Eva Kolcze
2021By the Time We Got to Expo
Eva Kolcze, Philip Hoffman
A kinetic journey through Expo 67, revisiting Canada’s centennial through the symbols, choreographies, and built environments of the World’s Fair and its construction of (inter)nationalism. Reworking archival footage, By the Time We Got to Expo creates a vibrant collision of textures and forms in order to explore the surfaces, ideologies, and implications of the ‘meeting place’ that was Expo 67.
By the Time We Got to Expo
Pepper's Ghost
Stephen Broomer
Stephen Broomer, Eva Kolcze
Pepper's Ghost, by Torontonian Stephen Broomer, transforms an office formerly used for observation studies into a tunnel of performative, transfixing illusionism, creating surprising images using filters, fabric and a combination of sunlight and fluorescents. Recalling Slidelength (1969-71), Michael Snow's slideshow of plastic gels and hand gestures, Pepper's Ghost is a prolonged expression of demystified mystification, whose startling results are bolstered by a bold soundtrack.
Pepper's Ghost
Low Tide
Eva Kolcze
The Toronto islands are subject to flooding and erosion. The ebbs and flows of Lake Ontario / Lake Iroquois have created the islands and will one day take them away. The shoreline is natural and artificial, built up with concrete sidewalk ruins but always just an ever-shifting sandbar. Footage was captured in 16mm Kodak Ektachrome during a 5-week residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point in 2013.
Low Tide
Markings 1-3
Eva Kolcze
A tactile journey in three parts, Markings 1-3 explores nature through the surface of celluloid, using such techniques as tinting, toning, painting and scratching. This film was shot and hand processed at the Independent Imaging Retreat (The Film Farm) in Mount Forest Ontario.
Markings 1-3
