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Saturday June 22, 7pm<\/strong><\/span>
\n \u2028FORMER SELVES:\u2028 The Animations of Leslie Supnet<\/strong><\/span>
\n admission $6\u2014artist in person<\/span>
\n approximately 45 minutes<\/span><\/h1>\n

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\n \u00a9\u00a0\u2028Leslie Supnet <\/em>–\u00a0 Image courtesy of the artist<\/em><\/span>
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\nMicroscope Gallery welcomes Leslie Supnet in the U.S. solo screening debut of her animated works.\u00a0Since 2007, Supnet has used whimsical and often surreal imagery to explore themes of sincerity, identity, race, death, and the multiplicity of human emotion. She does this with hand-made paper-cut puppets, computer software, and a second-hand MegaPixel camera found at a thrift store.\u00a0 While often melancholic, Supnet\u2019s animations are not without a sense of humour.<\/span>
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\nLESLIE SUPNET is a Toronto based artist, originally from Winnipeg MB whose drawing, animated and film work aims to represent sincerity, lived experience, and the multiplicity of human emotion. Her moving image works have screened at various festivals, including the Images Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Image Forum Festival, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, European Media Arts Festival and LA Film Forum. (http:\/\/www.lesliesupnet.com\/)<\/span>
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\n\u2028Program:\u2028\u2028<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMoving \u2028<\/strong><\/span>
\n video, 2007, 0:58 min<\/em><\/span>
\n Moving is Leslie Supnet’s first animation made for the Winnipeg Film Group’s 48 Hour Film Contest, which took home first prize. This short explores the ways in which we move from one place to another, using various modes of transportation, and how sometimes in the process we leave things behind.<\/span>
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\n\u2028\u2028A Small Misunderstanding\u2028<\/strong><\/span>
\n video, 2008, 0:53 min<\/em><\/span>
\n A young boy endures a tragic, yet much needed, event when a small misunderstanding occurs between himself and a hungry little bird.<\/span>
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\n\u2028A Time is a Terrible Thing to Waste<\/strong><\/span>
\n \u2028video, 2012, 2:54 min<\/em><\/span>
\n A squirrel ponders the essence of time. A collaboration with Winnipeg storyteller Glen Johnson.<\/span>
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\nThe Idea\u2028<\/strong><\/span>
\n video, 2012, 2:56 min<\/em><\/span>
\n Melvin, an idea living in a mediocre brain plans an escape in order to be realized. A collaboration with Winnipeg storyteller Glen Johnson.<\/span>
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\nThe Animated Heavy Metal Parking Lot \u2028<\/strong><\/span>
\n video, 2008, 1:40 min<\/em><\/span>
\n A stop-motion animated tribute to Jeff Krulik and John Heyn’s 1986 video documentary classic, Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Remaining faithful to no-budget film making, Supnet reconstructs her favorite scenes using cut-out characters made out of aged paper, glue and ink. \u2028\u2028\u201cLeslie Supnet\u2019s The Animated Heavy Metal Parking Lot, which is quite frankly one of the most charming animated films of all time.\u201d – Mike Everleth, Underground Film Journal<\/span>
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\nHang in There\u2028<\/strong><\/span>
\n video, 2009, 3:20 min<\/em><\/span>
\n A nightmarish animated short about a young couple who come to the aid of a troubled bear and unknowingly release its innermost demons.<\/span>
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\nFair Trade\u2028<\/strong><\/span>
\n video, 2009, 4:31 min<\/em><\/span>
\n A young woman experiences heavy nostalgic trauma, as she purges herself from the materiality of her past. The story of one woman’s quest for a psychedelic transformation.<\/span>
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\n \u2028video, 2009, 3:20 min<\/em><\/span>
\n An animated visual elegy, mourning the death of Mother Nature’s children.\u00a0 Music by Teeth Mountain.<\/span>
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\nWeekend\u2028<\/strong><\/span>
\n video, 2012, 2:44 min<\/em><\/span>
\n Travel film, NYC 2010. The Waverly Diner, H-Block, Sleep, Ron Jeremy, Iggy Pop, Sonic Youth, and the Caribbean Day Parade all on one roll!<\/span>
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\n\u2028\u2028How to Care for Introverts<\/strong><\/span>
\n \u2028video, 2010, 1:48 min<\/em><\/span>
\n An animated instructional video on how one should deal with people whose personalities are characterized by extreme shyness and reservation.<\/span>
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\nWind + Snow\u2028<\/strong><\/span>
\n video, 2011, 4:46 min<\/em><\/span>
\n Grouper’s Wind and Snow set to images. \u2028\u2028spectroscopy \u2028film, 2011, 2:40 min.\u2028A study of spectral colours during a walk through the streets of Winnipeg.<\/span>
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\nYou Are Here\u2028<\/strong><\/span>
\n video, 2012, 2:47 min<\/em><\/span>
\n Invoking the dead to write through a ritual performed by animated hands.<\/span>
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\n\u2028\u2028Auroratone<\/strong><\/span>
\n \u2028video, 2012, 3:12 min<\/em><\/span>
\n The Auroratone Project is a commission of original short films by experimental Canadian filmmakers set to the music of POP Montreal\u2019s 2012 participants. \u2018Auroratones\u2019 were abstract musical films used in mental institutions and army hospitals after WWII as a means of soothing post-traumatic stress disorder and general mental disturbance, invented by film enthusiast Cecil Stokes who was continuing on nearly two centuries of previous pseudo-scientific attempts to correlate colour with musical notes. Music by Cresting.<\/span>
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\n\u2028\u2028gains + losses\u2028<\/strong><\/span>
\n video, 2011, 3:25 min<\/em><\/span>
\n Through situational vignettes, gains + losses illustrates Supnet\u2019s thoughts on death and other personal, day-to-day anxieties. Made as a goodbye letter to a deceased beloved, the work touches on internal grief, tempered with a playful sense of humour and lo-fidelity charm.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Still from Spectroscopy (Leslie Supnet, 2011) \u00a9\u00a0 Image courtesy of the artist<\/em>
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Saturday June 22, 7pm \u2028FORMER SELVES:\u2028 The Animations of Leslie Supnet admission $6\u2014artist in person approximately 45 minutes \u00a9\u00a0\u2028Leslie Supnet –\u00a0 Image courtesy of the artist Microscope Gallery welcomes Leslie Supnet in the U.S. solo screening debut of her animated works.\u00a0Since 2007, Supnet has used whimsical and often surreal imagery to explore themes of sincerity, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11051","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11051"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11062,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11051\/revisions\/11062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}