A double feature of poetic interludes that reckon with the ghosts of artmaking, past and present, confronting existential artistic questions and reflecting on the impulse to create.

Completed over a period of 20+ years and taking place over a single night, Greg Hanec’s Think At Night adopts an ambivalent and searching tone, following a lapsed artist as he makes a case against art. Poets and performance artists lead us through liminal space–corridors, cafes, parkades, bad parties–while ambient tones, loose strands of conversation, and a deliberate, probing camera impart a somnambulistic, half-forgotten mood. Somewhere along the walk, while transversing time, age, and artistic fields of reference, a quiet, self-reflexive counter-argument is posed.

“A smorgasbord of beat-like poetry, freewheeling direction, improvisational immediacy, and Godardian self-awareness”  –Kinoskop Festival

Screens along with How to Run a Trotline, by Carl Elsaesser, a short film that flirts with diffuse paternal symbolism that is unmoored but suggestive. How does one run a trotline? What is a trotline? We never learn. But it sounds rugged and fatherly.

*This program is rated PG, and contains rapid movement and flashing light. Total runtime 80 minutes