The Most Fun You Will Have at the Movies This Year: FILM POP 2009!

The music/video festival! Live performances+video art, workshops, Making Music 3 with the NFB, music videos, and videos about music. From psych folk to chiptunes, from around the world and from your own back yard!

This year Film Pop will again be screening our features at Cinema Du Parc, including:

The Montreal sneak preview premiere of It Might Get Loud.

It Might Get Loud (2009, dir: Davis Guggenheim)

This film chronicles Jack White, The Edge, and Jimmy Page, and their relationships with the electric guitar, culminating in a group performance by these cross-genre virtuosos. Brought to you by Davis Guggenheim, the man behind An Inconvenient Truth.

Cinema du Parc, 30 Sept - 19h00.

Check out the trailer for It Might Get Loud!

P*Star Rising

P-Star Rising (2009, dir: Gabriel Noble)

P-Star Rising chronicles the struggles and triumphs of New York City’s Diaz family as precocious and talented youngest daughter Priscilla tries to fulfill her single father's dream of making it big in the rap world.

Cinema du Parc, 4 Oct - 15h00.

Reformat the Planet

Reformat the Planet (2008, dir: Paul Owens)

Four days, 32 performances, 8 bits. Paul Owens’ Reformat the Planet chronicles the first chiptunes festival in New York City. Featuring pioneers of the video game console as musical instrument revolution, including Nullsleep, Bit Shifter, Glomag, and Bubblyfish.

Cinema du Parc, 2 Oct - 19h00.

The Family Jams

The Family Jams (2009, dir: Kevin Barker)

Vetiver’s Kevin Barker documents his 2004 tour with San Francisco psych folk darlings Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart. The film highlights the magic — as well as the strains — of this musical family's life on the road.

Cinema du Parc, 3 Oct - 15h00.

The Family Jams - Trailer from kevin barker on Vimeo.

Film Pop will also be bringing you a variety of screenings, workshops, and installations at Pop Montreal's new segment Headquarters L'Espace Reunion as well as some undisclosed special events around town!

Tim Kelly’s Big Small

Filmmaker Timothy Kelly — a recent import to Montreal from Melbourne, Australia — will premiere two short films profiling Montreal artists and characters, including Beaver Sheppard. The films represent the launch of a Montreal version of the Meet New People series he started back in Melbourne.

All Tomorrow's Parties

All Tomorrow's Parties (2009, dir: All Tomorrow's People & Jonathan Caouette)

Film POP and the Festival du Nouveau Cinema present on exclusive off-festival event: All Tomorrow’s Parties, The Film. This documentary features All Tomorrow’s Parties — an annual festival curated by a different artist each year — and includes performances by Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, GZA, and Daniel Johnston.

L'Agora du Coeur des Sciences de I'UQUAM, 13 Oct - 21:30.

Goblin Market

Goblin Market (2009, dir: Adam Leith Gollner)

Goblin Market is an 8mm fairytale in a forbidden forest inspired by the 1859 Christina Rossetti poem of the same name. From the author of the acclaimed Fruit Hunters, this short film stars Liane Balaban (New Waterford Girl, Last Chance Harvey) and Dave Lawrence (Fubar). Introducing Tamar Amir as "Lizzie." Cinematography by the Sanchez Brothers, score by Roger Tellier Craig, and directed by Adam Leith Gollner.

La Place Ubisoft: L'Espace Reunion, 3 Oct - 19:00.

The BQE

The BQE (2009, dir: Sufjan Stevens)

A 40-minute symphonic and cinematic exploration of New York City's infamous Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Scored and shot (in Super 8 mm and standard 16 mm film) by Sufjan Stevens.

La Place Ubisoft: L'Espace Reunion, 3 Oct - 19:00.

Making Music III

Given the success of Making Music I & II, it's no surprise that this year's edition features four awesome, experimental short films on the theme of music. The training program from the NFB, in partnership with POP Montreal, kept four musicians and four filmmakers hard at work during the past eight months. Come witness the fruits of their aural and visual music brainstorm. Watch the circular rhythms of a Haiku poem on film, a disjointed reconstruction of the Montreal music scene, a recycled mash-up of glitchy memory using a data moshing technique and a 3D animation of two little silent beings interrupted by sound (yes, you have to wear special glasses for this one).

La Place Ubisoft: L'Espace Reunion, 1 Oct - 20:00.

Tony Ezzy Gets a Job

Green Room, 4 Oct.

Check out the trailer for Tony Ezzy Gets a Job!

Choose Your Own Adventure Installation!

Film Pop presents an installation featuring music videos and local shorts that you can play at will. The headphone cords will be long enough for two person dance parties! Videos will include Local Montrealer Andrew Lima's 'Jordan and Bear' about a man and his best friend (a giant black bear) and their unlawful attempts to fulfill Jordan's dream of going to the Dominican Republic, Tim Kelly's portraits of local Montreal Artists Beaver Shepard and Zsofia Zambo, and Torontonian Wade Vroom's 'Novels,' which takes you inside a 24 hour recording session between five of Canada's top young musicians, including Luke Lalonde of The Born Ruffians.
La Place Ubisoft: L'Espace Reunion, 30 Sept - 4 Oct.

Data Moshing Workshop.

Learn the history and contemporary context of the technique used in music videos such as Kanye West’s ‘Heartbreak’ and Chairlift’s ‘Evident Etensil.’ Participants will have the opportunity to work with clips of their own with Tamara Scherbak and collaborator Jawad Chaaban.

La Place Ubisoft: L'Espace Reunion, 2 Oct - 13:45 - 14:45.

Vincent Moon.

In creating his series of remarkable and unique Take-Away Shows for La Blogothèque, Vincent Moon has worked with Bon Iver, Black Lips, Yeasayer, Liars, R.E.M., Arcade Fire, O'Death, The Ex, Stephen Malkmus, Scout Niblett, Caribou, Vic Chesnutt, Architecture in Helsinki, The National, The Young Gods, Andrew Bird, Xiu Xiu, Sufjan Stevens, Priscilla Ahn, and Beirut. Come watch an improvised selection of short films, from rare Take Away Shows to un-released clips and extracts of upcoming new movies with REM, Mogwai or Lhasa, and hear him speak about his experiences.

(Watch for impromptu Take-Away shows featuring Pop Montreal bands throughout the festival!!)

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Film Pop 2008:

BUY TIX FOR SCREENINGS AT CINEMA DU PARC HERE

Making Music with the NFB presents the Jem Cohen Master Class!

Sunday, October 5, 3pm @ The Ukrainian Federation, 5213 Hutchison

Buy your tickets here!

The third edition of the inventive and ambitious NFB/Pop initiative Making Music sees its process extended to include an emphasis on fostering artist development and an examination of form, which is at the heart of the program itself. Jem Cohen’s mixed media work includes collaborations with such captivating artists as Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Vic Chesnutt, Sparklehorse, Cohen's longer works include his feature film, CHAIN, and the experimental Fugazi documentary, Instrument. His opinions on the film and music industry have struck a chord with many more independent-thinking artists, and this master class promises to inspire and perhaps change the way you make films

Check out the trailer for Jem Cohen's Benjanmin Smoke to sample his work!