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Faculty Showcase

The Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres at 51 is home to a celebrated group of faculty and staff whose creative work spans disciplines, genres, and modes of production. They are not only exceptional educators but also accomplished artists whose films have screened at festivals, museums, and galleries around the world. This special program is a chance to experience the breadth and vitality of their work. Expect drama, documentary, comedy, experimental film, animation, appropriation, and, of course, the unexpected. Many of the artists (your teachers!) will be in attendance.

Experimental Tuesdays Presents: Spectres of the Spectrum

Spectres of the Spectrum is a feature-length 16mm film utilizing old ‘kinescopes’ (filmed records of early TV broadcasts before the advent of videotape, mostly from the late Fifties’ educational show called ‘Science in Action’) to create an eerie, haunted “media-archaeology” zone for a sci-fi time-travel tale, wherein live-action actors search for a hidden electromagnetic secret to save the planet from a futuristic war-machine, inspired by HAARP the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program.  

Experimental Tuesdays Presents: Tribulation 99

Craig Baldwin’s “pseudo-pseudo-documentary” presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate far-right conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle mutilations, killer bees, religious prophecy, doomsday diatribes, and just about every other crackpot theory broadcast through the dentures of the modern paranoiac.

Experimental Tuesdays: From the Archives

Curated by the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres, these programs feature a unique opportunity to see some of the incredible 16mm prints from the 51 Cinema Arts Archive.

Experimental Tuesdays Presents: Dani & Sheila Restack

Dani and Sheilah Restack have embarked on an artistic relationship that is formally and emotionally adjacent to their domestic lives, a quotidian zone they share with their young daughter Rose. Both artists have established careers on their own. Neither Dani’ …

Experimental Tuesdays Presents: Adebukola Bodunrin

Filmmaker in Attendance!!! Adebukola Bodunrin is a Nigerian-Canadian film, & video artist who explores language, culture, and media. In her collage animations, she manipulates film using unorthodox manual and digital techniques to produce unexpected cinematic experiences. Her work has been …

16mm Student Showcase

Student Screening! Free For Everyone! On 16mm!!! Join us at the Union Cinema for a showcase of student made 16mm films! this screening presents a selection of films completed in the various 16mm classes taught by the Dept of Film, …

The Union Art Gallery Presents: Horror & The Avant-Garde

Free for Everyone! On 16mm!!! Join us at the Union Cinema for a special program of 16mm films selected in response to the Beautiful Bodies exhibition in the Union Art Gallery. This program draws explores a canon of experimental filmmaking …

Pitch Perfect

Free for everyone!! Harmonize with us at the Union Cinema on Thursday September 4th at 6pm! We have a surprise a cappella group performance before the film screening that starts at 6pm. This film follows a feisty college student gives her …