Since its inception in 1978, the Millennium Film Journal has aspired to provide a space for writers and artists to document and discuss the ever-evolving field of artists' moving image. With its consistent focus on contemporary media, the MFJ is a primary source record of the last 45+ years of the field. Keenly aware of the disconnect between reading about and watching film, the MFJ is always on the lookout for ways to bridge the gap.

No Name Cinema presents
the films and videos of Dominick Rivers

Small gauge film and video by NNC's inaugural artist-in-residence,
with opening shorts on 16mm from NNC's film library

Gariné Torossian’s films have often been framed around diaspora, memory, and the search for identity, articulating these themes through found and heavily distressed footage, direct-to-the-film-strip lacerated collage, interruptions of photographic negative, and the reworking of rhythms through an optical printer. Born in Beirut in 1970 to an Armenian family, Torossian moved to Canada in 1979.

Since 2006, Amy Dickson, Jennifer Nightingale and Mary Stark have been creating new links between experimental cinema and textile practices through their individual practice-based research projects. The selection of films and expanded cinema performances that they will show at Close-Up look to generate a dialogue around themes of craft, community, technology and the way different media measure time. Unique processes and artistic networks are central to their shared interests.