Cinema in the Midst of Struggle
Screening Series
Cinema in the Midst of Struggle is an annual screening series programmed by the GEM Lab.
This student-led initiative focuses on alternative media and political cinema, organizes workshops and master classes, and curates screenings in conversation with the annual Lab themes. Inaugrated in 2017, the Cinema in the Midst of Struggle has also partnered with several Concordia and community based projects, including Archives of Anticolonialism, Alternative Media Cultures, and the Political Imaginary of waiting.
2019-2020 Cinema in the Midst of Struggle
Organizers: Sarika Joglekar, Marco Meneghin
& Tanvi Rajvanshi
Screenings:
Bearing witness, holding space: National Populism, Post Truth and the Documentary Form
Location: GEM Lab
November 7
Spell Reel (2017, Filipa César) Screening + Workshop in collaboration with PAM, Feminist Media Studio, and Goethe-Institute Montréal
Location: La Lumiere Collective + GEM Lab
November 17 + 19
The House of History (1996, Qadir Taheri)
Location: DeSeve Cinema
January 24
Selected Shorts from the Yangon Film School
Location: EV 1.605
February 15
Balangiga: Howling Wilderness (2018, Khavn De La Cruz)
Location: EV 1.605
March 6
Sara Gómez Short + Feature: En la otra isla (1968) + De cierta manera (1977)
Location: EV 1.605
March 27
2018 Cinema in the Midst of Struggle
Organizers: Sima Kokotovic, Egor Shmonin
and Patrick Brian Smith
Previous Cinema in the Midst of Struggle Related Events
Screenings:
Handsworth Songs, 1986, Black Audio Film Collective
October 19th
Zapatista, 1999, Eichart et al.
November 21st
A Feeling Greater Than Love, 2017, Mary Jirmanus Saba.
*in collaboration with la lumière collective, with filmmaker in attendance.
February 3rd, 2018
Miners Shot Down, 2014, Rehad Desai.
February 15th, 2018
Joshua Clover's talk: The Two No’s
March 7th, 2018
X+, 2010, Marylène Negro.
April, 5th, 2018
The Archives of Anticolonialism
Winter/Spring 2018-2019
Organized by Giuseppe Fidotta, Sima Kokotovic, and Sanaz Sohrabi.
The Political Imaginary of Waiting
(Screening Series Component) Winter/Spring 2018-2019
Organized by Farah Atoui, Muhammad Khairy, Charissa Von Harringa and Viviane Saglier
Alternative Media Cultures (Politics of Alternative Media)
(Screening Series Component) Winter/Spring 2018-2019
Organized by Giuseppe Fidotta, Sima Kokotovic, and Sanaz Sohrabi.
The Unstable Object: Screening and Discussion with filmmaker Daniel Eisenberg
March 8th, 2018
Screening of A Feeling Greater than Love by Mary Jirmanus Saba
February 3rd, 2017
Screening of Saad Khan's Hide and Seek (2012)
November 24th, 2016