Happy New Yeah!

Lots will be happen'in this year! Stay tuned. Happy New Yeah! All the best. Go Go Go

HAPPY NEW YEAR - GO!

ALL THE BEST EVERYONE! from Robert Pasternak

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

Happy New Year

Wishing Everyone a Great New Year!
Thank you all for your love and support in all my endeavors.
                                                                   R.Pasternak

twelve + eight = 2new

My latest One Take Super8 film will be screening at

8FEST  in Toronto 

January 27-29 at Trash Palace

Notes from Nowhere: Super Winnipeg Super 8

Curated by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan

-exert from the program-

Winnipeg is an impoverished city, famous for its frigid winters and its artists. Sustained by cheap studio rent and fantastic thrift-store finds, the creative class thrives in the geographic centre of North America. There is very little cool factor to living in the middle of nowhere, so most of us just keep out heads down, get our work done, and try to keep the tips of our ears from freezing. Very little changes in Winnipeg.

Perhaps that is what makes the archaic technology of Super 8 neither outré nor hip. It simply is: a vehicle for ideas, images and experimentation. Friends come together to make something. It doesn’t cost very much. Like Ed Ackerman, you can even develop your own footage in the kitchen sink. Whether the subject matter is, like Deco Dawson’s, seemingly hundred-year-old gestural studies or, like Jaimz & Karen Asmundson’s, an unselfconsciously goofy celebration of place, the particulars of the form continue to enamour. Super 8 looks like memory and is similarly malleable. Winnipeg filmmakers continue to use it to create works that seem to exist outside of time, that reference an earlier time or that simply mark time with chemical collisions and light. Films by Robert Pasternak, Mike Maryniuk, Jaimz & Karen Asmundson, Noam Gonick, Deco Dawson, Heidi Phillips and Ed Ackerman. 

Stills from Robert Pasternak's Super8 film RGB