Past Events
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October 1, 2026Critical Thinkers Series: Dr. Gisèle Baxter
Presented by the Centre for Cinema Studies and Cinema Thinks the World, the Critical Thinkers Series features research talks by notable and emerging scholars in Cinema and Media Studies. Join us for the next talk in the Fall 2026 Series by Dr. Gisèle Baxter, Honorary Research Associate in the…
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September 8, 2026Last Life in the Universe @ The Cinematheque
Last Life in the Universe marks Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s first collaboration with cinematographer Christopher Doyle and actor Asano Tadanobu. Against the neon-lit backdrop of early 2000s Bangkok, Kenji (Asano), a fish-allergic Japanese librarian with a quiet death wish, meets Noi (Sinitta…
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June 9, 2026
Bamako @ The Cinematheque
Bamako, named for the capital of Mali where it takes place, literally puts the global financial system on trial: judges, prosecutors, and defendants gather in a residential courtyard to determine the role of the World Bank and the IMF in perpetuating economic hardship in Africa. The…
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June 2, 2026Escena 47 @ Cineworks
After a chaotic pre-shoot party, a hungover and disorganized film crew stumbles onto set, only to find themselves struggling to capture even the opening shot of their movie as tensions, egos, and exhaustion collide.Paul Haase is a Guatemalan filmmaker, poet, and researcher, with a deep curiosity…
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May 8, 2026Critical Thinkers Series: Claire Cao (University of British Columbia)
Claire Cao: The Persistence of the Impossible: Georges Bataille and the Substitutive Logic of Cinematic FormFilm theory’s historical concerns might be read as vibrating through a tension around a philosophy of substitution. According to Rudolf Arnheim, “film is always at one and the same time a…
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April 27 - April 28, 2026Breaking The Machine Symposium / April 27-28
“Breaking the Machine” is a symposium that looks at the role and the affordances of, as well as the possibilities and opportunities for, filmmaking and other audiovisual media production within the academy.Audiovisual research-creation, creative practice research, practice(-as-)research, or what…
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April 24, 2026Don´t Cry Butterfly - The Norm Theater
Don't Cry, Butterfly (Dương Diệu Linh, Vietnam/Singapore/Indonesia/Philippines, 2024)Everyone is welcome to come along to a free screening - and the west coast premiere - of Don't Cry, Butterfly, the award-winning film by Dương Diệu Linh, who hopefully will be in attendance.The screening…
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April 23, 2026All That's Left of You - The Norm Theater
All That's Left of You (Cherien Dabis, Palestine/Germany/Cyprus/Jordan/Greece/Qatar/Saudi Arabia/USA/Egypt, 2025)Everyone is welcome to come along to a free screening of All That's Left of You, the award-winning film by Cherien Dabis.The screening takes place on Thursday April 23, 2025, in…
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April 10, 2026Critical Thinkers Series: Victor Fan (Kings College London)
Victor Fan, Professor of Film and Media Philosophy, King’s College LondonInterthinking: Vijñāna and the Cultural Logic of Cognitive UnconsciousIn her recent books, Katherine Hayles proposes the term “cognitive unconscious,” defined as a cognitive operation that enables both sentient and nonsentient…