News and Events!!!
Various Past Events …
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“Reel Love: Cinephilia in the Digital Age”
3rd Annual Carleton University Film Studies Graduate Symposium
March 15th-16th, 2013
This year’s Symposium will focus on the phenomenon of cinephilia and how the critical study, production and exhibition of film has shifted since the invention of cinema in the 1890s. How has the production, distribution and exhibition of film been altered throughout film history? Has the present ubiquity of digital technologies transformed cinema for the better? Or, as Susan Sontag has suggested, have we experienced a “decay of cinema” in which the traditional cinematic experience is no longer valued? These questions only begin to explore how the love and appreciation of film as an art form, as well as a mass medium, have impacted filmmakers, scholars and audiences alike.
Keynote Speaker, Dr. Charles R. Acland, Concordia University
Full details: program, speakers, locations, times: Cinephilia
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Film Director John Akomfrah, 2012 FASS Distinguished Visiting Scholar
The School for Studies in Art and Culture: Film Studies presents internationally acclaimed film director John Akomfrah, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 2012 Distinguished Visiting Scholar in a one-week residency at Carleton University. The residency takes place from Sunday, November 25 to Friday, November 30. Events include public film screenings with John Akomfrah in attendance every evening, Q&As, Film Studies classroom appearances, master classes and discussion panels. The opening event on Sunday afternoon includes the Ottawa premiere of “The Nine Muses.” Full details of all events…
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Invited Lecture: Maureen Gosling, Documentary Filmmaker
Monday October 15, 2:30-4:00 p.m., SP 100
Maureen Gosling has been a documentary filmmaker for more than thirty years and is best known for her twenty-year collaboration with acclaimed independent director, Les Blank (Burden of Dreams, Always for Pleasure). Her work has often focused on themes of people and their cultural values, music as cultural expression and the changing gender roles of men and women. Gosling’s Blossoms of Fire, a feature documentary filmed and edited completely on 16mm, is a celebratory tribute to the Isthmus Zapotec people of southern Oaxaca, Mexico. Her current projects in development as Director/Producer include No Mouse Music! The Story of Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records (with Chris Simon) and Bamako Chic, Women Cloth Dyers of Mali (with Maxine Downs).
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Screening and Masterclass
The Institute of African Studies is convening an inter-disciplinary conference on the theme, “North Africa at the Crossroads: Culture, Identities, and the Politics of Change”, from April 4-5, 2012.
The conference opens on April 4 with the screening of the movie, Laicité inch Allah/Neither Allah, nor master! with the filmmaker Nadia El Fani in attendance. Nadia El Fani is an award-winning Tunisian film director. Starting in cinema as Assistant Director to such giants as Nouri Bouzid, Franco Zeffirelli and Roman Polanski, she has directed several documentaries and fiction films. Her most important films include Bedwin Hacker (2002), Ouled Lenine [Children of Lenin] (2002) and, her latest, Neither Allah, Nor Master (2011), which was screened at the Cannes and Berlin film festivals. She started production of the latter film before the fall of the Ben Ali regime and completed it after the Revolution. The film, which raises tough questions related to the status of secularism in a predominantly Muslim country, has encountered the ire of Islamists who attacked the theater where the film was supposed to be screened and accused the director of violating the sacredness of Islam. Nadia El Fani was even a recipient of death threats and numerous online ad hominem attacks on Facebook. Her film and engagement remind us of the potential role of the cinema in helping shape debates in societies in transition, in particular, in the aftermath of the Arab Uprising.
7:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 4, in 100 St. Patrick’s Building.
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January 31, 2012
Blockbuster Science: How do movies and television shows influence our perceptions of science and scientists?
Café Scientifique is a forum where, for the price of a coffee or a glass of wine, adults can get together and talk about recent — and sometimes controversial — developments in science and technology. The Canada Science and Technology Museum serves as moderators to the discussion between invited experts and the general public. Lively discussions guaranteed!
Richard Taylor, Science and Physics teacher at Merivale High School
Lynn Tarzwell, Coordinator Scriptwriting Program, Algonquin College
Marc Furstenau, Associate Professor, Film Studies, Carleton University
Ronald-Frans Melchers, Professor of criminology , University of Ottawa
January 31 at 6:00 p.m., Fox and Feather Pub, 283 Elgin Street
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Global Gaze 2012
The Second Annual Carleton University Film Studies Graduate Student Symposium
The Symposium is scheduled for March 2012, but the organizers are still accepting papers at this time. Full details at the Global Gaze Web page.
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Also, most every Friday evening during the school term, the Carleton Film Society holds workshops and screenings in 400 St. Patrick’s Building.
http://carletonfilmsociety.wordpress.com