Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Sandra Gregson at the Parkdale Film + Video Showcase

Still image from vers(ing) by Sandra Gregson and Barbara Steinberg
Loop member Sandra Gregson made a video with Barbara Steinberg called vers(ing) that will be shown  on Friday, June 24 at the 13th Annual Parkdale Film + Video Showcase. 

Vers, moving toward something, around a certain time.
Versing to express in verse.
Conversing to talk informally with another or others; exchange views, opinions by talking.
vers(ing) opens in a coffee shop. People, sit, enter and exit. A conversation is heard. The video continues, traveling through the streets of a city, to a park, to other coffee shops, other places. No particular destination is reached, but as we travel, fragments of text are read, conversations are heard, settings, people and objects are noticed. 
vers(ing) presents a moving toward that is transitory and offers a poetic contemplation of how life, meaning, and film are intertwined and constructed.
“I believe I’ve never mistaken fiction for reality, though I have mixed them together more than once, as everyone does.” Javier Marias, Dark Back of Time

running time is 9:56
vers(ing) is distributed by www.vtape.org

The Showcase runs from June 22 to 26. For more information see www.parkdaleshowcase.ca.