Exhibitions and Events
Young Lovers (Never Fear)
A young dancer must struggle with the aftermath of a polio attack in this striking social-issue film from actress/director Lupino, the most important and influential female director of the late 1940s and early ’50s.
Part of the series:
Women Filmmakers 1931-1969
CURATED BY RON FOLEY MACDONALD
Christopher Strong
The only female studio director of Hollywood’s ‘Golden Years’, Arzner specialized in examining female archetypes. In Christopher Strong, Katharine Hepburn plays an aviatrix caught between achievements in the air and love on the ground.
Part of the series:
Women Filmmakers 1931-1969
CURATED BY RON FOLEY MACDONALD
The Woman Condemned
The B-Moviemaker, aka Mrs. Wallace Reid, delivers a low-budget mystery with plenty of plot twists and turns concerning the apparent murder of a female radio celebrity.
Part of the series:
Women Filmmakers 1931-1969
CURATED BY RON FOLEY MACDONALD
The Blue Light
Directing herself in a ‘mountain’ film co-written by the leftist actor and film theorist Béla Balázs, Riefenstahl plays a shunned woman whose discovery of a mystical light in a cave near the summit of a nearby peak leads to her ultimate betrayal.
First in the series:
Women Filmmakers 1931-1969
CURATED BY RON FOLEY MACDONALD
film still from Russian Ark, Alexander Sokurov, 2002.
Russian Ark
Alexander Sokurov, Russian Federation, 2002, 96 minutes.
A bravura single-shot tour of the great Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russian Ark examines the art, culture, and history of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union through the glass of the Tsarist Empire which preceded it.
Installation view from the exhibition Arthur Lismer and 'The Drama of the City'
Arthur Lismer and the 1917 Explosion:
When War Came to Halifax
The Dalhousie Art Gallery is pleased to present a talk by Alan Ruffman in conjunction with the exhibition Arthur Lismer and 'The Drama of a City'. In this talk, Ruffman will review Arthur Lismer's time in Halifax, and his generally unknown body of work on the 1917 Explosion.
More about the exhibition:
film still from Leviathan, Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014.
Leviathan
Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia, 2014, 142 minutes.
A man’s land is to be confiscated by a corrupt mayor in a town near Murmansk, in northeastern Russia. The protagonist’s struggle to save his home and family evolves into a battle against targeted expropriation and government corruption in this contemporary retelling of the story of Job from the Bible.
