Film POP 2019 includes portraits of two of the most vital music geniuses portraits in recent memory, D’Angelo and R. Stevie Moore.
The program additionally boasts films that shed light on underrepresented music subcultures. Co-presented with Goethe Institut, Berlin Bouncer gives us access to the secrets of Berlin nightlife; The Juniper Tree is notable for being the screen-debut of pop megastar Björk, Black to Techno explores the origins and impact of Detroit Techno, from its birthplace in the black, working and middle-class experience to its subsequent cultural dominance in West Berlin; Other Music re-opens the doors of the most beloved New-York record store, also a hotbed for the city’s indie scene at the turn of the millennium.
Film POP is proud to be renewing its collaboration with the Phi Foundation for a 1-night only screening of single-channel video works by American conceptual artist Tony Cokes, guest curated by Cheryl Sim, and to be working with POP Montreal 2019-featured artists Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, to present two guest-curated NFB shorts programs.
All Film POP programming details:
Wednesday Sept 25 | Cinéma Moderne
Who Let The Dogs Out
Brent Hodge | 2019
Preceded by L'Assaillant by Oliver D. Asselin | 2019
YT//ST x NFB
Guest curated by Fred Savard
A program of NFB short films curated by Yamantaka // Sonic Titan with intro by the band
Thursday Sept 26 | Cinéma Moderne
Swimming to Cambodia
Jonathan Demme | 1987
Co-presented by Hot Docs
a soundtrack by this year's POP headliner Laurie Anderson
Una Banda de Chicas
Marilina Giménez | 2018
Co-presented by Rock Camp For Girls and Gender Nonconforming Youth
Friday Sept 28 | Rialto Hall
The Lost Tapes du Hip Hop au Québec
Will Prosper | 2016
Free! Co-presented by POP Symposium & Rendez-Vous Cinéma Québec
Cinéma Moderne
Other Music
Puloma Basu & Rob Hatch-Miller | 2019
Co-presented by Aux 33 Tours
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
Allan Arkush & Joe Dante | 1979
Co-presented by FNC
Saturday Sept 28 | Rialto Hall
Contralto
Sarah Hennies | 2017
Free! Co-presented by POP Symposium & Image & Nation
Cinéma Moderne
As Told to G/D Thyself
Kamasi Washington, Bradford Young, Terence Nance, Jenn Nkiru & Marc Thomas | 2019
Co-presented by FNC
Devil's Pie: D'Angelo
Carina Bijlsma | 2019
Co-presented by FNC
Berlin Bouncer
David Dietl | 2019
Co-presented by Goethe Institut
The Juniper Tree
Nietzchka Keene | 1990
Co-presented by Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto
Sunday Sept 29 | Cinéma Moderne
Second Summer of Love: Black to Techno
Jenn Nkiru | 2019
Co-presented by RIDM
Second Summer of Love: Everybody in the Place
Jeremy Deller | 2019
Co-presented by RIDM
Tonal/Atonal: A program of video works by Tony Cokes
Tony Cokes | 1990
Co-presented by Fondation Phi and Art POP
Cool Daddio: The Second Youth of R. Stevie Moore
Imogen Putler & Monika Baran | 2019
Co-presented by Amtech