NAK WONDERFUL WORLDS DOCUMENTARY SHOWING

ALONG WITH 2 other great documentaries By the legendary PATRICK LOWE

Friday 7PM

April 27, 2018

CINEMATHEQUE

100 Arthur St. Winnipeg

204-925-3456

Patrick Lowe is a Winnipeg animator, editor and writer. Best known for his short films Going Ape (1985), Gerald the Genie (1997), and A Bit Transcendental (2000), he has also written extensively about the Winnipeg filmmaking community and Canadian cinema. More recently he created a trio of excellent documentaries about Winnipeg visual artists. His late brother Greg Lowe composed the soundtracks for Andrew Milne Dreams of Machines and The Wonderful Worlds of Nak.

The Wonderful Worlds of Nak / Directed by Patrick Lowe, 2013, Canada, 27 min / Guided by a mix of new age philosophy, comic book ambition, and a fundamental belief in the interconnectedness of events, Winnipeg artist Robert Pasternak creates a fast-paced and fun vision of a colourful and eclectic universe for all to marvel at and experience.

Andrew Milne Dreams of Machines / Directed by Patrick Lowe, 2015, Canada, 29 min / In this fast-paced odyssey, multidisciplinary artist Andrew Milne creates his special brand of oversized machines to challenge the way we see the world. We see how his creations function and how ordinary people react to and interact with them.

*Winner Best Documentary / Los Angeles Independent Film Festival.

*Windy Award Winner / Greg Lowe / IATSE 856 Overall Sound Prize for music composition for Andrew Milne Dreams of Machines.

Harry Nelken at Your Service / Directed by Patrick Lowe, 2017, Canada, 28 min / Legendary local actor Harry Nelken talks to the audience about his life and career. With both grace and humour, he gently regales us with stories about his family, his stage work, his Jewish heritage, and the challenges he faced playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.

Traffic in Melbourne

MY animated short film Traffiiik will be showing at this years Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF) in Australia June 18-25. Monica Lowe, Distribution Director at the Winnipeg Film Group was invited to curate and present a program of shorts from the Winnipeg Film Group catalogue.

Traffiiiik

Robert Pasternak                                                                                            

Canada, 1’30, 2007

Four Faces of the Moon

Amanda Strong                                                                                                 

Canada, 12’56, 2016

Nude descending (After Duchamp)

Dan Browne                                                                                        

Canada, 2’00, 2013

5¢ a Copy

Ed Ackerman, Gregory Zbitnew                           

Canada, 5’00, 1980

"The Talk" True Stories about the Birds & the Bees

Alain Delannoy                     

Canada, 8’50, 2016

Sun Moon Stars Rain

Leslie Supnet                   

Canada, 3’20, 2009

Synapse

Murray Toews                                                                                     

Canada, 1’12, 2009

Empty

Jackie Traverse                                                                                    

Canada, 5’07, 2009

Courtship

Alison Davis                                                                                        

Canada, 1’11, 2008

                                                                                                  

Daydream

Alan Pakarnyk

Canada, 2’30, 1980

Automoto

Neil McInnes, Cathy McInnes                

Canada, 5’00, 2007

Cattle Call

Mike Maryniuk, Matthew Rankin

Canada, 3’30, 2008

Seasick

Eva Cvijanovic                                                                                    

Canada, 3’28, 2013

Kathleen's Diary

Chrystene Ells              

Canada, 6’28, 2013

WUFF & THE 90 SECOND

WINNIPEG UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL....
JUNE 5/6/7, 2015

.....recently selected my observational abstract moving picture short, title 'untitled TV Fuzz No.1' to be screened in The 90 Second program which will kick off this weekend long festival of Alternative Film & Video friday night.

You can check out all the programed Films and Schedules here. WUFF

 Stills from Untitled TV Fuzz No.1 by PAS.TER.NAK

NEW-NAK-DOC IN GIMLI

THE WONDERFUL WORLDS OF NAK

will be playing at the Gimli Film Festival this year.

Friday, July 25th, 2014

12:30pm

Aspire Theatre

This 30 Minute Documentary originally produced for MTS On Demand Video and directed by Patrick Lowe with an original music by score by brother Greg Lowe, this film explores a weaving of my artwork and philosophies from some of the diverse areas of my practice.

This documentary played at the Yorkton Film festival and was recently the opening film at FIFA, the International Festival of Film on Art in Montreal.

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SAYSOME NO.6 ...

...has already come and gone....been out for some time....sorry you may have missed it.....I'll print some more.....still Free!.....write me for a copy.

Saysome No.7 is all finished and just needs to go to the printers.

New Music Festival and Beyond

My short xperimental 2007 film 412222 will be shown at this years New Music Festival here in Winnipeg. This film was made entirely on 16mm film for my instalation component at PlugIn ICA's group show Scratching The Surface: The Post Prairie Landscape. The film is four and a half minutes long and will be show in between the two main performances for the evening.

Two stills from the xperimental 412222

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SAYSOME issue No.5
is available now in selected locations in Winnipeg and now in Montreal at Monastiraki.
....and remember, it's FREE! 

If you would like to carry Saysome in your store or other locale, please write me. Back issues are available. Each issue contains vatious ARTicles of ink drawings with regular installments of Super Secret Abstract Gadget Man, a comic strip called Meanwhile..., the Abstract Page  as well as other viewing devices. Each issue is 8 pages.

MONASTIRAKI and Billy Mavreas

Hot NakUniverse Doc

Winnipeg filmmaker Patrick Lowe is making a 30 minute documentary about Pasternak Universe.

WOW. Filming starts today!

I am excited as well as nervous about all this, but mostly thrilled. And even more happier that Patrick is doing this. He had been telling me for years now that he's wanted to do a film about me(about my art really) and I know he will do an out of this world job.  He showed me a 5 minute preliminary treatment from some test footage he took and I was already blown away. This documentary will be available on MTS On Demand and as well, Patrick plans on sending it out to film festivals. To top it off, Patrick's brother Greg Lowe (famed veteran musician, whom I did the artwork on his first Jazz CD cover back in 1991) will be creating original music for this flick.

Out in the spring. Stay tuned.

NEWS OLDS

 
PREVIOUSLY - while settling in to the new...

LOGOS

... new Split Studio Space, the SSS. I draw, assemble and digitize in one space and I paint in another. The light is fantastic in one and not so light-fantastique in the other. One of these spaces has a huge graphic on the wall, an artifact from the seventies I am sure. I have recreated it here and I am using it on my business cards. It seems to suit me and my space well.

ALSO

Many new paintings have emerged from the new SSS. See the Painternak link to the right.

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THE HAND SEES

The other day I was in my favorite antique & funk shop and came across a self portrait  I did 29 years ago. I had given it to my girlfriend at the time as a Christmas gift. It was so nice to see it again! I was surprised at how vibrant it was and that It was well taken care of. I wonder what happened? I hope that the other paintings that I gave her and her family are still alive and in good care.

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A PLACE FOR US

Noam Gonick: Wildflower Of Manitoba
Cinematheque Winnipeg
June 22, 2012

A Place For Us - a Super8 mash-up in collaboration with Aaron Zeghers, Noam Gonick and Robert Pasternak had it's world premier at a screening of Gonick's short films.


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ANTEBELLUM GALLERY

Hollywood California

June 2 - 23, 2012

WINNIPIG - a group show curated by Noam Gonick featured some of my sculptural 'woodies'.

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Branching Off .... and ON

***NAK'S UNIVERSAL BRANCHING BLOGS

This News Blog was getting into areas and topics that were not really news, so I decide to start a whole NAK universe of Web Blogs related to... my work, thoughts, and interests of course! Who cares about other things going on in the world when you can have Joy and Happiness right here!

***NEW FILM MAY OR MAY NOT BE SPECTACULAR

BELIEVE IT OR NOT and SEE IT OR NOT

November 2 at the Gas Station Theatre  7:PM

I have a new film at the One Take Super-8 Event held in Winnipeg every year at WNDX film Festival. October 29 - November 2 

"This year I threw away the camera to make my film. Who knows if it will turn out. I've never done anything like it before. I'll see it for the first time along with everyone else." 

 

Uptown Article Online here

***JUPITER ALIGNS WITH La Luz de JESUS Gallery in LOS ANGELES

OPENS OCTOBER 7th

My painting Jupiter is in a Group show celebrating 25 years of this Los Angeles Institution and It's hist Billy Shire. I am very happy to be showing with an incredible roster of artists that includes none other than folks like Matt Groeming, Mark Ryden, The Clayton Brothers, Robert Williams, Mary Fleener, Frank Kozik, Gary Panter, Victor Moscosso, and the lost goes on.  

La Luz de Jesus 25

Billy Shire celebrates 25 years with huge group show & book

Part 1 opens October 7 & 8, 8–11 PM

Part 2 opens November 4 & 5, 8–11 PM

To celebrate 25 years of groundbreaking art shows, Billy Shire presents his biggest event ever: La Luz de Jesus 25, a major retrospective exhibition and companion book. The show, offering work by more than 260 artists who have exhibited at the gallery over the years, is so extensive that Shire has split it into two parts, each with two opening nights: part 1 opens October 7 and 8, and part 2 opens November 4 and 5. The  list of participating artists is a veritable Who’s Who of art world luminaries. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see all these artists together in one show.

View the complete list of artists here. 

View the artist roster for each month here.

The book, La Luz de Jesus 25: The Little Gallery That Could, features images of all the art in the show, a personal anecdote about Shire and the gallery written by each artist, essays by La Luz gallery directors and a foreword by Shire. The book is more than a simple record of the show. Taken together, the images and essays present a history of La Luz de Jesus through the eyes of the artists whose careers are intertwined with Shire and his gallery.

Jupiter - 2011 - 18 x 22 in. - acrylic on canvas

About La Luz de Jesus

Billy Shire opened La Luz de Jesus in 1986 to showcase the work of underground and folk artists largely ignored or dismissed by the legitimate art world. The first permanent gallery space to exhibit alternative art, La Luz quickly became famous as much for its splashy, raucous monthly opening parties as for the often outrageous and confrontational art on its walls. When choosing artists, Shire challenged received notions of “good taste” and “high art” and rejected the arbitrary but long-cherished distinction between commercial and fine art, embracing illustration, underground art, outsider art, animation, and comics, both underground and mainstream. As a result, many artists hugely successful today credit Shire with having launched their careers, and he is widely acknowledged as a seminal figure in contemporary art movements such as Lowbrow and Pop Surrealism.

***FOUNTAIN of YOUTH FOUND in COSM

Yes, it is right here in the pages of COSM the Journal of Visionary Culture. It must be true! I have a new work, or rather thought/teaching in this new issue #7. This Magazine is published through the leadership and insight of one of our foremost visionaries, Alex Grey.

***CART EXHIBIT in Baltimore at CURRENT SPACE is extended to October 21st

Here are links for reviews in the Baltimore Sun & and a new arts review blog based out of Baltimore
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-ae-arts-story-0805-20110804,0,1807348.story
http://whatweekly.com/2011/07/13/6873/

***ARTWORK at Gallery LACOSSE 

For those that love my Concrete Expressionism work, well they are now available at Gallery Lacosse at 169 Lilac Street, Winnipeg.

Night Watchman - oil pastel on paper - 7 x 10 in.

New Music Festival Kick-Off

Once again my Film 412222 will be shown here in Winnipeg with an original live score by the eXperimental Improv Ensemble. This time at the kick-off performance of the New Music Festival held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. This is pretty much a repeat outdoor gig from Nuit Blanche held last September, which was very Fantastic. It was a great image and sound performance. But for this event there are also many other performances happening. Check it out!

Kick-Off: Tangle

Friday, January 28, 2011 • 8:00 p.m.

The Winnipeg Art Gallery Doors open at 7:00 p.m.

Groundswell New Music returns to celebrate our 20th anniversary of New Music Festival. Come see and hear Winnipeg’s own Experimental Improv Ensemble in an exciting work that combines cinema, lights, and sound. Be dazzled by the incredible sound installations created by Daryn Bond. Hear wonderful new works by Winnipeg composers Diana McIntosh, Gordon Fitzell and Jim Hiscott. As well, witness the creation of a new work by visual artist John Funk. Curated by Diana McIntosh and Gordon Fitzell of GroundSwell.

Artists:

eXperimental Improv Ensemble (XIE); Gordon Fitzell, director Diana McIntosh, voice, piano, percussion Allen Harrington, saxophone Laura Loewen, piano Victoria Sparks, percussion Meredith Johnson, bass Bede Hanley, oboe Herbert Enns, video Gordon Fitzell, electronics Katharine Bruce, real-time visual art John Funk, real-time visual art Daryn Bond, media installation

Program

XIE (CAN): Live soundtracks – Part 1 (see below) Diana McIntosh/Allen Harrington (CAN): Improv Duo Daryn Bond (CAN): Area Clear Gordon Fitzell (CAN): Metropolis Diana McIntosh (CAN): Sampling the Communication Parameters in the Ambience of Structural Phrasing and Dynamics in Contemporary Music Jim Hiscott (CAN): Tangle Diana McIntosh (CAN): …and 8:30 in Newfoundland XIE (CAN):  Live soundtracks – Part 2 (see below)

Live soundtracks to local experimental films: 412222 (2007) by Robert Pasternak, Sitka (2009) by Olga Zikrata, Going going gone (2008) by Carole O’Brien, Chroma-dance (2007) by James Pomeroy, Malaguena (2004) by Coral Aiken, The Great Divide (2008) by Bryan Besant

NUIT BLANCHE - Culture Days

My experimental film 412222 which originally premiered in my installation Component For A Mechanical Landscape at Plug In ICA will play at The CUBE in Old Market Square with 11 other fantastic experimental films along with new LIVE original soundtracks by the eXperimental Improv Ensemble on September 25th at 8:30 PM.  the Winnipeg Film Group has organized this event as part of Winnipeg's first Nuit Blanche. it's FREE    

SHATTERGLIT

This weekend here in Winnipeg is the wonderful and incredible Annual WNDX FILM FESTIVAL and also starting this weekend and going through the whole week is the ANTIMATTER FILM FESTIVAL in Victoria BC. I have the same short film SHATTERGLIT playing at both festivals.

 

 

Film:Experience with Humans

As some of you may already know, I create short "art films" or ambient films with themes of humanistic transformations of some sort. This weekend at the Gimli Film Festival I have two such films being screened. Both of these were made using a Super-8 film camera and both are stop motion animations.

DeVisible 

A stream of consciousness stop motion animation about a sci-man's transformational waking up and his morning ritual before leaving his apartment in Sci-City to go for a walk. This 8mm film was shot in one afternoon and  was originally made for the One-Take super-8 event  held in Winnipeg. Just a few digital effects were added later. The soundscape was made without any visual reference and with only the memory of what was shot and remains unedited from the original viewing.  

Drawing Totemica

A meditational stream of consciousness stop-motion drawing with underlying figurative and totem elements. Originally made on the deadline afternoon of the One-Take Super8 event of 2006(Winnipeg), the whole actual film lasts about 13 seconds and goes by so fast that I wanted to allow viewers the opportunity to soak it in by showing multiple viewings of this process. The music was found in 13 seconds flat in an i-movie application and I am still amazed at the timed syncronycity of it all.