March 25 2009

MONTHLY READING + DISCUSSION GROUP EXPLORING CINEMA + CINEMATIC PRACTICE THROUGH WRITTEN WORDS

A monthly reading + discussion group, Thought on Film aims to promote critical thought around film product and practice through community-based discussion. Open to the public, Thought on Film fosters the close reading of texts confronting issues in contemporary, cutting-edge cinematic practice and philosophy.

Provoked by the presentation of Daniel Conrad’s Aboard the Pater Noster at this year’s New Cineworks, March’s meeting will feature an excerpt from Lewis Hyde’s The Gift. Conrad’s film portrays a little tribe of humans trying to make sense of their dehumanized lives as they pass through the city of Prague. The film reflects on the state of beings so submerged in cities that the shapes and cycles of their lives have become invisible to them. Hyde’s treatise on creativity and the artist in the modern world could be pitched as, “Bad-boy critic takes on vampire economy.” Conrad and Hyde share a concern for the effects of the centrifugal forces of our modern urban market society on the internalized processes of creativity in humans, and both propose ways of looking that challenge our conditioned responses to these forces.

Experimenting with the form of reading groups and their discussions, this month’s selection will be read out loud by participants. No pre-reading required!

If you have any questions about Thought on Film, please do not hesitate to contact Programs Manager + Curator cheyanne turions at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Thought On Film XIV
reading an excerpt from Lewis Hyde’s The Gift
Cineworks [1131 Howe, back lane entrance]
25 March 2009, 6pm
Free