Events
film still from Sergei Eisenstein's Strike, 1924
Strike
Featuring Live Score by Mohammad Sahraei and guests
Doors at 7 PM / Screening at 7:30 PM
Limited Seating / Free Admission
Paul O'Regan Hall / Halifax Central Library
Before Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein made this stylized and theatrical film dramatizing a labour strike at a Czarist-era heavy manufacturing facility, utilizing wild cinematic rhetoric and garish animal characterizations.
Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, installation view (detail) from ...bump in the night, (Halifax) 2014-17.
Jungian Psychoanalyst Beaty Popescu Lecture
In the current exhibition called The Long Time: 21st Century Art of Steele + Tomczak, the artists explore their own and others’ contemporary experiences of dreams, nightmares, hypnotism, fear, death, impermanence, urban fragmentation, and the collision between nature and culture.
In this interactive talk, Jungian psychoanalyst and artist Beaty Popescu will address a number of the topics exposed in the current exhibition from a Jungian analytical understanding.
BOOK SALE!
FRIDAY MARCH 10TH FROM 11AM TO 5PM.
CHOOSE FROM A LARGE SELECTION OF EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, MONOGRAPHS AND OTHER BOOKS
ON ART.
BRING A BAG AND FILL IT FOR $10!
LARGE HARDCOVERS WILL BE PRICED SEPARATELY.
NOW ADDED:
WE WILL HAVE A SELECTION OF POSTER AND ART FRAMES, PRICES AS MARKED! (PRICED TO SELL!)
Film still from Bessie, dir. Dee Rees 2015.
African History Month Films: Black Music Biographies
SCREENINGS TUESDAYS AT 5 PM. FREE ADMISSION
Three African American directors—Don Cheadle, Dee Rees, and Darnell Martin—take on crucial motion picture biographies of legendary Black performers.
7 February - Miles Ahead
Don Cheadle, USA, 2015, 101 minutes. Written, starring, and directed by Don Cheadle, this surprisingly fresh and funny drama is about an imaginary incident during jazz great Miles Davis’s five-year ‘retirement’, and sports an appearance by Ewan MacGregor as an intrusive music reporter.
Film still from The Second Awakening of Christa Klages, dir. Margarethe von Trotta, 1978.
First Features
Some directors arrive fully formed on their debut features. Others never recover. In this survey of first features, we begin with one of the greatest motion pictures of all time, Citizen Kane, and then progress to more contemporary times where some directors—Duncan Tucker and Transamerica, for example—disappear from the scene after tackling some exceptional subject matter.
