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Summer 2011: "U Bend," a short story, is now available as an e-book. It's part of a growing book + media art project, to be completed in late 2012.

The Leader Series is coming, its first works ready for late 2011.

A round table was hosted by mubi.com discussing Clive's 2004 film Trains of Winnipeg - 14 Film Poems. Participants included: Chris Gehman (filmmaker, writer, former Toronto International Film Festival "Wavelengths" programmer, and former Artistic Director of Images Festival, i.e. the first Trains of Winnipeg programmer); Brenda Longfellow (filmmaker, writer, film theorist, and Associate Professor in the Department of Film at York University); Dave Barber (Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque programmer for over 25 years); Michael Sicinski (Houston-based teacher and writer in Cinema Scope Magazine, indiewire.com, Cineaste Magazine, and Cargo Magazine); Jason Anderson (novelist and film critic in Eye Weekly, artforum.com, Globe & Mail, Village Voice, and Cinema Scope Magazine); Alex Rogalski (Toronto International Film Festival programmer, and founder of the Take One Super 8 traveling film project); Tobias Morgan (Paris-based film director, and producer of mubi.coms' Garage "project engine"); Alley Pezanoski-Browne (Palo Alto-based film producer, and Editor of mubi.com's Scratchpad on-line magazine); and Clive. Trains of Winnipeg - 14 Film Poems is available for viewing on mubi.com.

Two books: Adventures in Perception, by Scott MacDonald (2009, University of California Press), essay + long form interview about Trains of Winnipeg, also chapters on Gina Kim, Claude Nuridsany & Marie Pérennou, David Gatten, and Karen Cooper; and Place – 13 Essays 13 Filmmakers 1 City, edited by Cecilia Araneda (2009, Winnipeg Film Group), chapter by Larissa Fan about both U Suite and Trains of Winnipeg, also essays on WFG directors Norma Bailey, Jeffrey Erbach, Sean Garrity, Noam Gonick, Greg Hanec, Paula Kelly, John Kozak, Guy Maddin, Winston Washington Moxam, John Paizs, Jeff Solylo, and Caelum Vatnsdal.

2 Cameras @ Sea – Unconstructed premiered at the IDFF Jihlava 2009. This is the expanded version of 2 Cameras @ Sea (which screened with live soundtrack performances in Amsterdam at the famous Muziekgebouw, and in Toronto at Images Festival's Opening Night). This installation version repeats the visuals six times (sixty-five minutes total) while the soundtrack is heard in 'unconstructed' form, that is each visual cycle features a different sound selection: cello + violin harmonics; water soundscape + narrator's voice; piano harmonics; alto flute & bass clarinet; entire soundtrack (read more).

U Bend, a short story that's part of a major new U Suite segment planned for 2011/12, was twittered daily, line by line, between fall, 2009 and summer, 2010. To follow: http://twitter.com/utopiasuite.

The full-length version of 'Ken Dryden' was web-published for the first time to celebrate the politician and hockey legend Ken Dryden's birthday on August 8, 2009.

Clive's working on a collaboration with Mecca Normal (currently on their How Art & Music Can Change the World – 25th Anniversary Tour). Watch for the results in late 2009.

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past

Winnipeg, June 2009, WNDX Festival of Film & Video Art at PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts. Utopia Disco with Ken Dryden and Y.O.U. (Your Own Utopia).

Winnipeg, June 6, 2009, Cinematheque. MEAN, shown before the feature-length doc. Examined Life.

Oberhausen, May 3, 2009, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. MEAN, shown with films by Pat Mills, Joel Gibb, Leigh Fisher, Charuvi Agrawal, Karine Silverwoman, Mike Rollo, Kelly Egan, Christina Battle, Maxime Desmons, Scott Miller Berry, Chris Gehman, and Madi Piller.

Chatham-Kent, March 25 to April 26, 2009 at the Thames Art Gallery, co-presented by the Media City International Festival of Film & Video Art. U Suite, featuring Utopia Disco, Ken Dryden, MEAN, Engines of Despair, and launching Y.O.U. (Your Own Utopia).

Oberlin, Ohio, April 8, 2009, Oberlin College. MEAN (and 18,000 Dead in Gordon Head). Curated and introduced by Christina Battle, with work by Christina Battle, Scott Miller-Berry & Adam Segal, Jason Britski, Clive Holden, Sara MacLean, Penny McCann, and John Price.

Toronto, April 2, 2009 (Opening Night), Images Festival. The North American premiere of 2 Cameras @ Sea, a collaboration with Oscar van Dillen.

Brooklyn, January 17, 2009, Light Industry. MEAN, part of a compilation curated by Christina Battle. Also included: Taking Pictures, by Scott Berry and Adam Segal; Lake Ontario (in my head), by Penny McCann; oil wells: sturgeon road & 97th street, by Christina Battle; Wreck/Nation, by John Price; Nation, Défi des étoiles, by Sara MacLean; Shoulders on a Map, Jason Britski; Fore and Aft, by Sara MacLean; and 18,000 Dead in Gordon Head by Clive Holden.

Amsterdam, November 21, 2008, Muziekgebouw. Premiere screening of 2 Cameras @ Sea, a collaboration with Oscar van Dillen. Commissioned by Images Festival. Also screening: Behind the Shadows by Christina Battle; Cultural Hauntings: Strangers in our Midsts by Vera Frankel + Rick Sachs; Glorious by Guy Maddin + Richard Ayres; Leaves Of Axis, Trees of Syntax by Daichi Saito + Malcolm Goldstein.

Jihlava, Czech Republic, October, 2008, Jihlava International Documentary Festival. Ken Dryden.

Toronto, August 15 to September 13, 2008, Stephen Bulger Gallery + Toronto International Film Festival. U Suite (You Are Being Remembered and Ken Dryden).

Lennoxville, January 30 to March 30, 2008, Foreman Art Gallery at Bishop's University. Utopia Disco.

Halifax, May, 2008, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. MEAN, part of Arena: the Art of Hockey.

Victoria, BC, September 20 to October 10, 2007, Deluge Contemporary Art/Antimatter Film Festival. You Are Being Remembered (with MEAN and Engines of Despair).

Durham, ON, August 2, 2007, Durham Art Gallery/Fabulous Fringe Film Festival. Engines of Despair.

Amsterdam, June 21, 2006, co-presented by the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Holland Festival. U Suite European Project Launch, with lecture and dynamic cinema projections.

Toronto, April 15, 2006, Images Festival. U Suite Project Launch, with lecture and dynamic cinema projections.