The Film Worlds Research Cluster is a forum for researchers and artists from across the disciplines whose work explores and employs the moving image. As one of its primary goals, the cluster aims to draw attention to those less familiar and overlooked sites on the continuum of the moving image. We look at essay films, ethnographic films, propaganda films, scientific films, sport films, among others, paying special attention to manifestations of hybrid forms, and to the ways in which minor modes can be seen to inform and even subtend major ones. Our activities consist of reading groups, lectures, and screenings followed by panel discussions.

Contact Person: Dr Jonah Corne (English, Film & Theatre)  jonah_corne@umanitoba.ca

PAST FILM WORLDS EVENTS: WINTER TERM 2012

In addition to funding from UMIH, the Film Worlds Research Cluster wishes to gratefully acknowledge the generous support for the 2011-12 Film Worlds programming from:
The Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, the Department of History, the Department of English, Film and Theatre,
the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands,
and Sport Manitoba.

Film Worlds Events in 2011:

Visual Archives and The Internet: An Illustrated Introduction

Thursday, December 1st
2:30 pm
409 Tier

    What are some of the web's best resources for "mining" images? How does one effectively navigate cyberspace in search of material for visually based research? Four speakers (Cliff Eyland, School of Art; Evan Johnson, U of M Archives and Special Collections; Adam Muller and Jonah Corne, English, Film, and Theatre)  each presented a brief, illustrated tour through a selected "meta-curation" of internet visual archives. Topics included: experimental film and video, the visual arts, archival photography, and much more.
A lively discussion followed.

Bruce(X)ploitation: An Artist's Talk with Bruce LaBruce

Thursday, November 24th
8 :00 pm
Plug In ICA, 460 Portage Avenue


Bruce LaBruce is a Toronto based filmmaker, writer, director, photographer, and artist. He began his career in the mid eighties making a series of short experimental super 8 films and co-editing a punk fanzine called J.D.s, which begat the queercore movement. He has directed and starred in three feature length movies, No Skin Off My Ass (1991), Super 8 1/2 (1994), and Hustler White (1996). More recently he has directed two art/porn features, Skin Flick (2000)(hardcore version: Skin Gang) and The Raspberry Reich (2004)(hardcore version: The Revolution Is My Boyfriend), and the independent feature Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008). After premiering at Sundance and Berlin, The Raspberry Reich took off on the international film festival circuit, playing at over 150 festivals, including the Istanbul, Guadalajara, and Rio de Janeiro International Film Festivals. He was also honoured with retrospectives at the end of 2005 at the Madrid and Hong Kong Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals. Otto; or, Up with Dead People also debuted at Sundance and Berlin and played at over 150 film festivals, culminating in a screening at MoMA in New York City in November of 2008. His new film, L.A. Zombie, starring French star Francois Sagat, premiered in competition at the Locarno International Film Festival in August, 2010. It had its French premier at the L'Etrange Film Festival in Paris and its North American premier at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, 2010, followed by screenings at the Vancouver and Atlantic International Film Festivals, Raindance, Sitges, the 2Morrow Film Festival in Moscow, the Molodist Film Festival in Kiev, and dozens of others. The hardcore version, L.A. Zombie Hardcore, was released at Halloween, 2010.

This talk was co-sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities, the Department of English, Film and Theatre's Literary Reading Series, and the Plug In ICA.

OPEN MEETING
of the 
FILM WORLDS
Research Cluster 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2011
2:00 pm
409 Tier

Faculty and students interested in participating in the Film Worlds Research Cluster were invited to attend the first meeting of the Research Cluster. The Film Worlds Research Cluster aims to bring together those in the University of Manitoba community who want to join in interdisciplinary discussion on all aspects of the moving image.               

Issues discussed included:

• Research interests of those attending the meeting
• Programming initiatives for 2011-12 sponsored by Film Worlds
• Additional activities for the Research Cluster such as reading groups, works-in-progress, screenings, and other ideas