UNDERGROUND: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE FUNNEL FILM COLLECTIVE

Tuesday, January 31, 2017 - 6:30pm

FREE SCREENING

Hot off the press, this new book offers an oral history collage of Toronto’s underground movie collective. They built four theatres, fought censorship, made artist’s films, published catalogues, ran an art gallery, showed and distributed movies from around the world. Here at last is the story told by people who were there. 235 pages. Published by the Canadian Film Institute

Free viewing of 5 essential movies, plus a free book. Please join us for a luxurious screening of a handful of artist’s movies that look at the revolution in Nicaragua, feminist construction zones, and a Ukranian survivor of the Second World War.

Ville - quelle ville? by Midi Onodera 4 min. 1984

DP2 by Peter Dudar 16 min, 2014

The Iconography of Venus by Annette Mangaard 5 min, 1987

Eye of the Mask (excerpt) by Judith Doyle 27 min, 1985

Canada Mini-Notes by Jim Anderson 15 min, 1974

 

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

6:30 pm • TIFF Lightbox, 350 King Street

Venue & Address: 
TIFF Lightbox, 350 King Street
Cost: 
Free
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First Person Narrative: Depictions of Mental Health in the Movies

first person narrative: film & discussion of mental health in the movies
Thursday, February 2, 2017 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Venue & Address: 
113 McCaul (MCC) rm 516
Email: 
jko@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416.977.6000x2119
Cost: 
Free!

What does a film concept artist do?

What does a film concept artist do? Take a trip to Hollywood and meet OCAD U alum Dean Sherriff, film concept artist for movies like Furious 7, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Jurassic World.

Video by OCAD U student Oscar Fletcher.

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25 FPS Film Festival: Panel discussion with Paulette Phillips

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 4:00am to Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 4:00am

Faculty of Art Professor Paulette Phillips will speak on a panel about film and architecture at the 25 FPS Film Festival in Zagreb, Croatia.

Phillips's installation The Walking Ferns for the Tatton Park
Biennale in the UK closes September 28, 2008 (info: http://www.tattonparkbiennial.org/)

Venue & Address: 
Student's Centre Savska 25, Zagreb, Croatia

FILMING NOTICE - TODAY July 19, 2016

Tuesday, July 19, 2016 - 4:00am

The cast and crew of the upcoming series Kim's Convenience will be filming at OCAD University on Tuesday, July 19 from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Most of the scenes take place in Butterfield Park and on McCaul St., with additional spaces reserved in the auditorium and Lambert Lounge. 

Campus Security will be on site at all times. You will be permitted to enter and exit the building throughout the filming period. 

 

 

Faculty Talk April 7th with Selmin Kara

Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Please RSVP by April 1st http://goo.gl/forms/Sl1wThB63N

On Thursday, April 7th 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Selmin Kara, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences and 2014/2015 OCAD University Award for Excellence in Early Stage Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity Recipient, will be giving a talk entitled Anthropocene Cinema and the Eco-Sensory Breach.

Coffee and light snacks will be provided.

Please invite your colleagues and join us for this exciting opportunity to hear about Professor Kara’s research. See the poster attached for more details.

In this talk, Selmin Kara will provide a brief overview of her research on the emerging aesthetic and thematic threads related to the Anthropocene imaginary in contemporary cinema, with special attention to films that project the impact of ecological exploitation onto human bodies. In films like Todd Haynes’s Safe (1995), Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves (2013), Shane Carruth’s Upstream Colour (2013), and Elinor Svoboda’s Merus Breach (2013), one finds characters that suffer from an eco-sensory breach that compromises their immune system and makes them oversensitive to certain stimuli such as pathogens, sounds, odours, or touch, due to environmental factors. Depictions of immune system collapse immediately configures the impact of the Anthropocene on the body as a metabolic rift: a tearing apart of the body’s resources and preventing the body from defending itself.  According to immune theory (under the guise of a wide array of philosophers, ranging from Niels Bohr and Fransisco Varela to Donna Haraway), the immune system is closely linked to the formation of identity, since it is predicated upon a distinction between self-and nonself, self and the environment. Varela even goes as far as suggesting that the immune system is one of the constituents of the notion of “self,” since it is a closed network that self-determines the body’s stability and capacities of interaction with its environment. From a cinematic point of view, the four films’ foregrounding of the senses in depicting narratives of bodily vulnerability entangle humans in a sensual ecology, which create an aesthetic that unsettles and resists anthropocentric imaginings. Taking the tension between these films’ narratives of eco-sensory breach and eco-sensuous aesthetic, the talk will explore what they might suggest in terms of transcorporeality and affect in the Anthropocene.  

Venue & Address: 
205 Richmond St. W, Room 420
Website: 
http://goo.gl/forms/Sl1wThB63N
Cost: 
Free
Faculty Talk poster with event info, biography of Selmin Kara and film stills

Lindsay Gibb’s National Treasure: Nicolas Cage listed as a top book of 2015

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 5:00am

OCAD U E-Reserves and Learning Zone Technician Lindsay Gibb’s first book has been listed by the National Post as one of the 99 best books of 2015. Gibb calls National Treasure: Nicolas Cage a critique/celebration of Cage’s style of acting and the range of roles he has chosen over his career.

Gibb is a journalist who has been at OCAD U since 2013, having worked in the library for the previous two years as a reference intern. She is in the early stages of writing her next book.

Interviewed by Metro Toronto, Gibb admits that her fondness for the actor turned into “a bit of an obsession” while researching the book.

The book is part of the ECW (entertainment culture writing) Press Pop Classics series and is widely available in bookstores and online.

“I didn’t know I wanted to understand Nicolas Cage until I read Lindsay Gibb’s book. Now I’m sure of it.” — Jesse Wente, director of film programmes, TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Film Scores by Sarah Nind

Poster for event with one of Sarah Ninds artworks
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 4:00am to Sunday, May 10, 2015 - 4:00am

Galerie Youn presents:
Film Scores by Sarah Nind

Preview: April 9, 6 pm - 8 pm

Venue & Address: 
Galerie Youn 5226 St. Laurent Blvd., Montreal, PQ
Website: 
http://www.galerieyoun.com
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Materials Reimagined in Special Effects

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Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 5:00pm

Laird McMurray is the president of Laird FX, which is a specialty prototype design company, who engineers and manufactures devices and special effects for film, television, commercial, theatre and live events.

Venue & Address: 
100 McCaul St. Room 530
Cost: 
FREE

Otino Corsano: Banner Year

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 5:00am to Saturday, February 28, 2015 - 5:00am

OCAD U Continuing Studies intsructor Otino Corsano continues to reconstruct cinematic elements into new genres for his latest Banner Year solo exhibition presented by pm Gallery. These new paintings feature celluloid-like images of scrolling banners both with and sans mottos. Undulating forms relate to the analog essence of both cinema and painting in the digital era. Contemporary heraldry of corporate branding is also referenced. Corsanos recent work tracks new dialogues through a fusion of oscillating film structures and the highly archival medium of painting as a perpetually resurfacing discipline.

In early 2008, Corsano commissioned the creation of twelve wood panels to be constructed at three times the scale of the original 2007 iPhone. These solid wood forms were produced prior to any public knowledge of the development or release of the first iPad in 2010, although they are similar in dimensions. Featuring rounded edges and silver casing, the resulting series of wood-burned paintings document inspirational quotes from artists, collectors, dealers and other art world insiders culled from the artists memory.

Linked to the Los Angeles art community, Corsano's visual art practice consists of neo-conceptualist, new genre work. He explores areas of meaning production in a variety of media and established Ocean Course Films as an entity to consolidate his collaborative multimedia projects. Corsano has taught at the University of Toronto and is an Instructor at OCAD University. He completed his MFA at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles in 2000. Banner Year is Otino Corsanos fourth Toronto solo exhibition with pm Gallery. The artist personally thanks Pete Commanda for his wood burning expertise. Otino is grateful to Powell McDougall for a decade of professional representation of his work.

Opening Thursday, February 5, 6 to 9 p.m.

Venue & Address: 
p|m Gallery 1518 Dundas Street West
Website: 
http://pmgallery.ca/
Phone: 
<p>416.937.3862</p>

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