The 8 Fest is coming! The 8 fest is a unique festival that presents all forms of small-gauge film: 8mm, Super 8 and 9.5mm, as well as works in installation, loops, and ‘proto-cinema devices’ like zoetropes…

Lots of screenings this weekend at 201 Niagara. Full schedule here.

Also, up & down & back & forth & round & round, an 8 Fest installation of works “inspired by the optical toys which were the progenitors of cinema” at Fountain Enterprises, 1261 Dundas Street West (East of Dovercourt), opening this Wednesday evening at 7 pm. With Rob Cruickshank, Vuk Dragojevic, Alexi Manis, John Porter, Lina Rodriguez and Alex Rogalski.

Rob Cruickshank, Selectric, 2010

There’s just one more week to catch Rob Cruickshank‘s Selectric in the window at Toronto’s Fly Gallery. Selectric is a Kinetic sculpture based on a rotating type ball from an IBM Selectric typewriter, with stroboscopic illumination.

At Fly Gallery, 1172 Queen Street West, Toronto, until January 31st, 2010.

(Viewable 24 hours a day, but best seen at night.)

See a groovy movie of Selectric in action.