John Porter

John Porter has made 300 super 8 films since 1968, and has written about and photographed alternative film activity since 1978. Video and digital are not film.

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Last Monday at Pix Film Gallery, local artist Sally Walker-Hudecki showed her new MFA thesis video "Skeuomorphs", preceded by her short performance. That's my white head at bottom of this photo taken by Pix proprietor Madi Piller.
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@CINSSU @paradiseonbloor @innistownhall What are the projection formats of Lust for Life and Colour Box?

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Last night in Toronto, a triple-projection film performance by Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki from Finland, using two 16mm projectors and an overhead projector. @LIFTfilm where she has been an artist-in-residence since September.
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@innistownhall in Toronto, John Price & Jp Marchant performed their new 16mm film using 6 projectors, in a program w/ 4 new videos by 5 pairs of local artists, commissioned by @LIFTfilm. Also free on demand to Oct 5, online @vucavu
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It's part of the 401 Richmond St. W. arts building where a lot happens during Nuit Blanche, and Martin has always done this in the 401 courtyard, but the parking lot is easier found down the lane behind 129 Spadina Ave.

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This Saturday during Toronto's all-night art event NUIT BLANCHE, I'll be helping Martin Heath project his 16mm Scopitones (short music films from the 1960s) outdoors in the parking lot behind CineCycle. Drop by and say hi, 7pm-5am.
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My most recent super 8 film & live performance is premiering this Friday, July 28, 9pm @the8fest @beaverhall in Toronto. I made "The List of Pandemic Dehumidifier" in late 2020, but I didn't want to perform it online during the lockdown the last 2 years.
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Open Screening about to begin! @LIFTfilm #AnalogueResilience #FilmLabsToronto2023

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.@S8porter’s T-shirt collection First panel down for #AnalogueResilience #FilmLabsToronto2023

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The last 4 weeks I've been distributing 2,000 flyers around Toronto promoting upcoming summer film workshops @LIFTfilm. I made a map to help me. Workshops registration begins Tuesday, May 23. Tell me if you'd like flyers to display at your establishment.
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@pixfilmstudio FLORIS VANHOOF with a-v performance, 16mm films w/ live sound, hand-made, hybrid analog/digital sound board, 16mm projector w/ direct-current motor running at variable speed to 8fps, & operated from across the room with his wireless remote.
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This May in Toronto I'll be doing a public presentation at a film "science fair". I will demonstrate and advocate projecting original ("camera stock") film without making copies. @LIFTfilm presents Analogue Resilience: Film Labs Gathering, May 25-30, 2023.
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@secretflix What does it say about filmmakers who don't even know what the 4th wall is, or what the 1st, 2nd and 3rd walls are?

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Screening of 16mm films by MICHAEL SNOW (1928‐2023) curated & introduced by Jim Shedden, at Jackman Hall, @agotoronto. Great to see an artist's film screening packed with 200 unfamiliar faces. Great to be back in Jackman Hall first time since the lockdown.
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Throwback Thursdays: Last July I was at an outdoor Flash Mob Dance Party organized by Long Time No See (LTNS) in Downtown Chinatown, Toronto. I met up with a few old film friends including dancer Lily Eng and co-organizer Brenda Joy Lem (Photos by Maylynn)
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Last night in Toronto, a memorial event for MICHAEL SNOW (1928-2023) @musicgalleryTO with 2 sets by CCMC, his band for 48 years, and a new video of him by Laurie Kwasnik. L-R: John Oswald, Paul Dutton, Al Mattes, John Kamevaar, Mani Mazinani, Nobuo Kubota.
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MICHAEL SNOW (1928-2023) and his work seemed ubiquitous around Toronto. I photographed him often. Here he is on my black & white TV in the 1980s being interviewed by Elwy Yost on TVO's "Saturday Night at the Movies" about "Lust for Life", the 1956 Hollywood biography of Van Gogh.

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@riptornlover @secretflix Photo by Chris Kennedy at his home in Toronto on the occasion of his interview there with John Porter of Toronto and Jaap Pieters visiting from Amsterdam in 2011.

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I’m years late in realizing that this gem of a book exists, but still must thank @secretflix for bringing it into being! Two of the biggest names in little film together at last! Fairly priced, a fast read, does it get any better?