We will present a second installment of the Vegan Delights program of local animation curated by Siloën Daley along with a selection of new and innovative works from the Prairies courtesy of Winnipeg’s WNDX Festival.
In January 2011, AFCOOP, along with the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University and Dalhousie University will present a second installment of our Docula Symposium – a one-day symposium and screening event dealing with documentary production, digital culture, and the changing landscape of copyright.
Darrell Varga will curate a program entitled Artists In This Place/Old and New. This program will feature films that get inside the creative process and the head of the artist. The program includes two films made in Atlantic Canada in the 1970s, just as the Atlantic Filmmaker’s Cooperative was being established, as well as three contemporary films. Screened together, they provide a complex engagement with ideas of process and location over time.
Other programs in the series will be featured at the Halifax Indpendent Filmmakers Festival in April 2011 (3rd-9th) and include a retrospective of Gariné Torossian’s work along with her feature-length Stone Time Touch, as well as retrospectives of filmmakers Brenda Longfellow and John Greyson.
Our goal with this series is to advance the development, understanding, and appreciation of the art of filmmaking, while promoting the works of culturally diverse artists, Aboriginal artists, and independent Canadian artists while fostering knowledgeable, diverse, and devoted audiences.
