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Charles Street Video is proud to present a screening of works from over the last 41 years, and created by artists with the support of CSV. Join us in celebration of the multiplicity of directors and works that have come through this artist-run center.
This is an outdoor event, taking place outside our newest location!

September 16, 2022, 7:00 - 10:00
76 Geary Ave.

Screened works:
Subway Loop:  Single Channel Mix (1975 - 2022) by Paul Wong
This three-channel installation, from the Modern Television Loop Series, utilizes the qualities of real and edited time. “Three views of Toronto’s underground action; trains pull in, pause, doors open, crowds exchange places, whirl off into oblivion. It is mesmerizing, this subsurface world. You could sit and watch for hours as the hypnotic qualities of TV sets and passing trains act together”.
-Peggy Gale, 1977, Only Paper Today.
This work has been restored and newly mixed for this screening

Fragments (1989) by Paula Fairfield
Fragments explores the episodic nature of storytelling by addressing the film trailer as cultural form.
With a lattice work of televangel broadcast segments, romance novel phrases, and an aria from Verdi's "La Forza del Destino," Fragments shuttles us through the walls of two adjacent studios; between the lives of two women dangling from a single mediated thread. Three lives. Two visions. One story.

Pig and Bear Go To Market (1993) by Rodney Werden
Pig and Bear... is a fable /allegory about two animals whose desire for independence leads them to start a business. Although business is good, with lots of donuts and hot potatoes changing hands, profit eludes them. To their amazement, they are left with only the five cents they began with. Pig and Bear... was adapted from an old Czech folk tale that has survived as an axiom of human nature
Supposed To (2006) by Aleesa Cohene
Supposed To examines how work in a capitalist system divides people from themselves. Work often succeeds at limiting our individual agency while paradoxically promoting individual freedom. Lack of agency breeds apathy and despondency: we feel guilty for things we didn't do, and shirk responsibility for things we made happen. Reediting sampled footage and dialogue from science fiction films, psychological thrillers and corporate training videos, Supposed To builds a hybrid narrative of characters exhausted by work, acting out, escaping conflict and misdirected blame, and ultimately returning to an inevitable deep wordless knowledge that shapes our shared reality. Supposed To questions our ontological vocation, reminding us that our destiny is still unknown.

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Bernice - Passenger Plane (2018) by Ayo Tsalithaba

1996 - (2021) by Dorjee D
What happens when a child and a mother stays apart for as long as 24 years? This is a very common story among Tibetans but rarely discussed and treated as trauma. A lot of Tibetans are in Tibet and a lot of Tibetans are in exile.
This son makes an attempt to reconnect with his mother. He is in another country that is not his country; but is his only country. He is lost.

Fresh Meat (2022) by Lu Asfaha
A young idealistic writer is excited to start her first staff writing job at a major media company until she discovers a terrifying secret: they’re eating people.

Stay afterwards for drinks, refreshments, and a DJ set by Stefana Fratila.