Volatile Works

Volatile Works is a five member autonomous media arts collective in Montréal, Québec. In addition to producing individual and collective projects, as well as a self-organized in-house distribution of member projects to 150 cinema/new media arts festivals screened in over 30 countries worldwide, Volatile Works has organized a series of community-based screenings, produced and participated in several independent video compilations, and has collaborated with other film and
artist collectives on joint screenings and video production workshops.

La Revue de la Cinémathèque Québecoise (Sept-Dec. 2007)by Domique Dugas "Volatile Works is without a doubt a creature of its own time! This Montreal underground film collective is made up of five active members brought together by elective affinities rooted in an ethic of artistic and political expression. Swimming in a culture of DIY, interdisciplinarity, community engagement and alternative networking, these five thieves (Allan Brown, called Witkacy; Brad Colbourne called Urchin; Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare; Glenn Gear called Lou; and Tamara Vukov called pomgrenade) do not get caught up in restrictive boundaries. They navigate admirably between celluloid and video, abstract experimentation and genre narrative, French and English cultures, poetics and politics, animation and 'real' POVs, cinema and new medias. Going beyond collective undertakings were collectivism can often stomp out individuality, Volatile Works is composed of five very strong and distinct signatures, from Witcaky’s experimental films that cross avant-garde accents with surrealism, to DeGiglio-Bellemare’s B-movie and horror explorations seasoned with agitprop perspectives, to pomgrenade’s anti-militarism and politically engaged cinema" (Translated from the French). [cite news|url=http://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/affiche/volatile_works.html|title=Volatile Works Does la Cinémathèque|author=Dominique Dugas|work=film reference|accessdate=2008-08-10]

Collective Awards

2007: Awarded the special MUFF Award for four of its films at the Second Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, Quebec, Canada: "Ikuma Siku","Kuleshov's Paradox", "Lust", and "Uncanny."

2005: Awarded the special flEXiff Award for five of its films at The First and Last Experimental International Film Festival, Sydney, Australia: "House", "Kuleshov's Cabinet", "NatoNosferatu", "Resettlement [floating home] ", and "Zombie Business".

Collective Screenings

Rendez-vous du cinéma québecois: Soirée Tryptique avec Volatile Works, Karl Lemieux, et Pierre Hébert (Montréal, Canada), February 22, 2008

Collective Screening at the Cinémathèque Québecoise: Volatile Works Does the Cinémathèque! (Montréal, Canada), November 23, 2007

Retrospective screening at the Fantasia Festival (Montréal, Canada), July 11, 2007

Curated screening at New York Experimental: Volatile Works Collective Does New York! (New York, USA), March 24th, 2007

Curated screening at Versionfest >05: Volatile Shorts Film Program (Chicago, USA), April 2005

Member Films & Projects

See http://www.volatileworks.org/projects.html

Volatile Works Collective Website

http://www.volatileworks.org/

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