Images Festival – One Image, Two Acts
One Image, Two Acts is the first film in a trilogy by Montreal-based artist Sanaz Sohrabi. The film probes the British Petroleum (BP) Archives, located in Warwickshire, England, diving deep into the immense holdings of ethnographic photographs and films created by the company throughout its history. By focusing on Abadan, Iran, where the largest refinery at… Continue Reading Images Festival – One Image, Two Acts
Images Festival – Passage of the Spiral
Passage of the Spiral is a film by Puerto Rican artist Natalia Lassalle-Morillo. Based in the small town of Santo Domingo Yanhuiltán in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, it is a portrait of a place. The film is rooted in the stories of local youth who are artists and actors working with lauded theatre collective Lagartijas… Continue Reading Images Festival – Passage of the Spiral
Images Festival – nowhere close to halfway
nowhere close to halfway does not offer neat resolutions. Instead, the seven films included in this program dwell in the ongoing attempt, the search, the still-unfulfilled—and, to varying degrees, the necessity of continually reaching for both what might be and what could have been. nowhere close to halfway holds within it a restless yearning that propels… Continue Reading Images Festival – nowhere close to halfway
Images Festival – Long Time Here
Long Time Comin’ Dionne Brand Canada | 1993 | Digital | 52 min | English with English subtitles Faith Nolan and Grace Channer, two African-Canadian lesbian artists, give back to art its most urgent meanings—commitment and passion. Grace Channer’s large and sensuous canvases and musician Faith Nolan’s gritty and joyous blues propel this documentary into the spheres of poetry and dance. Long Time Comin’ captures… Continue Reading Images Festival – Long Time Here
CINSSU presents: Free Friday Film – Crash
CINSSU presents… CRASH (1996) dir. David Cronenberg projected on 35mm film David Cronenberg’s Crash is a chillingly cerebral exploration of eroticism and technology, where car crashes become a perverse language of intimacy. WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE THIS FRIDAY AT 7PM!
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.