2025 Innis Alumni Lecture
Join us on April 9 for our 2025 Innis Alumni Lecture, “Can ‘Ex-Cons’ Help Improve the Criminal Justice System?“, with Professor Jeffrey Ian Ross (BA ’85 Innis). The criminal justice system struggles with entrenched issues that demand a fundamental re-evaluation. What if we used the voices of well-educated formerly incarcerated individuals to drive meaningful reform? Drawing from… Continue Reading 2025 Innis Alumni Lecture
Rudolf Arnheim’s Media Theory: Formats, Platforms, Materials, and the Cinema
Today, the legacy of classical film theory – with its insistence on medium specificity and concern with the formal properties of film– is often framed as essentialist, ahistorical, and no longer applicable to our present media practices. As recent media-theoretical debates challenge the very association of media with the material basis of artistic or communication… Continue Reading Rudolf Arnheim’s Media Theory: Formats, Platforms, Materials, and the Cinema
America Is Being Beaten: Visions of the Imperiled Child in Freud, D.W. Griffith, and Arthur Jafa.
Ara Osterweil is a writer, painter, and scholar of 20th-21st century film and art, and an Associate Professor at McGill University.
CINSSU presents: Free Friday Film – All the President’s Men
CINSSU presents: Free Friday Film – All The President’s Men with an introduction from Prof. Mike Meneghetti. Free and open to all!
CSI 50th Anniversary Directors’ Panel
Speakers Corinn Columpar Peter Fitting Charlie Keil Joe Medjuck Cam Tolton Alberto Zambenedetti Bliss Lim (moderator) Description A night devoted to the history of the Cinema Studies Institute. Former directors share their thoughts on the experience of leading the Institute. Moderated by Bliss Lim. Register for free tickets.
CINSSU presents: Free Friday Film – Vox Lux
CINSSU presents: Free Friday Film – Vox Lux. Free and open to all!
Mountains On Stage Summer Edition 2025
New Mountains on Stage Summer edition 2025 ! Experience a great time full of adventure and spectacular team-building performances with this new film selection! Mountains on Stage is a film festival that aims to bring the mountains into cities with a selection of the world’s best films related to mountain sports. You can find more… Continue Reading Mountains On Stage Summer Edition 2025
AD HOC #73: Lulu Faustine, with the filmmakers in person!
Innis College, room 222 April 3, 2025, 8PM Free admission, open to the public! A miracle happened: summer came ahead of time. “Stephen Broomer’s Lulu Faustine is an homage to the Latin American literary science fiction classic, Adolfo Bioy Casares’ The Invention of Morel, in which a fugitive escapes to an island and becomes enamoured with a woman,… Continue Reading AD HOC #73: Lulu Faustine, with the filmmakers in person!
Masked at the Movies presents Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
A mask-mandatory screening of Marcel the Shell With Shoes On.
Kensington Market: Heart of the City
The Urban Studies Program and the Canadian Film Forum present a special screening of Kensington Market: Heart of the City. On April 8, join for a screening of this documentary film followed by a discussion with filmmaker Stuart Clarfield. Kensington Market: Heart of the City tells the story of generations who have lived in the neighbourhood over the… Continue Reading Kensington Market: Heart of the City