Diran Lyons and Matthew Potter

What: Directors, "Goodbye Victoria"
When: 6:00 pm Sunday, April 11, 2010
Where: Silver Meteor Gallery
Tickets: $5

The directors: Diran Lyons and Matthew Potter

"Goodbye Victoria" is the first full-length collaborative film by co-directors Diran Lyons and Matthew Potter.

In 2009, it won the "Best Feature Film" award at the Chashama Film Festival in Manhattan and was honored as one of ten films included in the Streaming Festival highlight features program.

About Diran Lyons

Diran Lyans has participated in film festivals and video exhibitions including WPA\C's After Effects at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Antimatter Underground Film Festival in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Xperimental 5 Film Festival at Pantheon Gallery in Nicosia, Cyprus; The Streaming Festival (The Hague) sponsored by Mediamatic Cultural Institution of Amsterdam; New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Village East Cinema, New York, NY; Ace Film Festival, Broad Street Ballroom, New York, NY; International Film Festival no. 10/2007 at the Museum of New Art in Detroit, MI; Pacific Edge Film Festival at UC Davis, CA; Synthetic Zero in The Bronx, NY; the Ybor Festival of the Moving Image in Tampa, FL; amongst others.

His political remix video artworks toured with The Audacity of Desperation exhibition, helped launch RemixAmerica.Org, and were discussed by artist/curator Jonathan McIntosh at Ars Electronica 2008 in Linz, Austria as part of the New Cultural Economy Symposium. Lyons' "Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize" is the first Political Remix Video to reach #1 on IMDb's most popular short film ratings.