The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
Main galleries
25 November 2009 to 28 February 2010
Intermission: Films From a Heroic Future
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The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
Main galleries
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
14 March 2024 to 24 March 2024
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Figuring Territory
16 January 2023
Hong Kong / the opening of space and fixed-frame film
Sony Devabhaktuni considers the stillmoving image
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Figuring Territory
Alongside a growth in decentralized, experimental, and underground cinema at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, many groups operating from inside the field of architecture such as Superstudio, Studio 9999, and Ant Farm explored the short film as a medium to expand architectural discourse, embed their projects with bold reflections and projections of society, and(...)
Octagonal gallery
21 September 2018 to 19 May 2019
Scripts for a new world
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Alongside a growth in decentralized, experimental, and underground cinema at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, many groups operating from inside the field of architecture such as Superstudio, Studio 9999, and Ant Farm explored the short film as a medium to expand architectural discourse, embed their projects with bold reflections and projections of society, and(...)
Octagonal gallery
Where We Grow Older
The documentary Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min) looks at how the growing ageing population is reshaping architectural and social constructs and questions the role of urban design and politics in facing these challenges. The film investigates two models of how care and housing can be reconceived in light of prolonged lives: public housing and the creation of a new(...)
Where We Grow Older
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The documentary Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min) looks at how the growing ageing population is reshaping architectural and social constructs and questions the role of urban design and politics in facing these challenges. The film investigates two models of how care and housing can be reconceived in light of prolonged lives: public housing and the creation of a new(...)
Malicious Houses, Animation, Animosity, German Architecture and Film, From Mies to Murnau, Visiting Scholar, Spyros Papapetros, Oswald Herzog
11 July 2003
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Occluding Baghdad
Figuring Territory
28 November 2022
Occluding Baghdad
Amin Alsaden on the violence inflicted by depictions of the city in Western films
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Figuring Territory
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A Story of Encounters
Forces of Friction
Fun Palace film
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16mm negative reversal film of 'Fun Palace', by production company Mithras Films, including film canister and DVD copy
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Fun Palace film
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16mm negative reversal film of 'Fun Palace', by production company Mithras Films, including film canister and DVD copy