Date & time
Thursday, October 19, 2023
6:30 p.m. – 8:03 p.m.
6:30 p.m. – 8:03 p.m.
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IMAX SCREENING - OUTER WORLDS
Speaker(s)
Oliver Husain, Lisa Jackson, Kelly Richardson, Michael Snow, Leila Sujir and Janine Marchessault
Cost
10
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Where
Montréal Science Centre
2 de la Commune St W, Montreal, Quebec H2Y 4B2
Still from Embers and the Giant, Kelly Richardson, 2019.
Outer Worlds is an extra-ordinary film program that features five, experimental IMAX films by Canada’s leading artists: Oliver Husain, Lisa Jackson, Kelly Richardson, Michael Snow, and Leila Sujir. The theme of the commissioned program is in keeping with the cinematic genre typical of IMAX films—the larger-than-life landscape that forms an outer world beyond the limits of the human sensorium.
Each of the films explores expanded cinema through different ecologies of the non-human: the forest, lichen, snails, water, and sky. The works propose different worlds of experience and distinct grammars of immersion through a meeting with the camera. The films imagine common worlds by reflecting upon the exigencies of intercultural and interspecies communication, a task that has taken on great urgency in the 21st century as we grapple with how to adapt to the ecological realities brought about by anthropogenic climate change.
This event is part of the Thinking Allowed Fall Colloquium, a three-day event, happening from October 19 to 21.