DIM Cinema at the Pacific Cinematheque
Movable Facture: Time Frames
Curated by Allison Collins
Monday June 18, 7:30pm
1131 Howe St. Vancouver BC
Tickets $9/$10.50
dimcinema.ca/ cinematheque.bc.ca

"Narrative represents real or imaginary events in time. As with a landscape painting, a narrative film seems to offer an experience that stands in for—pretends to be—creates an illusion of—something taking place before us. In order for it to work, we must enter into the illusion, suppress our awareness of presence and treat illusion as a present reality." MALCOLM LA GRICE

Can we define time-structures for cinema and particularly expanded cinema that go beyond narrative? Or if not beyond it: around, underneath, across? The works in “Movable Facture: Time Frames” are drawn from an earlier moment in film’s history, when a preoccupation with structure was attended to through a variety of formal experiments and strategies that skirt or avoid narrative immersion. The selection is drawn from classic structural films such as Hollis Frampton’s Nostalgia, and little-seen local gems found in Pacific Cinémathèque’s West Coast Film Archive.