Café Ex
2024 - 2025 Season
This ongoing visiting artist series presents artist-curated evenings of independent experimental film and video in an intimate atmosphere. The series features Canadian experimental cinema, with guest filmmakers presenting their work and engaging in extensive discussions with audience members for a "pick-your-price" admission.
Pixie Cram
December 10, 2024
Mike Hoolboom
April 17, 2025
TBD
May 14, 2025
Pixie Cram
Tuesday, December 10 ∙ 7:00 PM ∙ Club SAW
Pixie Cram is an Ottawa-based film director, writer and media artist. A longstanding and key figure in Ottawa's active independent media arts community, Cram's inventive, searching works explore themes of identity, gender politics, history, women's rights, nature, and technology. Working in documentary, short drama, experimental, and animation modes, Cram's versatile and engaging work offers passionate, poetic explorations of everything from motherhood to childhood to Joan of Arc to the Cold War to midwifery. We are proud to present this remarkable collection of films, representing two decades of Pixie Cram's remarkably diverse, ever-evolving catalogue of cinematic expression.
Her films have screened at festivals and galleries across Canada and internationally, including Interfilm Berlin, Filmfest Dresden, Animafest Cyprus, and the Ottawa International Animation Festival. In addition to her own work, she works as a freelance videographer and editor.
The Canadian Film Institute is honoured to have Pixie Cram as the guest artist to open our 26th season of Café Ex.
Pixie Cram will attend the screening to introduce and discuss her films.
Program
Xerces Blue (2003)
The Factory of Light (2007)
Joan (2014)
Emergency Broadcast (2017)
Pragmatopia (2020)
Witch Woman (2022)
Passage (2023)