Cinéma couleur, collectionneurs et archives: Défense de l'amateur
Un texte sur le Kodacolor & Kodachrome par Louis Pelletier, coordinateur de recherche du projet CESIF, à decouvrir sur le site Hors champ.
Un texte sur le Kodacolor & Kodachrome par Louis Pelletier, coordinateur de recherche du projet CESIF, à decouvrir sur le site Hors champ.
Edited by CINEMAexpo67 Directors Monika Kin Gagnon (a communication studies professor at Concordia) and Janine Marchessault (professor of cinema and media studies at York University), "Reimagining Cinema" is an anthology of essays, interviews and 130 colour reproductions of Expo 67’s most spectacular and inventive multi-screen films, published by McGill-Queens University Press.
Organisé par l'équipe InTRu, ce colloque organisé par Valérie Vignaux (Université de Tours) et Benoit Turquety (Université de Lausanne) souhaite poser les bases théoriques d'une réflexion sur les enjeux actuels du cinéma amateur, en montrant comment ces pratiques proposent un autre paradigme, dont les implications sont à la fois sociologiques, esthétiques et anthropologiques. On entend notamment interroger le phénomène selon trois mouvements principaux :
1) L'amateurisme quel paradigme ? histoire, pensées, gestes
2) Le cinéma amateur et les espaces institutionnels
The Annual Conference of the Film Studies Association of Canada/Association Canadienne d’études cinematographiques (FSAC-ACÉC), held in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, will be taking place from Tuesday, June 2 to Thursday, June 4, 2015.
"New York University Cinema Studies joins with the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center for the tenth international gathering of archivists, scholars, curators, preservationists, and artists devoted to screening and discussing orphan films (i.e., an eclectic variety of neglected moving images).
As part of the Media History Research Centre, Concordia University is hosting Arclight Symposium on May 13-15, 2015. It is a three-day event that brings together digital humanities and media history scholars for a wide-ranging discussion about historical research using digital methods. Speakers include Michelle Hilmes, Lea Jacobs, Robert Allen, David Berry, Ryan Cordell, Lisa Spiro, Jason Camlot, Haidee Wasson, Greg Waller, among others, with a keynote from Deb Verhoeven.
The McGill chapter of the Association of Moving Image Archivists will host its 2nd Annual Colloquium on April 9. It will feature talks from special guest speakers including Mark Simon Hadyn, Morgannis Graham, and Cesif research coordinator Louis Pelletier.
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For those interested and engaged in moving image and sound studies, don't miss this lecture by cinema historian and specialist of film sound Dr. Martin Barnier. 'The "Slow" Generalization of Sound' is presented by the Advanced Research Team on the History and Epistemology of Moving Image (ARTHEMIS):
In this newly released book, Charles Tepperman, Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Calgary, traces the history of the amateur films movement, exploring the aesthetics and production/circulation practices of this alternative filmmaking. For a detailed description of the book please visit the publisher's website here.
A new book on Canadian ephemeral film has just been released by McGill-Queen's University Press under the title "Cinephemera: Archives, Ephemeral Cinema, and New Screen Histories in Canada." Edited by Zoë Druick and Gerda Cammaer, Cinephemera include works by CESIF participants Peter Lester (Brock) and Louis Pelletier (Montreal), as well as contributions by Andrew Burke (Winnipeg), Jason Crawford (Champlain), Liz Czach (Alberta), Seth Feldman (York), Monika Kin Gagnon (Concordia), André Habib (Montreal), Randolph Jordan (SFU), Scott Mackenzie (Queen's); Katherine Quanz (WLU), Micky Story (N