The filmmaker will be present. Music by DJ Wayne Marshall (of Beat Research) from 7 to 8pm. Films start at 8pm. Tickets: $10 regular / $8 student and senior.

"My films are often characterized by rapid bursts of fleeting images. They are ephemeral, transient. As soon as an image is born, it is dead already, supplanted by another cycle of life and death, and it goes on and on like a frieze. The eye can’t hold but its lingering echoes. The cinema for me is not truth 24 frames per second, as the cinematographer Raoul Coutard once said to Godard; rather, it is death 24 frames per second. Or it is life 24 frames per second. Either way, it is saying the same thing. And truth is elsewhere. Truth is somewhere in broad daylight, unnoticed by us who pass it by everyday. But to be locked in Plato’s cave is in fact a privilege of the artist, not a misery. For the artist is the one who finds clarity in the darkness of the cave: clarity away from truth. Which is a humbling truth for the artist." - Daïchi Saïto

Program

Chiasmus (16mm / b&w / sound / 8 min. / 2003)
Chasmic Dance (16mm / b&w / silent / 24fps / 6:30 min. / 2004)
Blind Alley Augury (super-8mm / color / silent / 18fps / 3 min. / 2006)
All That Rises (16mm / color / sound / 7 min. / 2007)
Green Fuse (super-8mm / color / silent / 18fps / 3 min. / 2008)
Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (35mm / color / sound / 10 min. / 2009)
Never a Foot Too Far, Even (double-projection 16mm / color / sound / 14 min. / 2011)

Filmmaker bio

Japanese filmmaker based in Montreal, Daïchi Saïto studied literature and philosophy in the USA and Hindi and Sanskrit in India before turning to film. His work has screened at numerous venues worldwide, and his film Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis won the Best of the Festival Award at the 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Jury Grand Prize at the 16th Media City Film Festival. Co-founder of the Montreal-based artist filmmaking collective Double Negative, Saïto also serves as Co-Director of CinemaSpace at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts.

   
Chiasmus

   
Chiasmic Dance


Blind Alley Augury

   
All That Rises


Green Fuse


Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis


Never a Foot Too Far, Even

Partially sponsored by the Quebec Government Office in Boston.