ARIANNA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-04-03 published
SUTERA,
Giuseppe
After a long and heroic battle with cancer, it is with great
sadness that we announce the passing of Giuseppe
SUTERA on Saturday,
April 1st, 2006 at Princess Margaret Hospital surrounded by his
loving family at the age of 79. Loving husband of 49 years to
Anna. Devoted father to Dina and Sera, father-in-law to Frank.
Cherished and caring Nonno to Nadia
ARIANNA.
Giuseppe will be
sadly missed and fondly remembered by his sister, brothers and
sister-in-law, nieces, nephews, family and Friends. He was a
small man in stature but a giant in strength. Giuseppe will be
greatly missed and eternally loved. Friends and family will be
received at the Demarco Funeral Visitation Centre (8003 Weston
Road, between Hwy. 7 and Langstaff Rd. 905-850-9500) on Monday
and Tuesday from 6-9 p.m. Funeral Mass will be celebrated on
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006 at 9: 00 a.m. at St. Matthew's Roman
Catholic Church (706 Old Weston Rd., Toronto). Entombment to
follow at Parklawn Cemetery (2845 Bloor St. W., Toronto).
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ARIGANELLO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-10-04 published
Roberto ARIGANELLO,
Filmmaker (1961-2006)
He ran the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto and its
annual festival of movies rejected by Toronto International Film
Festival
By Noreen SHANAHAN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S11
Toronto -- Roberto
ARIGANELLO was at once a filmmaker and the
heart and soul of a tiny, obscure co-operative dedicated to producing
short, contemporary art films for an equally small and arcane
audience.
An artist in his own right who laboured at deeply personal projects,
he was devoted to his role as the executive director of the Liaison
of Independent Films of Toronto, a group that celebrates movies
rejected by the Toronto International Film Festival.
Called the National Salon des Refusés, the alternative film festival
was inspired by an exhibition of paintings rejected by the censorious
French Académie des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1863. At the time,
the Academie decided which artists received public exhibitions.
Any work that strayed from realism, which reflected "good art"
at the time, was rejected. In 1863, the Academie was especially
judgmental and rejected 2,800 canvases. In response, the emperor,
Louis Napoleon, demanded that the Academie display the rejected
works in a separate exhibition called the Salon des Refusés.
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto's version of the
Salon des Refusés is a non-curated selection of Canadian films
that run no more than 20 minutes and were rejected by Toronto
International Film Festival. The films are chosen in a lottery
and selected filmmakers are reimbursed their Toronto International
Film
Festival entry fee. Every September, Mr.
ARIGANELLO organized
the Salon des Refusés from start to finish in support of independent
filmmakers.
His friend and colleague, Deirdre
LOGUE, said his influence and
impact on the national film Community was immeasurable. It was
not unusual for him to deliver film equipment to various artistic
communities across Canada. In a recent edition of Liaison of
Independent Filmmakers of Toronto's magazine, Film Print, he
described a trip he made to a Moose Cree First Nations community
in Northern Ontario in March. "Our goal is to create a media
arts centre in the North," he wrote. "So I drove a minivan filled
with a 16 mm Steenbeck, sound bench, 16 mm projector and workshop
supplies… across the frozen Moose river to Moose Factory."
In addition, Mr.
ARIGANELLO also headed up the Canadian Filmmakers
Distribution Centre and was president of the film and video exhibition
collective Pleasure Dome from 2000-2004. He was also a member
of the advisory board of the film and television program at Humber
College in Toronto and served on the executive board of the Cultural
Careers Council of Ontario.
Roberto ARIGANELLO was the
son of Nicolina and Giuseppe
ARIGANELLO,
an Italian couple who arrived in Canada in 1951. The youngest
of seven children, he sometimes went missing from the family's
apartment in Toronto's west end. As it happened, his mother would
invariably look out the window to see him toting heavy bags of
groceries up the hill for the old women and men who lived in
their building. As a boy, he also came to know personal loss.
His sister Connie died when he was five and his parents died
within a year of each other while he was in his teens.
Mr. ARIGANELLO graduated from Ryerson University's media studies
program in Toronto in 1994 and began exhibiting his work in 1995.
His work usually combined a number of different image sources
and drew on influences ranging from cinema-verité and surrealism
to the agit-prop films of the Cuban Santiago Alvarez. Loteria
(1997), a documentary about the Mexican national lottery and
the street vendors who sell the tickets, co-directed with Federico
Hidalgo, combined 16 mm colour footage with black and white material
shot on super-8 film and then optically printed to 16 mm. Contrafacta
(2000), co-directed with Chris Gehman, was a labyrinthine animated
film made using paper cutouts from medieval artworks.
Mr. ARIGANELLO's film Shelter (2001) is a multi-layered experimental
film That weaves archival social commentary and recent political
activism in a playful analysis of our culture's misplaced priorities.
The film blends archival footage of circuses, westerns and Pierre
Berton discussing the pros and cons of building a bomb shelter
with a variety of such appropriated material as a homeless demonstration
during the premiere of an Atom Egoyan film.
Mr. ARIGANELLO was critical of what he described as the film
industry's current obsession with new digital technology. "Roberto
was the spark that began my love of Super 8," said filmmaker
Siue MOFFAT. "I had only worked with 16 mm before going into
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto one day and tentatively
inquiring with him."
On the other hand, he was aware of the opportunities that cropped
up. It was his belief that the death of film was really the chance
of a lifetime.
"Every discarded piece of film equipment was worth salvaging,
either for Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto or any
other interested co-op, because it expanded our opportunities
to make work," said long-time friend and colleague Chris
KENNEDY.
"He provided opportunities to use up the last rolls of regular
8 mm at the same time as he encouraged us to finish in 35 mm."
Mr. ARIGANELLO's last film, which is still in production, tells
the story of his grandfather who emigrated to Argentina from
Italy in the 1920s. Mr.
ARIGANELLO, who twice went to Argentina
to gather material, envisioned it as an experimental documentary
recounting historical events that significantly contributed to
his own sense of self and nationality. His dream was to see it
premiered at Toronto International Film Festival or even as his
own Salon des Refusé.
Roberto ARIGANELLO was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario on July 20,
1961. He died of drowning on August 13, 2006. He was swimming
at Tea Lake, near Halifax. He had gone to Nova Scotia to drop
off donated film equipment to the Atlantic Filmmakers Co-operative.
He is survived his sisters Maria, Ness, Terry, and JoAnne, and
by his brother Tony.
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ARIMA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-03-07 published
KOYANAGI,
Michi (née
KAI)
Peacefully in her 81st year at Humber River Regional Hospital
on March 6, 2006. Beloved wife of the late Joe Isao. Loving mother
of Michael and special mother-in-law to Louise. Cherished grandmother
to Jeffrey and Stephanie. Dear sister of Bill (Clara), Don (Margaret),
Gordon (Ruth), Samuel (late Jean)
NAKAGAWA, Grace (late Hiromu)
FUJIKI, Betty (Tom)
HAYAKAWA, and Vi (Allan "Mush")
ARIMA. Predeceased
by brothers Sam (Sue), Jimmy (Mimi) and sister Irene. Dear aunt
to several nieces and nephews. Special thanks to the staff at
Sunnybrook and Women's College Hospital and Humber River Regional
Hospital. Friends may call at the Ward Funeral Home, 2035 Weston
Rd. (north of Lawrence Ave.), Weston on Wednesday, March 8 from
2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A service will be held in the Ward Chapel on
Thursday, March 9 at 1 p.m. Interment to follow at Glendale Memorial
Gardens. (Albion Rd. and Hwy. 7). In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Condolences may
be sent to michi.koyanagi@wardfh.com
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