Cinema Politica Concordia presents “Breaking The Frame” (2012) & Regarding Susan Sontag (2014)

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Schneemann in studio. Copyright: Marielle Nitoslawska 2012

BREAKING THE FRAME (2012, 100 mins.)

Director: Marielle Nitoslawska

Saturday, 28 March 2015 3.00pm

at Concordia University, Room H-110
1455 de Maisonneuve W. Montreal, QC

Director Marielle Nitoslawska will be in attendance. This screening is part of the 2015 SCMS Conference and is co-presented by Radical Queer Semaine. Entrance is by donation.

Synopsis:
BREAKING THE FRAME is a feature–length documentary portrait of the New York artist Carolee Schneemann by Canadian filmmaker Marielle Nitoslawska. A pioneer of performance and body art as well as avant-garde cinema, Schneemann has been breaking the frames of the art world for five decades, in a variety of mediums, challenging assumptions of feminism, gender, sexuality, and identity. Utilizing a rich variety of film and hi-definition formats, Breaking The Frame can be described as a kinetic, hyper-cinematic intervention, a critical meditation on the relation of art to the physical, domestic and conceptual aspects of daily life and on the attributes of memory. It uses Schneemann’s autobiographical materials to narrate the historic upheaval within Western art in post-war America.

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Breaking the Frame – Trailer from marielle nitoslawska on Vimeo.


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Regarding Susan Sontag, 2014. Film Still. Copyright: Nancy Kates 2012. Image Via: Tribeca Film Festival

REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG (2014, 100 mins.)

Director: Nancy Kates

Monday, 30 March 2015 7.00pm

at Concordia University, Room H-110
1455 de Maisonneuve W. Montreal, QC

The screening will be followed by a Skype Q&A with Director Nancy Kates.
Entrance is by donation.

Synopsis:
REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is an intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation. The documentary explores Sontag’s life through evocative experimental images, archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, read by actress Patricia Clarkson. From her early infatuation with books and her first experience in a gay bar; from her marriage in adolescence to her last lover, REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is a fascinating look at a towering cultural critic and writer whose works on photography, war, illness, and terrorism still resonate today. More than any other thinker of her day, Sontag was watched, viewed, photographed and stared at. She was gazed at, and she looked back, very carefully, particularly at language and metaphor and at photography and what she called “the ecology of images.” REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG gives viewers the chance to watch Sontag while she examines the world.

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Regarding Susan Sontag Trailer from Nancy Kates on Vimeo.

About CINEMA POLITICA CONCORDIA
Cinema Politica is a media arts, non-profit network of community and campus locals that screen independent political film and video by Canadian and international artists throughout Canada and abroad. Cinema Politica’s biggest and longest running local was founded at Concordia University, Montreal in 2004 and ever since it attracts between 300 and 600 people to its weekly screenings. Each semester programming is focused around themes that touch on social justice, environmental and cultural identity issues, and all screenings aim to bridge political independent filmmaking, local activism and civic education and engagement. Cinema Poltica Concordia is administered by the Concordia Cinema Politica Student Association (CCPSA) which is a legally incorporated non-profit fee-levy group funded by undergraduate and graduate students at Concordia. cinemapolitica.org/concordia

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