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Ikuma Siku premieres at Arte Nuevo InteractivA'05 in Mérida, Mexico, June 22, 2005.

Originally conceived in the fall of 2000, the experimental animation, Ikuma Siku, has undergone numerous rewrites, storyboard revisions, and technical hurdles during its development. It is a film that incorporates traditional stop-motion and silhouette animation, pixilation, digital video footage, and masked actors against a green screen, all processed with complex visual algorithms to simulate what has been described as "moving watercolor".

Ikuma Siku (literally, fire & ice) is a poetic narrative that traces the immigration of a settler to the coast of Labrador and his initial encounter and relationship to that land and to its indigenous people. It is a story of the growing friendship between an Inuk and a new immigrant set in and around the rugged coastline of northern Labrador in 1849; an imaginary tale whose roots stem from actual family history in a land suffused with magical realism.

For more check out:
http://www.cartodigital.org/interactiva/

Resettlement [floating home] will be playing at Split Film Festival, the 10th international festival of new film held in Split, Croatia from June 3 -10. It will be screened alongside other shorts from over 15 countries as part of the short film program.

In the leadup to the Solidarity Across Borders March to Ottawa leaving Montreal on June 18, 2005, Solidarity Across Borders, Les Lucioles, and Volatile Works are organizing a night of film and video screenings June 14th on urgent issues and struggles around migration and the lives of non-status peoples. Solidarity Across Borders, a Montreal network of self-organized refugee groups, individuals and their allies, is planning a one-week march from Montreal to Ottawa to draw attention to the struggles of refugees and immigrants for life and dignity in Canada and Quebec. Members of Volatile Works will be participating in the first day of the March in Montreal on June 18th.

For more check out: solidarityacrossborders.org

En conjonction avec la marche Solidarité sans frontières de Montréal à Ottawa, qui se déclenche le 18 juin, 2005, le réseau Solidarité sans frontières, Les Lucioles, et le collectif Volatile Works, organisent le 14 juin une soirée film/vidéo traitant les thèmes urgents de la migration et les luttes des personnes sans-status.Solidarité sans frontières, un réseau montréalais d’individus et de groupes autonomes de réfugié(e)s et leurs allié(e)s, planifient actuellement une marche d’une semaine, entre Montréal et Ottawa, pour attirer l’attention sur les luttes des réfugié(e)s pour la vie et la dignité au Canada et au Québec. Des membres de Voaltile Works participeront dans la première journée du marche à Montréal le 18 juin.

Pour plus d’info, voir: solidarityacrossborders.org

Soirée de Film Sans Frontière
No Borders Film night
Mardi, 14 juin 2005 à 19h
Tuesday, June 14, 2005, 7pm
L'Alizé, 900 Ontario est
Musique: DJ Lezzies on Ex

From the wonderful folks of London UK-based C.CRED (Collective CREative Dissent) whom we met at Version>05 in Chicago. C.CRED organized an event in a London pub which included screenings from various film/video collectives around Europe and North America, including Volatile Works!

See the full program

De la part des gens formidables de Londres, Angleterre, qui nous avons rencontrés au Festival Version>05, à Chicago. C.CRED ont organisé un évènement dans un bistrot de Londres qui incluait des projections de film et vidéo de collectifs Européens et Nord Américains, incluant Volatile Works!

Voir le programme complet

On May 21, 2005, Volatile Works was out in full force, and once again working the now notorious Vox Pop Booth. This time around, on our home turf in Montreal, we set up at the 6th Annual Anarchist Bookfair.

The Volatile Works Vox Pop Booth was a space that allowed its 20 interviewees the chance to express their views, and state their concerns in their own special, volatile kind of way. A huge thank you goes out to all the Anarchist Bookfair supporters and Vox Pop Booth participants!

Le 21 mai, 2005, les membres du collectif Volatile Works sont sortis en pleine force avec leur infâme cabine Vox Pop. Cette fois-ci, nous avons monté la cabine chez nous à Montréal, au 6ème Salon du livre anarchiste.

La cabine Vox Pop a été un espace où une vingtaine de participant(e)s ont eu la chance d’exprimer leurs idées, et d’affirmer leurs soucis sur l’état des choses! Un gros merci à tous ceux et celles qui soutiennent le Salon du livre et aux participant(e)s de la cabine Vox Pop!

pomgrenade would like to give a big shout out and thank you to all who helped out with the montreal launch of the war game room at la centrale on the weekend of may 20-22 - from the volatile works home team, to jean-marc the ace gamer who agreed to game in the gallery, to the htmlles, to jean-maxim, bérengère (htmlles) & roxanne (la centrale) who were awesome in helping with set-up, to bernie bankrupt of loe & boyfriend for the tunes, plus friends and family for coming out to the vernissage. merci à tlm.

pomgrenade veut remercier ceux et celles qui ont aidé avec la première montréalaise du war game room à la centrale durant la fin de semaine du 20-22 mai: en commençant par la gang volatile works, et jean-marc, un «gamer» formidable qui a accepté de jouer le jeux le soir du vernissage, htmlles, à jean-maxim, bérengère (htmlles) et roxanne (à la centrale) qui ont été exceptionnels durant l’installation de la pièce, à bernie bankrupt de loe et boyfriend pour les tounes, et ausssi, à mes ami(e)s et à ma famille pour prendre le temps de venir au vernissage. Thanks to all.

Une présentation de HTMlles 07
en collaboration avec La Centrale

une installation sonore/web
  de pomgrenade
20 - 22 mai 2005
HTMlles 07
La Centrale
4296 boul St. Laurent, Montreal
VERNISSAGE 20 mai à 21h
Musique/Music: Tashish

A North American showcase for the Military Industrial Media Entertainment Complex (aka the MIME). Your simulated tour through a land where the simulation, gaming, and enactment of war blur into one another. The War Game Room explores the increasing interpenetration of the military industrial complex with the gaming and entertainment industries, through everything from blockbuster war video games to popular entertainment. In the War Game Room, we confront the incongruities and brutalities of a context in which we now use the same tools to play, create media, and kill.

Visit the War Game Room web station, play a few rounds of Full Spectrum Warrior - all you have to do is stock up on some go-pills and you are off!

www.pomgrenade.org/WGR

Le collectif Volatil est de retour de Version>05, Chicago, avec un stupéfiant 14 heures d’entrevues Vox Pop qui va passer par notre laboratoire de montage dans les prochains mois. Le succèss du Vox Pop fut possible grâce à la participation enthousiaste de tous les collectifs, groupes, artistes, activistes, organisateurs et organisatrices, et individu(e)s qui ont pris le temps de venir nous voir et intervenir dans notre processus d’entrevue. La cabine Vop Pop va être de retour au Salon du Livre Anarchiste, samedi, le 21 mai.

Volatile Works is back from Version>05 in Chicago with an astonishing 14 hours of Vox Pop footage, which will be processed through the VW editing lab over the coming weeks. The success of the Vox Pop booth would not have been possible without the enthusiatic participation of all the collectives, groups, artists, activists, organizers and individuals who took a few minutes of their time to interact with us. The Vox Pop booth will be making another appearance at the upcoming Anarchist Bookfair in Montreal on Saturday, May 21st.