Video Pool Media Arts Centre presents the
Satan MacNuggit Video Road Show
The activist media art of Jonathan Culp
8PM, Saturday, June 10
Mondragon Bookstore and Coffeehouse
91 Albert Street, Winnipeg
The Satan Macnuggit Video Road Show is a guerrilla underground screening project, bringing subversive video to bars, barns and galleries, far and wide.
Seven works by rambling Toronto video activist Jonathan Culp will be shown. They are:
Grilled Cheese Sandwich [trailer] (2005, 2 min)
Ghost Squat (2005, 5 min)
Eventually (2005, 5 min)
How Does It Work? (2001, 22 min)
The Boob (1998, 2 min)
Jonathan Culp! (1996, 4 min)
It Can Happen Here (2006, 47 min)
PLUS: Video footage of the recent Critical Mass clash with Winnipeg police will precede the screening.
This screening traces Culp's development as an activist film maker –
moving from documentarian and agit prop styles to a poetic reflection
on personal politics. Recently he has engaged in blurring genres by
introducing elements such as found footage and hand processing
techniques into the familiar format of the documentary film.
I wish to challenge activist video's secondary, 'service' status within
activist movements, asserting video production in itself as an
ideological struggle that must be rendered visible. - Jonathan Culp
Jonathan Culp is the creator of over thirty short films and videos, including collage, documentary, and super 8 works. As co-founder of the Toronto Video Activist Collective, Culp was an early proponent of 'video activism.' He has helped to promote truly independent video via the Satan Macnuggit Video Road Show, and as film and video editor for Broken Pencil magazine. In 2003 Culp was cited as 'Toronto's Most Indefatigable Underground Video Guru' by NOW Magazine.
