Pop Montreal has a film festival, buddy
“In a city replete with film festivals,Film POP, the little sister of Montreal mega music-festival POP Montreal, is in a class all its own.”
−The Montreal Buzz
“In the spirit of the broader event of which it is a part, Film POP once again digs up movies offering a window into the rock’n’roll underground.”
−Montreal Gazette
“Film POP truly embodies the spirit of POP Montreal.”
− Sound on Sight
What is Film POP?
From September 19–23, 2012, Film POP runs alongside and within the POP Montreal International Music Festival. Now entering its 8th year as part of POP Montreal, Film POP is all about busting out of the rusty old film festival cage, and finding fun new ways to present movies, with a particular predilection for the musical. It’s “where movies and music make out in the dark”, as the old saying goes. Championing the same independent spirit in film that POP Montreal has championed in music, Film POP revitalizes the movie going experience by creating a new kind of film festival.
Each year, Film POP presents a slate of nearly 20 music-related film events, including important premieres, retrospective screenings, expanded cinema performances, live film scores, short films, music videos and free family screenings at a variety of professional and unconventional spaces.
To submit a film, video or expanded cinema project to FilmPOP 2012, see guidelines here: http://popmontreal.com/en/film/news/film-pop-call-submissions-2012
Film POP is:
Curator: Kier-La Janisse
And many incredible POP Montreal co-crew and so many amazing Film POP volunteers!
Curator bio:
Kier-La Janisse is a writer and film programmer who co-founded the Blue Sunshine Psychotronic Film Centre and The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and currently works for the Fantasia Film Festival as editor of their online magazine, Spectacular Optical. She has been a programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas, founded the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival and the Big Smash! Music-on-Film Festival (both in Vancouver) and was the subject of the documentary Celluloid Horror (2005). She has written for Filmmaker, Rue Morgue and Fangoria magazines, has contributed to The Scarecrow Movie Guide (Sasquatch Books, 2004) and Destroy All Movies!! The Complete Guide to Punk on Film (Fantagraphics, 2010), and is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi, published by FAB Press in 2007. Her recently completed new book about female neurosis in horror and exploitation films entitled House of Psychotic Women is due out from FAB Press in spring 2012. Also, Willis from Diff'rent Strokes told her she had a "righteous booty".
PAST HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
2011
Premieres of Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune (dir. Kenneth Bowser)
Upside Down: The Creation Records Story (dir. Danny O’Connor)
Bloodied But Unbowed with director Susanne Tabata and DOA’s Randy Rampage in person
PJ Harvey: Let England Shake (dir. Seamus Murphy)
A rare 16mm screening of Dream Deceivers: The Story of James Vance vs. Judas Priest
Illustration exhibit by Rudimentary Peni’s Nick Blinko.
2010
World premiere of Feist documentary, Look At What the Light Did Now, dir. Anthony Seck
Montréal premiere of the No Fun City documentary, dir. Melissa James and Kate Kroll
Private home viewings of Takeaway Shows, dir. Vincent Moon
Rooftop viewing of Up The Yangtzee documentary, dir. Yung Chang
2009
Montréal premiere of It Might Get Loud, dir. David Guggenheim
Canadian premiere of BQE by Sufjan Stevens
A conversation with Vincent Moon
2008
Canadian premiere of Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Double Negative Collective performance
Jem Cohen Master Class with the NFB
2007
Albert Maysles Master Class
Besnard Lakes live soundtrack to Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
2006
Premiere of Making Music with the NFB initiative
Gary Lucas performs The Golem
Canadian Premiere of Roky Erikson: You’re Gonna Miss Me
2005
Billy Childish is Dead
Ron English’s Popaganda
2004
Inaugural year of loft screenings of music film classics