Articles from:May 2019

  • June 4-6: FSAC Annual Conference

    Tuesday, May 21, 2019 | By

    Communication, Popular Culture and Film professors Anthony Kinik and Christie Milliken will be traveling to the University of British Columbia for the 2019 Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) annual conference.

    They join Peter Lester, Program Chair and FSAC President who organized this year’s conference. The program includes featured speakers, roundtable discussions, screenings, lectures and panel discussions.

    June 4
    Indigenous Cinemas/Settler Cinemas panel

    • Chair: Ezra Winton
    • Anne Barnes
    • Terrance H. McDonald (Brock University) “The Possessions of Pain: Forms and Rhymes for Young Ghouls“
    • Jean-Sebastien Houle

    June 5
    Industry and Ephemera panel 

    • Chair: Peter Lester (Brock University)
    • Kathryn Armstrong
    • Wendy Donnan
    • Denise Mok

    Eco-cinema and the Environment

    • Chair: Chelsea Birks
    • Mario Trono
    • Christie Milliken (Brock University) “Documenting Scale, Contemplating Magnitude in Anthropocene“
    • Charlotte Dronier
    • Ilona Juronyte

    June 6
    Legacies of the NFB

    • Chair: Anthony Kinik
    • Tricia Close-Koenig
    • Mark Barber
    • Anthony Kinik (Brock University) “Denys Does Montreal: Denys Arcand’s Documentaries and the Critique of Urban Space, 1962-1972”

    Trauma and Torture in Contemporary Television

    • Chair: Terrance H. McDonald (Brock University)
    • Brett Robinson (Brock University) “Born in Blood: Trauma, Selfhood, and Dexter”
    • Mynt Marsellus
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  • May 11: Dr. Kinik Introduces Expanded Cinema Films From Expo 67 at Anthology Film Archives

    Tuesday, May 07, 2019 | By

    Earlier this year, Assistant Professor Anthony Kinik’s publication, The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars inspired a film series at Anthology Film Archives showcasing the city symphonies phenomenon from the 1920s-present. As close consultations with the organization’s curator wrapped, Dr. Kinik was invited to introduce four programs of films during the opening weekend of the series.

    The highlight was Andre Sauvage’s Etudes Sur Paris (1928). Until now, Kinik had only ever seen the YouTube version. Thanks to Anthology Film Archives, a leading centre for the preservation, study and exhibition of film, he was able to view the newly restored 35mm version.

    This weekend marks his return to New York City to introduce some expanded cinema films from Expo 67 at Anthology Film Archives’ “Films for the Fair: The World’s Fair & Cinema” series together with Guillaume Lafleur, Director of Programming at the Cinematheque Quebecois. Dr. Kinik contributed the essay “Celluloid City: Montreal and Multi-screen at Expo 67” to the anthology “Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67” and was part of the research team for the project, Cinema Expo 67.

    Film Notes – from Anthology Film Archives

    Expo 67 was the most moving-image-saturated Exposition of them all. While the films and installations that attracted the most attention were those that experimented, often boldly, with the possibilities of multiple-screen cinema (and are therefore included in the two multi-screen programs elsewhere in this series), Expo 67’s moving-image works ran the gamut of styles and approaches. This program features some of the single-screen highlights, including William Brind’s city-symphony-like IMPRESSIONS OF EXPO 67, two films exploring the pavilions devoted to Canada’s indigenous culture (as well as the experiences of the Inuit artists and craftspeople who participated in the Fair), John & Faith Hubley’s experimental animation URBANISSIMO, and a section of Jud Yalkut’s film METAMEDIA that was shot at the Expo.

    William Brind IMPRESSIONS OF EXPO 67 (1967, 8 min, 35mm-to-digital)
    Eva Kolcze & Phil Hoffman BY THE TIME WE GOT TO EXPO (2015, 9 min, digital)
    Marc Beaudet THE CANADIAN PAVILION, EXPO 67 (1967, 19 min, 35mm-to-digital)
    David Millar AKI’NAME (ON THE WALL) (1968, 22 min, 35mm-to-digital)
    Michel Régnier INDIAN MEMENTO (1967, 18 min, 35mm-to-digital)
    Hubs Hagen EXPOSITION (1967, 10 min, 16mm. Collection print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.)
    John & Faith Hubley URBANISSIMO (1967, 6 min, 16mm)
    Jud Yalkut EXPO ‘67 (1967, 2 min, 16mm-to-digital, silent)
    Total running time: ca. 100 min.

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  • Students Take Top Honours in Regional Leadership Competition

    Thursday, May 02, 2019 | By

    Brock’s Collegiate Leadership Competition (CLC) team members took home the regional championship trophy on Saturday, March 30 in Brantford. The team includes (back row, from left) Ruth Benoy, John Gobin, coach Amber Scholtens, William Durward, Stephanie Lasica (CPCF student) and (front row, from left) Grayson Wadsworth-Hayes and Rebecca Balyk.

    Though it was Brock’s first time entering the CLC, the six-member team won the regional competition and later found out they placed 16th overall in a pool of 58 teams when the results for all of North America were released on Thursday, April 25.

    The CLC aims to provide students with real-world leadership skills while also teaching them to work collaboratively with others.

    Starting in January, the team, comprised of students from several Brock Faculties, practised weekly to prepare for six 45-minute challenges designed to test the abilities of each team member to lead designated tasks and follow processes learned in the previous months.

    This year activities included setting up 400 dominos, completing a series of puzzles, silently arranging 100 numbered cards and wagering points before making split-second decisions on questions about the terms and concepts the team had reviewed during their late-night practice sessions.

    Coach Amber Scholtens, Manager of Student Leadership and Engagement, said the months of effort the team put in were apparent during the competition. “There were times when my heart was in my throat, and I was not even competing,” she said. “But our team remembered to stay calm and follow the example of each student as they took their turn to lead an activity.”

    To learn more about Brock’s CLC team, visit the Student Life and Community Experience website.

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