Artifact Small Format Film Festival – Night 2: Levers (dir.Rhayne Vermette)

Calgary’s only celluloid based film festival. Levers, a feature film from Rhayne Vermette, plus a collection of short films from NaaC.

Night 2 of the Artifact Small Format Film Festival will happen at Contemporary Calgary. There will be a collection of short Super 8 films shown which were made by participants from the National accessArts Centre.

Then the feature Levers will be screened. Written and directed by Métis director Rhayne Vermette the film was shot on 16mm and shows what happens after an explosion causes a complete blackout. Residents of a Manitoba community struggle to maintain their composure and connections as darkness tests their resilience.

Doors at 6:30pm. Show starts at 7:00pm.

The Artifact Small Format Film Festival (formerly the $100 Film Festival) is Calgary’s only celluloid-based film festival. When the $100 Film Festival was born in 1992, it showcased eight short films on Super 8. The name sprung from the challenge to shoot a short film on four rolls of Super 8 – which tallied to the cost of $100. In following years, the festival dropped the budgetary limit and allowed 16mm film, which shifted the focus from low budget to quality small-format films. Thus, the name was changed to the Artifact Small Format Film Festival in 2017 so as to better represent the festival's role as an international celebration of creative story telling on film.

This event is sponsored by the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers. CSIF was founded in 1978 by a collective of twelve filmmakers who saw the growing need for film resources and film equipment on the traditional Treaty 7 territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Iyarhe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3), also known as Calgary, Alberta. Now over 40 years later we are an integral part of the growing cultural community in Calgary and are excited about new collaborations and opportunities.