Events
Looking at Creativity
This Fall the Gallery continues its program of films that focus on the arts in a new series of recently released feature length documentaries. From Gaudi to Glass, this series offers unique insights into several renowned cultural producers who have each pushed the boundaries in their respective fields of architecture, film, music and the visual arts.
Screenings Tuesdays at 5 pm. Admission is free. Seating is limited.
A View on Wenders
One of this year’s Co-Production Conference countries at the Atlantic Film Festival is Germany, and no German filmmaker has a more international outlook than Wim Wenders.
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
