Filming in September

FILM IN PROGRESS 
September 2019

Ermina Pérez is Marie of Wozzeck in this feature length art film directed by Wes Rickert

Evan Lepp is Suitcase Jack in this feature length art film directed by Wes Rickert

FILM 2019 with Tess Danforth and Ulysses Castellanos
Writer and film director Wes Rickert behind the camera


 
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CALL TO PERFORMERS

The Thousand Islands Film & Stage is currently casting experienced actors for a feature length, dada-inspired, avant garde film.  This is a non-equity, non-union project with outdoor filming scheduled for September 2019. Honorariums, travel and accommodation will be provided for the chosen cast. Actors and artists will have dialogues and monologues to perform based in highly stylized language and sound poetry, exploring philosophical and satirical themes. Directed by Wes Rickert.

To apply contact 253469@gmail.com.
Previous experience in film or stage required. 

Casting choices will be made by August 22.

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ART FILM 2019

CALL TO ARTISTS:

New ART FILM starting in September 2019!  
Get in touch at 253469@gmail.com if you are interested in being part of the next absurdist and surreal film!  

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Performing in NYC


COMING UP:  Kathleen Reichelt & Wes Rickert in NYC 
for the 12th annual launch of MAINTENANT, the contemporary art journal by Three Rooms Press, NYC
JUNE 3 at Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, west village, NYC
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Spring 2019 Artists In Residence

bill bissett, Adeena Karasick, David Bateman, Rosemary Doyle, An Kosurko
film and voice plays written and directed by Kathleen Reichelt & Wes Rickert
at the Thousand Islands Film & Stage  
 
 bill bissett

Adeena Karasick

David Bateman

Rosemary Doyle

filmed interviews and voice play written and directed by Kathleen Reichelt and Wes Rickert



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Artist Residencies SPRING 2019


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Artists in Residence at the 1000 Islands Film & Stage Studio



Art Szombathy is the Prisoner of Reality in the 2018 film "Waxed Wings"

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Contempoetry at SHG Toronto




Sunday November 26 / 2 - 5 pm / 170A Baldwin Street / Kensington Market, Toronto

audio poetry / sound poetry / performance poetry / contempoetry

with bill bissett, David Bateman, Burning Iceberg
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New Art Film Started

The fourth 253469 feature length art film has started!  As always, poets and artists interested in being part can get in touch 253469@gmail.com

 
Pigeons, photograph by Wesley Rickert, 2017
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Gallery Beat Website

Gallery Beat has a website featuring the work of resident artists Wesley Rickert and Kathleen Reichelt.
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Gallery Beat Opens June 2017

sculpture, painting and collage at Gallery Beat, 2017


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bill bissett, David Bateman and Burning Iceberg album on Bandcamp

bill bissett with Wesley Rickert, at beat manor studio, 2017
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bill bissett story in Arteidolia

bill bissett performing in Kingston, Ontario as part of the 253469 coproduction sound one two
 

Check out the story on bill bissett at Beat Manor, on the road and in Kingston April 2017 in the NYC art journal Arteidolia 

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"The Road To Elsinore" Officially Selected For The 2017 Annual Copenhagen Film Festival and 2016 Chicago Film Festival BLOW-UP

The Road To Elsinore is part of the official selection for The 2017 Annual Copenhagen Film Festival AND The 2016 Chicago Arthouse Film Festival BLOW-UP!




"The Road To Elsinore", Canadian, 2016, HD, 98 minutes

A renegade art-road trip that roams a rural landscape in search of lost poets, art criminals, outcasts, ghosts and a mirage east of Toronto. Leaving behind the spectacle of the city, this journey takes the long way in championing iconoclastic irrationality, never assuming traditional characters or narratives, and creating itself with cross genre mixing. Part documentary, part music video and part stage play, this film provides a psychedelic alternative to the usual road trip plot, while confronting the dazzle camouflage of entertainment that pokes into Canadian and international politics.

Poet Steve Dalachinsky plays himself as the post-beat poet who has left the island of Manhattan, after seeing the ghost of Alan Ginsberg, who picks him up in a truck.  Steve performs his poetry to the darkness, confronting his place in history, and his own mortality, before abandoning himself to nature.  The poet momentarily crosses paths with King Canada, played by Ulysses Castellanos.  This gravedigger trades, barters and confuses Canadian and American identity, reminiscent of the first Trudeau era.  In return, King Canada gets a free ride. 

Anarchy, nihilism and peyote style dreams fill the screen as an all artist cast play a diverse range of supporting characters.  Kathleen Reichelt, -as Discordia, Henry Benevenuti, -as Philosopher with Bricks , Ashley Zarowny-Riha, -as The Art Vandal,  Wesley Rickert and A Phonetic Spring, -as Rosencratz and Guildenstern, Christina Kozak, -as Hamlet's Mother, Kathleen Troy, -as the Neoist Model, Robert Ezergailis, -as The Weatherman and an unauthorized cell-phone cameo avec -Monty Cantsin.   These elements define a post-beat road-trip saga and ultimately an absurdist adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Audio recordings by Burning Iceberg.

Directed by Wesley Rickert .
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Reality River Snow Job

2016 ART Film Project 

PREVIEW:
https://vimeo.com/215233753

Production photos 
WITH cast:
Danielle Hubbard, David Roche, Art Szombathy, Christina Kozak, Kathleen Reichelt,
and Wes Rickert 





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The Road To Elsinore

Production shots from summer 2015, for "The Road To Elsinore", Canadian, 2016, HD, 98 minutes


Ulysses Castellanos


Ashley Zarowny-Říha


Henry "Banger" Benvenuti


Kathleen Troy

Steve Dalachinsky
 

"The Road To Elsinore", Canadian, 2016, HD, 98 minutes

A renegade art-road trip that roams a rural landscape in search of lost poets, art criminals, outcasts, ghosts and a mirage east of Toronto. Leaving behind the spectacle of the city, this journey takes the long way in championing iconoclastic irrationality, never assuming traditional characters or narratives, and creating itself with cross genre mixing. Part documentary, part music video and part stage play, this film provides a psychedelic alternative to the usual road trip plot, while confronting the dazzle camouflage of entertainment that pokes into Canadian and international politics.

Poet Steve Dalachinsky plays himself as the post-beat poet who has left the island of Manhattan, after seeing the ghost of Alan Ginsberg, who picks him up in a truck.  Steve performs his poetry to the darkness, confronting his place in history, and his own mortality, before abandoning himself to nature.  The poet momentarily crosses paths with King Canada, played by Ulysses Castellanos.  This gravedigger trades, barters and confuses Canadian and American identity, reminiscent of the first Trudeau era.  In return, King Canada gets a free ride. 

Anarchy, nihilism and peyote style dreams fill the screen as an all artist cast play a diverse range of supporting characters.  Kathleen Reichelt, -as Discordia, Henry Benevenuti, -as Philosopher with Bricks , Ashley Zarowny-Riha, -as The Art Vandal,  Wesley Rickert and A Phonetic Spring, -as Rosencratz and Guildenstern, Christina Kozak, -as Hamlet's Mother, Kathleen Troy, -as the Neoist Model, Robert Ezergailis, -as The Weatherman and an unauthorized cell-phone cameo avec -Monty Cantsin.   These elements define a post-beat road-trip saga and ultimately an absurdist adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Audio recordings by Burning Iceberg.

Directed by Wesley Rickert 








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CALL FOR ARTISTS FOR 2015 SUMMER ART FILM


CALL FOR ARTISTS FOR SUMMER ART FILM

SHOOTING DATES
August 4th thru September 21, 2015

If you are interested in learning more about this art film project, please email director Wes Rickert at 253469@gmail.com

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Beat Manor



Spring has dug up new opportunities at Beat Manor.  Located in the Montreal-Toronto-NYC triangle, surrounded by acres of farmland, lakes, UNESCO Frontenac Arch biosphere and stars you've never seen.  Artists are invited to stay, work, play, collaborate and make your own residency in the continuing groove of 253469.
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Cross Canada Screening Tour Finishes in Yellowknife November 13 , 2014 @ YKARCC

YK ARCC is hosting the final screening of "Cold Iron Is A Titanic Comedy" on Thursday, November 13 @7pm, as part of the cross Canada screening tour of the independently produced avant garde, absurdist feature length 2014 film, shot and produced in Toronto, Canada.

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October Screenings of Cold Iron Is A Titanic Comedy

Thursday, October 2 - University of Alberta Film Society, Edmonton, Alberta
& Friday, October 10 - NSCAD Film Club, Halifax, Nova Scotia

will be screening "Cold Iron Is A Titanic Comedy"

image:  Ian Malone as the hippie beat hipster of records and archives travelling the A1A, still from Cold Iron Is A Titanic Comedy 2014, Wesley Rickert


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