Screening Room

Welcome to our Film Screening and Discussion event featuring the documentary "5 Broken Cameras." Join us for an evening filled with powerful storytelling and thought-provoking discussions. Experience the award-winning film that captures the struggles of a Palestinian farmer using five cameras to document non-violent resistance to the Israeli army's actions in the West Bank. After the screening,… Continue Reading “5 Broken Cameras” Film Screening and Discussion

The talk focuses on the “animistic” power of certain living forms, in particular plants, which are apparently inert (or rather, inert to the naked eye) but can be animated by different cinematic techniques. I will analyze certain filmic forms such as time-lapse and close-up as used by the British naturalist and documentary filmmaker Frank P.… Continue Reading CSI presents: Cinema as Time Machine: Animation and Devitalization Through Time-Lapse and Slow Motion

Through the story of Annah la Javanaise, a trafficked 13-year-old girl who was found wandering the streets of Paris in 1893 and who became the maid and model of painter Paul Gauguin, Fatimah Tobing Rony introduces theories of visual biopolitics to examine those who are allowed to live and those who are allowed to die,… Continue Reading How Do We Look? Resisting Visual Biopolitics

Speakers Alaine Hutton Dylan Rykse Theresa Wang Scott Richmond (moderator) Description Careers after Cinema Studies is our annual Cinema Studies Institute alumni panel in which professionals in the film industry and beyond share their experience and knowledge with students. This year's panel will feature Alaine Hutton, Dylan Rykse and Theresa Wang. Alaine Hutton is part of a performing/writing/directing/designing duo… Continue Reading Careers after Cinema Studies 2024

AD HOC #58: Chumlum / Early Abstractions Innis College, Room 222 March 27, 2024, 7PM Free admission Trailer: www.vimeo.com/923360483 This program features two remarkable films that define the heterogeneous nature of underground cinema. Chumlum (1963) was made by the American absurdist filmmaker Ron Rice, who passed before his time leaving only a handful of masterful, diverse films. Of… Continue Reading Ad Hoc presents: Chumlum + Early Abstractions Numbers 1-5, 7 & 10

AD HOC #57: The Body in Film Innis College, Room 222 March 20, 2024, 7PM Free admission Trailer: www.vimeo.com/923323883 This program features erotic and cine-dance films that reshape the actions of the body on screen. In Hilary Harris’s 9 Variations on a Dance Theme (1966-67), Bettie de Jong performs a dance for the camera as it… Continue Reading Ad Hoc presents: Fuses, 9 Variations on a Dance Theme, The Golden Positions

AD HOC #56: David Holzman’s Diary Innis College, Room 222 March 13, 2024, 7PM Free admission Filmmaker Jim McBride offers this portrait of David Holzman (L.M. Kit Carson) as an experiment in fictionalized autobiographical documentary. Holzman, a New York cinephile anticipating the draft in the summer of 1967, may be a doomed man, grist for… Continue Reading AD Hoc presents: David Holzman’s Diary

AD HOC #55: Seven Films by Ed EmshwillerInnis College, Room 222March 6, 2024, 7PMFree admission Ed Emshwiller began his career as an illustrator of science-fiction books and magazines. In this field his covers were distinct for their realist figuration and bright colours. Emshwiller had studied painting in France under the G.I. Bill, and on returning… Continue Reading AD Hoc presents: Seven Films By Ed Emshwiller

Join CINSSU and Prof. Lauren Cramer, instructor for CIN337 "Black Cinemas," for a surprise short film screening plus discussion afterwards.

wtf wednesday wtf wednesday wtf wednesday Join us for our next surreal, abstract, weird edition of WTF WEDNESDAY! With our guest programmer, Vicky Huang! Come by on Wednesday February 28th at 6pm in Innis 222! **open to uoft students only**

AD HOC #54: Philip Hoffman: Collaborations & Meditations (1995-2024) Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave February 21, 2024, 7PM Free admission "The short films in this program reflect a mix of formal experiments and collaborations that often feed into and fuel some of my longer poetic narratives, essay and autobiographical films, spanning my 45 year… Continue Reading AD Hoc presents: Philip Hoffman – Collaborations & Meditations

For U of T students only! Andy Lee will speak after the film.

Toronto-based artist Syrus Marcus Ware imagines a world where racialized people have survived the “Black death spectacle” writ large on the nightly news; survived the catastrophic impact of the Anthropocene; and survived the crushing effects of white supremacy. Ware draws on the shared language of speculative fiction and political activism to transform the gallery space… Continue Reading Irresistible Revolutions: social justice praxis, research creation and dreaming into possiblility

A true work of Art & Trash! The great Craig Baldwin's new age cult feature Mock Up on Mu, screening with AD HOC.

This talk critically examines how and why contemporary trans-of-color subjects might prioritize aesthetic, rather than medical, technologies for articulating trans embodiments. Through an analysis of Canadian Asian artist Be Heintzman Hope’s 2021 queer workout video “Poetics to Activate the Technology of the Body,” I develop a trans-of-color intervention, and expansion, of Cáel Keegan’s call to… Continue Reading Eccentric Technologies: Be Heintzman Hope and the Trans-of-Color Workout Video

AD HOC #52: Valie Export: Invisible AdversariesInnis College, Room 222January 31, 2024, 7PMFree admission A schizophrenic artist, Anna, believes that alien doubles, Hyksos, are invading the earth. In Export’s first feature film, Anna’s crisis, whether one of illness or of prophecy, becomes an occasion for exploring the relationship between body and reflection. “…a tour de… Continue Reading AD Hoc presents: Invisible Adversaries

CINSSU presents a Free Friday Film: Beau Travail. Show starts at 7pm and is open to all.

With filmmakers Alexa-Francis Shaw and Jim Shedden, in person.

Description More information to come. 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… Continue Reading AD HOC presents: Hans Richter’s “Dreams That Money Can Buy”

When and Where Thursday, November 16, 2023 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Deluxe Screening Room, IN-222E Innis College 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 Speakers Finley Freibert, Southern Illinois University

When and Where Thursday, November 02, 2023 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm Deluxe Screening Room, IN-222E Innis College 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 Speakers Garrett Felber, Study and Struggle Description What can the life of Martin Sostre, a former political prisoner and the progenitor of Black anarchism, tell us about our own fight… Continue Reading “An Original Black Political Ideology”: Martin Sostre and the Birth of Black Anarchism.

When and Where Wednesday, November 01, 2023 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Deluxe Screening Room, IN-222E Innis College 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 Speakers Daniele Iannucci Description CALLING ALL SPORTS FANS!!! On Wednesday Nov 1st, 7pm, CINNSU is proud to present Portraits and Passports, graduate seminar hosted by PhD candidate Daniele Iannucci. From video… Continue Reading CINSSU Graduate Seminar: Portraits & Passports

Description More information to come. 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… Continue Reading AD HOC presents: Four Films by Curtis Harrington

Speakers R. Bruce Elder Description 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… Continue Reading AD HOC presents: A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised By Joy

Description More information to come. 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… Continue Reading AD HOC presents: “Pull My Daisy” / Fat Feet

Across Southeast Asia and East Asia real estate and hospitality ventures, cinema and new media, lifestyle brands, and wellness businesses currently draw on Chinese pasts and the aesthetics of colonial modernity as the privileged aesthetics of the good life. As film directors, hotels, bars, and clubs revive 1930s Shanghai and 1960s Hong Kong modernities—and exploit… Continue Reading The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City: Cinema and Media

When and Where Friday, October 13, 2023 9:00 am to Saturday, October 14, 2023 5:00 pm TBA Speakers Prof. Erin Yu-Tien Huang (Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto) Prof. SeungJung Kim (Department of Art History, University of Toronto) Description The Tenth Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium October 13–14, 2023 (in-person) University of Toronto… Continue Reading Contretemps: The Tenth Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium

When and Where Monday, October 09, 2023 1:00 am TBA Innis College 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 Speakers Masha Matzke Description More information to come. 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… Continue Reading AD HOC presents: Films by Dore O.

When and Where Thursday, October 05, 2023 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Deluxe Screening Room, IN-222E Innis College 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 Speakers Skip Elsheimer Description Skip Elsheimer of the AV Geeks Film Archive discusses the archive as a research space and a cultural resource, followed by a screening of some of… Continue Reading An Evening with the AV Geeks Archive

Description In the early 1990s, Israeli television began dedicating Memorial Day air time to videos produced by the grieving families of soldiers killed in the line of duty. When these videos first appeared during a period of growing Israeli discontent with the occupation of southern Lebanon, they were widely perceived as a challenge to the… Continue Reading Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence

This Thursday and Friday at Innis College, presented by @CSI_UofT and AD HOC: a launch for Hollis Frampton: Navigating the Infinite Cinema, a new monograph by @zrydmichael , published by @ColumbiaUP . A rare opportunity to see the entirety of Hapax Legomena, on 16mm film

Films by Keith Lock, Eva Kolcze, Rob Fothergill, Christine Lucy Latimer, Richard Kerr, Jean-Claude Labrecque, and Stephen Broomer!

SHEER DRIFT: The Snake America Newsletters (1-100) is a body of work about valuable and rare things (about 400 eBay auctions for vintage clothes, furniture and similar I found, researched and reported on) which I wrote between 2014 and 2018. Much of this book can be considered reference material: descriptions, stories and provenance regarding a… Continue Reading Snake Presents: Sheer Drift – The Snake America Newsletters

the Films: The Angel Outside Not Moldova, 1937 Film On Film Bacchanal Le Temps Phantome Birds

For those of you in Toronto, join us for the latest AD HOC screening! Next Saturday night I'll be showing some films by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof. Izabella will be present, and the full program is in 16mm! At @CSI_UofT

When and Where Friday, March 31, 2023 4:00 pm to 7:30 pm Deluxe Screening Room. IN-222E Innis College 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 Description On March 31st, 2023, please join Dramaturgies of Resistance for “Cinema and Labour,” an event focusing on the unique relationship film has with labour processes. We will begin with… Continue Reading Dramaturgies of Resistance: Cinema and Labour

CSI PhD student Thomas Quist presents “Film Theories of the Self: Images and Ghosts” through an illuminating case study of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (dir. Mankiewicz) This Thursday, March 30th, 6pm-8pm, IN222

When and Where Thursday, March 30, 2023 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Deluxe Screening Room, IN-222E Innis College 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 Speakers Rebecca Sheehan (University of California, Fullerton) Description This paper explores the aesthetics of the casual in Sharon Lockhart’s cinema, arguing that Lockhart radically extends what P. Adams Sitney described… Continue Reading From Sharon Lockhart’s Philosophy of the Casual to an Eco-Cinema of Sociability

When and Where Friday, March 24, 2023 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm IN-222E Innis College 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 Speakers Brian Price (University of Toronto) Alexander García Düttmann (Universität der Künste Berlin) Description On Friday, March 24th from 6-7:30pm CSI will be hosting a launch for the inaugural publication in a book… Continue Reading So What, or How to Make Films with Words book launch

Vincent Grenier in person showing his films & videos.

Speakers Dr. Cáel M. Keegan Description The CSGSU, in partnership with the Cinema Studies Institute, the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, and the Faculty of Information Centre for Culture and Technology, is happy to announce the details of our upcoming annual graduate student conference, themed Bad Objects. Please join us at Innis… Continue Reading Bad Objects: 2023 Annual Graduate Student Conference

Join a free evening of Pizza and a film screening of 'Run Woman Run!" This event is open to ALL University of Toronto students, staff, and faculty with a focus on Indigenous Students (First Nations, Mètis and Inuit)

Ad Hoc presents films by Warren Sonbert and James Herbert in 16mm!

When and Where Friday, November 25, 2022 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Deluxe Screening Room; IN-222E Innis College 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 Description The films and videos of Christine Lucy Latimer defy their containers: they reveal the fragile systems underlying media; they press the boundaries of image-making machines; they embrace the faults… Continue Reading Fragile Systems: Films and Videos by Christine Lucy Latimer

Join Ad Hoc on Friday, November 18, 7pm for a program of short films by Jim Davis!  Jim Davis (1901-1974) approached filmmaking as a tool through which we could discover new perceptions and intuitions. In his films, Davis animated light by reflective surfaces, building unfamiliar, alien spaces, disconnected from representation and symbolism, instead of primal,… Continue Reading Transformations By Light: The Short Films Of Jim Davis