Events
Coloured Plates
Sculpture Court, Dalhousie Arts Centre, free admission
As part of the exhibition RESOUNDING, Montréal-based artist Daniel Olson will perform Coloured Plates in which a large collection of metal plates, taken from toy xylophones over the past fifteen or more years, are thrown one by one onto the hard surfaced floor. As they fall, each plays its note to produce a random melody.
Focus on African Filmmakers: Sembène and Sissako
Four February screenings for Nova Scotia’s celebration of African History Month will include two films each from that continent’s founding father of cinema, Ousmane Sembene, along with a pair of works by one of Africa’s most exciting new cinematic voices, Abderrahmane Sissako.
Screenings Tuesdays at 5:00 pm
February 3- Mandabi/The Money Order
Art: 21 Art in the Twenty-First Century
Now in its fifth season, the groundbreaking PBS series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century provides a behind the scenes view of a diverse range of contemporary artists. Viewers observe intimate footage of artists at work in their homes, studios and communities and speaking in their own words about their practice.
The featured artists, including painters, photographers, sculptors, performance and video artists, represent the breadth of current artistic practice and demonstrate the relevance of contemporary art to everyday life.
Season 2
Agnès Varda: A Voice Beyond the New Wave
French director Agnès Varda fiction and non-fiction work in the cinema has gone well past her French New Wave and Feminist beginnings to examine and portray a world of compassion, ambiguity and direct visual poetry. This retrospective will look at a combination of both her dramatic and documentary works, from features to shorts.
SCREENINGS WEDNESDAYS AT 8PM
January 28- La Pointe Courte
How Real Was Neorealism... And Just How Far Was its Reach?
Join film curator Ron Foley Macdonald for an illustrated presentation on Italian Neorealism, its precursors, practitioners and policy, and its long and still-lingering influence in both Hollywood and Canada, and around the world.
Neorealism's Reach: From Film Noir to Cinema Verité
In conjunction with Photopolis: Halifax Festival of Photography taking place in and around the city this fall, the Dalhousie Art Gallery will present a series on the impact and reach of Italian Neorealism. This post-World War Two cinematic movement -- though brief, only twenty years or so-- had a worldwide impact on existing cinemas (Hollywood, for one) along with almost every new National Cinema that followed in its wake. All films are Italian with English subtitles.
SCREENINGS WEDNESDAYS AT 8PM
October 22 - Ossessione
Contemporary Issues in Art, Architecture & Design: Five Recent Noteworthy Feature Documentaries
October 21 - Manufactured Landscapes
Jennifer Baichwal, Canada, 2006, 83 minutes.
Edward Burtynsky's monumental enivronmental photography is caught on motion picture film by cinematographer Peter Mettler and director Jennifer Baichwal. A multiple award-winning feature documentary.
October 28 - My Architect
Nathaniel Kahn, USA, 2003, 110 minutes.
Tempest Fest: Three Takes On Shakespeare's The Tempest
Tempest Fest: Three Takes On Shakespeare’s The Tempest In Honour Of the Fifth Anniversary Of Hurricane Juan
September 2003 saw Hurricane Juan make landfall in Nova Scotia. We have selected three very different film versions of the Bard’s late romance The Tempest to mark one of the most significant climatological events ever to happen in Halifax.
Screenings Wednesdays at 8 pm
September 17- The Tempest
Fiesta at Five
September 12 - Black Orpheus
Marcel Camus, France/Brazil 1959, 103 minutes
The legendary retelling of the Orpheus/Eurydice myth during the Rio de Janiero's colourful and raucous Carnival, with music by Antonio Carlos Jobim that launched the worldwide bossa nova craze. Portugese with English subtitles.
September 13 - The Exterminating Angel
Luis Buñuel, Mexico, 1962, 95 mins.
Los Angeles New Orleans New York Halifax
Two leading African American Filmmakers on the life and death of American Cities, Burnett's L.A. is a city that contains a massive and mostly hidden black sub-culture that only became visible to the outside in the Watts and Rodney King riots. Spike Lee, on the other hand, sees his hometown of New York City as a place of racial conflict and possible resolution in Do The Right Thing. His vision of New Orleans during the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina reveals a powerful, raging point-of-view that still demands to be answered.
