All posts by Bridget Deer

Bridget is currently a third year MA student in the course work option.

Philipp Dominik Keidl Presents “Media Archaeology in the Museum – Methods and Possibilities” – SCMS 2015

On Friday afternoon, the Silent Cinema Cultures SIG sponsored a panel titled “Digital Film Historiography: Archives, Techniques, Epistemology,” chaired by Mel Hoppenheim PhD candidate Philipp Dominik Keidl and co-chaired by Christian Gosvig Olesen (University of Amsterdam). Though the panel was…

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Anthony Kinik Presents “Gordon Sparling’s City Symphonies: Metropolitan Modernism in 1930s Canadian Cinema” -SCMS 2015

Tucked away in the Batiscan conference room on Mezzanine level of the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth, four scholars reintroduced forgotten filmmakers during the panel titled “Revisiting the City Symphony Phenomenon – Overlooked and Forgotten City Symphonies.” The chair of the panel,…

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Rosanna Maule presents “Women’s Cinema on the Web: A New Platform for Feminist Discourse” – SCMS 2015

Concordia Professor Rosanna Maule presented yesterday on “Women’s Cinema on the Web: A New Platform for Feminist Discourse” in the panel “Theorizing Post-cinema: The Cinematic In and Out of the Theatre” where she proposed a step out of a solely theoretical approach…

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Adam Szymanski presents “Composing Peace through the Ecosophic Aesthetic of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” – SCMS 2015

One of the final panels of day one of SCMS, “The Care for Opacity in East Asian Cinema,” was comprised of a group of four Montreal-based scholars: Erik Bordeleau (Concordia University), Dr. Sivestra Mariniello (Université de Montreal), Suzanne Beth (Université…

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