Must see - Cinema
From the gallery wall to the silver screen: getting artwork into a movie
When used well, an artwork can add volumes to a movie. In SKYFALL, James Bond first meets Q at London’s National Gallery. The pair sit in front of JMW Turner’s […]
Before Walt Disney, there was Lotte Reiniger – the story of the world’s first animated feature
Alexander Sergeant, University of Portsmouth The oldest surviving animated feature was not made by Walt Disney, but by a German puppeteer named Lotte Reiniger who escaped Nazi persecution to move […]
Haida language films- a new voice in cinema
Recently screened at the J.A. Bombardier Theatre of the McCord Museum were two Haida language films, a phrase which until the passed few years was relatively nonexistent. The language of […]
Albert Serra’s Guide to Pleasure
The generally “self-righteous” routine of the Cannes International Film Festival – whose current topics include immigration, the environment and corruption of the world’s “big wigs” – which ended on May […]
Ai Weiwei’s segment pulled from ‘Berlin, I Love You’
In 2015, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who is now based in Berlin, worked remotely directing a portion of Berlin, I Love You, an anthology style film. When the movie was […]
‘The Flying Photographer’: a documentary showcasing Fernando Guerra
‘The Flying Photographer’ is a new film that brings architecture, photography, and documentary together into one beautiful package. The documentary sheds light on the elusive Fernando Guerra, one of the […]
Abstract expressionism, the ambassador of America’s Triumph
François Lévy-Kuentz’s recent documentary called The Hidden Face of American Art, describes the strategies used to enable American art to overtake European art in the power struggle for influence during […]
