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hello everyone i’m ryan ferguson i’m the

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curator film at the art gallery of

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hamilton

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uh i hope everyone out there is enjoying

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the the sudden appearance of seasonal

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weather here

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in hamilton and across the province it’s

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about time i know there’s a beautiful

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day happening outside of my window and

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i’m really looking forward to enjoying

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some of it soon myself

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um today i wanted to take some time to

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plug the latest addition to

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our monthly online film series at the

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art gallery of hamilton

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the film is called about endlessness and

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it’s directed by

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the swedish film director roy anderson

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roy anderson is probably best known

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globally for his work in commercials um

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but he did get his start in the swedish

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film industry in the late 60s early 70s

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he made a film in 1970 called swedish

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love story which is commonly seen as one

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of the defining swedish films of that

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era

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he gave feature film making up shortly

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after though because he

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felt that he wasn’t really able to make

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the types of films that he wanted to

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within the confines of the swedish film

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industry at that time

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so at that point he switched gears and

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embarked on

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a very very successful career making

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commercials

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he won numerous wards around the world

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created over 400 commercials

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uh some of the best known film

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commercials uh across europe through

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that era

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and established through that process his

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own studio

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um and again through all of the success

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in the commercial

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world he was able to sort of buy himself

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the freedom to start making the films

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again that he wanted

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so the first of those was called songs

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from for the second floor

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um and he’s made a few of those uh you

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the living the most recent

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one we screened at our film festival i

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believe it was in 2015

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uh that film was called a pigeon sat on

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a branch reflecting on life

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is a very very interesting specific

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style of filmmaking

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that was developed through his

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commercial practice and

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uh it’s just such a wonderful unique

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world view that

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is projected through his his lens

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um i’m really hoping that some of you

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take some time out to check that film

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out this month

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um it’s like i said available in our

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online film series

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um and if if you do and check out any of

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the films in our online film series i’d

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encourage you to join

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our monthly film club this month we’re

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meeting on may 26th

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we get together that one evening a month

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on zoom

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and talk about uh the films that were in

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our monthly film

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series and do a little sneak peek of

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what’s coming

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up in the next month uh it’s a really

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nice opportunity to

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discuss the films that you might have

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seen over the month uh

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and i always really enjoy talking in

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greater detail about

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the films that we present each and every

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month as part of the online film series

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at the art gallery of hamilton

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and before we go today i wanted to

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actually take a time a little bit of

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time to talk a little bit more about

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what

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the online film series is and why it

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exists and why it’s actually an

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important

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um piece of the the film industry as we

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work through this pandemic uh the films

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that are in our featured in our monthly

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film series tend to be the films that

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in a non-pandemic world would be in the

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theater right now

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and a theatrical release is a very very

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critical point of a film’s

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development um it’s one of the places

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where the filmmakers the

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distributors the the people who paid to

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make the film happen

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um get some of their money back

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um and also feature it on a in a

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standalone type of platform so the

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theatrical release we’re trying to

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simulate that with an online film series

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and every ticket that gets purchased to

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our online film series 50

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of that ticket goes right back to the

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film so it helps

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continue the um a healthy film industry

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as we work through this pandemic

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and hopefully end up getting to see

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movies in the theater again

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real soon the way they’re meant to be

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seen

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so it still does provide a really

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important step in this process and

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that’s why

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we’re so happy to be doing it and we’re

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so committed to be doing this program

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each and every month because we really

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do want to support the film industry

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and the filmmakers out there who are

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still working through the pandemic

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um and just a reminder the last the

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other two films that are available

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in our online film series this month are

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berlin alexanderplatz

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uh and museum town and museum town is a

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documentary about the contemporary arts

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museum

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mass moca so as the art gallery of

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hamilton i’m sure there’s a lot of you

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out there

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who are would be very interested in

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seeing that film

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uh and then quickly i’ll give you all a

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sneak peek

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for june a film that just premiered last

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week at the hot dogs festival

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in toronto is a documentary called

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street gang and it’s a behind the scenes

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look

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at the history and the development of

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the sesame street tv show i was really

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fortunate to get to see it during the

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festival last week and i’m so excited to

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be sharing it next month

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and i can’t wait for everyone across

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hamilton and the province

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to get a chance to see this film and

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then join us in our film club in june to

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talk about it

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okay so i’m gonna leave you with that i

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hope you’re enjoying the weather

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keep watching movies i’m gonna go

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outside and enjoy this day see at the

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movies

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