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The Shape of Now

By Michele Smith on Thu, 16/01/2020 - 15:34

Do you remember the war? Ask seven different people and you will hear seven different stories. Rated “one of the standout works” (Jenna Sauers, Cultured Magazine) of Bogotá’s ARTBO art fair, The Shape of Now is a creative documentary by former Vancouverite Manuel Correa, who made his directorial debut with #ARTOFFLINE in 2016. His new film considers the seemingly impossible challenge of constructing, in the interests of peace and reconciliation, a history of Colombia’s bloody, decades-long civil conflict.
Dates:
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - 19:30
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
Wonderland - A Xiaolu Guo Double Bill

By Michele Smith on Tue, 10/12/2019 - 21:21

Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s essay on art and mechanical reproduction, the latest documentary feature by novelist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo takes us to a village near Shenzhen, in southern China, where a cottage industry produces made-to-order copies of Western masterpieces. Exploring the contemporary nature of images and the interconnections between people from different worlds, the film intercuts the life of a Chinese painter copying Caravaggio’s John in the Wilderness (c. 1604) and the life of the Swiss-Italian poet in London who commissioned it.
Dates:
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - 19:30
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
DIM Cinema: Somniloquies

By Michele Smith on Wed, 18/09/2019 - 14:32

For seven years in the 1960s, Dion McGregor, a gay American songwriter living in New York, was recorded by his roommate narrating his dreams in his sleep. Half a century later, these tapes, since made into cult albums, were brought to the attention of the filmmaking duo behind the 2012 documentary sensation Leviathan.
Dates:
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - 19:30
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
Skip Blumberg: Culture Beat (micro-retrospective)

By Michele Smith on Tue, 02/07/2019 - 04:02

One of the original camera-journalist-cum-independent-videomakers, Skip Blumberg’s practice is situated between discourses of art, journalism, activism, and guerilla filmmaking. He is a founding member of the Videofreex, a pioneering New York video collective for countercultural movements from 1969 to 1978. This “Culture Beat” program provides just a small sampling of Skip’s prolific output, from his "on-the-ground" participatory style to his travels around the world as an artist, producer, and correspondent.
Dates:
Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - 19:00
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
Segunda vez

By Michele Smith on Wed, 19/06/2019 - 02:10

Segunda vez (Second Time Around) | Belgium/Norway 2018. Dir. Dora García. 94 min. DCP.
Dates:
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 - 19:30
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
Take It Down: Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown

By Michele Smith on Thu, 02/05/2019 - 12:59

In this collection of recent work by North Carolina artists Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown, celluloid film serves as both a material register and a critical resource for interrogating the documentary image. Whether using discontinuous montage, handmade techniques, digital processing, or dramatic re-enactments, these experimental films aim to extend the formal possibilities of non-fiction filmmaking, while depicting such iconic subject matter as Confederate monuments, Earthworks, and the great American road trip.

Dates:
Monday, May 13, 2019 - 19:30
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
DIM Cinema: Signals in the Sea

By Michele Smith on Tue, 02/04/2019 - 08:19

This selection of artists’ films looks at bodies of water through technologies of seeing, sensing, and investigation to help us imagine different ecologies and less visible, even alien environments. Exploring various approaches to “remote sensing,” these works frame life on an increasingly unliveable planet through militarized and infrastructural forms of oceanic space. What can the relationship between the visibility of a watery surface and the invisibility of what exists below it tell us about possible futures — on and beyond our own environments?
Dates:
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 19:30
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
DIM Cinema: Automated Camera Motion

By Michele Smith on Sat, 16/03/2019 - 08:19

Vancouver artist Judy Radul presents Michael Snow’s Standard Time (1967) and La région centrale (1971), along with a recorded discussion between her and Snow, as part of the launch of the new location of Catriona Jeffries Gallery. Its inaugural exhibition on Cordova Street is structured as an Unexplained Parade, with each gallery artist inviting a companion artist to exhibit work. Radul’s invitation was to Snow, who has worked for decades at the leading edge of experimental film and visual art.
Dates:
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 19:00
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
DIM Cinema: Larissa Sansour and Soda_Jerk

By Michele Smith on Tue, 15/01/2019 - 09:48

The videos in this program sample movies or use sci-fi tropes to present alternate histories that address issues around rights, identities, displacement, and conflict. In A Space Exodus, Larissa Sansour (Denmark’s representative at the next Venice Biennale) becomes the first Palestinian on the moon, trying from space to re-establish communication with Jerusalem. Nation Estate, her Swiftian response to Middle East deadlock, offers a vertical solution to Palestinian statehood.
Dates:
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 19:30
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
DIM Cinema: William Klein's Messiah

By Michele Smith on Mon, 10/12/2018 - 03:22

Although best known in the last century for his rule-breaking street photography — he’s been called “the poet of the epoch of McCarthy and the Bomb” (Max Kozloff) — William Klein became a prophet of this century through his filmmaking. Klein’s iconoclastic fiction films and expressionist documentaries had transported “the apocalyptic dreams and demagogic humours of the 1950s into the [mediascape] of the three subsequent decades” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). Who better, then, to usher in the millennium?
Dates:
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - 19:30
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada

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