Events
Neorealism's Reach: From Film Noir to Cinema Verité
In conjunction with Photopolis: Halifax Festival of Photography taking place in and around the city this fall, the Dalhousie Art Gallery will present a series on the impact and reach of Italian Neorealism. This post-World War Two cinematic movement -- though brief, only twenty years or so-- had a worldwide impact on existing cinemas (Hollywood, for one) along with almost every new National Cinema that followed in its wake. All films are Italian with English subtitles.
SCREENINGS WEDNESDAYS AT 8PM
October 22 - Ossessione
Contemporary Issues in Art, Architecture & Design: Five Recent Noteworthy Feature Documentaries
October 21 - Manufactured Landscapes
Jennifer Baichwal, Canada, 2006, 83 minutes.
Edward Burtynsky's monumental enivronmental photography is caught on motion picture film by cinematographer Peter Mettler and director Jennifer Baichwal. A multiple award-winning feature documentary.
October 28 - My Architect
Nathaniel Kahn, USA, 2003, 110 minutes.
Tempest Fest: Three Takes On Shakespeare's The Tempest
Tempest Fest: Three Takes On Shakespeare’s The Tempest In Honour Of the Fifth Anniversary Of Hurricane Juan
September 2003 saw Hurricane Juan make landfall in Nova Scotia. We have selected three very different film versions of the Bard’s late romance The Tempest to mark one of the most significant climatological events ever to happen in Halifax.
Screenings Wednesdays at 8 pm
September 17- The Tempest
Fiesta at Five
September 12 - Black Orpheus
Marcel Camus, France/Brazil 1959, 103 minutes
The legendary retelling of the Orpheus/Eurydice myth during the Rio de Janiero's colourful and raucous Carnival, with music by Antonio Carlos Jobim that launched the worldwide bossa nova craze. Portugese with English subtitles.
September 13 - The Exterminating Angel
Luis Buñuel, Mexico, 1962, 95 mins.
Los Angeles New Orleans New York Halifax
Two leading African American Filmmakers on the life and death of American Cities, Burnett's L.A. is a city that contains a massive and mostly hidden black sub-culture that only became visible to the outside in the Watts and Rodney King riots. Spike Lee, on the other hand, sees his hometown of New York City as a place of racial conflict and possible resolution in Do The Right Thing. His vision of New Orleans during the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina reveals a powerful, raging point-of-view that still demands to be answered.
Art History: Sir Kenneth Clarke's Civilization Series
The landmark 13-part 1969 BBC series Civilisation by Sir Kenneth Clarke was one of the very first attempts to deliver a comprehensive examination of Western Art and Cultural History to a mass audience for television. Wildly influential, undeniably dated, occasionally infuriating and visually sumptuous -- it was shot in 35mm film-- Civilisation remains an ideal entry point and revision lesson for anyone interested in the broader points of Western Culture and Art History in particular. Episodes are 60 minutes long.
Metropolis: The City In the Cinema
In anticipation of a major national conference on The City to be held in Halifax in April, this four-month film series looks at the long-running relationship between Cities and The Cinema.
The Shock of the New
Art Critic and author Robert Hughes’s brillliant series The Shock Of The New is often considered the official sequel to the landmark BBC art history series Civilization, starting where Civilization left off, with the rise of Modernism in art.
Jim Jarmusch Survey
One of the most original and consistent of American Independent filmmakers, Jim Jarmusch’s body of work has advanced from the cinematic territory first cleared by Robert Frank and John Cassevetes.
Feasts at Five
Our annual collaboration with the Atlantic Film Festival this year is a mouth-watering mini-retrospective of films about food. These acclaimed and popular classics will whet your appetite for some of the Atlantic Film Festival’s other offerings, whether they by big screen adventures or more intimate receptions. Each film is screened at five o’clock at Dalhousie Art Gallery during the Festival. Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted. Seating is limited — and dinner arrangements must be made independently!
