The line-up for the video screening on Friday, September 7 is as follows:

• Don’t Mouse Around, 2004 by Jeremy Bailey (2:48 min)

Bailey, a Toronto native has been described by Filmmaker magazine as “a one-man revolution on the way we use video, computers and our bodies to create art.” In Don’t Mouse Around, an exhausted performer is provoked and prodded by a swarm of computer cursers.

• Red Buffalo Skydive, 2000 by Jude Norris (3:30 min)

Norris is a multi-disciplinary Cree/Anishnawbe/Russian/Scottish Gypsy Metis artist from Edmonton who has been using video media in a variety of ways for two decades. Red Buffalo Skydive incorporates the animated image of a running buffalo with an apparently unrelated narrative, resulting in an unexpected tale of tenacity.

• The Fine Arts, 2002 by Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby (3:38 min)

Vey-Duke and Battersby have been working collaboratively since 1994 in a range of media including printed matter, installation, curation, sound and single-channel video. The Fine Arts is a short, funny well-conceived video work about the perils of making images and narrative.

• Water, 2005 by A Group One Collaboration (3:05 min)

Group One is a group of eight first year Fine Arts & Cultural Studies (FACS) students from York University. As a class assignment, students from a range of disciplines (music, dance, theatre, visual art, history, English) collaborated to produce a video art piece (most had never worked with the medium before). Water is a thoughtful, beautiful and wonderfully edited visual interpretation of the issues surrounding global water consumption.

• Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp), 2006 by Steve Reinke (4:00 min)

Reinke is an internationally acclaimed Toronto artist described as being “openly gay, brainy yet dumb and often irreverent”. Made in 2006, Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp) continues the journey from the final sequence of Ask the Insects (nine micro-essays on animation and death). Through some sort of temporal displacement — New Year’s resolutions are being made.

• What is Love, 2005 by FACS 1900 (2:33 min)

Another group of first year FACS students from York University – Oksana Kryzhanivska, Aleksandra Tsimbaliouk, Sarah Facchin and Samantha Quinn-Steinberg search for the ever elusive answer to the question What is Love? Incorporating a montage of appropriated images with a first person narrative/journalistic approach, What is Love offers candid, thought provoking and humorous visual and text based responses.