The Movie Man
Matt Finlin | Canada | 2024 | 89m
Post-screening Q&A with Matt Finlin in attendance.
Deep in the woods near Kinmount, Ontario, lies a movie theatre like no other in the world. Since its opening in 1979, the Highlands Cinemas has grown to become a sprawling five-screen complex full of movie memorabilia, vintage projectors collected from closed theatres all over the U.S. and Canada, and – as if that weren’t enough – dozens of cats. Its existence stands as a testament to the tenacity of its sometimes cantankerous owner Keith Stata. But as we see in director Matt Finlin’s affectionate and richly detailed portrait – which was shot over five eventful years — Stata faces unprecedented challenges as he tries to keep his movie palace alive amid a global pandemic. In capturing Stata at moments high and low, the film celebrates the Highlands’ idiosyncratic impresario as an emblem of the grand passions that the movies have long inspired.
Matt Finlin has had a successful career in making award-winning documentaries, music videos, and commercials. Matt makes his home in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Presented with Winnipeg Film Group short
Tricks Are For Kiddo
Rhayne Vermette | Canada | 2012 | 2m
In 2010, Winnipeg director, Guy Maddin exclaims: It’s impossible to collage a film!
The source material came from the found footage readily available at the Winnipeg Film Group. This film is quite simply an inquiry into various methods to excavate something from the physical assemblage of images, much like the notion of a film collage, provoked by Mr. Maddin. My selection process was mainly engrossed with textures and either building up the density of an image, or deflating it. It was also interested in the various ways to reduce an image either through cuts or tears.
Rhayne Vermette was born in Notre Dame de Lourdes, Manitoba. It was while studying architecture at the University of Manitoba, that she fell into the practices of image making and storytelling. Primarily self taught, Rhayne’s films are opulent collages of fiction, animation, documentary, reenactments and divine interruption. Vermette’s first feature, Ste. Anne, won the Amplify Voices Award at TIFF 2021, establishing her as a unique voice in Canadian cinema.
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