FEATURES

Posts written by student writers featuring interviews, reports on events, conferences and screenings.

Good for getting to know faculty and catching up one what is going on.

Feb 3, 2021
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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:...

Jan 19, 2021
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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, 2021
1 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 27, 2020
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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, 2020
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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, 2020
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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, 2018
3 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, 2018
3 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, 2017
6 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, 2017
3 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, 2017
2 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, 2017
7 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, 2017
6 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, 2017
3 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, 2017
4 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, 2017
5 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, 2017
4 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, 2017
3 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, 2017
2 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, 2017
2 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, 2016
4 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, 2016
6 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, 2016
2 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, 2016
3 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, 2015
2 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, 2015
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“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, 2015
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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, 2015
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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, 2014
2 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, 2014
2 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, 2014
2 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, 2014
2 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, 2014
2 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, 2014
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“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, 2014
2 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, 2014
4 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, 2014
3 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, 2014
2 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, 2014
2 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, 2014
2 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, 2014
2 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 10, 2014
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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, 2014
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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 16, 2014
3 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, 2014
2 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, 2014
2 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, 2014
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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, 2014
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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, 2014
1 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, 2013
5 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....