//February 27th //2:00-5:00 PM //GEM Lab, FB 630.15 //1250 rue Guy The inaugural Work-in-Progress PhD Symposium brings together graduate students in film and media to share ongoing doctoral research. Across two panels, presenters explore how moving-image practices are reshaped by circulation, technological change, and archival reconfiguration – from streaming platforms and multiview interfaces, to orphan films, design pedagogy, and low-tech media histories. The moderated pane

A talk on hidden legal forces shaping moving-image art today Tiffany Sia, What Rules The Invisible , 2022 (still). Courtesy of the artist and Video Data Bank //February 16th //5.30 PM //GEM Lab, FB 630.15 //1250 rue Guy Artist and filmmaker Tiffany Sia explores the often-unseen legal infrastructures that govern the circulation, ownership, and risk of moving image artworks today. Expanding on materialist film theory, this talk examines how censorship, copyright, and national s

//Tuesday, November 25th //5:30 PM //GEM Lab //FB 630.15 This talk explores how archival research can evolve into cinematic storytelling. Taking Roberto Rossellini – Più di una vita (B&B Film, 2025) as a case study, Margherita Moro reflects on the transition from archival investigation to film creation, drawing on her work within Renzo Rossellini’s private archive, which contains thousands of documents and previously unseen 16mm reels. The talk examines how archives can shif