Escape: Experimental Shorts from Video Pool Media Arts Centre September 17, 2009

Curator J.J. Kegan McFadden brings 18 experimental short films to New York from Winnipeg’s Video Pool Media Arts Centre. The videos, all by Canadian artists, deal with multiple connotations of the term “escape”: disguise, travel, meditation, dance, and more. The program features work by Lori Weidenhammer, Donna Lewis, Sylvia Matas, Ho Tam, Hope Peterson, Tim Raffey, Leslie Supnet, Dominique Rey, Lisa Graves, Deborah Van Slet, Victoria Prince, Doug Melnyk, Anne Borden, Gail Mentlik, Jeremy Drummond, Divya Mehra, Collin Zipp, and Ken Gregory.