On Thursday afternoon, Dan Leberg chaired a lively SCMS panel on non-star performances. The craft of acting is practiced in a much broader community than most scholarly work on movie stars implies: %99 of the world’s screen actors are not and…
Cinema Politica will host the Quebec premiere of Askold Kurov and Pavel Loparev’s CHILDREN 404 on Monday, 23 March at 7pm in H110. CHILDREN 404 is a secretly-produced documentary about LGBT children growing up amidst the Russian government’s brutally enforced intolerance of…
Cinema Politica will screen political activist pranksters’ The Yes Men’s latest film, THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING!, on Monday, 16 March at 7pm in H110. Admission is by PWYC donation. The sequel to the hit 2003 documentary follows activist-pranksters Andy Bichlbaum and…
Cinema Politica will screen Rebecca Garrett’s WHAT WORLD DO YOU LIVE IN? on Saturday, March 14 at 2pm in the de Sève Auditorium. Admission is by PWYC donation. This searing indictment of police and security violence against Toronto’s homeless community is co-presented…
Grad/Aperture invited Concordia graduate students who will be giving papers and chairing panels at SCMS 2015 to promote their presentations. Our first contribution comes from PhD student Will Fech on his panel, “Jon Jost: An Online Auteur”. Will will present this paper…
Cinema Politica is proud to present the Quebec premiere of Hernan Zin’s BORN IN GAZA, a hauntingly poetic and visceral portrait of the lives of ten Palestinian children in the wake of Israeli-Hamas open conflict, on Monday, March 9 at 7pm in H110. The…
Dan Leberg recently participated in the NECS 12th Annual Graduate Student Workshop on “From Sensation to Synesthesia: The aesthetic experience and synestesia in film and new media.”, hosted by the Sapienza University of Rome. Over the two days of the workshop,…
Cinema Politica will screen Rosie Dransfeld’s ANTI-SOCIAL LIMITED on Monday, 2 March at 7pm in H-110. This compelling film follows a charismatic and eccentric ex-convict who aspires to create Edmonton’s first all-indigenous construction company. Anyone with an interest in indigenous, post-colonial, Canadian, or…
Cinema Politica will screen a double-bill of Ari A. Cohen’s THE FAMILY FARM and Nora Mandray’s 3 ACRES IN DETROIT on Monday, February 16 at 7pm in H-110. These films explore the common struggles faced by urban and rural farmers due…
Cinema Politica is screening the collaborative documentary, EUROMAIDAN: ROUGH CUT on Monday, February 9 at 7pm in H-110. This hard-hitting collection of short documentaries gives a startling first-hand account of a group of professional Ukrainian filmmakers who attended the violent protests…
Cinema Politica concludes its Fall 2014 season at Concordia with a double bill of films that propose different strategies for how to resist and remedy the environmental destruction caused by the Alberta tar sands. The scope of these two films,…
Cinema Politica is proud to present this double bill of brand new documentaries about two increasingly visible sexual identities who have often been overlooked in mainstream media. INTERSEXION explores the challenges faced by people whose sex is undefined at birth. TRANSGENDERED PARENTS,…