DEAR GUY: a film by Jeremy Todd March 17, 2007

The Helen Pitt Gallery presents the premier screening of

Dear Guy
a film by Jeremy Todd

Saturday, March 17, 2007 at 7:00 pm

DEAR GUY (83 minutes, 2007) is a feature-length film which dramatizes an inward and sometimes romantically sentimental meditation on the relevance, remembrance and acculturation of Guy Debord's life and works. The layered histrionics of the film offer reconsiderations of identification, moral responsibility, nostalgia, and the potential of art in contemporary society.

Excerpts from Debord's memoir and fictional epistolary monologues are combined with an eclectic assortment of appropriated materials, invented leitmotifs, lecture performances, hybrid forms of the essay film, documentary and edutainment formats. DEAR GUY drifts through a labyrinth-like montage structure that frustrates passive viewing while inviting contemplation.

Featuring voice-over narration by Vanessa Kwan, Paloma Campbell and Lance Blomgren, lecture performances by Brad Leith, original music by Graham Meisner, voice recording by Pietro Sammarco and post-production assistance by Sharon Kahanoff.

For more information about Dear Guy please visit: www.dearguyfilm.blogspot.com

JEREMY TODD is an interdisciplinary artist exploring determinations of cultural memory in the formation of socio-economic realities. He has worked as an instructor since 1999 and has taught at UBC, ECIAD, North Island College and the Vancouver Film School. He was the Director/Curator for the Helen Pitt Gallery from 2003-05 and is currently working as the interim director of the Richmond Art Gallery. His text/image work is regularly featured in Front magazine and his work has been show at various venues in Vancouver and beyond. He is currently collaborating with members of the Kootenay School of Writing, and continues to maintain an ongoing blog project (notsentletters.blogspot.com). DEAR GUY is his first film.

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