[Filmfestivalresearch] Fwd: Higher Learning: Women and Film - Women's Cinema and Film History

ger zielinski, ph.d. geraldzielinski at trentu.ca
Fri Sep 27 18:34:23 CEST 2013


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From: TIFF Higher Learning <hlf at tiff.net>
Date: Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:59 AM
Subject: Higher Learning: Women and Film - Women's Cinema and Film History
To: Higher Learning <hlf at tiff.net>


Hi there,

Please see the notice below about our upcoming Higher Learning panel, *Women
and Film - Women's Cinema and Film History*, on Tuesday, October 8 from
11:00am to 12:30pm.

Instructions for faculty and staff on how to book free tickets are below.
Please feel free to forward to any colleagues or students who may be
interested.

Thanks and best wishes,
Keith

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Women and Film: Women's Cinema and Film History

Tuesday, October 8 from 11:00am to 12:30pm


  Post-secondary students and faculty are invited to join panelists Kay
Armatage, Melinda Barlow, and Noreen Golfman as they consider the legacy of
the Toronto International Women and Film Festival 1973 and the significance
of women's film festivals in the transnational exhibition circuit. The
panel will be moderated by Rina Fraticelli, Executive Director of Women in
View.


  Since the turn to the silent era in Film History, feminist cinema
scholars have been scouring the archives for traces of women's
participation in the early days of the film industry. And justly so: it is
well known that women were proportionately more numerous in silent era
cinema than they were until the 16mm revolution of the 1960s. Now, however,
forty years after the founding of the women's film festival movement (New
York and Toronto, 1972/73), the films by women directors of the 1970s and
1980s, along with the documentation of women's film festivals, are in
peril. Women's film festivals have been notoriously ephemeral, often
depending on volunteer labour, short-term work-spaces, and minimal or
non-existent storage facilities. Many of the 16mm prints and videos shown
in women's film festivals are lost or degraded, and the catalogues and
other evidence of the festivals have disappeared. There are no archival
collections specializing in the area. The contribution to knowledge of
women's film history made by women's film festivals, along with the very
objects the festivals celebrated, are in danger of being lost. At a time
when attention is massively returning to women filmmakers and women's film
festivals are popping up all over the world (with Beijing and Santiago
about to undertake their second festivals, and Mumbai just starting up),
this panel considers the significance of women's film festivals in the
transnational exhibition circuit.


This event is a co-presentation with the University of Toronto’s Cinema
Studies Institute, the St. John's International Women's Film Festival, and
Women in View.


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 Melinda Barlow is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of
Colorado, Boulder, where she received the Boulder Faculty Assembly
Excellence in Teaching Award, the Gold Best Should Teach Award, and the
Dean's Senior Honors Teaching Fellowship. She is the editor of Mary Lucier:
Art & Performance (2000) and co-curator of Primal Seen: Selections from the
CU Art Museum's Collection of Photography from the 19th Century to the
Present (2013). Barlow is currently writing a book on film, female identity
and art collecting titled My Museum: A Memoir in Art.


 Noreen Golfman is Dean of Graduate Studies at Memorial University
Newfoundland, Professor of English and Film Studies, former President of
Canadian Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities, and member of the
Executive Committee of the Film Studies Association of Canada.  She is the
founding Director and Chair of the St. John's International Women's Film
Festival, Vice-Chair of the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development
Corporation and Chair of the board of the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.
In addition to scholarly publications, she has written on the arts and
culture in more popular journals.


  Kay Armatage is Professor Emerita at the Cinema Studies Institute of the
University of Toronto. She is the author of The Girl from God's Country:
Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema (UTP 2003) and co-editor of Gendering
the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema (UTP 1999). As an adjunct to her
academic work, Armatage has produced and directed documentary and
experimental narrative films, and was one of the organizers of the Toronto
Women & Film International Festival 1973. She later worked as an
international programmer for TIFF for over twenty years, and served as
Vice-Chair of the Ontario Arts Council from 1991 to 1997.


*The event is open to the public – tickets will be available for free on
the morning of the event at the TIFF Bell Lightbox Box Office (located at
350 King St. W**.) This event is part of Forty Years On: The Women & Film
International Film Festival
1973<http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiffbelllightbox/2013/2440005280>taking
place October 6 - 8
*

*HOW TO OBTAIN TICKETS TO THE GUEST SPEAKER EVENTS:*

*Faculty members and administrators
*

*Advance bookings:* Faculty members and administrators can reserve blocks
of tickets for their classes. We are extending this offer to all
universities and colleges, and are therefore trying to limit the number of
reserved tickets to 30 per professor. We are also filling the orders on a
first-come, first-served, basis so if you think you would be interested in
bringing a class, it would be best to send your requests as soon as
possible, to hlf at tiff.net, putting the name of the specific event in the
subject heading.

*Same day ticket availability:* The remaining tickets for each event will
be made available on a first-come, first- served basis. Tickets are limited
to one per person and are available one hour before the event's start time
at the Steve & Rashmi Gupta Box Office on the first floor of TIFF Bell
Lightbox, located at 350 King Street West. Faculty and administrators must
show college or university faculty/staff cards for admittance.

*University and college students*
 *Advance bookings:* Only faculty members and administrators can reserve
blocks of tickets for their classes.

*Same day ticket availability: *The remaining tickets for each event will
be made available on a first-come, first- served, basis. Tickets are
limited to one per person and are available one hour before the event's
start time at the Steve & Rashmi Gupta Box Office on the first floor of
TIFF Bell Lightbox, located at 350 King Street West. Students must show
valid college or university cards for admittance.

*Please Note:* Any student planning to cover this Higher Learning event for
a student paper, blog, or any other type of outlet, should please kindly
contact the Communications Department
(proffice at tiff.net<http://proffice@tiff.net%20>)
to arrange a ticket.

*Higher Learning Digital Resource Hub*
The recently launched *Higher Learning Digital Resource Hub* complements
our live events by providing satellite educational programming to academic
communities and to the public at large, extending the Higher Learning
experience beyond the walls of TIFF Bell Lightbox. These materials include
filmographies and bibliographies generated from the resources of the
TIFFFilm Reference Library, as well as video footage of some of our
past
Higher Learning events. To learn more and access all Higher Learning
resources, please visit
*tiff.net/higherlearning<http://www.tiff.net/higherlearning>
* *

Getting to TIFF Bell Lightbox

*TIFF Bell Lightbox and the Box Office are located at the corner of King
and John at Reitman Square, 350 King St West, Toronto

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Keith

--
Theresa Scandiffio
Senior Manager, Adult Learning

Keith Bennie
Senior Coordinator, Adult Learning

TIFF Bell Lightbox
Reitman Square
350 King Street West
Toronto, ON M5V 3X5 CANADA
Tel. 416.967.7371 ext. 2331 Fax: 416-967-9477
Email: hlf at tiff.net
Website: www.tiff.net



-- 
Ger Zielinski, PhD
Assistant Professor of Film and Media
Cultural Studies Department
Catherine Parr Traill College, Scott House 202
Trent University
300 London Street
Peterborough, ON K9H 7P4 Canada

T: +1 705 748 1011 X6113 (Office: Catherine Parr Traill College, Wallis
Hall 113)
F: +1 705 748 1826
http://trentu.ca/culturalstudies/Zielinski.php
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