dazed and confused

thursday, September 2 2021

DAZED AND CONFUSED

With the short film Projections

And live music by Moscow Apartment

Gen X auteur Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused helped kick off a decade of American indie cinema that authentically and poignantly captured the aimlessness, anxiety and amusement of young adulthood in the ‘90s alongside other touchstones like Clerks, Empire Records, Boyz N the Hood, and Reality Bites. Though firmly rooted in 90s indie filmmaking style, Dazed and Confused also nostalgically throws back to the fashions, fads, and social politics of Linklater’s own 1970s misspent youth. Set on the last day of school in 1976, it stages a memorable, hilarious, and endlessly quotable teen scene (played by a cast of then-unknown actors on the edge of stardom, including Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Parker Posey, and Milla Jovovich) celebrating the start of the summer. It’s the most important social event of the year, and the stakes are high if you want to be part of the in-crowd next fall, so you’d better look good and act the part.

Local filmmaker Maya Annik Bedward charmed us with her début short The Foreigner when we first screened it in 2018; a film about a newcomer to the city who finds community at an underground Brazilian dance party that, despite the language barrier, welcomes him with open arms. Maya returns to TOPS this summer, first with a reprise screening of The Foreigner on August 1, then alongside Dazed & Confused with the World Premiere of her new short, Projections, a mixed-media documentary about the stories we tell ourselves and others, the personas we adopt, and the masks we wear when looking for love and acceptance.

With a live music performance from Moscow Apartment
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.

Winners of a Canadian Folk Music Award, a Toronto Independent Music Award, the Canadian Songwriting Competition (Under 18 category) and the Slaight Music It’s Your Shot award, Moscow Apartment has rapidly become one of the most exciting emerging bands in Canadian indie music.

Both still under the age of 20, Brighid Fry and Pascale Padilla are the duo behind Moscow Apartment, the Toronto based indie rockers who released their self-produced sophomore EP, Better Daughter, in June 2020. They have evolved since their 2017 self-titled debut, which Padilla credits to the fact that “teenagers grow really differently and they grow faster. A year or three years is a way bigger amount of time to a teenager than an adult.”

The last time Moscow Apartment played Wavelength was at Fort York for our final Camp Wavelength festival in 2018, so it will be great to have them back on stage, in front of a live audience, inside the walls of the historic fort.

DAZED AND CONFUSED

Richard Linklater, 1993, USA

World premiere of short film Projections, directed by Maya Annik Bedward, 2021

Live music performance by MOSCOW APARTMENT

EVENT DETAILS:

Thursday, September 2, 2021
Admission: Same-day tickets available 12 PM on September 2
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 @ 8:30pm
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 mild sex & nudity, mild violence, profanity, moderate alcohol, drugs & smoking

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