Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film

Join us Tomorrow July 18th, at the Hanover Drive-In from 9:15-midnight for:
Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland
by Karrabing Collective
A PASSAGE
by Rouzbeh Akhbari & Felix Kalmenson
& Rosie, by Gail Maurice
https://fabfilmfest.org/programming/

Le FabFilmFest est ravi de vous offrir une présentation par l'artiste Cynthia-Laure Etom. Vendredi le 12 juillet, de 16h45 à 18h, à la Durham Art Gallery. Lors de cet échange, Cynthia-Laure abordera divers de ses travaux de photographe et de commissaire indépendante tels que :
> KÉLÉMA – Vision de Brazza (Série photographique)
> Ce qui nous rassemble, qui est mon prochain projet de commissariat (Exposition d’art médiatique)
Pour plus d'information et pous la version Anglaise https://fabfilmfest.org/cynthia-laureetom/

FFF is thrilled to present a Screening by BAWAADAN COLLECTIVE
Thursday July 11th > 9:30 - 10:45pm
McGowan Pavilion (right next to the falls), Durham Conservation Area.
This program featuring three works, will screen on the magnificent shore of the Saugeen River on Saugeen Ojibway Territory.
More information @ https://fabfilmfest.org/bawaadan-collective/

Fab Film Fest is thrilled to feature Never Enough Night by Andrew James Paterson, on July 11, at 6:30pm – 8:00pm, at the Durham Art Gallery.

Never Enough Night is a selection of short films, representing a cross-section of work, ranging across the artist’s career. This presentation acts as an extension of the recent exhibition at the plumb gallery in Toronto. The show, which opened April 26 2024, was the most extensive survey exhibition of the seminal Canadian artist’s work to date. The exhibition included a vast selection of Paterson’s video work spanning from the early 1980s through to the present, as well as poetry, painting, music, archival material, a live performance series, and an original catalogue available through Art Metropole.

Curated by Laura Carusi, Anthony Cooper, and Kate Whiteway
Videos courtesy of the artist and Vtape

The Fab Film Fest is delighted to feature "We Live Here", a Darling Pearls & Co Video Art Programme from July 11 - August 8 at The Durham Art Gallery

We Live Here presents video art pieces by an international set of artists in which architecture-based rituals were performed and recorded as acts of resistance or reflection on situations that are part of their daily lives. Their practices are each, in their own unique way, intertwined with these urban spaces, thereby also creating a personal site-specific documentation that subsequently becomes part of art history.

To learn more, visit: https://fabfilmfest.org/adarlingpearlscovideoartprogramme/

July 13, 2:00 – 4:00pm > Alors que la langue se glisse, Vernissage / Opening, Durham Art Gallery

« alors que la langue glisse » utilise des cadres théorique q***r et féministes pour rassembler six artistes travaillant sur des questions complexes entourant la langue et les structures de pouvoir dans ce qu’on appelle le nord-est Ontario et le nord-ouest Québec, avec une sensibilité particulièrement venant du nord. En conséquence, les artistes travaillent sur les questions de préservation de langues, d’identités, de traductions et d’absence de traduction en français, anglais, et nishnaabemwin.

Une langue est une chose étrange à considérer dans la façon dont l’identité est construite, actualisée et exécutée, n’est-ce pas? On entend souvent l’expression « langue maternelle » pour identifier notre langue dominante (la langue dominante étant elle-même un produit de la mondialisation et des systèmes de pouvoir coloniaux, et la question de la langue maternelle peut souvent être altérante ou destinée à marginaliser); en français, « langue » signifie à la fois une langue dans nos bouches et des langages; en anglais, nous pourrions souligner une erreur lorsque nous parlons avec l’expression « a slip of the tongue », soulignant que nos capacités de communiquer et à nous exprimer à travers de langages sont faillibles et glissantes. De plus, la langue est souvent au centre du plaisir q***r, sapant ainsi les conceptions patriarcales et hétéronormatives du sexe et de la sexualité. En français, il existe de nombreuses insultes homophobes péjoratives, mais nous cherchons encore des manières pour discuter positivement des identités q***r, autre que des anglicismes posant la question alors: comment déterminer quand produire des nouveaux mots ou quand d’emprunter d’une autre langue?

Une lecture q***r de les œuvres dans « as the tongue slips » nous permet de troubler les questions normalisées et standardisées de l’expression et de la communication afin d’affirmer des meilleures façons de faire les choses. D’utiliser q***rness comme prisme à travers lequel remettre ainsi en question la langue dans un état colonisateur – qui a cherché à éradiquer les langues autochtones – nous permet d’élargir les horizons de possibilités et de sortir des structures binaires.

Artistes: Aylan Couchie, Anyse Ducharme, Marc-Olivier Hamelin, Mishiikenh Kwe, Marc Ranger, Katya Serré
Commissaire: Alexander Rondeau

Fab film fest is proud to feature ROSIE, a film by Gail Maurice, on July 18, at 9:00pm – 11:00pm, at the Hanover Drive-in

ROSIE is a film about family, love, and misfits, ROSIE tells the story of a young, orphaned, Indigenous girl who is forced to live with her reluctant, street-smart Aunty Fred (Frédérique). Rosie is thrust into the fringes of 1980’s Montréal into the care of Fred, who just lost her job, is on the verge of eviction, and who looks and sounds nothing like her. Fred, an artist who creates art from found and discarded objects or other peoples’ trash, introduces Rosie to her two best friends Flo and Mo, glamorous human beings who refuse to be confined by gender. In the end, Rosie transforms the lives of these colourful characters and finds love, acceptance, and a true HOME with her new chosen family of glittering outsiders. Stay tuned for the schedule!

The Fab Film Fest is Thrilled to feature Alex Jacobs-Blum, on July 11, at 4:45pm – 6:00pm, at the Durham Art Gallery

Alex Jacobs-Blum, a Gayogo̱hó:nǫʼ (Cayuga) and German visual artist and curator living in Hamilton, ON. Her research focuses on Indigenous futurities and accessing embodied Ancestral Hodinöhsö:ni’ knowledge.The core of her practice and methodology is a strong foundation in community building, fostering relationships, empowering youth, and Indigenizing institutional spaces. Her creative process is rooted in storytelling and challenging hierarchical power structures. Alex endeavors to facilitate transformative change infused with love and care, guided by anti-oppressive/anti-racist modalities.

Hi Friends,
I'm directing the Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film this year, 11-12-13th, 18th and 30th of July. Please come camp with us on the 11-12 & 13th at the Durham Conservation Area (for $7/night) or join us when you can for an amazing line up of Screenings, presentations, and performances. Events are presented on Saugeen Ojibway National Territory and hosted at The Durham Art Gallery & Conservation Area. Town of Durham.
https://fabfilmfest.org/
Artists include: Alex Jacobs-Blum, The Bawaadan Collective, Gail Maurice, Tasman Richardson, Marc Audette, Alexander Rondeau, Andrew James Paterson, Miles Rufeld, Pejvak, Rouzbeh Akhbari & Felix Kalmenson, Cynthia-Laure Etom, Connor Lafortune, Fauxcils (Jenn Herd & Dunstan Topp), Aylan Couchie, Anyse Ducharme, Marc-Olivier Hamelin, Mishiikenh Kwe, Marc Ranger, Peaches Anishinaabe Art by Katya Serre, Clayton Windatt, Tara Windatt, Debbie Ebanks Schlums, Tony Masset, Laura Blayney, Corinna Ghaznavi, Alexander Mood, Darling Pearls & Co, Jung-Chul Hur, Douglas Joe, Jake Armstrong, Alexandra Myotte et Jean Sebastien Hamel, Craig Hunter, KJ Edwards, Raquel Sancinetti, Dan Sokolowski, Dylan Michael, James Klemen-Hurrell, Arcane Perry, Terril Calder, Darcy Tara McDiarmid, Chantal Rousseau, Graeme Patterson, Thanet Sauksabai, Pasakorn Nontananandh, Suppakrit Onkerd, Chatchai Jandarak, Martsamrit Pasupa, Sangshin Lee, Chonnikarn Techawongsuwan, Chakrapipat Assawaboonyalert, Sangshin Lee. Hoping you faithful friends will join me and the fab film fest crew in celebrating these artists and programmers.

Mark your calendars for an amazing range of screenings, talks, workshops and performances in Durham, Ontario, on the 11-12-13th of July, we have a large campground for all audience members at the local conservation authority for $7/night! Stay tuned for a full schedule, coming shortly. Programming on the 18th is at the Hanover Drive-In

Thank you soooo much to our wonderful Fight at the Fringe crowd and the for helping us raise $1500 and a whole bunch of food for the Durham and District Food Bank. You guys are the best! Hope to see you all next year!

And it's a wrap! A lovely ending to this year's Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film thanks to CreateDangerously's beautiful dance piece, NEURONS. See you all next year!

The Fab Film Fest's Art Party was a bunch of fun! A big thanks to the volunteers and musicians who made it happen. Also a shout out to Schultz's Bakery in Hanover, ON for creating the Cameron House cake. It was so yummy!

The Art Shack Experience was epic! We were also thrilled to be able to celebrate Napo's 50th anniversary of his first art show. What a fabulous way to wrap up this year's Fab Festival of Fringe Film!

Today is all about Durham Conservation Area in the pavilion at the front gate. Come and celebrate the last day of the Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film!! Schedule is on our website at www.fabfilmfest.ca but here it is for your convenience: 5:00 pm (*new time) - ART PARTY is a celebration of the festival and a reception for all of our artists. Light refreshments and snacks provided. 7:00 pm - THE ART SHACK EXPERIENCE is an intimate theatre constructed from painting artifacts that brings you into artist, Napoleon Brousseau's creative world. 9:00 pm - CreateDangerously performs NEURONS - a short dance piece that takes a look inside the mind and how outside influences affect and shape the functions of our brain and disrupt communication within it causing it to turn on ourselves. Come and get lost in the experiences.

Reminder of TIME CHANGE for tonight's performance at the Durham Art Gallery.
Distance Between Us will be performing at 7 pm Friday July 21. Don't miss it!

Come for the experience, tonight 7pm at the Durham Art Gallery!

A little teaser to tonight's flick:

Night is Limpid (2022) Trailer https://quantitycinema.com/night-is-limpid

Live performance event this Friday, July 21st at 7pm!
Join us at the Durham Art Gallery for a free event & artist performance "Zaagiing - Saugeen", an extension of the 'Art - Environment - Life - Everything' exhibition by multi-arts collective 'distance between us' with artists: Elyse Portal, Emilio Portal, Tara Windatt & Clayton Windatt & presented in partnership with Durham's Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film!

*Durham Art Gallery's mascot Alma shows her love for the 'Art - Environment - Life - Everything' exhibition!

Another fabulous film is showing tonight at the . We are welcoming filmmaker Isiah Medina along with members of their cast and crew to screen their film, NIGHT IS LIMPID. Film starts around 9:30 pm, but come a little earlier to say hello and grab some snacks at the concession stand. FREE event. Donations to the FabFilmFest appreciated. See you there!!

We're heeeere! Come on over to for a night of arthouse horror flicks. Back to back films by Seb Godin. Starting time 9:30 pm. Films not rated, parental advisory recommended. FREE event. Donations to the film fest appreciated.

Another time change in the schedule. Keep checking out our website so you don't miss anything!!

Make sure to check our website for any program changes - because - well, that happens! www.fabfilmfest.ca.

The Fab Film Fest's program, 'Drive Me to the Drive In' delves into the horror genre tonight at the . Back to back films by Sebastien Godin, BLOOD RITES OF THE VAMPYR and THE ABOMINATIONS OF FRANKENSTEIN will thrill and horrify you. Come if you dare. First film begins at 9:30 pm. Double feature is 2h 20min in total. These horror films are not rated, parental advisory strongly recommended. FREE EVENT. Donations welcome.

See you all at the on Wed. July 19 and Thurs. July 20 at 9:30 pm. Check out www.fabfilmfest.ca for film descriptions and to find out what else is coming up!!