IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jessica Yu, explores the parallel lives of legendary outsider artist Henry Darger, who died in 1973 at the age of 81. By day, Darger was a reclusive janitor and by night he was an obsessive writer and visual artist who created a fantasy world in which the forces of innocence and good fought a bloody battle against the forces of treachery and evil. A visionary artist, his 15,000-page novel detailing the lives of the angelic Vivan Girls, and illustrated with hundreds of paintings, was discovered posthumously by his landlords. The wholly original film, featuring the work of a team of animators, tells the story of Darger's hidden universe, accompanied by interviews with people who knew him and excerpts from Darger's other major written work, his life story.
The evening's feature is preceded by RYAN, a short animation directed by Canadian animation pioneer Chris Landreth. In RYAN, we hear the voice of Ryan Larkin and people who have known him, but these voices speak through strange, twisted, broken and disembodied 3D generated characters, reflecting Landreth's personal world of "psychological realism".
Followed by the Opening Night Gala Party, 9:00 pm
at the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W.
Featuring festival filmmakers, artworks by Henry Benvenuti and music by awesome powers and the shagadelics
Gala tickets $25 includes screening and party.
Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling 416.583.4606.
Showcasing a potent cocktail of on-the-edge and provocative film, video and visual art, the Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival celebrates its 12th year with a 10-day line-up of works devoted to an exploration of mental illness and addiction. The largest annual event of its kind in Canada, the festival runs from November 11 through November 20, 2004 at Workrman Theatre cinema (1001 Queen St. W.) in the heart of Queen Street West in downtown Toronto. This year, the Festival presents 38 films from six countries, including eight features, eight featurettes and twenty-two shorts. Of the documentary, experimental, animation and drama on offer, seven are world or North American premieres and eleven are Canadian or Toronto premieres.
For complete program schedule and ticket information:
Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling 416.583.4606.
RWM accepts VISA, cash or cheque.
Same day box office will open 1 hour prior to screenings at the screening venue.
Program Guide - available starting November 5 at these locations:
Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen St. W.
Suspect Video: 605 Markham St/619 Queen St. W.
Queen Video: 412 Queen W/688 College/480 Bloor St W.
This Aint the Rosedale Library: 483 Church St.
Blackdog Video: 964 Queen W.
Venue
Workman Theatre
1001 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario Canada M6J 1H4
(At the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health at Queen West and Ossington)
The 300-seat theatre is wheelchair accessible (please call in advance to make arrangements 416.583.4339 ext 9 )
All other inquiries can be directed to the Workman Theatre Project main phone line 416.583.4339.
this looks kewl, but $25 :(
Nov 8 2004 10:43pm
Only $25 for the party and screening.
The screening itself costs $8.
Nov 8 2004 11:46pm
sweet deal, that's a lot more do-able now. just have to boot out of class earlier than usual.
Nov 8 2004 11:55pm
This is something not to miss.
Nov 9 2004 4:04am
dang nabbit, I wish i could go....
check out abcd-artbrut.org it has some of his stuff on there plus a clip of what I'm guessing is this very film.
Nov 9 2004 11:42am
oh fuck, i totally remember reading about that dude a while back, and thinking he was the greatest thing ever. he sounded almost like a bit of a perve, but a genius perve.
so if we pay $8 at the door, we get to see this movie right? cuz i am ALL OVER THIS. do we also get to see that "ryan" movie too?
Nov 9 2004 2:06pm
I think so.
Nov 9 2004 4:00pm
do you think you actually have to get there really early to get a ticket?
Nov 9 2004 6:52pm
yeah, i just picked up a program today...which says the $8 ticket price is not applicable to opening night! i'll still be there, though, with my obsessive-compulsive self...and $25...
Nov 9 2004 9:48pm
so i CANT go watch this movie for 8$ then?.... when CAN i watch this movie for 8$???
well i guess that means i'll be going to class this week.
HOW DISAPPOINTING.
THOROUGHLY.
Nov 10 2004 12:22am
Oh well... I can't miss it, $25 or no.
Nov 10 2004 2:46am
i would consider spending 25$ if it weren't for the fact that i'd be paying for a party that a band called "AWESOME POWERS AND THE SHAGELICS" were playing at.
*PUKE* WHO WOULD CALL THEIR BAND THAT??? GOD.
i'm still gonna see if i can watch this movie for 8$. god dammit.
Nov 10 2004 3:20pm
That is fucking AWFUL but I'm still going.
Nov 10 2004 5:23pm
ugggggg i really wanna see this
25$ or not to 25$
Nov 11 2004 12:48pm
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