Run With Art: Film Premeire at the Gladstone

The Movement Movement, a collaboration between artist/curator Jessica Rose and dancer/choreographer Jenn Goodwin will premeire it's film "Run at the Royal Ontario Museum" on April 21st at 8 pm at the Gladstone Hotel's North Ballroom. The film, directed by Nick de Pencier and funded by CTV's Bravo! FACT (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent) documents the Movement Movements choreographed run through the ROM

"A choreographed crowd formed by hundreds of runners activates the museum’s galleries alongside its six million artifacts. This moving sculpture is made up of: an art class from a high school outside of the city’s centre, a group of athletes from the running community, artists and art administrators, museum patrons, and members of the public who showed up with running shoes on. Temporarily, people and place come together in unexpected ways to run an institution.

“Run the ROM” is a taboo-smashing artifact that places the audience in the stampede of runners to experience the thrill and exhilaration of running a cultural institution. The runners stream by a cavalcade of suits of medieval armour, Egyptian mummies and Etruscan pottery on plinths, the vitality of their speed and life-force infusing these otherwise staid museum objects. Augmented by an aural universe of the echo-ing insistence of pounding feet on gallery floors and the laboured breathing of the human machine at work, the film charts the progress of the runners to underscore the breadth and extent of their accomplishment, an artifact that captures the vanguard of event based art."

You can find more information on the Movement Movement and their film at their website www.themovementmovement.ca or on the Facebook Event Page http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=9935684315.