Saturday, Nov 1st: Reimagining Cinema Launch & Symposium at La Cinémathèque Québécoise

Please join us for the upcoming book launch of

REIMAGINING CINEMA: The Films of Expo 67
Edited by Monika Kin Gagnon and Janine Marchessault

The launch, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm, follows an afternoon symposium organized by CINEMAexpo67.

2:00 pm – Graeme Ferguson, IMAX-inventor and director of the original Polar Life, in conversation with Scott Mackenzie.

3:30 pm – Roundtable discussion with contributors to Reimagining Cinema, including Seth Feldman, Johanne Sloan, Anthony Klinik, Aimee Mitchell, Monika Kin Gagnon, and Janine Marchessault.

Ferguson’s Polar Life, originally displayed at Expo67’s “Man the Explorer” Pavilion on Ile St-Hélène, is on view as an installation at La Cinémathèque Québécoise from October 11 to November 2. Read more about the installation >

**Admission is FREE to all events**

Expo 67, in its utopian aspirations, invited artists to create the world anew. What distinguished Montreal’s exhibition from previous world fairs were its dramatic displays of film and media, transformed into urban and futuristic architectures. Reimagining Cinema explores the innovations that film and media artists offered Expo audiences and presents extensive visual material to reconstruct the viewer’s experience.

At the pinnacle of a new global humanism, cinema was expanded beyond the frame into total environments, multi-screens, multi-image and 360-degree immersion – experiments often seen as a harbinger of the digital age. Taking this expanded cinema as a starting point, the contributors focus on eight screen experiments, and employ innovative methodologies to reveal the intricacies and processes of production, while including factual descriptions, interpretive essays, interviews, and image dossiers. The book reflects how the Expo 67 film-events were encountered as creative experimentations that resonated with broader 1960s arts and culture, and as institutional collaborations with artists.

More displays of photographic, cinematic, and telematic technology were experienced at Expo 67 than in any other previous world exposition. Reimagining Cinema captures the complexity and imaginative fervour of this exciting period in film history.

To order a copy of this book, click here.
For media requests, please contact Jacqui Davis.