WINNIPEG LAUNCH & SCREENING: Andrew Burke - Hinterland Remixed

Winnipeg Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street - Main floor, Winnipeg, MB
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Join Andrew Burke for the launch of Hinterland Remixed: Media, Memory, and the Canadian 1970s. The author will screen some classic Hinterland Who's Who spots alongside other 70s oddities and provide a brief overview of why the 1970s film and television looms so large in Canadian cultural memory.

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. Exploring an idiosyncratic selection of works - from Michael Snow's experimental landscape film La Région Centrale, to SCTV's satirical skewering of network television, to L'Atelier national du Manitoba's video lament for the Winnipeg Jets - this book asks key questions about nation, nostalgia, media, and memory.