Events
Six by Kurosawa
Curated by Ron Foley Macdonald, this brief, intense survey presents some key works by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. From his early international breakthrough Rashomon to his monumental epic Ran, this series reveals Kurosawa's mastery of narrative and historical detail, and includes a selection of filsm inspired by western literary works, as well as those that inspired remakes by western filmmakers.
Screenings are every Wednesday at 12:30 pm and 8:00 pm in the Gallery.
7 March - Eastern Mirror, Western Echo
Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video
In collaboration with Live Art Productions the Dalhousie Art Gallery will present a program of special dance film screenings on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 22, 23 and 24, 6:30pm to 7:30 pm. This annual event explores the intersections of dance and the camera, and includes a spotlight on Italian artists, a selection of Canadian premières as well as works from around the globe.
Space Aliens
Organized to complement the exhibition William Eakin: Have a Nice Day, on view from 12 January - 25 February, 2001, this series explores concepts of Alien life as presented in films from the 1930s to the 1970s.
17 January - The Shape of Things to Come
W.C. Menzies, UK, 92 minutes
One of the most important early science fiction films, H. G. Well's future included a devastating war and a society eventually rebuilt through technological mastery. The aliens in the film are, of course, ourselves.
Artists with Agency: Representation and the Manifestation of Place in Iceland
In this illustrated talk Dr. Brydon will explore the symmetries between her own anthropological analysis of the consequences of modernity in Iceland and two artistic projects which represent and intervene in those consequences. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, Dr. Brydon will discuss the work of Iceland-born, Vancouver-based photographer Arni Haraldsson (which explores utopian ideals of progress), and an art performance held at Eyjabakkar to protest the building of a hydroelectric dam and aluminum smelter.
Surveillance and Subjectivity: From Vertov to Verité
Presented in conjunction with the University of King's College Contemporary Studies Program Cyclops: Vision and Visuality into the 21st Century, this series consists of films that challenge the viewer's remoteness from the subject viewed. The films assume a position of focused subjectivity provoked by the idea that the mechanical camera is more truthful than the human eye. Often, engagement defeats detachment, and the Brechtian 'alienation' or 'distancing' effect is neutralized.
Screenings are every Wednesday at 12:30 pm & 8:00 pm in the Gallery.
Fire and Ice at Five
Once again, the Gallery collaborated with the Atlantic Film Festival in our five o'clock film series, screened daily in the Gallery during the Festival, from 16 to 23 September. Fire and Ice at Five presents a range of films made by or about Icelanders, including Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's award-winning films Children of Nature and Cold Fever. The films are also presented as part of the public programming surrounding the exhibition Bedrock: Six Contemporary Artists from Iceland, on display in the Gallery until 1 October.
National Film Board: Music of the Moderns
Our regular Wednesday film program will resume in September. During the Scotia Festival of Music, the Gallery is pleased to present the Film and Video program on nine consecutive days at 5:00pm in the Gallery.
These seldom-seen productions from the National Film Board of Canada span 100 years of mainstream and experimental music by Canadian and international composers, including concerts, festivals, new music workshops, and performers both celebrated and unknown.
Thursday, 25 May - Stravinsky
A Night of Storytelling, Music and Performance from the Prestons
A Night of Storytelling, Music and Performance from the Prestons, in celebration of the exhibition Home: the Art of Preston, will take place in the Gallery on Thursday, 11 May, from 7-9 pm.
"Moving Outside the Frame: The Women Artists of the Automatiste Movement" on Thursday
Dr. Patricia Smart will present a lecture titled "Moving Outside the Frame: The Women Artists of the Automatiste Movement" on Thursday March 30 at 8pm. Feminist, literary critic, translator, award-winning writer, and author of Les Femmes du Réfus global, Dr. Smart is professor of French at Carleton University and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. Her lecture will be of interest to a broad cross-section of scholars and members of the public, in particular those interested in art history, Canadian studies, women's studies, and 20th-century cultural changes in Quebec.
Symposium: The Interface between New Technologies and Contemporary Art
SYMPOSIUM -- Engaging the Virtual: The Interface between New Technologies and Contemporary Art
The program will include short lectures, presentations and open discussions that deal with the imaginative use of new media, including computer imaging, robotics and websites, as well as other technologies, in works of art and design. It will also raise philosophical and critical questions about the interface between technology and creative human activity.
Program
All morning sessions wil takeplace in the Auditorium
