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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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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
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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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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
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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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