Volatile Works
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Volatile Works is a five member autonomous media arts collective in Montréal, Québec.
In addition to producing individual and collective projects, as well as a self-organized in-house distribution of member projects to numerous cinema/new media arts festivals screened in over 28 countries worldwide, Volatile Works has organized a series of community-based screenings, produced and participated in several independent video compilations, and has collaborated with other film and artist collectives (les lucioles, les pantheres roses) on joint screenings and video production workshops.
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[edit] Collective Projects
Volatile Works Does Coney Island (2006) 11 min | color-b&w
Volatile Works pillages the public domain Prelinger Archives, sampling and remixing archival footage from the heyday of Coney Island. Six remixes create a cinematic funhouse mirror of carnival themes and collective memories, from the freaks, dancing girls and beauty queens that define us all, to the playfulness and poignancy of amusement park nostalgia.
Vox Pop (2005-ongoing)
The Volatile Vox Pop is a video booth run by members of the Volatile Works collective conceived for community events, fairs, art and political gatherings, in part to document the event, the participants & their concerns, and partly to initiate a process of exchange and collaboration. Event participants are invited to drop by the Vox Pop booth for a short (5-15 minute) interview about their projects, issues, concerns, hopes, and whatever they happen to want to rant about. Accommodations can also be made for folks who don't want their faces captured on tape but still want to participate (masks, shadows, feet interviews).
Featured at Version>05, Chicago (2005); The Anarchist Bookfair, Montréal (2005).
Volatile Shorts (2004-ongoing)
Organizers of Volatile Shorts 2004, 2005, and 2006 screenings. A yearly program of short experimental and activist films produced by the Volatile Works media arts collective and guest video collectives and filmmakers from Montréal and elsewhere.
[edit] Collective Awards
Awarded the special flEXiff Award for five of its films at The First and Last Experimental International Film Festival, Sydney, Australia, 2005: House, Kuleshov's Cabinet, NatoNosferatu, Resettlement [floating home], and Zombie Business.
[edit] Collective Screenings
(upcoming) Curated screening at New York Experimental: Volatile Works Collective Does New York! (New York, USA), March 24th, 2007
Curated screening at Versionfest >05: Volatile Shorts Film Program (Chicago, USA), April 2005
