Past Events
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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…
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March 27, 2026Critical Thinkers Series: Sarah Shamash (Emily Carr University of Art + Design)
Sarah Shamash (Emily Carr University of Art + Design): Cross-solidarity cinema networks: From Pindorama to PalestineCine Kurumin, Brazil’s largest and most prestigious, Indigenous International Film Festival, is a testament to how the camera in the hands of the colonized is a tool of resistance,…
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March 16, 2026Origin @ The Cinematheque
Origin is a sprawling, ambitious exploration of racial inequality in contemporary America and its interconnection with global systems of oppression throughout history. Ava DuVernay was told that Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson’s book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, was far too…
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March 13, 2026Critical Thinkers Series: Julia Alekseyeva (University of Pennsylvania)
Julia Alekseyeva (University of Pennsylvania): Matsumoto Toshio’s Antifascist Film-PhilosophyAbstractThis talk analyzes the film and philosophy of Matsumoto Toshio, avant-garde documentary filmmaker best known for the queer, kaleidoscopic Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) and a series of "neo…