Exorcise the winter blahs in the company of your fellow filmmakers!

Friday, December 5, 2008, 7:00 — 10:00 pm   
Cineworks Studio, 1131 Howe Street (Back Lane Entrance)
FREE ADMISSION (Non-members welcome!)

lovely food + tasty drinks + intelligent games + fun prizes + mingle with other members, board and staff + laughalot!
Donations accepted for the Cineworks Food Bank Hamper

Monthy 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 Elisabeth Subrin’s Shulie, a shot for shot recreation of an obscure documentary 30 years later, and which was exhibited as part of Cineworks’s After School Special, December’s meeting will feature Jacques Ranciere’s essay “Documentary Fiction: Marker and the Fiction of Memory.” Says Ranciere in the introduction to Film Fables, the book from which this essay is drawn, “The privilege of the so-called documentary film is that it is not obliged to create the feeling of the real, and this allows it to treat the real as a problem and to experiment more freely with the variable games of action and life, significance and insignificance.” Subrin’s faux documentary exploits exactly this space between fiction and history by using historical documents to make pointed reference to contemporary feminist concerns, and Ranciere’s essay makes a compelling argument for how and why this is possible.

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 cheyanne turions at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Thought On Film XI
reading Jacques Ranciere’s “Documentary Fiction: Marker and the Fiction of Memory”
Cineworks [1131 Howe, back lane entrance]
09 December 2008, 6pm
Free