AD HOC #75
R. BRUCE ELDER IN PERSON
ALONE (ALL FLESH SHALL SEE IT TOGETHER)
June 5, 2025
7PM
Innis Town Hall
AD HOC present R. Bruce Elder, in person, with his and Ajla Odobašić’s new film, Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together). Elder writes:
“We all know that electric media have produced numerous degrading, all-pervasive forms of surveillance that have virtually eliminated that privacy which heretofore was a bastion of human dignity. But is it possible that electric media and their capacities for openness and revelation might result in a new form of transcendence?
“This question constitutes the problematic of ALONE (ALL FLESH SHALL SEE IT TOGETHER) and the poem at the core of the work. The project embodies our (R. Bruce Elder and Ajla Odobašić’s) imaginings of what the electric poetry of the future might be: a multi-focal, multi-medial form whose nature reflects the interpenetration of all energies everywhere and throughout time–an ethereal togetherness.”
TRT: 1 hour 45 minutes
AD HOC aims to rethink what an experience of cinema can be. We seek to reposition historical landmarks and buried treasures within the on-going tradition of experimental and other non- commercial modes of filmmaking, drawing on work from Toronto, throughout Canada, and internationally. Within these parameters, we aspire to diversity in programming, as well as to multimedia and interdisciplinary screening events that bring together varied communities.
AD HOC = Stephen Broomer, Madi Piller, Jim Shedden, Bart Testa.
AD HOC would like to thank Alberto Zambenedetti, Denise Ing, Charlie Keil, and the staff of Innis College and the Cinema Studies Institute.