The Tracey Fragments at the Leeds Festival

For all our UK enthusiasts...

The Tracey Fragments will be screening on Friday 22nd at the Leeds Festival at 9.45pm followed by the Tracey Remixed party with Youth Movies!!

Following the huge success of this event at the East End London Film Festival I reccomend you check it out - watch the movie and then watch the movie remixed live to awesome music!

http://www.leedsfestival.com/news/index.aspx

Hope you're all having a great summer!

The Tracey Fragments DVD out today in Canada and the US

After a great DVD launch screening in Toronto on Sunday night with giveaways, a Q&A with Bruce McDonald, screenings of the Winning and Shortlisted entries of the Tracey:Re-Fragmented contest and a sneak peek at the new film by Bruce McDonald "Pontypool" the DVD is now available for everyone else!

Get yours wherever you buy or rent fine movies!

Like here:

http://www.amazon.ca/Tracey-Fragments-Bruce-McDonald/dp/B0017VG5XM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1215026632&sr=1-2

Toronto - The Tracey Fragments DVD Launch and Giveaway!

Hi All,

For those of you in Toronto who have missed The Tracey Fragments in it's big screen awesomeness, or just want a chance to see it again and catch up with the director Bruce McDonald;

Come out this SUNDAY JULY 6TH to THE ROYAL - 9.15pm
608 College Street

DVD Launch - Giveaways of DVDs (with bonus features including interviews on the set with Ellen Page and Bruce McDonald), the original soundtrack album - featuring new music by Broken Social Scene, comic books and even a few of the exclusive and impossible to buy anywhere - Posters!

ALSO - World Premiere screening of the finalists and winning entries of the Tracey: Re-Fragmented contest, cut from footage of the film.

and FINALLY, a special sneak peek at something new from director Bruce McDonald, come on down and ask him about it.

The Tracey Fragments is available on DVD in the US and Canada JULY 8th! Pre-order HERE:

Houston Chronicle Review

Come out and see The Tracey Fragments at the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/features/5864597.html

STARTS TOMORROW 2 July Houston, TX
Musuem of Fine Arts

Boston Herald Review...see it this week!

'Fragments' Takes Page out of 'Juno' By James Verniere

http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/view/2008_06_27_‘Fragments__takes_Page_out_of_‘Juno_/srvc=home&position=also

“Juno Has a Nervous Breakdown” might be the best way to describe Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald’s “The Tracey Fragments,” a dysfunctional family drama featuring a tour de force turn by Juno herself, Ellen Page.

If you have an aversion to split screens, the experimental technique that enjoyed a brief vogue in the 1960s and is revived here with a passion, steer clear of this vertigo-inducing entry. Otherwise, paging Page fans everywhere.

When the story begins, Tracey Berkowitz (Page) is naked, wrapped in a curtain on a bus with bright-blue seats, addressing the camera - and she tells a sorry tale indeed.

An outcast at school because of her prepubescent lack of womanly attributes, 15-year-old Tracey is also unhappy at home, where her doltish, working-class father (Ari Cohen) grounds her unfairly and chain-smoking drudge mother (Erin McMurtry) seems to hate her. Adding to Tracey’s and our sense of dislocation, her shrink is played by a man (Julian Richings) in drag.
When Tracey’s younger brother Sonny (Zie Souwand) disappears without a trace while with his sister, all hell breaks loose in the Berkowitz home, and Tracey, whose job it was to care for and keep an eye on Sonny, runs away.

Did I mention that Tracey believes she “hypnotized” Sonny and convinced him to think he was a dog?

“The Tracey Fragments” is a modern-day “Candide”-like, picaresque tale in which Tracey encounters, among other things, a convenience store clerk with horns and a drug dealer in trouble with his supplier (the film’s one unfortunate stereotype).

Visually, the movie is fascinating and ambitious. The screen responds to Tracey’s words, creating “multiframe” images with screens of various sizes within the screen, swirling and fluttering like a stream of psychic, autumnal leaves.

McDonald, working with Canadian writer Maureen Medved adapting her own novel, uses the art of film to bring the thoughts in Tracey’s head to vivid Mondrian-like life.

A sequence featuring Patti Smith’s incantatory anthem “Land: Horses” is utterly spellbinding (speaking of which, Smith’s life is a movie waiting to be made). In other scenes, Tracey reads a graphic novel called “Ed the Happy Clown,” which seems to be a variation of her adventures.
Narratively, “The Tracey Fragments” is also like origami, folded and refolded upon itself. If it were “straightened out,” this 77-minute entry would be more like three hours.

“The Tracey Fragments” should be seen by anyone interested in the art of film and the art of bravura film acting. It is also a further reminder that Page is the real thing.

But we knew that already.

Where's Tracey?

and where will she be next?

Well right now of course she's in Portland and Seattle, but she's coming to a town near you!

18 June New Orleans, LA
Zeitgeist, http://www.zeitgeistinc.net/

27 June Boston, MA
Brattle Theater http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/index.html

2 July Houston, TX
Musuem of Fine Arts http://www.mfah.org/films

5 July Cleveland OH
Cleveland Institute of Art http://www.cia.edu/

Seattle and Portland - Tracey Opens TODAY!

THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS is taking this show on the road, starting tomorrow! For all of you near Portland or Seattle, you have a chance to catch Tracey at two of the coolest theaters in town.

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In Seattle:
NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
1515 12th Avenue (and Pike), Capitol Hill
Shows at 7:15 and 9:15 (plus 5:15 on Saturday and Sunday)
http://www.nwfilmforum.org/cinemas/calendar.php
Advance Tickets- http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/34667

(BTW- while you're there, grab advance tickets to see the absolutely stunning FROWNLAND, which opens June 27th- we're not affiliated with this film, but if you like Tracey, this will be right up your alley).

In Portland:
HOLLYWOOD THEATER
4122 NE Sandy Blvd (at NE 41st Place)
Shows at 5:15 Friday, 12:30, 5:30, 7:30 Sat & Sun, 7:30 Mon and Wed, 6:45 Tues and Thurs
http://www.hollywoodtheatre.org/engaging/index.html
Advance Tickets- https://robot.boxofficetickets.com/800-494-TIXS/WebObjects/BOTx2005.woa/wa/inspectProgram?id=46701&passKey=76ee634853&webWrapNC=1

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Both of these engagements are for ONE WEEK ONLY, so don't waste time on the microphone!

And for the rest of you, you are not forgotten- New Orleans, Houston, and Boston, we're coming to you in the next few weeks, with more to come!

See you at the movies!

Tracey Fragments Editors showing their stuff

Here are some photos from the Live Appearance by the Editors of The Tracey Fragments at the Apple Soho Store in New York on opening night of the film.

They shared some insight in how they created the amazing multi-frame effects in the film using Final Cut Pro.

If you missed the live talk, check out the article:

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/action/traceyfragments/index.html

Left to Right: Matt Hannam, Gareth Scales & Jeremy Munce

Left to Right: Matt Hannam, Gareth Scales & Jeremy Munce - with all the crazy channels they had going at once.

Left to Right: Matt Hannam, Gareth Scales & Jeremy Munce

More Tracey on Apple!

Great story about the making of The Tracey Fragments on the Apple website (many of you may have seen it when you opened your Safari on Friday)

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/action/traceyfragments/

and the road trip continues, check below for US dates NEAR YOU!

The Tracey Fragments POSTER nominated

The Tracey Fragments poster is nominated in the Best International Print section of the Hollywood Reporter's Key Art Awards (for the best movie posters of the year) - We're nominated against Knocked Up, 3:10 To Yuma, Hostel 2 and Sweeney Todd! Wow.

Poster designers were bpg (awesome) with a lot of involvement from Mark Slone at Alliance and Bruce and myself were involved too. It was one of the most fun and rewarding experiences of making the movie.

See all the nominees here:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/awards_festivals/key_art/index.jsp

Tracey's US Road Trip Continues...

The Tracey Fragments is playing another week at the VILLAGE EAST http://www.villageeastcinema.com/ in New York City! For those of you who haven't yet checked out the film that the Village Voice called "Bedazzling" and the New Yorks Times called "Fierce, Enigmatic and Affecting" - NOW IS THE TIME.

Also for those of you in other parts of the US. Tracey is coming to theater near you:

13 June Seattle, WA
NW Film Forum http://www.nwfilmforum.org/

13 June Portland, OR
Hollywood http://www.hollywoodtheatre.org/engaging/index.html

18 June New Orleans, LA
Zeitgeist, http://www.zeitgeistinc.net/

27 June Pittsburgh, PA
Oaks Theater http://www.theoakstheater.com/

2 July Houston, TX
Musuem of Fine Arts http://www.mfah.org/films

Tracey Fragments Soundtrack - get yours today!

Just a reminder that the Soundtrack Album for The Tracey Fragments is available TODAY!

Featuring original music by Broken Social Scene, a cover of Patti Smith's Horses (hey, did you know Ellen named her dog after the singer?) and a collection of awesome Canadian indie music INCLUDING offerings from actors in the film Max McCabe Lokos (Lance) who was a member of the late great Deadly Snakes and a blistering track from Slim Twig (Billy Zero, Tracey's fantasy boyfriend) !

Get yours wherever you buy your music, and check out samples from the album on the myspace page

http://www.myspace.com/traceyfragments

http://www.amazon.com/Tracey-Fragments-Original-Soundtrack/dp/B0016AK3GO

http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/music.html

New York City - Tomorrow's the Day!

The reviews are coming in (The Village Voice says it's "bedazzling!" The New York Observer gives it 3 out of 4 stars and says Ellen Page gives "a virtuoso performance!" Time Out NY is afraid of the amazing split screens but we'll forgive them if they keep our favorite bar a secret!), the popcorn is popping (no worries, they'll pop new popcorn for you on Friday), and somewhere in the Village a small bar is unaware that people are about to stumble out of a movie theater, dazed and amazed, and buy out their entire stock of booze. Yep, Friday is the big day for New York City- THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS hits the big screen, and we'd like you all to be there.

TRACEY opens Friday at the VILLAGE EAST CINEMA at 2nd Avenue and 12th Street. Showtimes are Noon, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:10, and 12:05am (12:05 on Friday and Saturday only).

Tickets are available right now at http://www.movietickets.com/house_detail.asp?house_id=166 (you do have to change the date to Friday the 9th). Head over now and pick them up for your friends, family, and loved ones (Sunday is Mother's Day and yes, your mom wants you to take her to meet Tracey) to be sure you all have a seat for the ride.

But wait, just like the infomercials, there's more- as a special bonus, the editors of THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS, Jeremy Munce, Gareth C. Scales, and Matt Hannam will be giving a special talk and demo at the Apple Store in Soho at 7pm on Friday (upstairs in the theatre). Head over and see how three guys sat down, spent a few months in front of their Macs, and used Final Cut Pro to assemble one of the most intricately edited films ever made. There will be plenty of time to check out the demo, meet the editors, spend an hour in a side street with the party accessories of your choice (sure, you cannot drink IN the theater, but you can certainly drink next door to it) and grab a seat at the 10:10pm showing with time to spare- you'll even have enough time to flirt with the person sitting next to you, comfortable in the fact that as soon as the lights come up, you'll have a great movie to talk about. After that, it's up to you. You could try poetry, but don't be cheesy about it.

See you at the movies!

Here come the reviews!

First reviews are in for The Tracey Fragments from NYC:

Village Voice:

"McDonald’s bedazzling multi-frame experiment poeticizes and enhances an otherwise slender story (forgivable at only 77 minutes long), as planes of different sizes and shapes materialize—fading, sliding, distorting, and overlapping to convey the rage and anxiety of damaged adolescence."

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0819,the-tracey-fragments,433930,20.html

New York Observer:

"Ellen Page remains one of the few stellar newcomers who deserves to be seen in anything she chooses to do."

http://www.observer.com/2008/pieces-ellen

Brendan Canning - NEW CD

Hi All,

Brendan Canning (from Broken Social Scene) is one of the most talented musicians we at The Tracey Fragments know, and that is why he was one the composers of the soundtrack for the film.

album available May 13 - http://www.myspace.com/traceyfragments

Brendan also has his OWN SOLO album available July 22, 2008. It's the second in the "Broken Social Scene Presents..." series

Something For All of Us...

PLUS an awesome free song download Hit The Wall at the website:

http://www.brendancanning.com/

Of course I have more than one reason to spread the good word about Mr. Canning today but I can't give any more details until tomorrow, when the super-secret-special-event happening tonight will be over!

DVD news - The Tracey Fragments Down Under!

Announced today:

http://www.sirenvisual.com.au/News/200804/86.php

The great people at SIREN VISUAL are bringing The Tracey Fragments to DVD to Australia (and New Zealand too, I think).

No release date as yet, but watch this space, and MySpace for more details:

http://www.myspace.com/sirenvisual

New US Festival Dates!

As well as the launch in NYC and the dates in Portland OR, and Seattle WA, you can also check out The Tracey Fragments at these festival dates:


May 15-17
Tallahassee, FL Tallahassee Film Festival

http://tallahasseefilmfestival.com/

June 11-15
6/11-6/15 Maui, HI Maui Film Festival

http://www.mauifilmfestival.com/

On MySpace - The Tracey Fragments Soundtrack

Check it out, hear some of the tracks, become our friend!

Album drops 05/06 on ITunes, 05/13 on Amazon and in stores.

http://www.myspace.com/traceyfragments

The Tracey Fragments in the New York Post

The Tracey Fragments was one of the films mentioned in the New York Post's Summer Movie Preview

Reminder, if you're in LONDON, UK

There is a screening this WEDNESDAY APRIL 23, at 19:30 at the Rich Mix centre in Bethnal Green.

http://www.richmix.org.uk/

As part of the East End London Film Festival:

http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com/

Followed by an after-party at the Vibe Lounge on Brick Lane. You'll need a ticket to the film to get into the party.

TRACEY REMIXED

with Youthmovies live

Vibe Lounge Wednesday 23 April 9pm onwards

A post screening party after THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS screening earlier Friday 23rd April evening at Rich Mix. The multi-frame editing and jump-cut style of this Ellen Page teen coming-of-age drama inspires VJ Buzzard Buzzard for this exclusive visual set accompanied by a live soundtrack by Youthmovies, the Oxford based quintet who's myriad movements have been reined in, refined and forced into an awkwardly pop-shaped hole on their recent support tours with Foals and Dead Meadow.