Michael Nyman And Harun Farocki Join TIFF’s Impressive International Future Projections Line-up

TORONTO  – Works by acclaimed, award-winning artists Michael Nyman and Harun Farocki are the latest additions to the Toronto International Film Festival’s popular, city-wide Future Projections programme of moving-image art projects, inspired by the history and culture of cinema. Like other Future Projections titles this year, by artists such as Douglas Gordon, Stan Douglas and Martin Arnold, Nyman’s and Farocki’s works complement Essential Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox’s inaugural exhibition, by referencing films and filmmakers in the Essential 100, a list based on TIFF expert and audience votes.

The Future Projections programme is free and open to the public for the duration of the festival, September 9 to 19, at TIFF Bell Lightbox and various locations around Toronto.

Michael Nyman: NYman With A Movie Camera (2010) – Toronto premiere
In NYman With A Movie Camera, Michael Nyman revisits one of the high-points of his career: the composition of his now-famous score for Dziga Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera (1929), film #9 on the Essential 100 list. In a partial attempt to deconstruct the master's invention of montage, Nyman began videotaping things around him, substituting new images, shot-for-shot, for Vertov’s own, and then reapplying his score. The seemingly random images tease us into imagining a story, but in our frustration to fit the pieces together, we pay attention to Nyman’s original score – and through it, we come to feel the narrative connections between the two films.
Running September 12 to 19 in Cinema 5 at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Michael Nyman will be in attendance on September 12. 

Harun Farocki: Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades (2006)
In this seminal work, celebrated film essayist, theorist and artist Harun Farocki presents a horizontal suite of twelve monitors depicting scenes of workers leaving factories, beginning with the Lumière Brothers’ iconic, late-19th-century footage of workers leaving their family photographic factory in Lyon, France. Delving into each decade of film history, Farocki selects similar scenes from Modern Times (1936) and Red Desert (1964), through to Dancer in the Dark (2000). With job losses at an all time high, especially in the industrial and manufacturing sectors, this installation is as much about cinema and its evolution as it is a reminder of the medium’s dialogue with a reality inextricable from its own representation.
Presented in collaboration with Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. CONTACT Gallery, 80 Spadina  Avenue.
TIFF would like to thank the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) and The Power Plant for equipment resources for this installation.

Future Projections projects previously announced in the July 7 Essential Cinema exhibition press release include:

Michael Snow: Slidelength (1969-71)
Presented within the Essential Cinema exhibition at TIFF Bell Lightbox’s main gallery. 

Martin Arnold: Jeanne (2003) – Toronto premiere
Presented within the Essential Cinema exhibition at TIFF Bell Lightbox’s main gallery.

Douglas Gordon: 24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro (2008) – Toronto premiere
Presented within the Essential Cinema exhibition at TIFF Bell Lightbox’s main gallery.

The Otolith Group: Otolith III (2009) – North American premiere
Presented in collaboration with The Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay West.

Stan Douglas: Klatsassin (2006) – Toronto premiere
Presented in collaboration with Stephen Bulger Gallery, 1026 Queen Street West.

William Kentridge: Journey to the Moon (2003) – Toronto premiere
Presented in collaboration with Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington Avenue.

Perry Bard: Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake (2007-ongoing) – Toronto premiere
Presented in collaboration with The Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen Street West.

Chris Chong Chan Fui + Yasuhiro Morinaga: HEAVENHELL (2009) – North American premiere
Presented in collaboration with The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 952 Queen Street West.

Ming Wong: In Love for the Mood (2009) – Toronto premiere 
Presented in the RBC Learning Studio at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
 
Ming Wong:  Angst Essen/Eat Fear (2008) – Toronto premiere 
Presented in the RBC Learning Studio at TIFF Bell Lightbox.  

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy: Soft Rains #6: Suburban Horror (part 1) (2003) – Toronto premiere
Presented in collaboration with The Royal Ontario Museum’s Institute for Contemporary Culture.
ROM, 100 Queen’s Park.

 Future Projections is presented with the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Hal Jackman Foundation.
The Essential Cinema is generously supported by presenting sponsor RBC, presenting partner the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund. With special thanks to the official media sponsor The Globe and Mail and the Hal Jackman Foundation for supporting Essential Cinema.

About TIFF Bell Lightbox:
Currently under construction, TIFF Bell Lightbox, a breathtaking five-storey complex located in downtown Toronto, will provide a permanent home for film lovers to celebrate cinema from around the world and will propel TIFF forward as an international leader in film culture. Designed by innovative architecture firm KPMB, TIFF Bell Lightbox’s fluid structure encourages exploration, movement and play. The campaign to build TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by founding sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the King and John Festival Corporation - consisting of the Reitman family and the Daniels Corporation – RBC as major sponsor and official bank, Visa†, the Copyright Collective of Canada, the Slaight Family Foundation, NBC Universal Canada, the Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation, the Harbinger Foundation, CIBC and BMO. The Board of Directors, staff and many generous individuals and corporations have also contributed to the campaign. For more information on the TIFF Bell Lightbox campaign, visit belllightbox.ca.

About TIFF:
TIFF is a not-for-profit cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. Its vision is to lead the world in creative and cultural discovery through the moving image. TIFF generates an annual economic impact of $170 million

CAD and currently employs more than 100 full-time staff and 500 part-time and seasonal staff, and counts upon the largesse of over 2,000 volunteers year-round.

The Toronto International Film Festival is generously supported by Lead Sponsor Bell, Major Sponsors RBC and BlackBerry, the Government of Ontario, Telefilm Canada, and the City of Toronto.

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