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DIM Cinema: Meriem Bennani

By Michele Smith on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 02:09

This astonishing, wildly inventive trio of recent videos by Meriem Bennani begins with the tender, funny, and infinitely relatable 2 Lizards (2020). A collaboration with Orian Barki, the work is composed of eight “episodes” that were posted by the artists on Instagram at the onset of the pandemic, a chronicle, spoken through lizardy avatars, of their disrupted lives. Seamlessly combining 3D animation with footage shot around New York City—including an eerily empty Times Square—it captures the range of emotions particular to the early months of lockdown.
Dates:
Wednesday, July 20, 2022 - 19:00
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
Back to Earth: Afrofuturist Short Films

By Michele Smith on Tue, 31/05/2022 - 03:23

The works in this program see Earth’s future through an African lens. The disembodied voice in Relic 0 delivers the prologue: an account of postcolonial traumas that seeps into the soil around colonialism’s ruins, ushering in a relic traveller from the future. Afronauts unearths a story whose truth is stranger than fiction: NASA is readying Apollo 11 for launch, unaware that thousands of miles away Zambia has entered the space race, vying to beat both the United States and the Soviet Union to the moon—with a teenage girl at the helm.
Dates:
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 - 19:00
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
Iranian Experimental Film, Part 1: The Artistic Radicals

By Michele Smith on Tue, 17/05/2022 - 03:12

In the first of a two-part program on Iranian experimental cinema, guest programmer Somayeh Khakshoor presents rarely seen short works by pioneering filmmakers Manouchehr Tayyab, Khosrow Sinai, Farshad Fadaian, and Mohammad Reza Aslani (whose feature Chess of the Wind had a held-over run at The Cinematheque earlier this year). Although all these films, with the exception of Ars Poetica, were either commissioned or made within governmental institutions, their makers found creative ways not to compromise their radical artistic inclinations.
Dates:
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 - 19:00
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
Assembly

By Michele Smith on Sun, 03/04/2022 - 05:33

In celebration of Capture Photography Festival 2022, DIM Cinema brings together four extraordinary filmmakers to interrogate the meanings of images drawn by light. Whether translating photographs into time-based media or cutting and pasting found footage, the short films in this program disassemble memories, histories, myths, percepts, and representations, while clearing space for their potential reassembly in altered form. We enter onto a rocky-beach scene staged and photographed by Agnès Varda 30 years earlier.
Dates:
Wednesday, April 6, 2022 - 19:00
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
DIM Cinema: CROP + Dreamaway [POSTPONED]

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 13/10/2021 - 03:21

Due to technical issues beyond our control, we will sadly be postponing tonight's DIM Cinema screening of CROP + Dreamaway to a later date. Ticket holders will be contacted and refunds issued. All screenings at The Cinematheque through Friday (October 15) have been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience caused and look forward to screening these films in the not too distant future.
Dates:
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 19:30
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
DIM Cinema: Zadie Xa

By Michele Smith on Mon, 27/04/2020 - 02:10

A free virtual screening from April 29 through 5 May
Dates:
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - 19:30 to Tuesday, May 5, 2020 - 23:55
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
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 to Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 18:55
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada

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