They Shoot Videos, Don’t They vol 4
A special evening of rarely seen music video and related film.

Featuring works by:

Jaron Albertin
Jonas Bonnetta
Andy Bruntel
Scott Cudmore
Helmet
Philipp Kaessbohrer
Alan Poon & Adam Makarenko
Marcus Söderlund
Spike and Jones
Video Marsh

Including a special live performance from Evening Hymns.

Curated by Scott Cudmore.

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They Shoot Videos, Vol 3

This is latest edition of our bi-monthly screening series, showcasing music videos, film and related art projects. Often premiering new works from prominent filmmakers, the event is curated by director Scott Cudmore. Focusing on the directors, the works will be presented on a giant screen as well as monitors within the gallery with headphones. Rather than with a formal screening, viewers are free to explore the work on their own terms, much like you would with other work presented in a gallery setting. The point is to present music videos and their counterparts as an artistic product and a unique medium of filmmaking.

See photos from They Shoot Videos…Vol 1

Read the piece that Eye Weekly did on our event

They Shoot Videos Videos Don’t They?, Vol 2

This is latest edition of our  bi-monthly music video screening series. The event is curated by Scott Cudmore. Focusing on the directors, the works will be presented on a giant screen as well as monitors within the gallery with headphones. Rather than with a formal screening, viewers are free to explore the work on their own terms, much like you would with other work presented in a gallery setting. The point is to present music videos as an artistic product and a unique medium of filmmaking.

Volume 2 in the series will be held on Sept 25th and will include recent work by:

Exploding Motor Car, The General Assembly, Tobias Stretch, Jérémie Saindon, Patrick Watson, Matt Daniels, Marc Ricciardelli, Micah Meisner and Salazar Motion Picture Collective

See photos from “They Shoot Videos…Vol 1″

Read the piece that Eye Weekly did on our event

“They Shoot Videos, Don’t They”
Vol 1. Event Photographs

‘They Shoot Music Videos, Don’t They’ is our bi-monthly music video screening series, curated by Scott Cudmore. Videos are presented on both a giant video screen as well as monitors within the gallery. Directors in this series included:

Bienvenido Cruz, Scott Cudmore, Patrick Daughters, Jesi The Elder, Jesse Ewles, Christopher Mills, Graydon Sheppard, Sean Starke, Martin De Thurah and Sean Wainsteim.

Here are some pictures taken from the event.

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107Shaw Gallery in Eye Weekly

Profile on “They Shoot Videos, Don’t They?”

Eye Weekly did a piece on our bi-monthly music video screening series, “They Shoot Video, Don’t They?” and talked to our curator Scott Cudmore:

YouTube killed the video star. Yet Toronto director Scott Cudmore has a plan. “They Shoot Videos, Don’t They?,” a bi-monthly music-video screening series debuting July 9 at Trinity-Bellwoods gallery 107 Shaw (107 Shaw), features some of video’s best and brightest auteurs — most of them Canadian — proving that the art form can live on long after Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze take to bigger screens.

“The internet has really changed the way people make music videos,” says Cudmore, whose films for Timber Timbre, The National and Brian Borcherdt boast a wintry melancholia that recalls Hungarian filmmaker Miklós Jancsó. “Beyoncé’s video for ‘All The Single Ladies,’ for example, broke out on the internet and made people consciously look for music videos because of its art. The music video is a format that allows for a lot of experimentation, but it’s a very young medium of film that’s disappearing, at least from the mainstream public eye.”

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They Shoot Videos, Don’t They?

‘They Shoot Music Videos, Don’t They’ is a bi-monthly music video screening series held at 107Shaw Gallery, curated by Scott Cudmore. Focusing on the directors, the works will be presented on monitors within the gallery with headphones rather than as a formal screening. This way, viewers are free to explore the work on their own terms, much like you would with other work presented in a gallery setting. The point is to present music video as an artistic product and a unique medium of filmmaking.

The first screening in the series will be held on July 9th and will include recent work by:

BENVENIDO CRUZ
SCOTT CUDMORE
PATRICK DAUGHTERS
JESI THE ELDER
JESSE EWLES
CHRISTOPHER MILLS
GRAYDON SHEPPARD
SEAN STARKE
MARTIN DE THURAH
SEAN WAINSTEIM