Ongoing Series
DIM Cinema
DIM Cinema is a monthly series that presents Canadian and international moving-image art in dialogue with cinema. The series was initiated in 2008 by local curator Amy Kazymerchyk to draw attention to artists and experimental filmmakers whose practices engage with 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
List of Programmed Films
Date | Film Title | Director(s) | Year | Country |
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2018-Nov | Where I Am Is Here: Margaret Tait at 100 | |||
2018-Dec | Messiah | William Klein | 1999 | France |
2019-Jan | Larissa Sansour and Soda_Jerk | |||
2019-Feb | Longlivemess. Longlivepassion. Longlivecompany. | |||
2019-Mar | Automated Camera Motion: Inspired by Michael Snow | |||
2019-Apr | Signals in the Sea | |||
2019-May | Take It Down | |||
2019-Jun | Segunda vez | Dora García | 2018 | Belgium . . . |
2019-Jul | Skip Blumberg: Culture Beat | |||
2019-Jul | Seven Women, Seven Sins | Maxi Cohen . . . | 1987 | West Germany . . . |
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 | |||
2022-Aug | Live and Expanded | |||
2022-Sep | The 3 Rooms of Melancholia | Pirjo Honkasalo | 2004 | Finland . . . |
2022-Oct | Rock Bottom Riser | Fern Silva | 2021 | USA |
2022-Nov | Folding Time | |||
2022-Dec | The Colour of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | 1969 | USSR |
2023-Jan | Jumana Manna: Wild Relatives | |||
2023-Feb | I Snuck Off the Slave Ship | |||
2023-May | Nature | Artavazd Peleshian | 2019 | France . . . |
2023-Jun | On Being and Consciousness |
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.