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The AGH welcomes visitors during the Civic Holiday long weekend. Don't forget to bring your family and friends to experience our summer of Inspiration East - six exhibitions celebrating Asian arts and culture.
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| Saturday, August 2 | | 12:00 - 5:00 pm |
| Sunday, August 3 | | 12:00 - 5:00 pm |
| Monday, August 4 | | 12:00 - 5:00 pm |
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AGH's 10th Annual International Film and Video Festival and Bell Canada Award for Short Film and Video
Outdoor Screening in the AGH Irving Zucker Sculpture Garden. In the event of rain, the screening will take place indoors in the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Pavilion.
Evening Schedule:
Screening One: 9:15 pm to 10:30 pm
Bell Canada and AGH Awards Presentation: 10:30 pm
DJ Garden Lounge: 10:40 pm to 11:15 pm
Screening Two: 11:15 pm to 12:30 am
Price: AGH Members $4.00 | General $5.00
 tickets in advance on-line!
The screenings are restricted to ages 18 and older.  Click here for official webpage.
An engaging programme of 22 international short films and videos are in competition for the Bell Canada Award. These works were selected from over 200 entries by both established and emerging directors from 12 countries. Genres include drama, documentary, performance, comedy, animation and experimental film and video, all under 15 minutes in length and produced between January 1, 2006 and January 1, 2008. Works screened at this year’s festival include regional, national and international premieres. Several works have also been featured at prestigious international festivals such as the Sundance Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Locarno Film Festival. Festival jurors and screened directors will be in attendance. The 2008 Oscar-nominated short I Met the Walrus will also be featured in this year’s programme with the film’s producer and participant Jerry Levitan in attendance.
The Bell Canada Award is a $1000 cash prize awarded by a jury comprised of accomplished film and video professionals. This year, the festival presents a new award, the AGH Shorts Award - $500 cash award presented for innovation in short film and video selected from the 200 submissions.
Also new this year are two screenings at 9:15 pm and 11:15 pm, increasing the number of films presented from 10 to 22 works. A guest DJ will spin outdoors in the Irving Zucker Sculpture Garden between screenings. In case of rain, the event will be held indoors in the AGH’s Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Pavilion.
The AGH International Film and Video Festival 10 is generously supported by Bell Canada Inc., Department of Canadian Heritage Arts Presentation Program, and the City of Hamilton, Office of Film and Television. Additional support is provided by View Magazine and Sound Box Entertainment. The AGH gratefully acknowledges the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Hamilton for their generous support of all its programmes.
Bell Canada Award Jury
Lesley Loksi Chan (Hamilton) is a film and video artist. Chan was the Canadian Spotlight Artist at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival where she won two awards for her films "I no I no" and "Wanda & Miles". Chan’s work has been screened at festivals/galleries including the Toronto Hong Kong Film Festival, Alucine Toronto Latina Media Festival, Emergeandsee (Berlin), and Pleasure Dome. Chan's "OPIE," a live performance with video, overhead projector, keyboard and sewing machine, was presented by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the TH&B Collective in May, 2008.
R. Bruce Elder (Toronto) is a filmmaker whose works have been presented in retrospectives at Anthology Film Archives, the Art Gallery of Ontario, La Cinémathèque Québécoise, Il Festival Senzatitolo (Trento), Images ‘97 (Toronto) and by Cinematheque Ontario, who proclaimed in their program note for their November, 2008 tribute: "R. Bruce Elder is not only one of Canada's foremost experimental filmmakers, he's one of our greatest artists, thinkers, critics, and filmmakers, period." In 2007, he was awarded the Governor General’s Award in Media Arts. His is also the author of several critical books on film.
Gisèle Gordon (Toronto) is a filmmaker and programmer whose works have screened at festivals such as the Berlin International Film Festival, Hot Docs, and the Images Festival. She curates film and video independently and works as a programmer for Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival and the imagineNATIVE Media Arts Festival where she is currently the Vice-Chair of the board of directors.
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Calling all Summer Camps and Day Care Centres! Consider bringing your groups to the AGH.
Destination AGH offers groups of 16 to 60 children the chance to see fabulous international artwork and to create masterpieces of their own. This interactive 2-hour programme is available mornings and afternoons throughout the summer - spaces are limited and must be booked in advance.
Price:
$7.00 per child (groups of 16-60)
For full programme information, please contact Laurie at 905-527-6610 ext. 272 or laurie@artgalleryofhamilton.com.
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On view from August 23, 2008 to March 29, 2009
Curated by Sara Knelman
Eadweard Muybridge pioneered the field of motion studies photography with his series Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigations of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement. This exhibition presents a selection of ten collotypes, a small but poignant group from the artist’s overall collection of 781 collotype plates, first published in eleven volumes in 1887.
Commissioned to prove a bet that a horse has all four hooves off the ground while galloping, Muybridge eventually set out to document the gamut of human and animal locomotion. The resulting images are almost all in a grid-like format, depicting incremental stages of movement, similar to film stills.
The images shown in this exhibition all depict the human figure, with five showing male figures, and five which take women as their subject. They are without doubt an early, revelatory investigation of motion–yet they also offer an eye-opening historical view of 19th century social attitudes toward gender roles. While male models are most often depicted playing sports or lifting heavy objects, female models are more likely seen carrying out household chores with dainty composure and adorned with typically feminine props.
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Join us Sunday, August 31 for Create a Kaleidoscope. This popular form of artistry tumbles varying coloured objects and patterns in a tube. Creating your own kaleidoscope is something the whole family will enjoy!
Time: 1:30 to 3:30 pm
Price: AGH Members: Free | Non-Members: $5.00 per family (max. 6 persons)
Pre-registration is not required. Please visit Front Desk upon arrival to receive your stickers for all Family Workshops.
Family Fun Days made possible by:
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On Tuesday, September 16, join historian and AGH Docent Bill Manson for an illustrated talk about, and a guided walk around, what is popularly viewed as Hamilton’s first ethnic, working-class neighbourhood. Explore some myths and realities about Hamilton’s Corktown. Was the arrival of blue-collar workers and their families from Ireland in the 19th-century the origin of Corktown, or were there other forces at work that also shaped one of Hamilton’s earliest and most colourful communities?
The tours begins at the AGH at 9:30 am with an illustrated talk. A guided walk commences at 10:15 am until 12:00 noon, where a light buffet lunch at Slainte Irish Pub will be served. The tour continues after lunch and ends back at the Gallery at 1:30 pm. An optional tour of current AGH exhibitions will be offered at 1:30 pm.
Price: AGH Members: $25.00 | General $30.00
To reserve your space, please call Vince at 905-527-6610, ext. 225 before Friday, September 12th. Reserve early as our popular walking tours always sell out!
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Blood, Sweat and Tears: Labour in Art
On view from September 13, 2008 to January 4, 2009
Curated by Dr. Patrick Shaw Cable
Blood, Sweat and Tears: Labour in Art presents a singular subject of late 19th-century and early 20th-century European, Canadian, and American art — labour and the labouring body, and their diverse artistic expression and meanings in a period of unprecedented change. Blood, Sweat and Tears embraces paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and photographs created in the 100-year span between 1850 and 1950. The exhibition features works from the AGH’s permanent holdings, especially its major collection of early 20th-century Canadian art and the rich Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Collection of 19th-century European art, alongside important loans from other institutions in Canada. A special aspect of Blood, Sweat and Tears is the juxtaposition of works produced in different areas and produced by artists working in diverse styles and from unique perspectives, from idealized and nostalgic 19th-century representations of the peasantry to gritty 20th-century social realist views of the industrial worker. Artists represented include European painters associated with Realism and Impressionism—for example, Camille Pissarro, Jean-Louis Forain, and John Singer Sargent (American active in Europe); the major American work photographer Lewis Hine; Canadian artists such as William Blair Bruce, John Sloan, Maurice Cullen, and Yulia Biriukova; and two major European sculptors of the late 19th century for whom the labour theme was a central inspiration — the Belgian Constantin Meunier and the French Jules Dalou.
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Baskin in Black and White: TD Waterhouse Great Masters Series
On view from September 13, 2008 to January 4, 2009
Curated by Dr. Patrick Shaw Cable
One of the great masters of 20th-century printmaking, Leonard Baskin (American 1922–2000) left a rich body of work characterized by singularly bold expressionism, personal imagery inspired by a multitude of diverse sources, and versatile experimentation. Known primarily for his seminal work as a printmaker, Baskin also created illustrated books and sculptures. Through the generosity of this great artist’s brother, Rabbi Bernard Baskin, the AGH is fortunate to possess one of the richest collections of art by Leonard Baskin in Canada — more than a hundred works in different media. Focusing primarily on a selection of Baskin’s powerful prints at the AGH, Baskin in Black and White also features two bronzes by the artist included in the Gallery’s Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Collection.
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Pascal Grandmaison: Double Take
On view from September 27, 2008 to January 4, 2009
Curated by Sara Knelman
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The Art Gallery of Hamilton is pleased to host an exhibition of recent work by Montreal artist Pascal Grandmaison. In videos and photographs, Grandmasion’s crisp minimalist aesthetic scrutinizes the beauty, form and limitations of his subjects. Shown together here for the first time, related video works Double Fog / Double Brouillard and I See You in Reverse are beautifully choreographed explorations of the boundaries between space and emotion, progress and history, and moving and still images. Turning the lens on the mechanisms of his craft, new large-scale photographs depict details from the instruments of image making – lenses, battery packs, depth of field diagrams – rendering them both intimate and monumental.
This exhibition will be accompanied by a full-colour bilingual catalogue with curatorial essays by Diana Nemiroff, Director, Carleton University Art Gallery and Sara Knelman, published in collaboration with Carleton University Art Gallery.
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The Last Mistress
Wednesday, September 10 @ 7:00 pm
Director Catherine Breillat, 2008, France, 104 min
Location: Empire Jackson Square 6 Cinemas
The Last Mistress marks the monumental pairing of cinema's premiere provocateur, director Catherine Breillat (Romance, Fat Girl) with the most fearless and explosive actor of our generation, Asia Argento (Marie Antoinette, Boarding Gate). A penniless rogue, Ryno de Marigny (newcomer Fu-ad Ait Aattou), shocks 19th century France with his engagement to the virginal gem of the aristocracy, Hermangarde. As lurid speculations of Ryno's ten year affair with the carnal Vellini (Argento) manifest, a supremely erotic and wickedly humorous depiction of human lust is revealed - overriding the brittle facade of nobility and reverence. Bolstered by Breillat's mastery of the medium and Argento's commanding performance, The Last Mistress is a highly entertaining yet incredibly provocative film that has resulted in unanimous praise from audiences and critics across the world. 2007 T.I.F.F., 2007 Venice. Rated 18A.
Click here for more information about this film.
The Tracey Fragments
Wednesday, September 24 @ 7:00 pm
Director Bruce McDonald, 2007, Canada, 80 min
Location: Empire Jackson Square 6 Cinemas
*GUEST DIRECTOR Bruce McDonald (Hard Core Logo, Highway 61) in attendance!
15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz (Ellen Page) is wearing a tattered shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny (Zie Souwand), who thinks he's a dog. Tracey's journey leads us into the dark underbelly of the city, into the emotional cesspool of her home, through the brutality of her high school, the clinical cat and mouse games with her shrink and her soaring fantasies of Billy Zero (Slim Twig) - her boyfriend and Rock 'n' Roll savior. Her travels also put her in contact with the seedier inhabitants of the city. Like Lance (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos), her would-be savior who ultimately puts her life in jeopardy. 2007 Berlin International Film Festival - Manfred-Salzgeber Prize. Rated 14 A.
Click here for more information about this film.
Future Film Dates (titles will be announced soon):
October: 8, 22
November: 5, 19
December: 3
Free First Friday Films: October 3, December 5
AGH film series is generously supported by: 
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