Thursday, November 28, 6 - 9 PM
Collider x Calgary Cinematheque
Artists, Ryan Bourne & Rebecca Reid Present:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Introduction by the Artists: 6 PM
Film: 6:15 PM
Runtime: 2h 44m
What better pairing than the Centennial Planetarium with 2001: A Space Odyssey! Collider artists-in-residence Ryan Bourne and Rebecca Reid are excited to partner with Calgary Cinematheque to bring Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi masterpiece to Contemporary Calgary’s iconic home. The artists will introduce the film with some fun facts about the making of this modern epic. Conceived by Kubrick and sci-fi master Arthur C. Clarke in a time of great momentum and optimism at the prospect of space exploration (in the same historical moment as the Canada Centennial Project), “2001”’s painstakingly researched and masterfully elaborated vision remains as breathtaking and relevant as ever.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ryan Bourne is a Calgary-based multi-disciplinary musician, composer, performer, artist and designer whose solo and collaborative work explores experimental, avant-garde and psychedelic approaches to pop songwriting. Ryan works with themes of spiritual transcendence, vulnerability, transformation, mortality, isolation, and fluidity. His visual work further explores these feeling subjects via vibrantly coloured loosely figurative and abstract works in painting, large scale charcoal drawing, and digital and analog collage, and installation. In the past decade he has released or collaborated on 9 records, 2 EPs (including solo RB, Chad Van Gaalen, Marlaena Moore, Ghostkeeper, Holgans, Sleepkit, and Devonian Gardens) and 2 art books (both with visual artist Kiarra Albina) and toured Canada, Europe and the US. He currently performs with Chad Van Gaalen, Ghostkeeper, Lab Coast and Marlaena Moore, and under his name. Recent work has included photographic colour treatments for Kaleidoscope Eyes, a collaboration with Rebecca Ried on the fabrication of a scale kaleidoscope for the cREative Realm project.
Rebecca Reid, creative alias Willow Herzog, is a Calgary based visual artist and tarot reader who specializes in installation, set design, projections and large scale creative environments. She has worked with AGA, Art Commons, Sled Island, Welcome to the West, Offbeat Figure Drawing, Frog Fest, Calgary Outsider Art, Femme Wave, People of the Wild Mountain Arts Collective, Blank Page Studio and numerous other grassroots projects. Rebecca also works consistently as a set designer for Market Collective, creating immersive stage environments and installation art. When not working on sets, props, and stages she is a Kindergarten and children’s art teacher. Her creative work often uses up-cycled and reclaimed items and draws inspiration from the sublime and ethereal realms. While placemaking and set design are her main practice, Rebecca is also a painter, writer, and sculptor who frequently enjoys creating with resin, stained glass, and organic materials. She is inspired by neon, nature, light, astrology, the '70s and sexuality. She would describe her work as being resourceful and full of esoteric textures infused with intuitive impulses.
ABOUT CALGARY CINEMATHEQUE
Calgary Cinematheque is a non-profit film society dedicated to presenting significant, challenging, and essential works of cinema art in Calgary.
During their season, which runs from October to April, Calgary Cinematheque screens films weekly, in curated programs which situate each film in a thematic and historical context.
They do this because we believe cinema is an essential form of artistic, social, and political expression. Audiences should be able to engage with a wide range of cinematic expression, not only with what is commercially viable. They believe in the power of sharing these experiences with other people in a theatrical setting and they strive to cultivate a community around that experience.