Helvetica

Helvetica
Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 2:00pm

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film, Directed by Gary Hustwit, about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type. Helvetica encompasses the worlds of design, advertising, psychology, and communication, and invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day.
This screening is open to OCAD students, staff and faculty.

Venue & Address: 
Auditorium 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free, for OCAD students, faculty and staff only (not open to the public)

Film Screening & Discussion

Battle of Algiers
Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 11:00pm

Slingshot invites all students to attend a film screening of BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1966, directed by Gino Pontecorvo). Discussion to follow.

Screening: 6 pm

Discussion: 8:30 pm

Slingshot is a student-run group which exists to promote progressive anti-colonial politics and culture within the OCAD and Toronto communities.

Venue & Address: 
Auditorium Room 190100 McCaul Street, Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
pd03hc@student.ocad.ca
Cost: 
Free

OCAD Film Society Screenings

Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 12:30am to 4:30am

The OCAD Film Society was created for and from our love of films. We screen foreign, contemporary, classic, experimental, smart, and plain weird films.
We also work together to realize our member's projects, whether they are in a script, idea, animation, experimental, or any other form.
We encourage you to bring your shorts, suggestions, and project ideas to the meetings.
We meet every Wednesday between 7:30 and 11:30 pm in the Room 230. The group is mostly OCAD students, but we welcome anyone to come to our screenings (which are absolutely free).
Disclaimer: Most of our movies are R-rated, so they are not suitable for young children and extrememly sensitive individuals.

Venue & Address: 
Room 230 (Level 2) 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

OCAD Film Society Screenings

Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 12:30am to 4:30am

The OCAD Film Society was created for and from our love of films. We screen foreign, contemporary, classic, experimental, smart, and plain weird films.
We also work together to realize our member's projects, whether they are in a script, idea, animation, experimental, or any other form.
We encourage you to bring your shorts, suggestions, and project ideas to the meetings.
We meet every Wednesday between 7:30 and 11:30 pm in the Room 230. The group is mostly OCAD students, but we welcome anyone to come to our screenings (which are absolutely free).
Disclaimer: Most of our movies are R-rated, so they are not suitable for young children and extrememly sensitive individuals.

Venue & Address: 
Room 230 (Level 2) 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

OCAD Film Society Screenings

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 12:30am to 4:30am

The OCAD Film Society was created for and from our love of films. We screen foreign, contemporary, classic, experimental, smart, and plain weird films.
We also work together to realize our member's projects, whether they are in a script, idea, animation, experimental, or any other form.
We encourage you to bring your shorts, suggestions, and project ideas to the meetings.
We meet every Wednesday between 7:30 and 11:30 pm in the Room 230. The group is mostly OCAD students, but we welcome anyone to come to our screenings (which are absolutely free).
Disclaimer: Most of our movies are R-rated, so they are not suitable for young children and extrememly sensitive individuals.

Venue & Address: 
Room 230 (Level 2) 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

In the Public Interest

Going out to meet the rollers, Wasaga Beach, Photographer unknown, c. 1925, Ministry of Education
Friday, October 12, 2007 - 11:00pm

The still photography exhibition Assignment to Archives, curated by Professor Vid Ingelevics at the John B. Aird Gallery, is accompanied by two nights of film screenings in the OCAD Auditorium taking place at 7pm on Friday, Oct. 12 and Friday, Oct. 19. These are produced in partnership with OCAD and Pleasure Dome and bring forward the work of Ontario government filmmakers going back to the late 1940s. The two evenings offer distinct programs, the first focusing on agriculture and rural life and the second on postwar travel, leisure and road safety.

Venue & Address: 
Auditorium 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free for OCAD students; $2 for other students; $5 general admission.

In the Public Interest

Going out to meet the rollers, Wasaga Beach, Photographer unknown, c. 1925, Ministry of Education
Friday, October 19, 2007 - 11:00pm

The still photography exhibition Assignment to Archives, curated by Professor Vid Ingelevics at the John B. Aird Gallery, is accompanied by two nights of film screenings in the OCAD Auditorium taking place at 7pm on Friday, Oct. 12 and Friday, Oct. 19. These are produced in partnership with OCAD and Pleasure Dome and bring forward the work of Ontario government filmmakers going back to the late 1940s. The two evenings offer distinct programs, the first focusing on agriculture and rural life and the second on postwar travel, leisure and road safety.

Venue & Address: 
Auditorium 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free for OCAD students; $2 for other students; $5 general admission.

Min Sook Lee, Faculty of Art, documentary "Migrant Dreams" will be broadcast on Sept 14

photo of workers working with vegetables
Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 1:00am

World Premiere broadcast! #MigrantDreams will be broadcast on TVO Wed Sep 14th at 9pm

http://tvo.org/article/about/min-sook-lees-migrant-dreams-premieres-on-tvo-september-14

Min Sook Lee's "Migrant Dreams" examines migrant labour in Ontario.

TVO presents the World Broadcast Premiere of Migrant Dreams on September 14 at 9 pm and midnight, and available for streaming on tvo.org the following day. The feature documentary from filmmaker Min Sook Lee (El Contrato) tells the story of migrant workers who came to work in Ontario greenhouses as part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program. They feel the Canadian broker they paid to get the greenhouse job is extorting them, and believe the greenhouse owners are complicit in the scam.

“TVO’s commissioned documentaries focus on contemporary social, political and cultural issues that are relevant to Canadian audiences and promote citizen engagement,” says John Ferri, TVO’s Vice President, Current Affairs and Documentaries. “Migrant Dreams forms a basis for an important conversation that is happening right now in this country about the rights of people who work to bring food to our tables.”

Migrant Dreams focuses on a group of women, mostly from Indonesia, who work packing vegetables inside greenhouse operations in Leamington, Ontario. The women have been recruited by agents who illegally charge upwards of seven thousand dollars in agency fees. Unable to afford the levy, migrants use their Canadian wages to pay back their debt and rent on company controlled housing, with little left over to send back home. The workers’ dreams are pinned to the hope that their two-year contracts will be renewed for another two years. Local activists try to help the women by informing them of their rights and finding alternative housing.

“I’m thrilled TVO is making the story of these women in Migrant Dreams available to a wide audience,” said Min Sook Lee. “There are over 100,000 low-wage migrant workers in Canada, many with legitimate complaints about their living and working conditions. I hope this film can be part of a critical examination of migrant labour in Canada.”

Migrant Dreams will repeat on TVO Saturday September 17 at 9 pm, and Sunday September 18 at 11 pm

 

Website: 
http://tvo.org/article/about/min-sook-lees-migrant-dreams-premieres-on-tvo-september-14

Culture Shifts – a New Documentary Screening Series at OCAD U

photo of a pass with text
Monday, September 26, 2016 - 10:00pm

CULTURE SHIFTS – A NEW DOCUMENTARY SCREENING SERIES AT OCAD U

FREE SCREENING of The Pass System

September 26th, 2016 • 6 PM

From the Northwest Resistance of 1885 and for over 60 years, the Canadian Government denied many Indigenous peoples of the prairies the basic freedom to leave their reserves, all the while knowing there was no basis in law for the policy. This investigative documentary features Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, Ojibwe and Blackfoot Elders and their stories of living under and resisting the system, revealing a little-known picture of life under segregation. In Canada.

Panel discussion to follow:
Alex Williams, Director
Ryan Rice, Delaney Chair of Indigenous Visual Culture
Dr. Sherry Farrell Racette, Associate Professor, University of Manitoba

DIRECTOR Alex Williams
NARRATION Tantoo Cardinal 
EDITOR Igal Hecht 
MUSIC Cris Derksen 
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER James Cullingham

The Pass System was made with assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council the Toronto Arts Council, many artist-run media arts centres across the country, as well as community supporters, and was produced in association with Tamarack Productions.

facebook.com/thepasssystem 
twitter.com/ThePassSystem
www.thepasssystem.ca

CUTURE SHIFTS  focuses on documentary media that address critical issues for Indigenous and diasporic communities. 
Sponsors:
Indigenous Visual Culture at OCAD University
Vtape
OCAD U Faculty of Art
OCAD U Department of Integrated Media
OCAD U's Art & Social Change

Venue & Address: 
Auditorium (Room 190), OCAD University 100 McCaul Street
photo of a pass with text

Eye that don't see hearts that don't feel

This is a short clip of the upcoming full length documentary film on Asylum Process in the US, entitled "Eyes That Don't See, Hearts That Don't Feel" by Producer/Director Paula Gardner

Screaming figures
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 3:00pm

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