This fall as part of the First Exposure Filmmaking Workshop Series, AFCOOP is offering a fresh new slate of 10 film screenings and seminars called The Film History Crash Course: Ideas in Film. The most important points of film history will be examined in each two and a half hour class, which will include full screenings of complete films along with shorter excerpts. This series is hosted by Ron Foley Macdonald, Film Curator at the Dalhousie Art Gallery since 1988 and Senior Programmer at the Atlantic Film Festival. Macdonald is also a broadcaster, film critic, and arts journalist who has written for The Globe and Mail and The Chronicle Herald.

The cost for each individual workshop is: $15.00 AFCOOP Members / $20.00 Non-Members. You can also register for all 10 workshops at a special advance price of $120.00 AFCOOP Members / $150.00 Non-Members. To sign-up please call the AFCOOP offices at 420-4572 or drop by for a visit. We accept Visa, Mastercard, Debit, Cash, and Cheque. All workshops in this series will be held at the CBC Radio Building, 5600 Sackville Street.

•The Film History Crash Course-Ideas In Film: Freud
Monday, October 4^th, 6pm-8:30pm

Secrets Of A Soul, GW Pabst, Germany, 1926. A doctrinaire examination of Freud’s ideas while they were still fresh.

Instructor: Ron Foley MacDonald



•The Film History Crash Course-Ideas In Film:  Animation-Expressionism
Monday, October 18^th, 6pm-8:30pm

The Adventures Of Prince Achmed, Lotte Renieger, Germany, 1926.  The very first animated feature was by a woman.

Instructor: Ron Foley MacDonald



•The Film History Crash Course-Ideas In Film:  The City
Monday, October 25^th, 6pm-8:30pm

Berlin: Symphony Of A Great City, Walter Ruttman, Germany, 1927. Experimental filmmaker Ruttman sees the city as a single organism.

Instructor: Ron Foley MacDonald



•The Film History Crash Course-Ideas In Film:  Surrealism
Monday, November 1^st, 6pm-8:30PM

The Age Of Gold/L’Age D’Or, Luis Bunuel, France, 1930. Bunuel’s second film fleshes out the random and unconscious universe. Plus, Dulac.

Instructor: Ron Foley MacDonald



•The Film History Crash Course-Ideas In Film: Marx and Soviet Cinema
Monday, November 8^th, 6pm-8:30pm

Earth, Dozvenko, Russia, 1929. The least doctrinaire of the early Soviet Cineastes, Dozvenko still adheres to communist orthodoxy through naturalism.

Instructor: Ron Foley MacDonald



•The Film History Crash Course-Ideas In Film: The Introduction of Sound
Monday, November 15^th, 6pm-8:30pm

M, Fritz Lang, Germany, 1931. Peter Lorre as the child murderer- abstract sound, and the criminal underground denouncing its own.

Instructor: Ron Foley MacDonald



•The Film History Crash Course-Ideas In Film: George Bernard Shaw
Monday, November 22^nd, 6pm-8:30pm

Pygmalian, Anthony Asquith, Britain, 1938. Language, class, argument- all Shaw’s ideas masterfully put on film by a British Prime Minister’s son.

Instructor: Ron Foley MacDonald



•The Film History Crash Course-Ideas In Film: Nationalism
Monday, November 29^th, 6pm-8:30pm

The Rules Of the Game, Jean Renoir, 1939. The soul of a nation exposed by one its greatest artists; love, heroism and an aristocracy’s end.

Instructor: Ron Foley MacDonald



•The Film History Crash Course-Ideas In Film: World War Two
Monday, December 6^th, 6pm-8:30pm

In Which We Serve, Noel Coward/David Lean, UK, 1942. The epic encapsulated in a patriotic ode to Britain during its greatest trial.

Instructor: Ron Foley MacDonald



•The Film History Crash Course-Ideas In Film: Film and Myth
Monday, December 13^th, 6pm-8:30pm

Orphee, France, Jean Cocteau, 1949. Classic antiquity re-imaged as the avant-garde by multi-genre artist Cocteau.

Instructor: Ron Foley MacDonald

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