Brimstone & glory

FRIDAY, September 3 2021

brimstone & glory

With the short film Bee Problem

And live music by Cat and the Queen & Joyfultalk

Brimstone & Glory is a visual spectacle, less a narrative and more a sensory experience, that highlights the rich culture of Mexico’s fireworks festivities. For generations, workers in Tultupec, Oaxaca have designed, constructed, and detonated elaborate, dangerous pyrotechnics for an annual celebration in honour of San Juan de Dios, the patron saint of fireworks makers. Driven by stunning documentary cinematography and a soaring score by Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild), we are called to join in a magnificent, explosive celebration of community and culture.

Visionary local filmmaker Roney’s latest short offers a more introspective but no less impactful portrait of life on the edge. Funded by TOPS as part of our 10th anniversary season and World Premiering at this screening, Bee Problem is a seemingly ordinary story of a middle aged woman struggling through a sudden divorce. What sets it apart is that this ordinary woman lives in a city where every few hours the streets are swarmed by millions of bees, which may or may not be a metaphor. Originally conceived before the pandemic, its reflection on isolation and connection in the face of a terrifying, weird “new normal” hits different now, in the best possible way. Roney’s previous short, the highly stylized and disturbing Glitter’s Wild Women is currently being adapted as a feature film.

With a live music performance from Cat and the Queen & Joyfultalk
Music curated by Wavelength Music

Wavelength Music is a curated concert series designed to champion creativity, co-operation and collaboration in the independent music and arts scenes. Established in 2000, Wavelength is a non-profit arts organization that puts artists and the community first. A cornerstone of the Toronto music scene, Wavelength has championed literally thousands of emerging artists during its two decade-plus run.

Cat and the Queen (CATQ) is Cat Montgomery and her backing band The New Royals: Amanda Barbosa on bass and Graham MacKey on drums. CATQ gives a raucous live performance full of power-pop ballads and indie-rock bangers. Always theatrical and in the moment, Cat has a raw performance style that is unique and exciting. CATQ combines her musical skill with her work as a theatre artist to make each song she creates a raw and visceral experience. You can now stream CATQ's third and latest album, I Caught A Fish — the perfect soundtrack to celebrate summer and being all together again.

From a secluded outpost on Nova Scotia's mystical South Shore, junked-analog project Joyfultalk conjures micro-climate trance music. The brainchild of instrument builder and alchemist Jay Crocker, Joyfultalk offers up instrumental compositions of analogue tongue that flow like wordless rivers and glitching fields of electric grass through a bric-a-brac vocabulary of handmade electronics. Crocker's music channels a sonic regionalism influenced by the craggy treelines and flowing rivers of Lunenburg county, with gnarled jamscapes rendering natural spaces in a hazy parallel universe, navigating the astral plane by way of his rugged maritime environs; tinkered lightfields of forward motion in a maniac's grove. Don’t sleep on Joyfultalk’s third LP and latest release for Constellation Records, A Separation of Being.

BRIMSTONE & GLORY

Viktor Jakovleski, 2017, Mexico/USA

With the World Premiere of short film Bee Problem
directed by Roney, 2021

Live music performance by cat and the queen & JOYFULTALK

EVENT DETAILS:

Friday, September 3, 2021
Admission: Same-day tickets available 12 PM on September 3
There will be no admission without an advance ticket

Venue: "Walled Fort" of Fort York National Historic Site - entry at west gates of 100 Garrison Road

Gates open @ 6 pm / Music @ 7:30pm / Cinema @ 9:30pm
COVID-19 on-site protocols - please read before attending
Event & ticket terms and conditions
Snacks and alcoholic beverages for sale (no outside alcohol permitted)
BYOBlanket & Chairs
Please see the accessibility features of Fort York
Films are screened with captioning
Content advisory: This film contains no mature content

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