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Filmmaker, activist, and educator John Greyson will be in Montreal this Wednesday, April 9, to participate in two events at Concordia University.
Strategies and Tactics: Networks and Spaces of Solidarity and Activism is an event organized by Concordia’s Cinema Studies Graduate Students Colloquium Series. There will be a special screening of John Greyson’s new work-in-progress, entitled Jericho, and a discussion surround the challenges and opportunities that activists face in the contemporary media & political landscapes. (This event is taking place from 1-4 pm in the Maxwell-Cummings Auditorium of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – click here for more info)
Greyson is also giving a talk, How to Make Glue from Macaroni, at Cinema Politica Concordia’s 10-year anniversary event and launch for CP’s new book, Screening Truth to Power: A Reader on Documentary Activism. Greyson’s talk will touch on art, queer activism, his recent detainment in Egypt, and “the documentary hippocratic oath”. (This event is at 7pm on the 11th floor of Concordia’s EV Building – click here for more info)
The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson
Edited by Brenda Longfellow, Scott MacKenzie and Thomas Waugh
The first book to examine the works of controversial film and video-maker, queer activist, and agent provocateur, John Greyson.
Emerging on the Toronto scene in the late 1970s, Greyson has produced an eclectic, provocative, and award-winning body of work in film and video. The essays in The Perils of Pedagogy range from personal meditations to provocative textual readings to studies of the historical contexts in which the artist’s works intervened politically as well as artistically. Notable writers from a range of disciplines as well as prominent experimental and activist filmmakers tackle questions of documentary ethics, moving image activism, and queer coalitional politics raised by Greyson’s work. Close to one hundred frame captures and stills from almost sixty works, along with articles, speeches, and short scripts by Greyson – several never before published – supplement the collection.
To learn more about The Perils of Pedagogy, or to order online, click here.
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