Moodyville and Moodyville Films

Presentation House Gallery presents, MOODYVILLE. Featuring the work of Karin Bubaš (98), Jim Breukelman, Babak Golkar (03), Mike Grill, Kyla Mallett (00), Jeremy Shaw (99), and Dan Siney (04). The exhibit is curated by Helga Pakasaar.

The exhibition runs May 3-June 15, 2008.

In conjunction with Moodyville, an hour and a half of films about North Vancouver entitled Moodyville Films looks at different lifestyles and legends of North Vancouver, past and present - hippie culture, skateboarding, extreme mountain biking, and straight edge dancing. The program includes Mudflats Living, a 1972 half-hour NFB documentary about the "counter-culture" community of squatters who lived at the Mudflats near Dollarton in an inside view of alternative lifestyles; The Seylynn Story (2006) directed by George Faulkner about North Vancouver's world famous skateboard park built in 1978; and the already legendary film style of North Shore extreme mountain biking.

Excerpts will be screened from the brand new video Seasons by The Collective and from NSX 9: Trail Tales & Other Lies by Todd Fiander of Digger Know Fear Enterprises featuring "ball busting" footage from the highest vertical drop on the North Shore. Also in the program are two video artworks by Jeremy Shaw. 7 Minutes (1995/2002) shows two teenage girls in a fistfight at a house party in North Vancouver. The tension in this mesmerizing footage of reckless youth is emphasized by Shaw's original soundtrack as Circlesquare, with lyrics about the ever-present anxiety of living in an earthquake prone city. The slow-motion footage of Shaw's Best Minds Part Two (2007), accompanied by an original soundtrack by Circlesquare, was shot at a straightedge dance at North Vancouver's Seylynn Hall.

Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 7pm

Empire Esplanade 6 Cinemas

200 West Esplanade, North Vancouver

Free Admission

For more information, please visit Presentation House Gallery.