TOMORROW! Jan 28: Toronto Launch & Screening for Reimagining Cinema and Cinephemera

With special screenings from 8-9 PM:

1. We are Young (1967) by Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid, 6 screen film digitally reconstituted by Library and Archives Canada
2. Canada is my Piano (1967) by George Dunning, 3 screen animation digitally reconstituted by Library and Archives Canada
3. By the Time We Got to Expo (2015) A NEW FILM by Philip Hoffman and Eva Kolcze, Sound by Joshua Bonnetta

And other films TBD!
Evening moderated by Marc Glassman.

CINEPHEMERA
Edited by Zoë Druick and Gerda Cammaer

What do digital platforms mean for cinema studies in Canada? In an era when digital media are proliferating and thousands upon thousands of clips are available online, it seems counter-intuitive to say that audio-visual history is quickly disappearing. But the two processes are actually happening in tandem.

Considering a wide range of cases from the earliest days of silent film production to the most recent initiatives in preservation, Cinephemera exposes the richness of moving image production in Canada outside the genres of feature length narrative fiction and documentary – a history that is at risk of being lost just as it is appearing.

REIMAGINING CINEMA
Edited by Monika Kin Gagnon and Janine Marchessault

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.

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.