways of resisting the space of the clinic in the context of being neuroatypical. If you happened to miss the live stream, don’t worry! You can always go to Hamilton Artists Inc's Instagram TV and watch the performance here: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CEsbfmOnG3K/ If you happen to be taking a walk down James St. N anytime from now until October 6th in the hours of 6-10 pm, we also invite you to watch Steacy’s video performance in in our window!

This time last year was the opening night of Hamilton-based artist Natalie Hunter's Sensations of breathing at the sound of the light, Sensations of breathing at the sound of light merged photography, video projection, and sculpture to address ideas of memory, home, time, light, and their relationships with consciousness, self awareness, and perception. Straddling the liminal space between sculpture and image, material and immaterial, presence and absence, Sensations of breathing at the sound of light investigated light and it’s material affects on the body, mind, and in the camera."

Don't forget! Steacy Easton is performing "Wechsler" tomorrow on the Hamilton Artists Inc. Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/hamiltonartistsinc/?hl=ur The performance will be live, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm EST. Be sure to check it out, FMC friends!

In the words of Samuel Beckett, Fail, fail again, fail better. By making my own blocks and not paying attention to the time, I attempt to define autism through its resistance to the space of the clinic. Wechsler Performance (via Hamilton Artists Inc. Instagram live): September 3, 2020 (7-9pm) Screening: On view in FMC’s street-level window each night from September 5-October (6-10pm) or 24/7 online.... Hamilton Artists Inc. and Factory Media Centre are pleased to present a special project by Hamilton-based artist, Steacy Easton. The Wechsler is a test that is given to people with problems recognizing and reconstructing patterns, including those on the autism spectrum. There is a set of coloured blocks. An interloper shows you a pattern on a sheet of cards. You are supposed to repeat the pattern in a short amount of time. The closer you get to the time in matching, the closer you are considered to neurotypicality. The video depicts me attempting to finish the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, showing just my hands in the process of making the first pattern. It was supposed to take me a minute to finish the first pattern on the Wechsler, it took me 8. There are more than a dozen patterns on the Wechsler, I am curious about how long it would take me to finish more than one of them. The performance I am planning will be an extension of the video work I made in 2016 Steacy Easton is a writer, curator and artist. They have written for both academic and popular productions, including for Spin, National Post, Pitchfork, and others. Their art has been shown in Toronto, Montreal, New York, Chicago, and is in the collection of the library of the National Gallery of Canada. They are the 2021 Martha Street Studio Printmaker in Residenc

Hi FMC friends! We’re excited to share a simple robot making tutorial by our April-May 2020 resident artist, Katherine Diemert. In this casual, talk through tutorial, Katherine guides you through how she made one of her Pixel Buddies robots. These easy-to-make, beginner friendly robots are a good project for anyone who’s looking to get started in robot making or anyone who is simply interested in seeing how Katherine built this component of her completed work, Rogue Pixels.... Click here to check it out https://www.factorymediacentre.ca/katherine-diemert-pixel-b #hamont #hamontart

We are conducting a members survey to better improve programming for the rest of the year based on the first half of 2020. Please help us out and take a couple minutes to fill out this form when you can! https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSd8GgyjmqLgqgJwV/viewform

Hi Factory Friends! One of our members, Hamilton Black Film Festival is looking to add to their Board of Directors. Hamilton Black Film Festival was founded in November 2019, and is a registered not-for-profit organization. Their inaugural festival will take place in May 2021, and are seeking Directors at Large, a Fundraiser and Grant writer, and a Publicist. The board will meet twice a month, on the first and last friday of the month.... Serving on the board of HBFF is a great way to connect with the arts and culture in Hamilton, and take part in planning a vibrant new festival. HBFF welcomes applications from people of all socio-economic walks of life. Please contact Paize Usiosefe at [email protected] for more information.

FMC is saddened to hear about the closure of the Staircase Theatre. We count ourselves among the artists that Staircase supported: they provided a seminal spark when FMC was as yet no more than a dream. They provided free space for community meetings, hosted our first AGM, supported our concept of an artist-run media arts centre, and continued to encourage FMC through planning and development, and growth. FMC met regularly at the Staircase at no cost, until we were able to acquire funding for a home. A massive thank you to Staircase, and to Kathy and Hugh, for being such an important beacon in Hamilton, and for being a connector and an underwriter for seeding new arts initiatives. https://urbanicity.com//hamilton-performance-venue-the-st/

NOW ON: Layne Hinton’s 'Shadow Machines' August 3 September 4, 2020 Installation Activation each night from 6-10pm Factory Media Centre is pleased to share that Layne Hinton’s Shadow Machines will be on view in our street level window from August 3th September 4th, 2020. The sculptures will be visible all day, and activated each evening from 6-10pm.... Building on old magic lanterns and other 17th-century projector technologies, these apparatuses present viewers with a duet of cinematic projections created without film. The Shadow Machines project the delicate and crisp shadow of a small mesh sculpture. As the focal lens shifts slowly forwards and backwards, the projected image appears to turn the small sculpture almost inside out. The visual illusion of shifting focus through an object leaves us unable to decipher the difference between the inside and the outside of the sculpture, and creates a cinematic and moving two-dimensional image using a static three-dimensional object. Video is promotional material of Shadow Machines on view at Ontario Place Light Festival (2020)