Ongoing Series
DIM Cinema
DIM Cinema is an ongoing series that presents Canadian and international moving-image art in dialogue with cinema presented by The Cinematheque. Screenings are held once a month, usually on a Wednesday.
The series was initiated in 2008 by local curator Amy Kazymerchyk to draw attention to artists and experimental filmmakers whose practices engage with the cinema as a medium, social context, formal structure, or architectural space. The name of the series is inspired by the diffused Vancouver sky, the darkness of the cinema, and a quote from James Broughton’s Making Light of It (1992): “Movie images are dim reflections of the beauty and ferocity in mankind.” DIM Cinema has been curated by Michèle Smith since 2014.
Upcoming Screenings
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- Meriem Bennani
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- NR
- DIM Cinema
List of Programmed Films
| Date | Film Title | Director(s) | Year | Country |
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| 2019-Sep | Somniloquies | Véréna Paravel . . . | 2017 | France . . . |
| 2019-Oct | Julia Feyrer: Broken Clocks | Julia Feyrer | ||
| 2019-Nov | Marguerite Duras | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 2019-Dec | Wonderland — A Xiaolu Guo Double Bill | Xiaolu Guo | ||
| 2020-Jan | The Shape of Now | Manuel Correa | 2018 | Colombia . . . |
| 2020-Feb | The Proposal | Jill Magid | 2018 | USA |
| 2020-Apr | Zadie Xa | |||
| 2020-Nov | Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One | William Greaves | 1968 | USA |
| 2021-Sep | Distracted Blueberry | Barry Doupé | 2019 | Canada |
| 2022-Mar | Make Me Up | Rachel Maclean | 2018 | Great Britain |
| 2022-Apr | Assembly | |||
| 2022-May | Iranian Experimental Film, Part 1 | |||
| 2022-Jun | Back to Earth: Afrofuturist Short Films | |||
| 2022-Jul | Meriem Bennani |
Note
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Programmer Biographies
Michèle Smith
Michèle is an independent curator and editor, whose projects include co-editing the artist books series Drawing Room Confessions.