Events
Brain Trust & Relevation
The Long Day Closes Brain Trust & Revelation: A performance by Mitchell Wiebe & Charles Austin.
Live overpainting by Sara Hartland-Rowe
Dr. Laura Marks: Invisible Media
Laura U. Marks is a theorist and programmer of experimental film, video, and new media. Her first book, The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses, explores works by diasporan film/videomakers that call upon the knowledge of the senses to supply memory, when words and images fail. Her new book, Touch, Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media, collects ten years' worth of her critical essays that develop a sensuous and materialist understanding of media and the world, with special attention to olfactory and digital media.
Four Black Filmmakers
In honour of Black History Month we presentt four features from Black filmmakers. With the recent upsurge of interest in the so-called "Blaxploitation" movement of the early and mid-1970s, it is important to note that there is a long and valued history of black filmmakers making gentler domestic dramas and comedies.
6 February - The Watermelon Man
Melvin Van Peebles, USA, 1970, 97 minutes
Thomas Frank: The Commodification of Dissent
Rebel critic Thomas Frank is known for his witty and insightful commentaries on topics ranging from the 1960s counterculture, grunge, and contemporary art to advertising, business culture, and consumerism. His books include The Conquest of Cool (University of Chicago Press, 1997), and One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and the End of Economic Democracy (Doubleday, 2000).
Fellini!
One of the world's greatest filmmakers, the late Frederico Fellini began his cinematic career collaborating with the neo-realist Rossellini. Fellini moved from poetic echoes of the neo-realism of his early films such as La Strada, Il Bidone and Nights of Cabria to explore the fluidly indulgent, fantastical vision of his mature work. This short series will present six of Fellini's masterpieces from the later period - where the whimsical, grotesque and absurd predominated, and from which the appellation "Fellini-esque" gained currency.
The Sneaky Everyday Humour of the Surreal...
Curated by Ron Foley Macdonald, this film series presents seven feature films that subvert everyday reality through deadpan juxtapositions of off-beat incidents and odd observations. Beginning with two selections from the cinema's greatest surrealist, Luis Buñuel, the series samples more recent works by filmmakers such as Hal Hartley, Jim Jarmusch and Bill Robertson that, while not so obviously surreal, employ the genre in subtle and sneaky ways.
10 October - The Exterminating Angel
Luis Buñuel, Mexico, 1962, 95 mins , B & W
First Nations Films at Five: The complete films of Alanis Obomsawin
Governor General's Award-winning filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin is arguably Canada's foremost aboriginal filmmaker. In collaboration with the Atlantic Film Festival, the Dalhousie Art Gallery will be screening Obomsawin's entire filmography from 15 to 22 September.
Symposium
In commemoration of the United Nations 3rd Decade Against Racism, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, the James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies (Dalhousie University), in partnership and collaboration with an ensemble of local, national and international organizations, is convening an international Symposium in Halifax from 5-12 August.
Reel Baroque
From Restoration comedy and costume drama to masques and early opera, enjoy the sumptuous sounds and visions of the Baroque era in these extraordinary films.
During the Scotia Festival of Music, the Gallery is pleased to present the following eight films, selected by the Gallery's film curator Ronald Foley Macdonald, in honour of this year's orchestra-in-residence: the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.
Monday, 28 May - Restoration
Michael Hoffman, USA, 1996, 118 minutes
Art/Nature: An Illustrated talk by Lorraine Gilbert
Boréal Art/Nature is an Artist-run centre in the boreal forst of Quebec's northern Laurentian Mountains. We are interested in the exploration of relationships between contemporary art and ideas about nature. We create a context for this research by organizing collective international and multidisciplinary projects through creative wilderness immersion that we call "art/nature". We also host thematic residencies at our Center in La Minerve, Quebec, where we invite established and emerging artists to work with us.
