Events
Nine From 1953
1953 saw the discovery of the double helix and the cracking of the DNA code. It was the year Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed Mount Everest; the year Elizabeth II was crowned, and Stalin died; the year both Playboy Magazine and The Paris Review were launched, and the Korean War ended in stalemate. At the beginning of 1953 there were 12 million television sets in the USA. In 1950 there had been only six million; by 1960 there were 60 million and the movies were in real trouble.
Best of Post-War Britain
Once again, the Gallery collaborates with the Atlantic Film Festival with our five o'clock film series, screened daily in the gallery during the Festival. Selected to complement the Festival's Strategic Partners Co-Production Conference with the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, Ron Foley Macdonald's choices also emphasise some decidedly literary connections in post-War British filmmaking.
Friday, 12 September - The Third Man
Carol Reed, 1949, 104 minutes
Reel Dance on the Road: Selections from the 11th Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video
Thursday, 13 February - Global Moves
International Showcase featuring short works from the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, the US and the Netherlands.
And Atlantic Shorts TBA
Friday, 14 February - Dance of the Warrior
Dramatically Black
The Dalhousie Art Gallery honours African Heritage Month with four films that are in fact adaptations of stage-plays written by or about African-Americans and West Africans.
3 February - To Be Young, Gifted And Black
Michael Schultz, USA, 1972, 90 minutes
Feature Films Directed by Canadian Women
In recent decades, feature films directed by Canadian women have taken their place on the world stage. The following selection includes dramas and documentaries from a variety of regions of Canada -- films that are by turns fascinating, funny, frightening, classic, nostalgic, tragic, daring and inspiring -- by women with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
22 January - Bye Bye Blues
Anne Wheeler, Alberta/British Columbia, 1989, 116 minutes
Abstract Painters Then
What was it that made those historic abstract artists so different, so appealing...? This program takes a look at the New York Abstractionists of the 1950s and '60s, at some of their European predecessors, and at two Canadian counterparts, offering a broader critical context for the exhibition hungry eyes (recent abstract painting from New York and Toronto).
23 October - Painters Painting
Emile de Antonio, USA, 1972, 116 minutes
Memory and Archive: A Panel
In conjunction with the exhibition About Memory and Archive/Autour de la mémoire et de l'archive, participating artist Thomas Corriveau is joined by Halifax based artist Mathew Reichertz, Dalhousie Archivist Michael Mooseburger and King's College professor Dr. Dorota Glowacka to provide perspectives on this fascinating topic.
Continental Riff: Feature Films from Australia and New Zealand
Once again, the Gallery collaborates with the Atlantic Film Festival in our five o'clock film series, screened daily in the Gallery during the Festival. Ron Foley MacDonald has selected ten less well-known films from "down-under", ranging from bizarre comedy and disturbing documentary to gentle, offbeat drama.
Friday, 13 September - The Cars That Ate Paris
Peter Weir, 1974, 91 minutes
Memory, come to think of it
Three classic films to complement the exhibition About Memory and Archive/Autour de la memoire et de l'archive
11 September - Last Year at Marienbad
Alain Renais, France, 1961, 93 minutes
The very nature of memory is questioned in this fluid, oblique romantic drama that takes place at the famous European spa.
25 September - The Mirror
Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR, 1976, 106 minutes
8 Pianos - No Hands?
Presented during the 2002 Scotia Festival of Music, this eclectic selection of films featuring pianos and pianists begins with a classic silent horror movie, and proceeds chronologically through film noir, drama, comedy, fantasy, history and documentary to the compelling 1995 film adaptation of August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson.
Monday, 27 May - The Hands of Orlac
Robert Wiene, Austria, 1924, 82 minutes, b & w
