PhD Student Colin Crawford's monograph "Netflix's Speculative Fictions" out now!
Adapting his MA Thesis supervised by Dr. Marc Steinberg, Colin Crawford has recently published "Netflix's Speculative Fictions:...
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Posts written by student writers featuring interviews, reports on events, conferences and screenings.
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Jan 19, 20211 min
Masha Salazkina's "Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures" is out now!
Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures, edited by Masha Salazkina and Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez, has been published by...
Jan 19, 20211 min
Luca Caminati's new book, Cinema of Exploration, is available now!
Released at the end of 2020, Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice is the latest work by Luca Caminati, who...
Nov 26, 20201 min
Haidee Wasson publishes new book on portability and cinema
The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema's very own Haidee Wasson has just published a new book, Everyday Movies: Portability and the...
Nov 21, 20201 min
Shout Out! PhD Desirée de Jesus named Concordia Valedictorian
Desirée de Jesus, PhD in Film and Moving Images, has been named Fine Arts valedictorian for Fall 2020 convocation. Desirée is a writer,...
Nov 12, 20201 min
Dr. Marc Steinberg and Dr. Joshua Neves featured in new collection "Pandemic Media"
A new essay co-written by Dr. Marc Steinberg and Dr. Joshua Neves, "Pandemic Platforms: How Convenience Shapes the Inequality of Crisis,"...
Mar 30, 20183 min
PROF TALK: Katie Russell, Professor, Chair of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema (Part II)
PROF TALK is an ongoing series in which MA Film Studies students at Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema interview Mel Hop...
Mar 23, 20183 min
PROF TALK: Katie Russell, Professor, Chair of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema (Part I)
PROF TALK is an ongoing series in which MA Film Studies students at Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema interview Mel Hop...
Nov 6, 20176 min
PROF TALK: Rosanna Maule, Associate Professor (Part II)
PROF TALK is an ongoing series in which an MA Film Studies student at Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema interviews Mel Hop...
Oct 30, 20173 min
PROF TALK: Rosanna Maule, Associate Professor (Part I)
PROF TALK is an ongoing series in which an MA Film Studies student at Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema interviews Mel Hop...
Apr 24, 20172 min
Lisa Parks on the “Illicit Capture of Mobile Phone Signals” at GEM Lab
Lisa Parks, ‘Illicit Capture of Mobile Phone Signals’ Opening Panel One in GEM Lab’s Media/Politics Seminar on Capture Friday 14th April...
Mar 31, 20177 min
PROF TALK: MA student Masoumeh Hashemi talks to Professor Thomas Waugh
PROF TALK is an ongoing series in which an MA Film Studies student at Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema interviews Mel Hop...
Mar 29, 20176 min
PROF TALK: Kay Dickinson, Associate Professor, Undergraduate Programme Director and Area Head for Fi
PROF TALK is an ongoing series in which Julie Brousseau, an MA Film Studies student at Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema,...
Mar 27, 20173 min
J.P. Sniadecki Talks Embodied Image/Embodied Camera at Concordia
Chicago-based filmmaker and anthropologist J.P. Sniadecki visited the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema on Friday, March 3rd, to deliver...
Mar 21, 20174 min
PROF TALK: Kay Dickinson, Associate Professor, Undergraduate Programme Director and Area Head for Fi
PROF TALK is an ongoing series in which Julie Brousseau, an MA Film Studies student at Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema,...
Mar 2, 20175 min
PROF TALK: Marc Steinberg, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director (Part II)
PROF TALK is an ongoing series in which Julie Brousseau, an MA Film Studies student at Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema,...
Feb 22, 20174 min
PROF TALK: Marc Steinberg, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director (Part I)
PROF TALK is an ongoing series in which Julie Brousseau, an MA Film Studies student at Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema,...
Feb 17, 20173 min
Thinking Out Loud: “Future Small Screen, Talking Television” with Joshua Neves and Emily
The theatre was packed as classic television themes played over the speaker system for the latest in the “Thinking Out Loud” Series, a...
Feb 8, 20172 min
Film Colloquium: Rosanna Maule on Women’s Cinephilia and Maria Adriana Prolo
On Friday, January 27th, for the first Film Studies Colloquium Series of Winter 2017, Rosanna Maule presented the case study of Maria...
Feb 3, 20172 min
GEM Lab Open House showcases research space’s new tech and resources
The Global Emergent Media Lab’s (GEM Lab) Open House on Thursday, January 26th hailed a new beginning for the research space, celebrating...
Nov 25, 20164 min
RIDM Highlights: The 5 Best of the Fest
The 19th annual Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) wrapped up last Sunday, after 11 dizzying days of dazzling docs. With...
Mar 14, 20166 min
“Women and Eco Web-Slinging” Recapping the 5th Annual CGFSSA MA Symposium
Many things have changed in the four years that Grad/Aperture has covered the annual Concordia Graduate Film Studies Student...
Feb 17, 20162 min
“El Paquete Semanal & Chill?” Lunch with Laura-Zoë Humphreys at the GEM Lab
Two days shy of Valentine’s Day, Laura-Zoë Humphreys—Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba—was welcomed to the Global...
Jan 27, 20163 min
“Instrumentality and Context: Understanding the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab” Toby Lee Visits Con
-Words by Andre Dubois Last Tuesday, the chills of mid-January were kept at bay as a mid-sized conference room on the 6th floor of the...
May 22, 20152 min
Empowered Networks: Notes on the “Porting Media: Asia” Keynote
On Friday, May 15th, Dr Laikwan Pang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Dr Thomas Lamarre (McGill University) delivered a pair of...
Mar 10, 20151 min
“Sex, Fantasy & Video Games” A Recap of the 4th Annual CGFSSA MA Symposium
For a fourth consecutive year, the Concordia Graduate Film Studies Student Association showcased a variety of student research topics at...
Feb 16, 20151 min
Image of the Week #2 – In Living Color
For this week’s freeze-frame focus, Grad/Ap contributor and second-year MA student Brad Warren has chosen an image that, for him,...
Feb 12, 20151 min
Image of the Week # 1 “I Gave Her My Heart, She Gave Me A Pen”
We here at Grad/Aperture are excited to kick off a new weekly feature that showcases a single frame from films that have influenced the...
Dec 22, 20142 min
Fall 2014 – A Semester in Review
There’s never a dull moment at Concordia, and if the horizon for 2015 is any indication, this tradition will surely continue. As the...
Dec 18, 20142 min
“Foreign Parts in Familiar Spaces” Thoughts on the JP Sniadecki Master Class
– Words by Alan Jones Over the past few weeks, I’ve been helping to organize and promote a Master Class with JP Sniadecki, a...
Dec 15, 20142 min
Preliminary Conference Program for SCMS 2015 Revealed
In part thanks to the hard work of those at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, the continent’s première moving image studies conference...
Oct 8, 20142 min
“Dissecting the Bat” Will Brooker Visits Concordia
As the second speaker on the roster for this year’s ARTHEMIS lecture series, Brooker’s presentation—entitled “Batman: 75 Years as a...
Oct 2, 20142 min
A Preview of the 43rd Festival du nouveau cinéma
Unless you’re a rampaging genre film fan, then the highlight of the Montréal cinephile calendar is undoubtedly the Festival du nouveau...
Sep 24, 20141 min
“Smart People on ‘Cat People'” Thoughts on the Teresa de Lauretis Lecture –
De Lauretis’ 2008 book, Freud’s Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film, has done much to revive Freud’s contested theory of drives...
Sep 23, 20142 min
“My Night With Jon Jost” – by Bill Fech
I was lucky to help bring to Concordia one of the more radical experimental and independent filmmakers working today. Jon Jost, a U.S....
Sep 18, 20144 min
Report from “Deviate!: the 2nd International Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media Confe
It was at University College Cork, Ireland, that Alphaville: the Journal of Film and Media Studies, held its 2nd international conference...
Sep 15, 20143 min
A Thirty-Hour Trip to TIFF, or, Madness, Cinephilia, Research
Despite the wealth of cinephilic happenings in Montréal, the city is perfectly located for manageable trips around the eastern side of...
Aug 12, 20142 min
Film Festival Round-Up
The Festival de Cannes, held in the south of France every year in May, saw Melanie Lanza and PhD student Antoine Damiens active in very...
Jun 29, 20142 min
NECS post-mortem: Concordia’s fine showing in Milano
Concordia’s faculty and graduate student communities were well represented at NECS’ “Creative Energies / Creative Industries” conference...
Apr 11, 20142 min
Report from the “Global Cultural Flows” workshop
Today is the second out of a three-day workshop entitled “Global Cultural Flows”, organized by the CISSC founded Transnational Cultural...
Apr 10, 20142 min
Donor and Student Award Celebration
Speeches were given, cocktails were had, and students got to meet those who so generously donated towards some of the many awards and...
Apr 9, 20142 min
Report from “Strategies and Tactics.” with guest of honour John Greyson
This event had been a long time coming, and after months of hard work, the event “Strategies and Tactics: Networks and Spaces of...
Mar 29, 20142 min
Report from John MacKay’s ARTHEMIS lecture
John MacKay — professor of Slavic and East European languages and literatures and film studies, and chair of the film studies program at...
Mar 15, 20143 min
Report from SAGSA conference – ‘Media and Material Culture’ panel
The Sociology and Anthropology Graduate Students Association of Concordia University held a conference between March 13 and 15...
Mar 15, 20142 min
Report from Veronica Pravadelli’s ARTHEMIS talk
Veronica Pravadelli, from Università degli Studi Roma Tre, presented yesterday within the 2013-14 ARTHEMIS lecture series. Her talk was...
Mar 10, 20142 min
A look back at the 2nd CSGSCS Colloquium
Today, the Cinema Studies Graduate Student Colloquium Series held its second Workshop, where PhD students presented their papers in...
Mar 4, 20142 min
Report from D.N. Rodowick’s ARTHEMIS presentation and Seminar.
The latest in this year’s series of ARTHEMIS presentations, which took place last Friday, February 28, brought us a talk by David...
Mar 3, 20141 min
Recap: 16th Annual FSAC Graduate Colloquium (The Corpus: Bodies on Film/Bodies of Film)
This weekend, MHSOC PhD students Rachel Jekanowski and Dan Leberg spoke at the 16th Annual FSAC Graduate Colloquium, hosted at the...
Feb 20, 20141 min
A look back at the 3rd Annual MA Symposium
Now that the 3rd Annual MA Symposium has come and gone, let’s look back at what took place. Just like last year, we drew quite a crowd....
Oct 16, 20135 min
Festival du nouveau cinéma at the Halfway Point
The Festival du noveau cinéma is upon us, and it has been the perfect distraction for a displaced cinephile over Thanksgiving weekend....
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