**CANCELLED** TORONTO LAUNCH & SCREENING: Andrew Burke - Hinterland Remixed

Pix Film Gallery, 1411 Dufferin St Unit C, Toronto, ON
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Archive/Counter-Archive presents the Toronto launch of Andrew Burke new book, Hinterland Remixed: Media, Memory, and the Canadian 1970s, featuring a special screening of rare and unusual films from 1970s Canada. Following the screening will be a conversation with Andrew Burke led by Geoff Pevere (Program Director, Rendez-Vous With Madness Film Festival).

Andrew Burke is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Like the flute melody from Hinterland Who's Who, the 1970s haunt Canadian cultural memory. Though the decade often feels lost to history, Hinterland Remixed focuses on boldly innovative works as well as popular film, television, and music to show that Canada never fully left the 1970s behind. Andrew Burke reveals how contemporary artists and filmmakers have revisited the era's cinematic and televisual residues to uncover what has been lost over the years. Investigating how the traces of an analogue past circulate in a digital age, Burke digs through the remnants of 1970s Canadiana and examines key audiovisual works from this overlooked decade, uncovering the period's aspirations, desires, fears, and anxieties. He then looks to contemporary projects that remix, remediate, and reanimate the period. A timely intervention, Hinterland Remixed demands we recognize the ways in which the unrealized cultural ambitions and unresolved anxieties of a previous decade continue to resonate in our current lives.