Media City Film Festival

Media City Film Festival is an annual international festival of film and video art presented in Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan since 1994. Each year the festival attracts filmmakers and audience members from around the world to participate in five days of screenings, live performances, exhibitions and artist’s discussions. Over the years the festival has achieved critical acclaim and international recognition for its “sheer excellence in programming” and is recognized as a leading venue in the world of artist’s film and video. Grand Prize winners at previous editions of Media City include Peter Hutton, Peter Tscherkassky, Ute Aurand, Bruce McClure, David Gatten, Robert Fenz, Guy Maddin, Samantha Rebello and Shiho Kano. Artists who have had RETROSPECTIVE presentations at Media City include Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Martin Arnold, Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka), David Rokeby, Abigail Child, Helga Fanderl, Vincent Grenier, Karl Kels, Sergei Loznitsa, and Gerard Holthuis. Just a Few of the many artists and filmmakers screened at the festival include Manon De Boer, Dietmar Brehm, Cane CapoVolto, David Claerbout, Gustav Deutsch, Nathaniel Dorsky, Kevin Everson, Nicky Hamlyn, Jang Minyong, Jim Jennings, Thomas Köner, Mark Lapore, Saul Levine, Jeanne Liotta, Sharon Lockhart, Rose Lowder, Rebecca Meyers, Matthias Müller, Julie Murray, Diemantas Narkevicius, Tomonari Nishikawa, Jayne Parker, John Price, Walid Raad, Jurgen Reble, Joost Rekveld, Ben Rivers, Ben Russell, Hannes Schüpbach, Guy Sherwin, Phil Solomon, Scott Stark, Ichiro Sueoka, Mika Taanila, Robert Todd, Tran T. Kim-Trang, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Naomi Uman and Bart Vegter. For Information about works from past editions, publications and touring programs, please contact Oona Mosna: mediacity@houseoftoast.ca