January 18, 2006 / 312 OnScreen
Part of Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery's Festival of Contemporary Film & Video in Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador.

312, in collaboration with Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, presented 312 OnScreen—a screening of national and international video art—on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 as a part of the art gallery’s Festival of Contemporary Film & Video. Selected from an open call for submissions, 312 OnScreen showed videos from Denmark, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, United Kingdom, United States, and Canada, including videos from Newfoundland & Labrador.

The videos covered topics ranging from the ghost of convicted murderer and avid ornithologist Nathan Leopold to the public punishment of women accused of having affairs with Germans during the Second World War in France. An eclectic variety of topics were on screen, highlighting both the experimental and the straightforward.

312 OnScreen presented the following videos (in order of presentation):

• Aubrey Reeves, Two Knots, One Not, 2005, 59s (Toronto)
• Zik Staav, Gaijin, 2005, 12m34s (Roskilde, Denmark & Toronto)
• Caroline Ross, skin flicker, 2005, 1m (Toronto)
• Liz Knox, One Hour of Excitement, 2005, 2m14s (Toronto)
• Karina Griffith, Marker, 2005, 7m35s (Berlin, Germany)
• Jennifer Beth Guerin, Bed Ballet, 2005, 3m58s (Tucson, AZ, USA)
• Lisa Lipton, white strings, 2005, 5m33s (Windsor, ON)
• Wes Kline, hauntology, 2005, 6m10s (Pittsburgh)
• Kym Greeley, landing, 2005, 1m21s (St. John's, NL)
• Nancy Jean Tucker, Returning, 2005, 3m40s (Los Angeles)
• Alla Girik & Oksana Shatalova, Warning: Woman / Decapitation, 2005, 39s (Rudny, Kazakhstan)
• Micheline Durocher, Syncope, 2004, 3m32s (Montreal)
• Alyssa Andrews, Untitled (Sorting Rocks), 2005, 5m (Montreal)
• Emily Lutzker, Things I’ve Shouted, 2005, 1m56s (New York)
• Craig Leonard, Castro’s Library, 2005, 10m43s (Kingston, ON)
• Kevin Ward, The Rubbish Composer, 2005, 9m26s (London, UK)
• Jean-Gabriel Périot, Even if she had been a criminal…, 9m13s (Tours, France)
• Lynn Cazabon, reel, 2m50s (Baltimore, MD, USA)

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In 312 Online:
January 1 - 31, 2006 / Jillian Locke, “1 match for single parenting”

312 Online’s first exhibition of 2006 is another video from Locke's series The Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. In each video, Locke takes weblogs she finds at livejournal.com and inhabits each author’s persona, presenting her interpretations as performance-based videos.

Jillian Locke completed her double major in Cinema Studies and Visual Studies at the University of Toronto in 2003. Her video series The Allowance for Doubtful Accounts: The Livejournal.com project recently screened at the Art Star 2 Video Biennial, SAW Gallery.