Programmed by Scott Birdwise. Presented by The Canadian Film Institute at Café Ex in Ottawa, Ontario on June 18, 2014.

An art-making duo, Clint Enns and Leslie Supnet work both independently and together, sharing duties, skills, and visions to assemble some of the most inventive and charming recent experimental film and video in Canada. Both artists bring a strong DIY practice and aesthetic to their films and videos. Often reworking established aesthetic and technical objects and forms — canonical experimental films, television commercials, pop ephemera — Enns brings together an ironical, satirical edge with an underlying sincerity to create a space for new visions and energies to emerge. Glitch, circuit-bending, and/or appropriation is often the name of the game in Enns’s lovingly combative relationship with the canons of consensus. Supnet’s whimsical, and sometimes surreal, animations and short films draw from her everyday experiences, looking inward to communicate intimate observations and subtly moving thoughts and feelings through the image. In her carefully crafted hand-made puppetry, for instance, Supnet tackles issues at once idiosyncratically personal and resonantly political. Taken together, their work coalesces and counterpoints to construct a delicate, searching, and always intriguing engagement with the contemporary world.

Program

Films and Videos by Clint Enns:
The Death of Natural Language | 2007 | 3 min. | DV
Prepare to Qualify | 2008 | 3 min. | Circuit Bent Atari -> DV
Back + Forth | 2009 | 3 min. | Super 8
Self Improvement | 2010 | 3 min. | VHS->DV
Spider-Man Vs. MacroVision | 2010 | 2 min. | DV
Connecting With Nature | 2011 | 2 min. | DV
Ten Skies | 2012 | 3 min. | DV
Splice Lines | 2012 | 1 min. | DV
The Everden | 2013 | 16 min. | Pxl2000->DV

***Intermission***

Films and Videos by Leslie Supnet:
The Animated Heavy Metal Parking Lot | 2008 | 2 min. | DV
 Fair Trade | 2009 | 5 min. | DV
sun moon stars rain | 2009 | 3 min. | Super 8
How to Care for Introverts | 2010 | 2 min. | DV
Weekend | 2010 | 3 min. | Super 8
 gains + losses | 2011 | 3 min. | DV
Allan Gardens | 2014 | 6 min. | DV