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SUMMARY:TAG Critical Watch Series: The Warcraft Movie
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for a new screening as part of the TAG Critical Watch Series. This time\, participants will be screening Warcraft. As always\, the screening will be followed by a discussion. \n  \nABOUT THE MOVIE: \nWarcraft is a 2016 American action fantasy movie based on the video game series of the same name. The film follows Anduin Lothar of Stormwind and Durotan of the Frostwolf clan as heroes set on opposite sides of a growing war\, as the warlock Gul’dan leads the Horde to invade Azeroth using a magic portal. Together\, a few human heroes and dissenting Orcs must attempt to stop the true evil behind this war and restore peace. \n  \n  February 18\, 2026 \n 5:30-8:30 PM \nScreening Room EV 10.525 \nSeating is very limited\, so if you wish to attend\, please RSVP by sending an email directly to tag.coordinator@concordia.ca or by messaging Marc on the TAG Discord.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-the-warcraft-movie/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:TAG Critical Watch Series : Tetris
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for the first screening of 2026! \nThe TAG Critical Watch Series is an opportunity to reflect on how video games are adapted and represented across film. The film screening will be followed by a short discussion. January’s film is Tetris (2023). \n  \nABOUT THE MOVIE: \nTetris is a 2023 biographical thriller film based on true events around the race to license and patent the video game Tetris from Soviet Russia in the late 1980s during the Cold War. Directed by Jon S. Baird and written by Noah Pink\, the film stars Taron Egerton\, Nikita Efremov\, Sofia Lebedeva\, and Anthony Boyle. The plot follows Henk Rogers of Bullet-Proof Software\, who becomes interested in the game Tetris\, created by Alexey Pajitnov\, during an electronics show. Desperate to obtain handheld console rights for Nintendo\, he takes trips between Japan\, the United States\, and Russia to win legal battles over the game’s ownership. \n  \n  \n  January 28\, 2026 \n 5:30-8:30 PM \nScreening Room EV 10.525 \nSeating is very limited\, so if you wish to attend\, please RSVP by sending an email directly to tag.coordinator@concordia.ca or by messaging Marc on the TAG Discord.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-tetris/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250430T180000
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SUMMARY:Chronicle of a Summer\, Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:After 2.5 years of enriching and insightful conversations around ethnography and film\, mark your calendars for the last Ethnography Lab Film Night hosted by the wonderful Maya 😢 \nFor the occasion\, the Concordia Ethnography Lab is excited to partner up with Cinéma Public to screen the audacious and touching film Chronicle of a Summer. The film is a vanguard work of cinéma-vérité (cinéma of truth)\, term coined to refer to both the philosophical and ethnographic inquiries of filmmakers like Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin. The screening will be followed by a discussion on Cinéma-vérité and Cinéma-direct with Maya Lamothe-Katrapani of the Ethnography Lab and Richard Brouillette\, film producer\, director\, editor and programmer. Tw o other screenings are scheduled on May 4th and May 12th\, but the discussion will only be on April 30th. \n  \nABOUT THE FILM: \nChronicle of a Summer\, 1961 (86 min) \nIn the summer of 1960\, anthropologist filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin set out to chronicle the everyday lives of Parisians using a mixture of intimate interviews\, debates and observations. Beginning with the provocative and eternal question “Are you happy?” and expanding to political issues\, including the ongoing Algerian War\, artists\, factory workers\, office employees\, students and others open up to the camera to share their experiences\, fears and aspirations. The result became one of the decade’s most influential films\, and redefined the documentary form. \n  \n \n\n🗓 April 30\, 2025 ⏱️ 6 PM\nThis session will be followed by a discussion between Maya and Richard Brouillette\n\n🗓 May 4\, 2025 ⏱️ 8 PM\n🗓 May 12\, 2025 ⏱️ 6 PM\n\n📍Cinema Public\, Casa d’Italia\, 505 Jean Talon E (via Berri)\n\n🎟️  Purchase your ticket here\n\n.\nThis screening received generous support from the Concordia Council on Student Life\n\n.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/chronicle-of-a-summer-screening-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Cinema Public\, Casa d’Italia
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Screening
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SUMMARY:Screening of Wind\, Tide & Oar followed by a discussion with Huw Wahl
DESCRIPTION:Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab and Maya Lamothe-Katrapani for another ethnographic film screening\, on April 8th. This time\, we’ll watch \nWind\, Tide & Oar: Encounters With Engineless Sailing (2024\, 84 min) by British cineast Huw Wahl.\n\n\nThe screening will be followed by a virtual Q&A with the director moderated by Polina Shubina\, member of the Montreal Waterways boating research group.\n\nABOUT THE FILM: \nWind\, Tide & Oar is a compelling exploration of engineless sailing\, shot on analogue film over three years. The film delves into the experiences of those who travel solely by harnessing the natural elements alone\, following a diverse array of traditional boats and uncovering the unique rhythms and motivations of engineless navigation. \nJourneying through rivers\, coastlines\, and open seas\, spanning the UK\, the Netherlands\, and France\, Wind\,Tide & Oar creates a contemplative space\, addressing themes of ecology\, heritage\, traditional skills\, and maritime history. Using a 1960s hand-wound camera\, Wahl offers a poetic and intimate perspective on a millennia-old craft\, upended by the invention of mechanised power. \nThrough the film’s reveries\, sailing becomes a means to explore our interaction with and responsibility to the environment. It invites deep reflection on our relationship with nature\, our understanding of and commitment to sustainability\, and our care for the world around us. \n  \nABOUT  THE FILMMAKER: \nWahl‘s work has been screened internationally at film festivals such as CPH:DOX\, Festival du nouveau cinéma and Open City Docs\, in art galleries and museums like Centre Pompidou Metz\, Royal Museums Greenwich and the Whitworth\, as well as in universities like NYU\, documentary art centres like Union Docs\, and by sea onboard an engineless Thamses sailing barge touring the South East coast of England. \nHe has won several international awards with his films\, and they’ve featured in magazines like Sight and Sound and The Wire\, and received funding from organisations such as Arts Council England\, The Henry Moore Foundation\, and the Royal Photographic Society. \nHis writing has been published in magazines\, academic journals and books. He has also curated film programmes\, been part of international film festival juries\, taught film & photography courses in university and community settings in the UK and abroad\, and worked as an AHRC funded research associate for the University of Manchester. \nWind\, Tide & Oar\, his film about the art of engineless sailing\, is distributed by Tull Stories\, and will be released into UK cinemas in spring 2025. \n  \n🗓 April 8\, 2025\n⏱️ 6-8 PM\n📍Screening Room VA-114\n.\nThis screening received generous support from the Concordia Council on Student Life\n\n.\n.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/screening-of-wind-tide-oar-wind-tide-oar-encounters-with-engineless-sailing-and-discussion-with-huw-wahl/
LOCATION:Concordia University – VA-114 Cinema\, 1395 Blvd. René-Lévesque Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Q&A,Screening
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250313T200000
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SUMMARY:Screening and discussion with Sarra El Abed
DESCRIPTION:Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab and Maya Lamothe-Katrapani for another ethnographic film screening\, on March 13th. This time\, the screening is organized with fellow anthropology graduate student Clare Walker. Sarra El Abed’s Ain’t No Time For Women (2021\, 19 minutes) will be followed by the screening of Uncle Yanco\, a short film by Agnès Varda\, a seminal filmmaker within the French New Wave. \nA virtual Q&A with Sarra El Abed will follow to discuss both her work and Varda’s influence on her creative practice.\n\n \n\nABOUT THE FILMS: \n \nAin’t No Time For Women: Tunis\, November 2019. A group of women is gathered at Saïda’s\, the hairdresser\, on the eve of the presidential election. The salon is transformed into a town square\, mirroring the internal turmoil of the country. In this female sanctuary\, we get an intimate look at the county’s teenage democracy.\n\n\n \nUncle Yanco: Agnès Varda travels to a Californian houseboat community to meet Jean Varda (known affectionately as Uncle Yanco)\, a Greek emigrant relative whom Varda has never met. In her characteristic cinematic style\, Varda brings herself into the countercultural beat scene of 1960s San Francisco\, finding resonances with Uncle Yanco in conversations of dreams\, art\, and living.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nABOUT THE FILMMAKER: \n\nSarra El Abed\, born in Tunisia and raised in Montreal\, explores the intersection of both cultures in her work. Her short documentary AIN’T NO TIME FOR WOMEN (filmed in Tunisia\, available on The New Yorker) screened at Clermont-Ferrand\, Dok Leipzig\, and Slamdance\, earning nominations and awards\, including Best Canadian Short at Hot Docs. This success led to LES COLLECTIONNEURS\, filmed in Cairo and available on Tou.Tv. Blending fiction and documentary\, she highlights the beauty of the mundane with flamboyant\, often feminine characters and a touch of humor. She is currently developing two feature films\, ADIEU MINETTE\, GOODBYE PARTY and GENS QUI RIENT\, GENS QUI PLEURENT. With ADIEU MINETTE\, she participated in the TIFF Filmmaker Lab\, TIFF Talent Accelerator\, and won the FNC X Netflix Pitch.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n🗓 March 13\, 2025\n⏱️ 6-8 PM\n📍Screening Room EV 10.525\n🎟️ Make sure to reserve your spot\, If you can’t make it anymore please let Maya know so she can give your seat to someone else.\n.\nThis screening received generous support from the Concordia Council on Student Life\n.\n.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/screening-and-discussion-with-sarra-el-abed/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Q&A,Screening
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SUMMARY:[TAG critical Watch Series] Assassin's Creed (2016)
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for a screening and discussion of 2016’s Assassin’s Creed. No amount of hay can hide this film from our critical eyes! \nThe TAG Critical Watch Series is an opportunity to reflect on how video games are adapted and represented across film. The film screening will be followed by a short discussion\, which is then followed by a podcast recording with select members of the audience and/or our guests. February’s film (which is being screened in March to account for the break!) is Assassin’s Creed (2016). \n If you would like to reserve a place on the podcast for this month’s film ahead of time\, or if you would like to suggest films for future screenings\, please contact the TAG coordinator at tag.coordinator@concordia.ca. \n  \n📅 March 5\, 2024 | 5:30-8:30 pm \n📍Screening Room EV. 10.525 \n📽️ Assassin’s Creed (2016) \n🎟️ Seating is limited! Make sure you book your spot here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-assassins-creed-2016/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250129T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250129T193000
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SUMMARY:[TAG Critical Watch Series]: Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on January 29th for the return of TAG’s Critical Watch Series! This time we’ll be watching Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) \nThe TAG Critical Watch Series offers an opportunity to reflect on how video games are adapted and represented across film. The film screening will be followed by a short discussion and a podcast recording with select members of the audience. \nIf you would like to reserve a spot on the podcast for this month’s film ahead of time\, or if you would like to suggest films for future screenings\, please contact Marc Lajeunesse at tag.coordinator@concordia.ca \n  \n \n  \n📅 January 29\, 2024 | 5:30-7:30 pm \n📍Screening Room EV. 10.525 \n📽️ Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) \n🎟️ Seating is limited! Make sure you book your spot here!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-sonic-the-hedgehog-2020/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Anthropocene: The Human Epoch screening with Director Jennifer Baichwal
DESCRIPTION:Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab for the screening of ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch\, a film by Jennifer Baichwal\, Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas de Pencier. The vent is co-organized with the McGill Centre for Innovation in Storage and Conversion of Energy. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Director Jennifer Baichwal.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet\, ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal\, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky. Third in a trilogy that includes Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark (2013)\, the film follows the research of an international body of scientists\, the Anthropocene Working Group who\, after nearly 10 years of research\, are arguing that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century\, because of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth. From concrete seawalls in China that now cover 60% of the mainland coast\, to the biggest terrestrial machines ever built in Germany\, to psychedelic potash mines in Russia’s Ural Mountains\, to metal festivals in the closed city of Norilsk\, to the devastated Great Barrier Reef in Australia and surreal lithium evaporation ponds in the Atacama desert\, the filmmakers have traversed the globe using high end production values and state of the art camera techniques to document evidence and experience of human planetary domination.\nAt the intersection of art and science\, ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch witnesses in an experiential and non-didactic sense a critical moment in geological history — bringing a provocative and unforgettable experience of our species’ breadth and impact.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n📅 November 28\, 2024 | 6 pm\n📍 VA-114\n🔗 Please register here for the event as spots are limited!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/anthropocene-the-human-epoch-screening-with-director-jennifer-baichwal/
LOCATION:Concordia University – VA-114 Cinema\, 1395 Blvd. René-Lévesque Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Q&A,Screening
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241120T193000
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SUMMARY:[TAG Critical Watch Series] WarGames
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on November 20th for the second session of the Critical Watch Series! This month we’ll watch WarGames. \n  \nThe TAG Critical Watch Series offers an opportunity to reflect on how video games are adapted and represented across film. The film screening will be followed by a short discussion and a podcast recording with select members of the audience. \nIf you would like to reserve a spot on the podcast for this month’s film ahead of time\, or if you would like to suggest films for future screenings\, please contact Marc Lajeunesse at tag.coordinator@concordia.ca \n  \n \n📅 November 20\, 2024 | 5:30-7:30 pm \n📍Screening Room EV. 10.525 \n📽️ WarGames (1983) \n🎟️ Seating is limited! Make sure you book your spot here! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-wargames/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241107T170000
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SUMMARY:Low-Quality in collaborative Ethnographic Filmmaking
DESCRIPTION:Join the Ethnography Lab for the 2nd screening of the season! This session will feature the screening of four short films by Jared Epp\, Leo Stillinger\, Melina Campos and Marie Lecuyer. \nThis event will explore an experimental modality of ethnographic filmmaking that anthropologist Jared Epp calls the ‘ethnographic B movie’\, a novel approach to collaborative multimodal research. This approach – which encourages unprofessionalism\, low quality\, absurdity and caprice – provides an opportunity to centre research contexts\, ontologies and epistemologies on the fringes or margins of conventional anthropological content\, thought and context. Through situating the approach within ideas of arts-based research or research-creation the ethnographic B movie becomes a way to take the process of filmmaking as ethnography for the sake of an open and co-imaginative world. In the ethnographic B movie as filmic approach and representational frame\, communicable meaning and narrative coherence are substituted for the spirit of co-creation\, and interlocutor-driven content (Epp\, 2023). \nMusic Sound Noise by Jared Epp\, 16min \nMusic Sound Noise is a cautionary tale on the endless entangling of information sharing\, social media\, meaning and daily life\, and as well\, a satire on the anthropologist as colonizer of knowledge.  \nDr. Carlos Popper\, a positivist ethnographer arrives in the neighbourhood of Parkdale\, Toronto\, to study the growing concern of people vanishing into total virtual reality (the film was shot during the summer of 2020). On his journey he encounters Mr. Noise\, who embodies the desire for the virtual and tries to lure Popper to join him. Representing the liminality between the virtual and physical\, Mr. Sound\, another resident of the neighbourhood\, tries to save Popper.  \nJared Epp is a PhD Candidate in social anthropology from Carleton University in Ottawa\, Canada. His research focuses on the intersection of place\, imagination and precarity in a Canadian urban context. He is currently based in Edmonton\, Canada\, finishing his dissertation and working as a community arts facilitator with individuals living unhoused and/or with a concurrence of mental health barriers and addictions \n  \nGrandmother by Melina Campos Ortiz\, Heather Dirckze and Charanpreet Khaira\, 6min \nIn presence of Melina Campos Ortiz \nGrandmother tells the story of migration through the faces that you might not associate with the anger and hatred that fuels British news and politics: the faces of Granny\, Naniji and Baba – three ordinary grandmothers. \nMelina Campos Ortiz is a PhD student in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia. She uses Feminist Science and Technology Studies to explore human-soil relations in organic farming in Quebec\, paying particular attention to Central American migrant workers’ experiences. She currently coordinates an SHRCC-funded project that seeks to strengthen the ties between ethnography labs in North America. \n  \nGwo Ging by Marie Lécuyer\, 25min \nGwo Ging (meaning « to transit through the border ») is an experiential ethnographic video that explores the perception of disappearance of the dead from the realm of the living in Hong Kong’S saturated archipelago. The pressure from urbanization along with new government policies promoting green and “oceanic” burials have been reconfiguring ways of caring for and re-membering the dead. Once immersed in water\, and without a stable resting place to call home\, the dead are removed from the « liquid ecology » that flows between the environment\, the deceased and their descendants by way of paper offerings\, simulacra of banknotes and gold or silver ingots. The film aims to offer a counter-gesture to the perception of disappearance of this spectral ecology by rendering visible the gestures by which undertakers take care of the dead through pyrotechnic rituals feeding a vital breath that animates the living and the dead alike. \nMarie Lecuyer is a postdoctoral fellow and the co-lead of the Critical Media Club in the department of anthropology at McGill University. Her doctoral thesis focused on the oceanic turn in funeral rites in the Hong Kong archipelago and explored the way in which an oceanic environment dissolves traces of past lives and reconfigures ways of commemorating the dead. At the crossroads between environmental anthropology\, death studies and media studies\, her research is interested in modes of infraperceptible presence and uses multisite and multimedia methods. Her current research focuses on ways of anticipating and remediating flooding phenomena in Hong Kong and Ottawa. \n  \nTrail Days by Leo Stillinger\, 15 min \nTrail Days is an ethnographic reverie depicting a festival of hikers in Damascus\, Virginia\, along the Appalachian Trail. The film was shot on GoPro and iPhone during fieldwork with thru-hikers on the Appalachian Trail\, which stretches more than 3\,500 kilometers from Georgia to Maine in the eastern United States. Those who attempt to hike the entire trail end up forming a sub-culture of their own\, hidden in the woods of the Appalachian mountains\, but emerging occasionally to produce a unique and dreamlike atmosphere in the small towns they pass through—most notably in the annual Trail Days festival in Damascus\, where every year in late May twenty thousand people\, hikers past and present\, descend on a town with a population of less than eight hundred. \nLeo Stillinger is a writer and filmmaker based in Montreal. His first film\, An Urban Wild\, was screened at the Festival International de Film Éthnographique de Quebec (FIFEQ) in 2023. He recently completed a Master’s in Anthropology at McGill University\, focusing on the experience of long-distance hikers on the Appalachian Trail. \n  \n: November 7\, 2024 | 5 PM \n: Screening Room EV 10.525 \n Register here to reserve your spot. Seats are limited.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/low-quality-in-collaborative-ethnographic-filmmaking/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Screening
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SUMMARY:The Crip/Mad Archive Dances: Embodied Histories
DESCRIPTION:How do disabled and mad people survive\, dance\, insert their differences in a world full of stigma? How do we live through bodymindspirit experiences of alienation and pain? \nThis experimental documentary charts disability culture archives and embodied gestures of survival and creative expression. It draws on community with human and non-human others: media clips as performance gifts\, archival footage from dance archives\, environmental embedment and grounding in trees\, water\, desert and lakes. Together\, we dance\, and spring our binds. Petra’s Q&A opens up using various creative methods to approach archival finds. \nPlease note: This experimental documentary shares instances of medical incarceration including insulin violence. It offers survivor testimonies of artful and agency-full reclamation. The film is fully subtitled in English. The documentary uses ‘crip’ and ‘mad’ as in-group signifiers\, aware of stigma and histories. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nPetra Kuppers is a disability culture activist and a community performance artist. She grounds herself in disability culture methods\, and uses somatics\, performance\, media work\, and speculative writing to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. Her latest academic study is the award-winning Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters (UoMinnesota Press\, 2022\, open access). Her fourth poetry collection\, Diver Beneath the Street\, uses a psychogeographic lens to investigate true crime and ecopoetry at the level of the soil\, bringing together life and death (Wayne State University Press\, 2024). \nShe teaches at the University of Michigan\, was a 2022 Dance/USA Fellow\, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. She is currently at work on Planting Disabled Futures\, a virtual reality/community performance project\, as a Social Science Research Council Just Tech Fellow (2024-2026). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n📅: November 4\, 2024 | 10:30 a.m – 12:30 p.m \n📍: 4TH Space \n🔗 To participate online you can register on Zoom or watch live on YouTube. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-crip-mad-archive-dances-embodied-histories/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Q&A,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241030T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241030T193000
DTSTAMP:20260619T220344
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SUMMARY:[TAG Critical Watch Series] The Super Mario Bros. Movie
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on October 30th for TAG’s new Critical Watch Series! The first edition of the screening will feature The Super Mario Bros. Movie. \nThe TAG Critical Watch Series offers an opportunity to reflect on how video games are adapted and represented across film. The film screening will be followed by a short discussion and a podcast recording with select members of the audience. \nIf you would like to reserve a spot on the podcast for this month’s film ahead of time\, or if you would like to suggest films for future screenings\, please contact Marc Lajeunesse at tag.coordinator@concordia.ca \n  \n \n  \n📅 October 30\, 2024 | 5:30-7:30 pm \n📍Screening Room EV. 10.525 \n📽️ The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) \n🎟️ Seating is limited! Make sure you book your spot here! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-the-super-mario-bros-movie/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240913T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240913T183000
DTSTAMP:20260619T220344
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SUMMARY:Re-Imagining Landscapes in Times of Ecological Crisis with Andrea Bordoli
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening: Re-Imagining Landscapes in Time of Ecological Crisis \n  \nJoin the Visual Methods Studio of the Concordia Ethnography Lab for the first screening of the year! This session will explore the intersections between anthropology and filmmaking through the screening of three short audiovisual works by Andrea Bordoli\, each of them proposing a formal and conceptual encounter with a specific territory.  \n By considering human-nonhuman entanglements\, by tracking flows and transformations of matter\, and by imagining speculative scenarios that blur past\, present and future tenses\, each of these films proposes a filmic encounter to “think with” and “think through” some key elements of the contemporary ecological crisis. \n  \nABOUT THE FILMS: \nThe Depth Beneath\, The Height Above (2018) is a 18-minute documentary film exploring the high alpine region of Robiei\, Southern Switzerland. Through a juxtaposition between the aesthetics and activities taking place above – the continuous stream of water\, the movement of animals\, the processes of production of cheese – and respectively below the ground level – the mechanisms and technologies involved in the hydroelectric production\, as well as the humans interacting with them –\, the film conveys a sensory ethnography of this peculiar landscape. \nDiVisi Di Pietra Memorie (2021) is a 9-minute docu-fiction essay that develops a poetic reflection around the issues of water exploitation and rock mining in the Swiss Alps. By juxtaposing contemporary images to archives\, and by proposing a storytelling mix of documentary and fictional elements\, the work is an invitation to engage with the geological and human memories that shape and haunt current extractive environments. \nPer Voi Oggi la Luce del Sol non Splenderà (2021) is a post-apocalyptic\, eco-fiction short film portrying two construction workers wandering in a “zone” where inner and outer territories intertwine. In a constant search for traces\, they are increasingly confronted with a universe that over days and nights becomes overwhelming.  \n  \nABOUT THE DIRECTOR: \nAndrea Bordoli has a background in Visual Anthropology (MA\, University of Manchester)\, Visual Arts – Cinema (HEAD – Genève)\, and Anthropology and Philosophy (BA\, Neuchâtel University). His research and practice lies at the intersection between anthropological theory\, film and visual art. He is currently based between Switzerland and Québec\, and he is pursuing a practice-led PhD in Media Anthropology at the University of Bern as part of the interdisciplinary project “Mediating the Ecological Imperative” (https://ecological-imperative.ch/). Since January 2022 he is a visiting artist-researcher at the anthropology department of McGill University.\nHis works have been presented in academic settings and exhibited in film festivals and art spaces nationally and internationally\, such as Cinéma du Réel Paris\, Festival dei Popoli Florence\, Vancouver International Film Festival\, Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival\, European Media Arts Festival Osnabrück\, the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival\, and others. \nIn parallel to his personal research he collaborated with various research groups and institutions such as EASA CH\, Université de Neuchâtel\, Université de Berne\, Locarno Film Festival and Cinémathèque Suisse. \n  \n📅: September 13 | 6:30 – 8:30 p.m \n📍: VA-114 Cinema \nNo registration\, no fee\, all are welcome!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/screening-conversation-re-imagining-landscapes-in-times-of-ecological-crisis-with-andrea-bordoli/
LOCATION:Concordia University – VA-114 Cinema\, 1395 Blvd. René-Lévesque Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240417T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240417T210000
DTSTAMP:20260619T220344
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Bicentenario (2020) + Master Class with Pablo Álvarez Mesa
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening: Bicentenario (2020) + Master Class with Pablo Álvarez Mesa\n \nJoin Concordia Ethnography Lab for the last film screening of the semester. No registration\, no fees\, all are welcome!\nThe film which runs 45min will be followed by excerpts of the second film of Pablo’s trilogy on Bolívar titled La Laguna del Soldado (2024) as well as a master-class type discussion with the filmmaker!\n\n\nHere’s a great article (in French) in Le Devoir about Alvarez Mesa’s last production:\nhttps://www.ledevoir.com/culture/cinema/809692/cinema-colombie-obscene-pablo-alvarez-mesa?\n\n \nABOUT THE FILM: \nTwo Hundred years after Simón Bolívar’s liberation campaign in Colombia\, Bicentenario retraces Bolívar’s journey across the Country\, searching for his ghost still present in the contested territory. Creatively intersecting the traditions of landscape film\, oral traditions\, and political essay\, Bicentenario cinematically reveals the collision of history and myth inscribed on the territory of what would become an inevitably failed state — the Great Colombia.\n\n\n \n\n\n\nABOUT THE DIRECTOR:\n Pablo Alvarez-Mesa is a Filmmaker and Cinematographer working mainly in non-fiction. His films have played and earned awards at international film festivals including Berlinale\, Rotterdam\, Camden IFF\, Visions du Reel\, and RIDM. Pablo is an affiliate member of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University and a Berlinale Talents\, Banff Centre for the Arts and Canadian Film Centre alumnus.\n\n\n\n\nThis event is supported by the Concordia Ethnography Lab’s Visual Methods Studio (VMS).\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n: April 17\, 2024 | 6:30-9 p.m \n: Teaching Cinema VA-114\, 1395 Blvd. René-Lévesque W. \n  \nNO REGISTRATION\, NO FEES\, ALL ARE WELCOME!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/film-screening-bicentenario-2020-master-class-with-pablo-alvarez-mesa/
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240318T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240318T200000
DTSTAMP:20260619T220344
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SUMMARY:The Killing Movie + Goodbye (again) Juan
DESCRIPTION:Juan Miceli invites you to The Killing Movie which is all at once a screening\, a performance and another farewell. You can either drop-in for a few minutes or stay for the entire time. Juan claims that this is the perfect excuse to consider the scope of research-creation as movement while we share time together. It is also a chance to reflect and speculate on the tecno fossils and the declassification of some embedded control matrices. \n\n📅: March 18\, 2024 | 4-8 p.m \n📍: Performance Lab E.V 10.785 \n📸: Martin Cedres
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-killing-movie-goodbye-again-juan/
CATEGORIES:Performance,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240315T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240315T203000
DTSTAMP:20260619T220344
CREATED:20240227T011214Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Evicted City by Laurence Turcotte-Fraser & Priscillia Piccoli +Q&A (co-presented by the Concordia Ethnography Lab + with the McGill Critical Media Club)
DESCRIPTION:The Concordia Ethnography Lab has once again teamed up with McGill’s Critical Media Club\, this time to host Laurence Turcotte-Fraser & Priscillia Piccoli who will present their powerful film Evicted City (2023). The screening and talk is happening March 15th\, 2024 at 6:30 pm at the VA-114 Cinema of Concordia. Free! No registration! All are invited! \nAbout the film: Montreal — one of the few remaining affordable cities in North America — is now in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis. An intimate portrait of socio-political resistance\, this multilayered film explores the human impact of real estate speculation on the cities of tomorrow.\n \nAbout the directors: Laurence Turcotte-Fraser is an emerging filmmaker first known for her short film Domino (Regards 2018)\, as well as her director of photography work (L’étrange province\, Les Jaunes\, Blast Beat). Her first feature-length documentary\, The End of Wonderland (2021)\, was released theatrically in Canada and travelled internationally (IDFA\, RIDM\, OUTFEST LA\, BFI FLARE). This eccentric portrait of erotic artist Tara Emory allowed her to explore her love for direct cinema and to find a human approach both in front of and behind the camera. With her second feature film Evicted City\, co-directed with Priscillia Piccoli\, she continues her documentary artistic approach by scrutinizing the housing crisis in her home city\, Montreal. \nPriscillia Piccoli is an emerging filmmaker known for her short film Mathieu (Bell Fund Prize\, Fantasia International Film Festival) and her short documentary As Hard As Ice (Prix d’Unis TV et Réalisatrices Équitables at the 2020 Regions Race). Committed to direct cinema\, Priscillia uses the 7th art to find the silver lining in social-political dilemmas. During the first year of the pandemic\, while training as a social worker in a homeless day center\, she questioned the storm to come in her hometown\, Montreal. With her first feature film Evicted City\, co-directed with Laurence Turcotte-Fraser\, Priscillia launches a cry from the heart by granting the right to speak to the evicted people of a metropolis in full change. \nThis event is supported by the Concordia Ethnography Lab’s Visual Methods Studio (VMS) and the McGill Critical Media Club.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/film-screening-evicted-city-by-laurence-turcotte-fraser-priscillia-piccoli-qa-co-presented-by-the-concordia-ethnography-lab-with-the-mcgill-critical-media-club/
LOCATION:Concordia University – VA-114 Cinema\, 1395 Blvd. René-Lévesque Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240209T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240209T203000
DTSTAMP:20260619T220344
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Meezan (Scale) by Shahab Mihandoust + Q&A (presented by the Concordia Ethnography Lab)
DESCRIPTION:The first Concordia Ethnography Lab film night of the semester is coming up on February 9th\, 2024\, at 6:30 pm\, this time at the VA-114 Cinema. We will be screening Meezan (2023) by Shahab Mihandoust followed by a Q&A with the director. Free! No registration! All are invited! \n \nSet in south-western Iran\, in the province of Khuzestan and bordering with Iraq\, Meezan (Scale) is an observational and immersive experience\, a journey from the sea to the land\, about labor at the margins of petro-capitalism in three chapters. \nDeparting from the shore of Abadan\, the first oil company-town in the Middle East\, it follows a group of Arab fisherman who exemplify the realities of maintaining intergenerational ways of living and working on the sea. The men lead us to Bahrakan harbor where they barter for their share of the catch. What is contemporaneously a meeting place for fishmongering was a site of arduous migration for refugees fleeing Abadan after the mass destruction of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980’s. Meezan concludes in a secluded shrimp processing plant on the outskirts of Abadan where women who are shuttled in from surrounding villages furiously peel and devein shrimps in their own race for wages. \nDespite the massive industrialization of the region\, waterways of Khuzestan remain a significant source of income for the native communities who are most intimately connected to these embattled landscapes\, and Meezan is a reflection on the relation between bodies and scales to acknowledge the weight of the past and its consequences in the present.  \nShahab was born and raised in Tehran before he moved to Tio’tia:ke/Montreal in 2004. Inspired by ethnographic approaches to research and creation\, his documentary practice stands at the intersection between cinema and anthropology\, and his work often approaches the entanglement of identity and labor in everyday life practices; and as they relate to natural and built environments to understand the impacts of social\, cultural and political processes on people and places.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/film-screening-meezan-scale/
LOCATION:Concordia University – VA-114 Cinema\, 1395 Blvd. René-Lévesque Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Screening
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