Expanding Cinema

This program of events is presented by CINEMAexpo67, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the National Film Board of Canada around Expanding Cinema: Original Films from Expo 67, a series of screenings in connection with the MAC exhibition In Search of Expo 67. The immersive projection Expo 67 Live will be presented by the NFB on the Place des Arts Esplanade from September 18 to 30.

Program

11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Film screening: Nick and Ann Chaparos (dir.), The Earth Is Man’s Home (1967) [runs continuously]

BWR Hall, MAC. A VR experience of the 1967 Kaleidoscope Pavilion will be available for viewing.
Access is included with MAC admission/free admission for MACarte holders

2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Expanding Cinema round table (in English and French)

The many films of Expo 67 brought radical innovations to cinema, inviting filmmakers and spectators to think anew with different screen configurations, storytelling techniques and, ultimately, ways of viewing moving images. This round table organized by CINEMAexpo67 brings together contemporary filmmakers with experts on Expo 67 and IMAX to discuss the influences of these original formats and films on contemporary moving-image making. The panellists will discuss film’s immersive, expanded and mobile futures in relation to architecture and urban screens, and augmented and virtual reality technologies.

Olivier Asselin (filmmaker and professor, Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal)
Monika Kin Gagnon (professor, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University, co-director, CINEMAexpo67)
Karine Lanoie-Brien (filmmaker, director of Expo 67 Live, Montréal)
Janine Marchessault (professor, School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, York University, Co-Director, CINEMAexpo67)
Inderbir Singh Riar (professor, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University)

BWR Hall, MAC.
Access is included with MAC admission/free admission for MACarte holders.

6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
The Earth Is Man’s Home (1967) screening resumes [runs continuously]

BWR Hall, MAC. A VR experience of the 1967 Kaleidoscope Pavilion will be available for viewing.
Access is included with MAC admission/free admission for MACarte holders.

6 p.m.
Meet the Artists. Gallery talk with In Search of Expo 67 artists Chris Salter (in English), Caroline Martel and Mathieu Bouchard-Malo (in French)