Brain Trust & Relevation

The Long Day Closes Brain Trust & Revelation: A performance by Mitchell Wiebe & Charles Austin. 

Live overpainting by Sara Hartland-Rowe

The World in the Evening: works by Sara Hartland-Rowe and Mitchell Wiebe

While Halifax-based painters Sara Hartland-Rowe and Mitchell Wiebe have pursued distinctly different practices, they both work in narrative-figurative modes that draw upon historical painting traditions. Both have developed casts of characters that turn up in their works in different guises and in varied scenarios. Hartland-Rowe reconstitutes fragments of early renaissance frescos as 21st-century stories of "everypersons" set within a post-industrial landscape of commerce, conflict and pollution — and, occasionally, of beauty and redemption.

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

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.